Show Golf f Tommy Armour British open and former Canadian and P. P G. G A. A champion champion champion cham cham- pion won his first major championship champion- champion ship hip at Oakmont In the national open of ot 1927 That was the year ocar when experts I feared cared Bobby Jones was through as a a. a golfer after Jones scored 30 eight I behInd chind the leader Hagen Cooper Armour and others fought to winOne winOne win winOne One by one they were engulfed b by Oakmont's furrowed traps leaving Cooper leading with or 13 over par ar Armour came to the seventeenth needing 3 3 to win in 3 3 4 to tie tic After Afler missing his 3 on the seventeenth th lh i best bosl he could hope for was a tie tic This i meant a 3 on the yard eighteenth He drove yards I Then h he lived up t to h his reputation l I 11 1 9 jED The Thet t 2 Oj TIE 3 AT oi I as a great iron player by rapping his second yards to the green Twelve feet teel of smooth carpet now lay be be- tween him and another chance at the championship A putt represented the difference between a fortune and obscurity Tommy hit the putt briskly and as the thc ball was still rollin rolling toward the cup turned to his caddy and said have to work tomorrow kid The next dl day coming comin from behind Armour squared the match on the fifteenth by sinking a 52 footer and 1 went on to beat Cooper by three 1 strokes |