Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-19
ANDERSON IN TIE
. FOR THIRD HONORS
MOntcIair PRO" Golfer Well Up
in Qualifying Round for Ma
tiOnaI Open Title. 4
JOE MITCHELL QUALITIES

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 19-Crippled
with a sprained ankle, Charles e.
CChick'D Evans, jr., three times
Western amateur champion, was a
doubtful starter in today's play for,
the national open golf championship
at the Midlothian Country Club
course.
Evans damaged his ankle playing,
handball yesterday, but asserted he
would try to start, even If he were
compelled to limp around the links,3
Among other prominent amateurs
starting in today's qualifying round
at eighteen holes were Jack Neville,
the Pacific Coast champion: Donald,
and Kenneth Edwards, and e. H.
Bankard. Leading professionals were
j. ]. McDermott, Atlantic City, twice
former national open champion; Fred
Mcleod, o. Louis Teller, Summits
George Sargent. Stewart Gardner,
jack Hutchinson. r. g. Mcdonald
and Tom Mcnamara. "a
Sixty-two players, half of the CONS
plete entry were to start today. The
thirty-two players whose scores are
morrow and Friday with the thirty
two who qualified yesterday.
Tom Anderson, the Montclair, N. J.g
professional golfer, was tied for third
honors in the first qualifying round
yesterday. Anderson made tho
thirty-six holes in $50, being on even
terms with M. J. Brady, WollastonS
and Alex Ross, Braeburn; Joe Mit4
chell,. the Upper Montclair profess
sional, was also among the qualifyx
ing performers, turning in card OF
155. 4
James Barnes, of the Whitemarsh
Club, Philadelphia, was low man of
the day, going the thirty-six holes in
146. Francis Ouimet, the present
open title-holder, was on even terms
with Macdonald Smith, of Oakmont5
for second honors, each turning In
148. Warren K. Wood, of the Homep
wood Club. Chicago. formerly West
ern amateur champion, and w. Rau-
lenbusch, amateur champion of CHS
cago, were the other two amateurs
to qualify outstripping many protest.
SIGNALS, with 155 each.
A stiff breeze and scorching sun
yesterday ran the scores higher than
had been expected, but the only great
upset was the failure to qualify OF
Alex Smith, of Wykagyl, national
champion in 1906 and 1910. Smith
was not well and took 1888 strokes
Ten players withdrew, as their scoreS
grew impossibly high.
Play Of other well-known golfers
was not so even. Macdonald Smith,
of Oakmont, made fine seventy-tw0
in the morning, but took seventy-six
on the second round. This seventy
two won him a special prize of So
for aof u
similar prize went to Barnes for ths
best afternoon total. u
q
Gold Medal for Tuckerman. =
STOCKBRIDGE, Mass, Aug. 19.9
Walter r. Tuckerman, champion Of
the District of Columbia, won the
gold medal for the best score in the
qualifying round of the Stockbridge
golf tournament yesterday. He made ,
~. one stroke more than the amateuE
record of the course, playing in .
heavy rain. Tuckerman and s. Rs
Bowers, of Brooklawn, both of whoru
have two legs on the Stockbridgs
Cup, were each defeated in the first
round of match play. Il
Mundy Near Record. n
MAPLEWOOD, N. H., Aug. 49, s
The first and second rounds of the
Maplewood fourth annual invitation
tournament was pulayed over the
local links yesterday, several fms
cards resulting. r. F. Mundy, of
Ardsley, when playing with L. GOWN.
of Cincinnati, whom he defeated easr
lily, and 6, secured a II, two less
than the record for the course, held
by Heinrich Schmidt, of Worcester.
A bad third on the sixteenth. which
landed Mundy in the bunker, pre-
vented 50. ]. d. Standish, of De-
troit, defeated winthrop Sayre, Of
Englewood yesterday afternoon in the
closest match of the day, ] up. Bad
judgement on the seventeenth led
Sayre to use the wrong club, and as
consequence. he lost both hole and
match. Standish obtained a medal
of IA to Sayre's II. w. M. Johnson,
Commonwealth, with medal of ~,
defeated r. Cushman, jr., Oakley, on
the eighteenth green, 2 up. Aymar
Embury, Englewood, is the other
Semi finalist