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Show Herron won the next with a par four and had a chance for a three, for he was but two feet from the hole with his second, but overputted, while Piatt sunk his drive deep In a bunker and took a six. Herron asaln brought cheers from the Rallery by driving 3t yards to within eight feet of the pin and holinfir out with a birdie, two against his opponent's four following a trapped drive. The PlUsburner was In all kinds of trouble on the twenty-seventh hole, being In traps, which made Piatt's steadier play Brood for the hole. The following was halved In five, notwithstanding not-withstanding another 300-yard drive by Herron, who took three putt while Piatt topped his second, was on in three and took two to hole out. Herron laid his third shot on the edge of the cup of the twentv-nlnth green, and won with a par four when Piatt ran his putt well past the hole. Herron clinched the match on the thirtieth with another par five, his golf being well-nigh perfect, while Piatt was In tho rough twice and took two putts after reaching the green in four. Compared to Piatt, the victor played far the steadier polf, pot better direction and distance in his drives and was surer with his putter, and the same dogged determination de-termination that caused the downfall of Ouimet yesterday was not sufficient to win from Herron with the latter playing the golf he did today. YOUTHFUL PI If GIF FINAL Jones and Herron Will Meet for National Amateur Title, PITTSBURG, Aug. 22. Bobby Jones, the 17-year-old phenomenon of Atlanta, or S. Davidson Herron of this city wilt be the 1919 national amateur golf champion cham-pion before sundown tomorrow. The pair, the sole survivors of the 136 starters in the twenty-third titular tournament of the United States Golf association, won their way to the final round by defeating" V. C. Fownes, Jr., of Pittsburp and J. Wood Piatt of Philadelphia, respectively, here ! late this afternoon. Jonea won from Fownes 5 up and 3 to play, while Herron took Piatt's golfing measure 1. y a score of 7 and 6. Not in the history of American frol has the championship ever been fought I out In the final round by two such youthful youth-ful exponents of the game. Jones, who is playing from the Atlanta Athletic club, is yet to see his eighteenth birthday, while Herron is but a year or two past his majority. Neither has ever figured heretofore so prominently in a struggle for a premier golf title of tho country, although Jones won tho southern championship cham-pionship in 1917 when but a few months over 15. Jones Is Favorite. Herron, although older than his rival, has less general golfing experience than Jones, and for that reason many experts are inclined to the opinion that Atlanta's youthful star stands the better chance of winning the championship mantle lost by Chick Evans on Wednesday. Herron, however, has the almost unanimous unani-mous banking of the Oakmont club members mem-bers tonight, who are laylhg even money on him, although it Is admitted that he has never played golf over the club course except on Saturdays and Sundays until the first of August. Then the firm by which he is employed, learning that he had entered the championship tournament, told him to take the month off and see what he could do. This and his golf play while a student at Princeton, comprises virtually all of his real serious work with wood and Irons. It is generally conceded that Herron played the best golf of the quartet competing com-peting in the semifinal round today. Hia card for thirty holes played showed a total stroke score of 129, as against a par of 124 for the same distance. Jones, the other winner, took 143 against a par of 130 for his 32 holes, while the youth's opponent, Fownes, required 153 for 33 holes. Piatt, who sprang into national na-tional prominence by his defeat of Ouimet vesterday, fell off again and showed 140 strokes against a par of 124 for the thirty holes. Jones Is Superior. Fownes's shots lacked real snap. He depended more upon his experience and knowledge of the course, but it was not enough to overcome Jones, who, during the past two years, has been smashing shots at flags on golf courses in all parta of America. All golf pins look the same to Jones, as he cracks the ball up to the flag. Jones started cautiously for etfch a young man, but when he saw that he had more shots and a better game, he began to take chances; to swing harder and faster at the ball on the tee, and to pick his stick with absolute confidence and great power off the fairways. Any champion would have been proud to have made a number of the shots Jones hit today. Perhaps his best effort was at the fifth hole In the afternoon. He found his drive hidden In the embankment of a trap. It was a hanging lie, and the green, more than 100 yards beyond, was guarded by ditches and traps. Bobby cut through the grass, caught the ball and shot it up toward the sky; it came down stone dead, six feet from the pin. He holed for a three. This shot was the break in the match. Fownes never had a chance after it. Bobby kept smashing them out off the tee and pushing tnem home with his. Irons or maehie. FowneS tried to hold the pace but he did not have the shots. Instead, he began to weaken and used three to reach home, where he should have been on in two. He topped his second sec-ond at the twenty-fifth and messed up his drive at the thirty-third. At other holes he hooked or sliced to trouble. Herron Beats Piatt. The best golf of the Herron-Platt match was played during the third nine holes. At the close of the forenoon round the local player led his Philadelphia rival by five up. After luncheon the pair resumed re-sumed the duel, and the Phiiadelphian won the nineteenth with a birdie four, his third shot being dead to the plh, 4S2 yards from the tee. Despite Herron'a" terrific driving, one of his shots belnri good for a full 300 yards, the Pftfr halved the next two In par fours. The former Princeton player was five up again when he took the twenty-second with another birdie, holding out a difficult eight-foot putt. Piatt came right back with a par hole, winning the twenty-third with a mashie second to the green, and would have had a three for the 371 yards but for his first putt hanging dead In the Up of the cup. Both laid their tee shots on the green in the 172-yard twenty-fourth hole, but required re-quired twoputts apiece for a par three. |
