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Show Ouimet Proves to Be the Greatest of All Golf Players PITTSBURG Aug 20 Francis Ouimet Oui-met demonstrated today that he is one of the greatest golfers ever developed in this countrj, by defeating Charles Evans, one up on the home hole of the Oakmont Country club in ihe second round of the annual amateur championship cham-pionship tournament. Playing the game with the same stroke and nerve that gave him international fame in 1911 when he won the open from Rav and Yardon, England's most famous professionals, the Woodland club representative rep-resentative playing from Auburndale, Mass . fought throughout the entire dav against the skill and stamina of Ihe Edgewater club star of Chicago and eventually achieved vietorv with a marvelous pitch ironi pit " to homo green and a four-foot putt. His defeat of the hold-over amateur ama-teur and open champion of 1916 came only after hours of golfing competition which was the cjpsesl and most brilliant bril-liant over witnessed in a similar titular titu-lar tournament. All even at the end of the forenoon eighteen holes, the eastern and western rivalo renewed their duel in the afternoon and for a short period it appeared as though Ouimet was to quickly clinch the con- I j lest but he weakened at the end of he third nine holes and Evan v ifl quick to take advantage of the oppor lunily and after being three down at one time, succeeded in squaring the match at the thirty-fourth green. The nr-xt was halved In threes. The pallery. one of the largest that ever witnessed a mid-week tournament tourna-ment match in this country, was absolute abso-lute cilence as the pair teed up for the borne hole plav. Evans drove first and Ouimet followed, both reaching j far down the fairway with long shots. jOuimet's second landed in a deep pit to the right of the green while Evans was just on the edge of the rough forty for-ty feet from the pin. When Ouimet stepped down Into the pit he was out of sight of a large part of the spectators specta-tors and a great shout of applause sprang from the gallery when he pitched the ball from a cloud of sand to within four feet of the flag. Evans' mashle shot rolled fully twelve feet past the cup. The double titlcholder's putt fell short of the hole by three feet. Ouimet followed with a gentle tap of his ball which rolled leisurely to the lip of the cup, paused for the fraction of a second and then dropped out of sight, thus terminating one of the most remarkable matches in the history of American golf. 'nt .'ill thf clnrv nf thr fl.iv s "nlf ! goes to Ouimet for the manner in which Evans fought and forced the victor Is shown by the fact that there was but a difference of one hole and one stroke at the end of one of the hardest matches ever played in an amateur championship. Ouimet finished fin-ished with a total stroke score of 150 and Evans with 151. while the medal winning score on Monday was 158. The comeback of the Woodland expert ex-pert was all the more impressive, however, how-ever, from the fact that he was far from b mg in perfect physical condition. condi-tion. Still suffering from tho effects of tonsilitia and unable to take heavy nurishment. he played the entire thirty-six holes with but an occasional .-ip of oranjre Juice and the effects of the strain and heat began to show on the final nine holes. |