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Show EAST AND WEST Final Round for National Amateur Championship Played Off on Detroit Course. Detroit, Mich . Sept. 4 East and west were lined up against each other today in the final round of 36 holes for the national amateur golf championship cham-pionship on the course of the Detroit Country club. John G Anderson, Mount Vernon N. Y., and Robert A Gardner, Chicago, were the sole survivors sur-vivors in the tournament that began a week ago. Hot weather made the course extremely ex-tremely fast. This condition. It way believed, would slightly -favor the New York veteran He is quite generally gen-erally conceded to be a better putter put-ter than Gardner and his supporters expect that his short game would overcome any advantage Gardner's tremendous drives might bring the latter. Pick Anderson to Win. Eastern experts picked Anderson to win, primarily because of his steadiness steadi-ness and consistent performances throughout the tournament. Westerners Western-ers advanced the claim that Gardner, when playing nt top speed such as he showed when he toppled D. E Sawyer with ease Thursday, could give Anderson a margin of 1 hole in 36 and still win. J An exhibition game had been arranged ar-ranged to follow th'e finals The Detroit De-troit Country club offered a trophy for a medal play round between Francis Fran-cis Ouimet, Jerome Travors, National open champion, and Charles Evans, jr.. holder of the western amateur title ti-tle The trio of ciiampions often has been referred to as "the big three." Each of the players was eliminated from tho championship fight before it had reached Its most interesting stages. |