Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-16
CONTINUE PLAY
FOR OPEN TITLE
Travers, Evans, Barnes, Hagen
and Teller on BaltusrOI
Links Today.
.OUIMET ONE OF LEADERS

the rest of the field in the national
open golf championship on the links
of the Baltusrol Golf Club at Short
Hills is being played today. Jerome
D. Travers, former national and
metropolitan amateur champion;
Charles "Chick" Evans, the crack
| Chicago amateur: Walter C. Hagen,
the present open champion; James
M. Barnes, the western open cham
pion; John G. Anderson, of New
York. Louis Teller, former French
champion, and Ben Sayers. q noted
[ Scotch professional who is in this
country on a vacation, are among
the starters.
just half of the entire field Is play
| ing today. while the other half played
yesterday. The best thirty-two scores
qualified yesterday, while the leading
thirty-two scores of today's play will
qualify for the championship proper
which Will begin tomorrow and con-
tinue Friday.
Francis Ouimet, of the woodland
Golf Club, Massachusetts, the ma
tfoNal amateur champion, divided the
honors in the first qualifying round
with James Thompson, the Philadel-
phia professional, yesterday. This
pair led the big field Of amateur and
professional aspirants with scores OF
| 151 strokes each. They had to play
hard for the position.
Despite the fact that some of the
| other contestants played sterling golf,
! the gallery, for the most part, pre-
ferred to watch the doingS of Oui-
met and his partner. Wilfrid Reid,
| the little Englishm, who recently
made America his home. Although
Reid qualified easily enough, his put
| ting at times served him badly, and
| he had to be content with 1b4.
| ouImet on Form at Times.
Ouimet was not exactly up to his
game in the early round, although
when II is scored at Baltusrol by
anybody 1t is not to be considered
poor. Yet there were times that the
amateur champion played raggedly.
This was noticeable in the seventh
hole of the early round, where on
four occasions he was in the rough.
In fact, after the tee shot he was
never out of it until he reached the
green on the fifth stroke. Even so,
he recorded a 6, due to a friendly
putt.
The story was different later on,
| however. He was favored by fortune
on the first hole, where he got be-
hind a wire fence, and on trying to
pitch out struck the wire. Still, the
ball bounded off into the green, and
he got a 5. He went along smoothly
enough until the ninth. where he took
another try for the cup. He played
out in 36, as against Reid's 3s.
Usually Ouimet had the better of
the argument off the tee, for his SUI
perior physique permits him to whale
into a ball mercilessly, while Reid,
although a good driver, is necessarily
shorter. The sixteenth was place
where skies proved to be popular
and Ouimet kept up the fashion. II
is so easy to take a six at this Iona
hole. Even so, he played great 6oli
coming in, avoiding trouble for tht
most part, although he had a taste
of it on his second shot at the six
teenth. At the home hole both laid
their second shots within a few feet
of the pin, missed their puts and
took four each. Ouimet's thirty-six-
hole card follows:
MORNING ROUND.
Out ...... s A 3 3 4 3 6 4 4-59
In ..... 4443 5 1 5-89-7S
AFTERNOON ROUND.
Out 49,. 4 8 8 4 s 5 4 S-86
In ..... 443 8 4 6 4 4-87-73-151
Thomson was the more consistent,
but In view of the fact that there
was not one brilliant round, although
both were good golf, little comment
was caused. Thomson is a player tried
and true, and is capable of great
things He likes to go round con-
sistently, and rarely has a really
poor game. That was shown by his
work yesterday.
At the end of the morning round
Max r. Marston, the New Jersey
amateur champion, led his contingent
with 76, but as he was playing the
last three holes a heavy thunder
shower broke and he finished with 7,
6, for 83. While it robbed him OF
a place higher in the list 1t did not
prevent him from qualifying.
Kirkby Qualities.
Two other amateurs qualified yes
terday in addition to Manton. These
were Oswald Kirkby, of Englewood,
former metropolitan and New Jersey
state champion, and Henry j. Top
ping. of Greenwich, Conn, who was
runner-up in the French champion
ship last year.
George Low, the Baltusrol profess
sional: George Mclean, of Philadel-
phia, and Clarence Hackney, Of At
iantic City, led the other professionals
with 152 each. Alex Smith, Wykagyl,
N. Y, and George Sargent, Chevy
Chase, washington, d. O., two for
mer holders of the open title, finished
with 15s each. but Alex Ross, OF Wee
Burn, Massachusetts, failed to quail
ify by one stroke, his total being 1e2,
while Eben NJ. Byers, another star,
turned in 1874.
The hest score for 1s holes made
during the days play was rs, Ouimet,
r. G. Macdonald, Sargent and Nc
Lean being the players.
The scores of those who qualified
Yesterday for the championship are
as follows:
Cnuntrv -. 78 75-l61
.Eronnis onimet. Boston. 7s 73-1b1
Clarence Hackney. All. City. q I5-io2
Geo. Mclean, Yonkers. 20 Ia-loz
! Goo Low. Raltusrol 10 7T-152
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