Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1917 — WANT FRANCIS OUIMET BACK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WANT FRANCIS OUIMET BACK

Nine-Tenths of Golfers in United States Said to Favor Restoration of Young Amateur. a - Qf the 800,000 golfers in the. United States it Is -almost safe to say that nine-tenths are in favor of restoring Francis Ouiinet, the ex-amateur and ex-open champion, to his former standing in amateur ranks, says a writer in

an exchange. The vast majority knows Ouiinet "as the youth who came from behind the counter of a Boston sport-ing-goods store and went out on the links at Brookline and turned back the invasion of the English pros who threatened at that time to take away our open championship. Of the 2,000 clubs in the United States less than three hundred of them belong to thq United States Golf association, which took action against Ouiniet;

Francis Ouimet.