The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-16
AMATEUR GOLF
KING QUALITIES
AT TOP OF LIST
0uimct Ties With J. Thomson
rtl51 in First Round Of
open Elimination.
Asst or THIRTY-TWO TO
GO On. 10 STROKES AWAY

eUpEv NtLLs. y. j., June l6.-An am
,.er~ and a professional shared the
.sstcrship tn the arst qualifying round
o. the r~jt'o~al open golf championship
AZ the Rll,usrol Golf Club to-day. Fran
cs oulret oc woodland. amateur cham
non n the United States. and James
r. Thsmson. professional at the Phil
~fielphia Country club. each played the
,Air,y.slx holes IN 1871 and took their
r'accs At the top Of the list of thirty
two golfers who qualified FER the cham
plonshlp proper. which begins on Thurs
dav There were sixty-cisht starters
to-day and the scores of those who
qualified covered a range OF Just ten
strokes. from the l5l OF the two leaders
10 the 1911 made by each Of the eight
who tust slipped through.
The only point 81 similarity IN the
golf played to-day by ouimet and Thorn
son was IN the final result. the ISL that
vas written up after each Of their names
on the scoreboard. In every other way
the games Of the leaders were as far
apart as the poles. ouimet. who made
Is In the morning and a 73 in the
.fternoon, played with his usual mechan-
-al excellence, making few mistakes OF
consequence, getting INTO few bunkers,
aad never straying far from the kin
o. golf that won the open title for him
IN 1918 and made him the amateur
ciamp!on last year. Thomson. whose
- IN the first round was followed by
q IS IN the second, played anything but
consistently. As he confessed after 1t
was all over. he was In nearly every
bunker on the you're. "But,' he added
"whenever l got in a bunker I played
cut dead to the pin" Not only did
Thomson have his troubles in the sand
PTS. but ne was ore Of the unfortunates
Who were out on the course when the
late in the afternoon. He played the
last. three holes in the dowrpour and
the three puts which he took on the
sixteenth -reen were accounted for in a
measure by the wet green. Altos ether
Thomson spent a trying kind of day,
sad ne smiled c~overtly when he found
,lat he VAS one OF the two big men
o. the hour.
Oumer was the golfer who carried
the gallery to-day. and II was a big
gallery too. Il remaired faithful TO him
throughout the thirty-s.N holes despite
90 rumors from other parts OF the
,1rrss 20 the effect that this or that
roller was aniuE great guns That
t.ese rumnis proved untrue almost with
10. exception Vniiratcl the judgment
O. tho thronS OF spectators who tramped
along through the heat in the wake OF
the famous Boston amateur.
N.'rei Reid. the little Englishmar
who ,layci so well at Brookline in 1919
md Who came over here last winter "a
'-ke 70 0~.s.t'ou as professional Mt sea-
Nsw. r'lyci with Oulmet n his fame
-lac1 MT a little TO the number Of
enthusiasts who followed the pair. Reid
.tlleI 20 Keep pace with oulmet, hui
IS total OF lii put him in a tie with
r. H. Barker % Richmond for tenth
pace.
In the morning round ouimet's play
WAS not ALWAYS quite up TO standard
Ms tee yho's we're a little inclined 10 he
r9ggel. but even AT that they seldom
20, him INFO serious difficulties. ON the
ol'c..gs journey he began by aking =
a. tta first hole when a put; refused
r. 70 down. He PLAYED the next nVe
t'.es IN one stroke unu'r PM $3.50
ne ska which Is . 5'N ara NOE; pa!
ana so mare uh the nti"Ne W. ave-
RAD lost nj the frst, iEeld ga NOT &c
'l,e SO Wen, though ne turnlsheu wv
gallery with a real thrill on the second
ho,e, whore he smashed his club agains'
2 rock IN making n stroke, but got the
tall away c,eanly and put II on the green
The seventh proved to be Ouimet'
'. Ho,r po'h mofn'hs anu So.
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