New-York tribune., 1919-06-10

it would have been perfect setting
Just back of young Hoffner, Teller,
the Frenchman, and Bowden, of Boston,
turned in two TBS, and just back Of
bthis pair Mike king" Brady, another
home bred star, raced around in "a.
And here the first amateur showed
his face through the gray Scottish
mists. 1t was Francis Ouimet with a
F6, one stroke better than Chick Evans,
Jim Barnes, Alex Ross, Otto Hackbarth
and Tommy Mulgrew. One stroke back
Kof these, at 78, came Paddy Doyle. Wal
&ter Hagen, Jock Hutchinson, Freddy
McLeod and Emmett French.
81 Only Twenty Under 80
8 All told, from the big field there were
only twenty men under 80, for Brae
BURN, winding through the mists with
SITS narrow valleys and hills, was a
rugged test to-day, where no man
might wander off the beaten path and
find anything but trouble for his mate.
& Aye, Macgregor, a man could find a
ask Willie Chisholm, from Bellevue,
Ella. Willie opened with s, 8, s; set
stled down to three 4s, and then at the
Short 20O-yard eighth Willie met a
Waterloo that made Napoleons look
like two-tenths of nothing. 1t was at
this 200-yard hole that Chisholm need
ed 1S strokes before his ball finally
settled with sombre cluck in the bot
tom of the cup! His tee shot left the
ball perched on a barren rock, and
Eight times the trusty niblick chopped
Its way through solid stone before the
ball even wggled.
8 A sky rocket 9 at the 9th gave
bChisholm 64 for the outward journey
ssnd when he started home with 7,
=, Z, 6, s he decided to call it a day
Sand cease firing. Even Chisholm be-
Iieves they counted couple of echoes
Jon him off the rock If 18 at 3-shot
shole isn't world record for an open
championship, it ought to be, and will
$50 be entered until proven rebuttal is
Offered in return. And Willie is n
Scotch professional at that.
IS Hoffner's round, opening badly, was
"a marvel of brilliant golf. He began
sby hooking his first two tee shots into
Sthe woods, losing a stroke to par at
feach hole, where he needed SIS. But
from that point on the Philadelphia
shome bred came down to earth as
Swiftly as the June rain, going out in
S87.
e A Hurricane Finish
a The feature of his round, however,
hn 1oc{ ~, l,111 4
Ahis trip with 5. a, 5--one over par
End then the fireworks began. A
Ss and equalled par at the next two
sholes and then in hurricane finish
Che completed the round with 3, A, 3, g.
awo under par-for 35.
= AT the 255 yard 18th Hoffner
reached trap, punched the ball out
on the green and sank 30-footer for
"a 8. This left him q 3 at the 400
gard 18th to tie the course record
and lead the field, miraculous
achievement under the conditions. A
fine drive left him in sight Of the
pm and a fine second dropped the
ball three feet from the cup. One putt
here did the work.
& Hoffner is a short stocky type with
"A good, full swing capable of fine
distance. His short game is sure
and steady. He Is the same youngster
who returned II through the heavy
sr,ir at Brookline in the open Of 1918,
when Ouimet downed Vardon and Ray.
& Here is Hoffner's round, with the
hole distances and par:
s. out-Lergth 337. 29s. 375. ess. b6s. 15o,
sSe4, 2o3. 299.
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This 70 equalled Tommy McNamara's g
record, made in the Massachusetts
open several years ago.
The two rounds turned in by Louis
Teller, the Brae Burn pro Of French
descent, and George Bowden, were
both exhibitions of good, sound golf.
Both were out in 35 and both were
back in 38.
Here are their cards:
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Chance to Smash Record
1t will be seen here that Teller lost
-four strokes to Hoffner on the last
holes, needing two fives against Hoff-
ner's two threes. He had a great
chance to smash the course record un-
gil he dashed into trouble at the finish,
losing two strokes to par at the short
seventeenth, after brilliant journel
mp TO that fatal spot where the tee
shot IS played from a plateau to a