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(ie Fins Two Boy welded Gash Sub Clash at Oakmont To-Day in 36- ; Hole Final for Championship: Honors in a Tourney That , Has Been Sensational Because of the Numerous Upsets That Have Featured It. By William Abbott. (Staft Corhespondent of The Evening World.) . OAKMONT, Pa. Aug. 38. 'o boy wonders, Bobby Jones, Atlanta, and Dave Herron, Pittsburgh, came safely through @ great fleld of the country’s strongest golfers and will clash over a 36-hole route to-day on the Oakmont course in the finals of the national amateur championship. The titular crown so long §ported by Evans, Quimet, Gardner and Travers will now be worn elther by Jones, the seventeen-year-old peppery hope of the South, or Dave Herron, & stocky, powerfully built twenty-year-old star of the Oakmont Club, + _ Bobby Jones, who started winning titles when only twelve, ts known wherever clute are swung. Wattle his way through to the finals of a national tournament. Coming through at Oakmont, Bobby had no cinch, He knocked out Gardner, who twice held the premier trophy, in the second round, In the semi-finals yes- \érlay Jones dropped veteran Bill Fownes, national champion in 1910, whose golf carcer started before the Atlanta youth was born. .. Herron, like Jones, made an early start on the links. Endowed by nature ith @ strong build, husky Dave won the qualifying medal in the 1915 ma- Uenal championship at Detrott. But the traditional bad luck that accom= jes the winning of the gold medal in these meets settled on the Pitts- ‘argh lad and he was put out in his first match. The following year at rion, the last time the blue ribbon event of the links was held, Dave failed qualify, At the time he attended Princeton and played on the university's if team. This completes Herron’s tournament activities. ® Herron has specialized playing his home course, He holds the club title, mean feat when Bill Fownes, George Oriston and other notable players 8 among the competitors. What is likely to happen to-day when the two star youngsters line up {would defy the old oracles that used to foretell the destinies of Rome. Both tremendous drivers, with Herron having a slight advantage. Three hun- red-yard tee shots, straight ones without a great deal of roll, dre fre- “quently pulled off by the powerful Oakmont swatter. Coming to the green, Jones, who plays @ beautiful mashie, no doubt has something on his Northern opponent. On the greens it is practically a toss-up. Behind the golf shots, | Herron, a cool, phlegmatic battler even under the most trying conditions, has by far the better disposition of the two finalists. Young Bobby, when tee shots have ess for sailing to the rough, or short putts won't drop into {the cup, may break a club or heave the {nnocent little ball to the ground as rd signs that his temper is on the warpath, s Has Lots of Temperament. ‘ In the old game of golf they call this temperament. Outmet ts blessed with a wonderful temperament because he can quickly forget a poorly played shot. Jones will let a miscued stroke get on his nerves, and these uncon- trollable nerves have put the Southern youth on the rough end of matches. Jones, however, doesn't underrate himself, and he thinké he can lick any «olfer that ever swung a club. Many local rooters thought the Atlanta lad would be stopped in the semi-finals yesterday when he took on Bill Fownes, Fownes knows every blade of grass on the Oakmont course. He even de- signed new bunkers that were installed several weeks before the cham- pvlonship. This valuable knowledge and superior tournament experience was counted to carry the veteran through. Of course, Jones knew all this as well ug anybody else. If it had any effect it was only to make the youngster get vfter his formidable opponent as if he were just an ordinary duffei Fownes, carefully figuring his shot, was the extreme of young Bobby, who blended brilliancy with punk golf in an.effort to attain the spectacular. ‘This recklessrtess proved costly, for the boy wonder from the cotton belt drppped severul holes on his first round through sheer carelessness. This weakness and remarkable recoveries from trouble by Fownes kept the lead down to a single hole in Bobby's favor at the end of the first eighteen holes. ‘Mhe tide of battle turned squarely in the boy's direction in the afternoon journey. Fownes, whose age i» near the forty-six mark, tired perceptibly Yrom the hot pace and strain of battling over the 6,700-yard course. While the veteran showed a tendency to slip, his youthful opponent steadied down and flashed some of the golf that has defeated Chick Evans on three occa- sions—the same strokes that Walter J, Travis called the soundest game of «ay American amateur. Playing in par