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Show ST. LOUIS Li PUIS GREAT JIF MATCH Eighteen -year -old Youth Beats Denver Man in Sensational Finish. ST. LOUTS, June 20. Breaking the course record by two strokes with a 71. Richard Bockenkamp, a public links golfer of St. Louis, 18 years old, today defeated L. D. Bromfleld of Denver, who played a game only slightly less brilliant, 2 to 1, in the semifinals of the western j amateur golf championship and won the right to play the finals with Harry G. Legg of Minneapolis, who eliminated Clarence Wolff of St. Louis, medalist of the tournament, 5 and 4. While Bockenkamp played thrillingly brilliant golf. Bromfleld was on his heels all day. scoring 77 in the morning to Bockenkamp's 76, and 74 in the afternoon, only two over par. Neither player won a hole in anything less than par, Bockenkamp Bocken-kamp playing 22 holes in perfect figures and Bromfield 21. In addition, Bockenkamp Bocken-kamp scored five birdies and Bromfield four, the extra par and birdie accounting for the two-hole margin victory. Bromfield was slightly more consistent, but Bockenkamp holed a couple of fairly long putts more than his opponent. The Denver player was better for the tee except ex-cept on the nineteenth and thirty-fifth holes, where he pulled to trouble, losing both. ' Bockenkamp was slightly better with the irons, although he pitched short a few times. Brilliant plays by both golfers scintillated at almost every hole and kept the large gallery on tip-toe. Youth Improves Lead. All square at the end of the first nine and Bockenkamp one up at luncheon, the St. Louis lad made it two up by taking the 450-yard nineteenth four and five because Bromfield hooked Into a tree. He lost the 140-yard twentieth by taking three putts, . but won the 250-yard 250-yard twenty-second when Bromfield found the rough. The Denver player cut the lead to one again by scoring a birdie four on the 500-yard twenty-third and evened affairs on the 266-yard twenty-ninth twenty-ninth with a birdie. 3 while Bockenkamp topped his drive and took four. Bromfield outdrove his opponent on the 408-yard twenty-sixth, Bockenkamp sclafflng, but he heeled his iron over a cop and took five while Bockenkamp holed a horrlpilating putt for a three. They halved the 320-yard twenty-seventh In par four, Bockenkamp scoring out in 35 and Bromfield in 36, and entered the home stretch with the St. Louis boy one up. The 220-yard twenty-eighth all carry across a deep ravine was halved in perfect per-fect three. Bromfield holed his second on the 130-yard twenty-ninth for a birdie two, but took five on the 446-yard thirtieth thir-tieth and was one down again. After halving the next two in par, the St. Louis youth against lost his lead by taking his only six of the day on the 625-yard thirtv-third because he pulled his tee shot into the woods and barely got out on his second. |