Show New Open en Champion Has Unique Career e Armour Gains Reward B By Deliberate Efforts On Golf Courses By Br RAY 1 MCARTHY Special Correspondent of The The Standard Examiner Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Pres Association Pa June 18 O V Tommy Armours Armour's great vi Ie tory tp-ry j the e thirty third y annual annu F 1 open oe golf golt cham chan championship chani ot ot the th i hi United States of ot- offers 0 4 k ft fers fers ens a splendid t lesson to to all a ayoung tl P Pt w young men The black blaek haired haire f 1 slender Scot has ha 1 given all tt young oung fine a e ex ex- example ample ot of how howl ho 1 persistence will wi l eventually WI wn win success s. s For Ft nearly ten years year dating back to I Ithe 1 if the first year of ot r the World orld war wa Armour has ha haGene had Gene zen enough setbacks to flatten latten a n dozen ordinary mor mot morTo ls To begin In with ith he was as badly ball battered in the war He suffered a a. severe injury to 10 his left art artand arm armand armand and the loss of 0 sight in one eye ee cy Seven years ago he came to America with a reputation as on one of ot the best amateur golfers the bonnie land of ot Scotland ever has ha produced For a 0 time things were very ery rosy for tor Thomas D. D Armour In the states slates He lie gave striking evidence of oC his hUi proficiency as a golfer in several tournaments he hi lad had a a. likable personality that tha t at quickly won him friends and hi h he began bean to prosper in a business way l But perhaps things came easy too quick Or maybe Armour Armourr found r und return to civilian life lICe much mud sweeter after four years of oC wathan war wa than he had anticipated The war wa seemed to have imbued him with witha witia In Ii a a. sort of ot o reckless philosophy any event matters m suddenly took tool tooka toola a a. turn for tor the worse for the tl Scot Things broke badly for tor him His Hi golf gol game soured After a rosy ros start he was a a. a flop So every everybody everybody everybody body thought TURNS OVER O LEAF Three years ago Armour turned over aver a new leaf leat He decided to Ic earn tarn his living at the things he could do best namely Dame golf golt Ac Ac- Accordingly cordingly he turned professional I He Jo settled down to the simple I Ilife seriously life Ife took his profession proCession s and began to work at U. U It He entered the open championship and two years ago at tt Worcester made nade only a fair showing Last after a a. great competitive year rear im tin improved season eason in the south Armour showing shoeing in the open ope at proved roved his over that of ot the previous p elou carried on through the Ho year rear and winter in fine style again finally came ame to the toe goal all pro professional pro pro- I golfers seek the Ameri Amen American American championship can an open win Armour ArmoUr well deserved to He played his laurels at Oakmont the he most consistent golf of any In the tho tournament tournament- competitor interesting to ob ob- observe observe ob- ob It was as quite the differences In the styles serve erve Horse and Light of ot f Armour Arm ur Cooper as they fought out Harry larry Friday In the the- th play off the he Issue possessing a II fine compact Armour on the horizontal verging swing wonder wonder- wonderfully showed sho ed himself to t be a a. tullY fully fine shot maker In every a II aall can play Scot respect The shot with the same the the- same I halt half all or spare iron facility that ha he executes an to it comes I shot hot And when the Irons Armour Is practically I playing laying himself Certainly class by in a a. cally superiors His he has no tinly and remarkable direction firmness 5 department of ot the tion on in this due to the unusual are game ame In his wrists Tommy strength clubs with the golf goIt three can en hold forefinger at arms arm's and thumb very only the length gripping think shaft If It you ends ids of ot the tho club holding one this is 15 easy CILY try like manner only rily in a II who has hu Just Young Cooper credit 24 4 deserves great turned showing This wonderful for tor r his second open cham cham- championship was as Coopers Cooper's The lad first entry prominence in Janu Janu- January came Line into the captured when he 1926 ary y Los Angeles at open Cooper is a dashing bold golf golf- golfer captures quickly er whose game rame Imagination ot of the tho spectators the 0 shot He hits bits every The spares ares e youth nothing He hasn't t the shot Lot making ability of ot fellows like Armour Hagen Jones or Far Far- Farrell rell But he has plenty plent of ot con con- confidence confidence confidence the determination to succeed suc sug- su and the ability to concen concen- concentrate ate tn-ate his entire attention on his game RUI RUIN VETERANS VETERA S The short holes on the exact exact- exacting log ing Oakmont course ruined the chances of oC both Bobby Jones and and Gone In the third round the Atlanta Atlant star lost seven strokes strokes' strokes to par on Ott the four shot holes as al follows finishing finishing- Four alx with a 79 In the final round lost five shots to par on the four short holes He failed the of on any to hit one green short holes on this round with his tee shot Had he got two of these holes In par he would have been champion championship each In every hole contestant contes mt suffers a a. jinx Archie Compston burly Briton who made the best showing ot of attribute attribute of the can any the title to bute the loss los of ot the five hole of little littlemore littlemore fourth a par more than yards where many got birdies In the tho four tour rounds on Compston got only one par other the hole and on the three rounds was ho-was lie lie- was 6 7 losing In all five live shots sh ts to par on this single hole bole I |