New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-05
Fownes and Anderson
Play Well in Qualifying
Round for Title.
SIX IN BIG TIE
FOR LAST PLACE
Differences of 2 Courses
Hinder Players - Pitts
burghers in Limelight.
By GRANTLAND RICE.

golfng debutantes were the heroes oil
to-day's qualifying round for the anna
teur championship, as we figure the
vital statistics OF the double round.
The veterans were Bill Fownes and
John G.. Anderson. Fownes repeated
his fine performance at Ekwanok IN
1914 by leading the big field over the
east and west courses with the score
OF 1853. two strokes better than Max
we'll Marston, who finished in second
place. Anderson moved upon the crest
Of the pedestal with Fownes by taking
q 90 over the east course in the fore
noon. and then, with bulldog deter
mination and fine skill, carving out
20 in the afternoon. The process OF
chopping twenty strokes off ones game
in order to qualify is one Of the rarest
occurrences OF the season, and at the
finish the Siwanoy golfer was over
whelmed with congratulations.
Back OF these two veterans In the
hero brigade we're young Bob Jones
and Perry Adair, of Atlanta, Ca, play
ing their first amateur championships.
Jones is fourteen and Adair but seven
teen. Young Jones went out with
rush in the forenoon for fine "a, so
that his SO in the afternoon still left
him well fixed in the championship
flight Young Adair had q closer call.
Six Tied for Last Place.
When the last putt had been holed 1t
vas found that six men had tied for
las: place with 167 strokes. Only two
o. these could be accommodated among
the first thirty-two, so just at the edge
Of dusk. with a big gallery fringing
each side Of the course, the play-oif
followed.
The six to start were Patton, Wood
ward. Francine, Aoair. George Lyon
and Albert Heckel. Of these, four were
down the middle a Id two were badly
trained over the tee. Patton dropped
his second shot within six feet OF the
hin and Adair followed with d fine
shot. only twelve feet away.
The only one with a chance to upset
calculations was George Lyon, the
Canadian veteran. Lyon Clipped his
third shot within six feet of the cup.
Adair went boldly for his 3, overran
TO feet and then holed for 4. Patton
missed his 8, but was down in par d.
This left Lyon with a chance TO carry
the match another hole. but the Cana
dian champion trimmed the cup and fell
b. the wayside.
Conditions to-day were perfect foy
high scoring. Both courses were hard
and fast, while a brisk wind added TO
the natural trouble that abounds. I'm
der these conditions putting was at
premium, and TO hear the plaintive de-
bates that followed each golfer in the
tournament must have taken enough
puts TO overload battleshlp.
Take the case of Chick Evans, open
champion. Evans was around in 50 IN
the forenoon, with rs for the finish.
81 was never playing better golf in my
life" he said, "from the tees and
through the greens. But at the finish
found that over the double route | had
taken three puts on exactly nineteen
greens, nine on the east course and ten
on the west course.
Rest of Game Brilliant.
Three puts on nineteen greens Is
sufficient 10 run up any score, but I'M
fortunately for Chick, the rest of his
game was brilliant all day. In the
afternoon, over the west course, he was
playing at a 81 clip until he came with
in poking distance Of the cup, where for
a finish he took ten puts on the last
three greens. Through the day he must
have missed at least six puts less than
twenty inches. As II was, he finished
in a tic for fourth place, as Eb Byers
ran third with 1877, two strokes beyond
Narston.
Nelson Whitney and Oswald Kirby,
two leading favorites, were both play
ing al steady, even clip under 100.
But there were others who belonged
and yet who fell by the wayside, where
the weeds of sorrow are neck high.
Among these were Phil Carter and
Reggie Lewis, two from the younger
school who were picked as possible
winners and who had been at the top of
their games. Each required 169 strokes.
two beyond the qualifying limit, and
each found disaster on the east course,
where Lewis took a 90 and Carter an 49,
Both made gallant battles 70 overcome
this deficit in the afternoon, Lewis get
ting 70 and Carter 80 over the west
course, but the rally was not sufficient.
Reggie Lewis owed the bulk Of his
downfall 70 the eighteenth hole. drive
and a mashie when played correctly.
Here the Westchester and Connecticut
champion used up nine valuable strokes
where even a ragged six would have put
him in. This hole j. played across a
deep ravine, and Lewis found trouble
all the way This was ranked among
the toughest breaks Of the tournament.
for the golf he had been playing justi-
fed better score.
Phil Carriers Downfall.
Phil Carter owed his downfall 70 a
blasting start. The par Of the first five
holes over the east course is 4 4 b.
Carter started s s. eight strokes
over par. lie vas never able 10 rally
sufficiently from this heartbreaking be
ginning, and while he did much better
later on, his game never became sure
enough 20 recover all this lost ground.
Carter and Lewis were not the only
top-notchers 20 drop out. Roger Ho-
vey, Of Hartford, one Of the best golf
crs IN the East, picked up. So did
Hamilton Kerr Reuben Bush, Of New
Orleans, had u Sunday afternoon, a
wonderful round, but to-day his score
mounted % IS, and he failed 10 i'm
prove over the west course. So he.
TOO, passed out. Fred Hcrreshof was
another. Fred had an 30 % start
with, but he needed 30 in the after
noon.
Many o. these wide shifts were due
not only 20 tho hard ground and the
wind, but 20 the widely varying char
scter Of the two courses. In the west
course the game Us pitch and run.
On the east course every green re-
quires a high pitcf. The west course
also has faster greens 20 putt on, and
This change upset many who were in
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