Evening star., 1915-06-16
NOTES FROM NATIONAL
OPEN GOLF TOURNEY

NEW YORK, June 16.-Had the ex-
ecutive committee of the L. S. G. A.
not acted with its accustomed leniency
yesterday Ouimet would have been
barred from the competition. He came
out from New York by automobile and
various delays made him more than
half an hour late in reaching the
course. The official time limit is IF
teen minutes. but after the amateur
champion had presented his excuses
and apologies the committee permitted
him to start.
Oswald Kirkby almost equaled Oui-
NETS adventure, for a punctured tire
delayed the Englewood golfers start
from home, and after a breakneck
trip across country he arrived at the
and started off with Jimmy Thomson
without stopping to change his clothes
or to obtain caddie.
large part in the fortunes of the anna
teur contingent. There were to have
been seventy starters yesterday. but
two of them dropped out. One of the
two was c. w. Deibal, a Youngstown,
Ohio, amateur and word was received
mobile accident. The other absentee
was Douglass Grant, the California
Englishman, and as he, too, is an anna
teur. perhaps motor troubles kept him
away also.
Frank L. Woodward, president: How
ard F. Whitney. secretary. and Percy
R. Pyne, I'd, treasurer, represented the
United States Golf Association and sent
the players away from the first tee on
gone they started out for a little
friendly round with Paul Moore of
Morris county. and got thoroughly
soaked as a result.
The group of officials were not the
only ones out on the links when the
storm broke. Many Of the profession
ais who are to play today had started
out in four-ball matches for a little
final practice. and a number were
caught pretty far from the clubhouse.
Dave Ogilvie was one of those who
just escaped a wetting. He had play
ed several holes when he saw the storm
speed 1T takes me back to my old
barrier days on the other side." said
Davy, who used to run in cross country
races in Scotland. as he pulled up at
the locker room door Just as the first
raindrops fell.
Only about a dozen of the actual par
ticipants in the qualifying round were
Caught ny Ine StOTIn ana none IdlleO 10
qualify because of the rain. Max Mar
ston had the narrowest escape, but he
squeezed in with a couple of strokes
to spare.
Wilfred Reid went about his club
breaking at the second hole in the
morning in cold-b blooded manner.
My ball was against rock and 1
knew that 1 would have to break my
club, anyway" he said afterward, 80
7 h IeVh i
there aren't many mashie iron shots
on this course. took out my mashie iron
and let her go. / smashed 1t all right,
but l guess l can spare 1t better than
any other club. And best Of all, the
ball landed on the green"
Late in his afternoon round Reid
made another shot that pleased the big
gallery. On the seventeenth hole his
pail overran the green and stopped on
the top OF the bank near the eight
eenth tee. After studying the shot care
fully. Reid tapped the ball and 1t roll
ed down the bank, straight across the
green and into the cup. Reid sat down
on the bench right behind him and
waited for his caddie to climb up with
his driver. with which to play the home
hole.
Many in the gallery seemed puzzled
oy the fact that no scorer with his
met and Reid. They forgot that a
scorer goes along only when two pro-
ressionals are playing together. If one
or any pair is an amateur the duty Of
keeping the score is intrusted to him.
Alex Ross and Macdonald Smith played
together. and spent so much time laugh
ing and Joking that Ross failed to quail
fy by q single stroke. and Smith was
ono OF the eight that squeezed in at 161.
olv ~ f1a
title who did not qualify.
Probably tho golfer who surprised him
SER most by qualifying was william Mac
stationed at Baltimore club He took
81 IN the morning. and when he went out
IN - IN the afternoon. decided that he
was ABOUT through. But he came home
IN y %. aesnte two balls out Of bounds. and
nnlsheo on the ragged edge, with his 161.
On the way in Macfarlane made the
soI-yaro nrteen in 8. "A drive, q brassey
.a ana putt. ne said 1t was tho only 8
maze on that hole during the day.
Tho size Of the gallery that followed
Ouimet and Reid indicated that the
crowas c.. Thursday and Friday will be
pretty large Baltusrol galleries always
are Dig ones. and the record sesr,s likely
| to go this year.
! Woo appeal to tho public seemed
ot Two wide at ono time yesterday
aIternoon. for a youth who evidently had
heard that tho national open Wss ono OF
.ne great sporting event of the year
tneo 70 start a three-card monte game
near the ninth tee He found no custom
~: however. and was told to mako him
self scarce
inc pairs that attracted tho gal-
GI teIeS To-Day are James NJ Barnes and
Cnick Evans. western open and amateur
c canpaons, and Walter Hagen, national
open champion, and Louis Teller. Barnes
ano Evans started at 9:45 O'Clock. and
i.tsr ana Teller got away tan minutes