The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-18
TELLER TIES AT
146 WITH BARNES
FOR OPEN CROWN
Each Gets II ROund-Brady
Is Next in Line and Travers
Fourth. Stroke Away.
erIMET OFF HIS GAME;
EVANS CAN'T HOLD PACE

SHORT Hills, n. j., June Ia ''h
,%pe,shman and a diminutive French
VAN both OF whom are domiciled as
,--,,essorsls at American golf clubs.
.,,red the leadership at the end OF the
s-s, thIrty-six holes OF play for the
national open championship at the Bal
,u.rol Golf Club to-day. James N.
Barnes Of whltcmarsh Valley, a club
,.ar Philadelphia. and Louis Teller Of
m. nearby Canoe Brook Country Club
r, Summit, we're at the top OF the list
n,cr IRE las; scores were posted. Barnes
With It's, l4s and Teller with
7s-7i. 14s.
Blu, though Barnes and Teller led the
asld OF sixty-nve golfers who began the
,eyen,y.tvo hole medal play test this
morning there were others so close on
THAR heels that the issue OF the struggle
for the title seems likely to remain in
doubt until the last putt is holed to-
morrow afternoon. NJ. J. Brady. the
Boston homebred. Is in third place with
7s-7i. ~, and Jerome n, Travers.
'0uF llTlFF IAah'hI - Wv
United States. is fourth with 1913,
rs Only a stroke behind the great
amateur are Robert @. Mcdonald OF
buffalo. 72-77. l49. and Tom Nc
Namara, like Brady. a Boston home
tired. with Isl, $40.
There are no others under $50. but
that does no, mean that none Of the
others has a chance for the title. Walter
Hagen. the champion, is still In the run
rng with ISL. only FIVE trokes away
from the top. and those two former
champions. George Sargent and Fred
Mcleod and Nipper Campbell are still
conceded an excellent chance to come
through. II is seldom that the first half
o. the championship has been completed
with SO many grouped closely together
al the top.
come names that seemed destined to be
included before the championship test
began. Strangely enough, the three
golfers who earned fame by finishing
y; the head in the two qualifying rounds
made scores to-day that put them out
Of the running for the title unless a
ro,iIrg miracle should Intervene. On
Tuesday in the qualifying round Francis
Oulmet and Jimmy Thomson led. To-
day Ouimet's total OF 77-79. 1856 left
him in a tie for twenty-third place and
Thomso1's lfl put him far down toward
~. .t 1-l
in Wednesdays qualifying round, hut
Ike The leaders on Tuesday, Nichols
evidently played himself out, for to-day
he best he could do was I5?.
Probably the biggest disappointment
a. all, however. was Chick Evans. who
finished second in he national open "A
year ago. The great Western amateur
began this morning as II he intended to
ronp through the tourney. for his score
fr the INST round was II and would
have been lower but for trouble on the
home hole, In the afternoon Chick
started out with high hopes. but they
soon began TO slip away as he played
hole after hole badly. He finished witt
an 81 Toy 4 total Of 1852, snd though only
six strokes behind the leaders does not
seem 70 have more than an outside
chance Tomorrow.
Barnes was an early starter to-day.
and as a result he played both OF his
rounds almost without a gallery. No
ore except tho scorer followed him and
his partner, Bert Battell. in the morning
and only about half "A dozen spectators
watched him in the afternoon. AS his
score shows, It was in the first round
that he played his hest golf. Going
out a s at the second hole made his
TASK a hard one. but by playing steadily
ana consistently he reached the turn in
IN, ore stroke over par. On the inward
Journey he lost no'time in cutting under
Ilr, FOG he holed a putt for a 3 at the
MN and another at the twelfth. At
ne hard fifteenth he reached the green
With his second and wa down In 4. and
another I at the sixteenth also was OF
material benefit TO him. He played the
seventeenth in I, but on the home green
an o ~ a fine putt for a 3 and made
MS total FOR the round II.
IN the afternoon Barnes played ex-
..,Tleht gnlf going out and improved
,,Agee st'ohcs ~ his morning score. as
ne reached the turn In 80. Coming in
.e GOT the tenth and eleventh In par
HsuFes and then in the ~twinkling OF an
Vt MS shi1i with the putter deserted
nm On each Of the next three greens
ne TOOK three puts and his chance OF
eluaIllng or lettering his morning score
VEN by tho board. He gained a stroke
ny hol.nr a { on the long sixteenth. hut
10y II again a moment later when he
eNed ms tee shot on the seventeenth
ana took for the hole. He ended with
par and completed the round In rs.
His card
James " Barnes, whitemarsh Valley
MoRNrNG ROUND.
VI'''',,." I 6 SIS
'n''..".. t3iiiIi3 -3s-n
AFTERNOON ROUND.
urN'"'".. tt453tt 3-B
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L't'le Louis Teller, who played with
me even Hitler Ben Sayers, played his
s'od golf In the afternoon. His morn
Ws round WAS just like a good many
o'hers, good steady going with few
mistakes, He missed a putt on the third
nu' a!d not let it worry him any and goi
me woods On the sixth and lost 9
'1o' there too. The remainder Of the
'VGo.nP holes were played in par and
ne reached the turn In 3s. Coming IN
~ was par up to the fourteenth, where
a%st'oke was dropped. but he made 1t up
Wy getting a 4. one under par, on the
-.A'hth, The next three holes were
,ayei N par, 20 he finished with q 81
w' me inward journey and a IS for the
round.
Followed by a good sized gallery
winch seemed anxious 20 discover how
Mo such small men could play good
spon' Teller set out In tho afternoon
ne played well for the first nine holes
getting to the turn In 35. including a I
~ 10 sixth, where he had found trouble