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...course the Americans were slaughtering each other too. Sweetser had beaten dangerous Francis Ouimet, who had previously eliminated George Von Elm. But Bobby Jones, playing at the top of his game, stood between Harris and the demi semifinal. Their match, the first meeting in title play of a U. S. and a British champion, was the most spectacular of the tournament. At the very third stroke Jones holed an approach for a birdie. He made five more birdies in the next eleven holes. He trounced Harris eight up and six to go, and Harris was by no means off form...
...Eight amateur golfers are chosen by Britain and the U. S. to play for the Walker Cup, emblematic of the world's team championship. The matches are held after the amateur championship alternately in each country. This year's team: Gardner (Capt.), Jones, Von Elm, Guilford, Mackenzie, Sweetser, Ouimet, Gunn...
...when he led a field of the country's ablest for half a qualifying round at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia). The beating he gave Gardner at Oakmont three years later was payment for a budnipping that occurred in the third round of that Merion affair. Francis Ouimet administered the budnipping at the Engineers' Club (Roslyn, L. I.) in 1920, Willie Hunter at St. Louis in 1921, Jess Sweetser at Brookline, Mass., in 1922 (harshest ever, 8 and 7), and Max Marston at Flossmoor (Chicago) in 1923. So far as his match play went, it appeared that Jones...
...from Stephen Geoghegan, 20, after the two had disposed of a field including such foes as "Ham" Gardner (Buffalo), Frank Wattles Jr. (Buffalo), E. H. Driggs Jr. (Garden City, L. I.). ¶ At Brookline, Mass., the Massachusetts State title went for the sixth time to aging Francis Ouimet, onetime (1914) national amateur champion, after he established a six-hole lead on youthful Winthrop Hersey (Wellesley) with a 68 in the morning round of their match...
Scores: Macfarlane 74 67 72 78-291 (Extra rounds 75 72) *Jones 77 70 70 74-291 (Extra rounds 75 73) Farrell 71 74 69 78-292 *Ouimet 70 73 73 76-292 Sarazan 72 72 75 74-293 Diegel 73 68 77 78-296 Smith 73 79 72 73-299 Mehlhorn 78 72 75 76-301 Gallett 73 70 84 77-304 Hutchinson 78 78 79 71-306 Barnes 75 76 71 85-307 Kirkwood 81 73 82 79-315 Walker...