The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-28
RACINE MAN TURNED IN THE LOWEST SCORE OF THE FIRST
 DAYS PLAY.
Beautiful Weather for the Sport and Many Enjoy the Outing Over the Best Golf Course in the South,
BY H. w. LANIGAN,

yesterday. The morning was given over to the qualifying round and ir the afternoon the first round of match play was completed in both flights.
 The semi-fnals and finals in both flights will be played today and some bully good golf is promised On the whole, yesterdays play was excellent. It was a smart field of amateurs that teed off in the qualifying round and J. V. Rohan of Racine, Wis, "JacK' Villas of Chicago, and A. c. Johnson 5i Minneapolis, Minn., turned in cards that were unusually brilliant. Rohan negotiated the Is holes in
 SS It is two strokes better than
 Professional R. NJ. Weidenkopf's score in Sundays big match with Willie Hoare and H. C. Walker, the profes- sional of the Westwood Country Club of St. Louis, and the large gallery that attended the contest between the prc
 fessionals knew full we'll that the Cleveland crack played a most brilli ant game in spots.
 Rohans ah-around play in the quail. flying round was brilliant in the ex treme, His driving was long and true; his approach play excellent and his putting well nigh fiawless. Villas card was 91, another fine performance, and at times this famous young sports man played as fast golf as has ever been offered on the Essex links John son turned in card of 96 He too, played excellenhy and would have had a 90 if he had not encountered SC much ill fortune on the first nine holes
 Rohan was paired with F. w. Fitch of Boone la, in the first round of match play and the first sensation of the tournament happened when Fitch landed the victor ROhan qualified with such a splendid score that it was thought on all sides he would dis pose of Fitch. But Fitch proved him. self tournament player of no mean ability and not only vanquished Ro- han, but won by the quite emphatic score of 3 up and f to play Both gentlemen played rare good golf, but Fitch's work was the steadier and he well deserved his fine triumph.
 A. c. Johnson, of Minneapolis, was paired with C. A. Kerr of Kansas City, Mo. Johnson put up the super for game and won in fairly handy fashion. However. to Kerr's credit it must be said that it was his fist game of the season and all things consider cd he did excellently well to come as close as he did to defeating steady golfer of the Johnson stripe.
 Villas had his work cut out to de- feat w. H. Smith of Detroit. Their was the real tight one of the afternoon, Villas winning, ? up, to play. It was an excellent contest, featured by a lot of good playing.
 F. w. Thrift of Lima, O., defeated D. c. Robertson of Chicago, in the ether match in the first flight Thrift put up far and away the superior game and was we'll entitled to his conquest.
 A. NJ. Levy of Houston, Tex, one of the Spas most enthusiastic golf lovers: F. \. Diobold, and his brother, E. M Diebold, of Pittsburg, Pa. and F. M. Lay of Kewanee, Ill., were the winners in the first round of match play in the second flight. ] The brilliant performances were Rohans score of S8 in the qualifying round and Villas oss scc~e of lS0. Villas is on his gan and is favored by the Country Club set to win the still if Viias draws Fitch in the semi-fnals, and the Towan duplicates his brilliant performance against Rohan. the Chicagoau will have his hands full and golf overs Ihould see an uncommonly good con test.
 E'Ec days summary;
 Qualifying round IS holes;
 ], V Rohan, Racine Wis, SS,
 Jack Villas, Chicago 91.
 A. c. Johnson, Minneapolis Minn., 96.
 R. w. Thrift Lima O., 100
 F. W Fitch, Boone, Iao 101.
 w II. Smith Detroit, 1O2.
 c. A. Kerr, Kansas City, l03,
 D. C. Robertcn. Chicago, l07
 A. NJ. Levy, Houston, Tex, ll0
 F. NJ. Lay, Kewanee H., 112
 F. x. Diebold. Pittsburg. Pa, 11S.
 E. M Diebold. Pittsburg Pa, 120.
 Frank Darling, Toronto Can. 12l.
 ]. T. Harris. Chicago, 1922
 ID. R. Brown, New York, 12i.
 A. J. Lance Chicago, 125.
 First flight: first round of matcs play: Fitch won from Rohan; no and to play Johnson won from Kerr: up and to pay. Villas won fram smith; up and to play. Thrift won from Roberton: ! up and | to play.