figures, Jones began to run up a substantial lead. Fownes fought hard and employed all the cunning at his command, but the odds were (00 big. Bobby refused to be wild and clout his drives into waiting traps, which had been his chief weakness in earlier rounds. He was driving far own the middle of the fairway and laying his approaches close up to the pin. At the twenty-soventh hole the youngster was 3 up, and this lead was vteadily incressed until Jones was 6 up, the match finally ending on the 1 fteenth gteen. erron Eliminates Ouimet’s Conqueror. Dave Herron in his match pulled Woody Platt, the young towhead Phila- Aelphian who the day before dropped the great Francis Oulmet on the thirty- eighth green. Platt quickly found that Herron was not going to follow Oulmet’s example of hitting into unnecessary traps. Davy outdrove Piatt and beat him to the green. This unexpected opposition didn't hake Ouimet's conqueror any too confident. This was apparent on the tees, where! Platt ' shot into all sorts of trouble. This wildness was expensive, as Platt came to the turn five holes down to his big opponent, Platt is a scrapper and he put up a stiff battle’starting the second round. He won the first hole with two beautiful shots. Herron had to hole a long putt to earn a half on the next one. Platt’s square jaw was going out fur- ther all the time in defiance. At the fourth Herron stopped the threatening rally with a 800-yard clout from the tee, At the seventh Platt pulled his Gfive, the ball almost burying itself in a thigh bunker. Thi break cost the Hole, as Herron made another of his hefty drives, On the 238-yard eighth Herron dropped his drive to within eight feet of the cup and holed out for a two. At this point the young Philadelphian was more subdued. Herron mussed up tho ninth, the only poorly played hole on the round, a topped @rive, a second into a trap and a short recovery doing the damage. | Herron touched off another whale of a drive on the tenth, laid a mashie om and putted for a three, Platt was in trouble on the eleventh and Awelfth, which terminated the uneven match, Herron winging by 7 up and 6 to fo. ‘While the amateur title will go to elther Herron or, Jones this season, it mustn't be forgotten that Chick Evans, Francis Oulmet and several other etare are yet in the game, They can all still swing a wicked olub and, had the drawing been different, there no doubt would have been other names in the final round to-day. ee eee: | EDUCATIONAL, INSTRUCTION, eee STEWART AUTOMOBILE SCHOOL KNOW YOUR CAR thi Jeasure in driving het natistaction oF knowin opal oF. aajus Tid every Be of ae your- cal —— THE FOURTH ROUND OF NATIONAL AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEY ote] seo fi 1 ul any and self. course at Stewart Automobile Schoo! will enable you to master any ear and qualify you t@ pase any examinatio! o Gen W. bYth Sts at eho irolo 0270. ounaed 1000 FRANKIE BURNS DEFEATS BLUTE AT*LONG BRANCH, LONG BRANCH, Aus. Aug, 23.—(rankie Burna, the popular little featherweight of Jompey City, made a big hit with both the natives and the summer guests here last night by decisively outpointing Jim- my Blute, the game New York feather, welght, in the main bout of eight rounds at @ boxing show of the De Forest A. C, in the big Casino. The lads fought fast and furtously, but Burns's infighting and his heavy blows to Blute's kidneys and stomach easily won the contest for him. Biute "pinadse: to bp ink the sina and was ap- __ FOR NATIONAL ATOM. GF iF ME It was tnevitable that.the Atlanta lad! would | Hero is the lad that has turned things ‘up- tide down in the ama- tour golf world. His whieh will be contested at Oakmont to-day, for | the National Champlon- ship. He ie only seven: teon years old, but even years ago good judges declared that it would not take long for him to fight his way to prominence on the links. The Atlanta.youth has only championship to-day. anthems Former Gets, a Chance to Cover Second While Latter Goes to Short and Intense Rivalry Results. By Bozeman Bulger. 4H Cardinals went away from here beaten to a framle by the Giants, but the bantamweight champtonship between Frankie Frisch and Al Baird, which is more impor- tant, still hangs in the balance. From the way the crowd enjoyed the tilt yesterday that is just where they want it to hang. The rivalry is getting bet- ter all the time, and if MeGraw makcs the two youngsters toe the mark for another direct test to-day something, 1s bound to pop. With one of them playing short and the other second yesterday, the affair reached such a tense stage that either of the youthful Phenoms could—-and did—make- an error on the slightest provocation. Their nerves were on raw edge, und the crowd, catching the spirit of the thing, forgave and even laughed good- naturedly at fumbles. One moment thore was a yell for Friech and the next for Baird, The game itself was almost forgotten. McGraw skilfully arranged the set- to without either aspirant being fore- warned and he is having the chuckle | of his life in watching the little, high spirited fellows fight it out for the job, To appreciate this struggle of the bantams one must understand that a month ago Al Baird was considered the legitimate successor to Doyle or Fletcher in the infleld. came ,Frisch, from Fordham, A chance’came fo him in the Cincinnati series and the college boy showed such a flash of form that loud cries arose of “Goodbye, Baird!" ‘The more enthusiastié even predicted that Doyle would never get bis job back at second. The youngster had really proved himself a wizard. And you can burned as he sat there on the bench understood better than he what had happened, MoGraw, having once been a fight- ing youngster himself, appreciated the turmoil going on in the mind of saw a chance to test the metal of both and played his carde cleverly. Frisch was playing shortstop in place |} of Fletcher, because Larry Doyle was back in the game. But after the Giants had made five runs, Doyle was taken gut to let Baird run for him, ‘That put both star youngsters in the game, and for seven innings the with Baird at second and Frisch at short, In about ten minutes the two game little roosters realized what was in the minds of the fans and were :de- termined to give a proof of superior. | Ham™. ity. They went after everything that came anywhere close, knocking down hard grounders, chasing infleld files that the third- baseman or the first baseman might have got—pepping things up in general. ‘Then the strain began to tell, In the third, overanx- tety on the part of Frisch caused him to make an error that brought on trouble. In the eighth a case of nerves, got Baird and he made two fumbled on easy chances, allowing a Cardinal to score, They were both so eager as to try to make double plays before they wot the ball. bat it was a dead-heat, each getting hit, Each also scored @ run, but Baird's backers claimed ad- vantage for him in that he had stolen second. It was a lot of fun and McGraw ought to stage it again. The fighting spirit is likely to make star ball play~ ers out of both of those boys. Thoy are both emall and fast—in fact, at a distance, it is difficult to tell them epart, Even their stride and man- nerisms are similar, ‘As the thing stands now we will have to call it a draw, ‘Though the Giants made a cleon sweep of the St. Louis series, they gained not an inch on those ravenous Reds. Moran's club appears to have gone hog wild. ‘Two days now Boston had @ big lead on them only to crowned with wiped them off the slate. Since coming East the Reds have! ‘Yur eon play ed ames, and of these Then along |f well imagine how the ears of Baird |{. they Al Baird and Frisch Put Up Hard Fight to Win A Place in Giants’ Infield Here Is the 17-Year-Old Lad Battling for National Title one fault—a temper—-but he is gradually curing himself of that fault. He meets Dave Herron, another boy wonder, in the matoh that will decide the have won ten, We ate reminded also that this is the time when th were expected to blow, otip like that, there is no chance Going at in the world of the Giants catching up, Lo matter how wonderfull Shufflin’ Phil Douglas {s still miss- ing, but eo far as MoGraw is con- corned there will be no detectives on fis 3 trai, Mind you, the Gian’ have won seven out of eleven, The Giants yosterday urchased PRU Cooney, a shortstop, from thi Providence club. Down low Cooney is some pumpkins of short fielder and that should win the once he gets goil timers aver that show us go! days, another smack Hornaby good to him. pennant with ease jeucme of the but-by either name here chance for Rim to come down mething. McGraw cx pects Mr. Cooney in two or three Rogers Hornsby managed to that kink out of his bat yeste and, for the fikst time in four ames, struck a clean lick off a New York pitcher. It felt so good that he added later in the game. feels much better now. | When he came here three days there was much rumor of the Giants having offered $25,000 or some auch | a: big figure for Rogers and it sounded | power, of course, is dangerot East they they may Pp the Giants ith no’ base hits! though, the talk subsided. Ives | bellion against the National Commis- ago wars. to almost-any club in| 1 BASEBALL'S FUTURE HANGS. ON RESULT OF JOHNSON CASE —_—_—_———S—S—— Expert Fullerton Says Crowds Have Become Unsportsmaniike Because They've Taken Cue From Players, Who in Turn Have Imitated Actions of Owners in Rebelling Against Gov- | —e and many) mofe attempts to “show up” umpires | in the jore this year than in former | umpires of both the! American and National Leagues have | lost much of their control over the men, and the inciting of the crowds has become more and more common, the government of game i» ereating a condition of bam Shy which has apread to the TH reo Loppers crowds for rs) last re has been better ant and Setter. ‘This sea- fon for some reason, the crowds have been growing Mére and more violent and unsporismaniike, and they have reached the oarees Point jn some cities, It is Rot hard to understand po ua! should be In Cincinnati, the populace, pete mad siasm over the prospect ofthe championship the team ever won, but explain the out- ‘This neason I have made an odd stully of the major leagues. luckily I did not start it until May umpires, Allowing for all prejudices there is no doubt these conservative reports show that the work of the umpires has been very bad, much worse than usual, It is hardly probable that these men, who #0 seldom even mention umpires, should change in a year and become critics. The natural inference ig that the work of the officials has been so bad as to compel some notice 10 taken. One writer who repeatedly has told me that he never again would blame an umpire, has mentioned the umpires as cause for seven defeats and three victories for his team. The other day I compiled the reports these newspaper men with this it is the spirit of the times, ink not. My theory is that png! i ly taking the eve players, the players are get- c there from the club owners and ms ruas iy Pipe attacks upon government o} game, There is me doubt but that the re- sion has created a condition approach- lawlessness in baseball. The re- sult of the fight that the majority of the directors of the American League are makitig against President John- taking the accounts at face son will lave @ large bearing upon| yaiie without trying to determin the future government of the game! whother they were right or wrong. and decide whether the sport is to be et back to its darkest ages or not. Johnson, more than any other man, has stopped rowdyism in baseball. No matter what criticism may be raised against the plump President of the American ue, he deserves . | credit for having upheld umpires and compelled the players to respect them = ete their rulings, He has done more, trained baseball reporters never 4 criticise an umpire, no mat. ter how rotten he may be. There are not half a dozen major league writers who will ever criticise an umpire, In one however, this fact, tow ith the fact that Johnson has ith absolute power, has r to the game. The The umpires are charged as fol- lowa, the accounts of both visiting and home reporters being taken wherever possible: AMERICAN LEAGUE. Won. Chicago Clevelan Lost. esunenc NATIONAL New Ade GUE. made for umpires have so much power now that any two 8 Sg 2 0 2 of them can give a! 1 2 1 jeague, or wreck the chances of! club if they @o desire. ONe@aen= *. 9 much | ; Tt is easy to observe that the num- ber of games lost, in which the game is charged against the umpires, is much greater than those won, Does But the effect of the Johnsonian policy on the crowds has been won- chafing for another chance. Nobody | ai the boy on the bench. Yesterday he |#sta: rally at the finish tbat} crowd watched the Giant infleld work | St sebsxeet eztasieaiesse Ssusbassrece fescis ; “at SSETEGESES eS SESCEE EES EEtie! sSEseU=SeSERIS ETE aoe BASEBALL AVER Of American and National Leagues Copyright, 1Wn8, by Al Munroe Bijan.) American League Pushing, this table shog that writers In some cities are mote prejudiced than in others or that the umps have given some clubs tho ‘est or the worst of the argument? It certainly looks as tf the Giants have had the best of tt in the um- piring, as the charges come from five different cities. According to Mo- 2AGES Graw's following of rtera th , National League ies e- Giants he eed “ robbed" nee five “% t ® #, games, but the other reporters deny & — -B9) these claims and allow them but one. i § Fil The Boston Red Sox and Brooklyn wa $ Ff] reporters either are the most preju- Bm 4 ‘a diced in favor of their teams or those ob b teams have been hurt by decisions, Be 6 It 1s highly probable that the work 8 of tho umpires has been affected by D8 3 4 the behavior of the players and the 8 38 Re 8 punishment from the crowds, Thin 7 3 a has been Jphnson's argument for 3 a years—that If playera and crowds i] Bis treat the umps well their work {m- bs ie | 3 proves immediately, Many players 4 il agree that this-is a fact. 4 ; 44 (Copyright, 1919, the Bell Syndicate, Tne.) BB i 3 = wey wurenmenr! aeae FY H DANCING ACADEMIES. Fe 6 16 H i? DANCING CARNIVAL A 4 4 4 Fonperty st.Grand Central Palson, :4 4% : NOW AT 4 it if dll ST. 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