New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-12
Stars Extended
TO Their Limit
To Survive Test
Ross, Armour, Kerrigan and
Mclean Have Hard Time
Joining the Select Circle

TOLEDO, Aug. 1.-The fear that
Walter Hagen, national open golf
champion; Ted Ray, the English star;
Jim Barnes and Mike Brady and other
such links luminaries might not quail
ify for the title event this year was
dispellcd to-day. These and all Of the
other favorites-that is, the great ma
jority Of those who are rated as being
about the best of the field here--are
in the select circle and ready to travel
the fastest pace ever set in the ma
tional tourney.
Hagen. Ray, Barnes and Brady, as
Siwanoy Club; Pat Doyle, of Deal;
Charlie Lorms, of Inverness; Alex
Ross, of Detroit; Tom Armour, French
amateur champion; George Mclean,
the Great Neck Club star, and several
others cut loose to-day and displayed
their real golfing form.
The first named four kept we'll
within themselves in qualifying, but
the others had to work like trojans.
This was particularly true of Ross,
Armour, Kerrigan and Mclean. Ross
had an 80 yesterday, Kerrigan an 81,
Mclean an 80 and Armour an 80.
Keep Plugging Until the Finish
eff l can't better my score Of yes
terday I'll throw the clubs away" the
Siwanoy 'pro" exclaimed just before
he left the first tee. Tommy was quite de-
termined to-day and went after every
thing in sight. So was Mclean. But
things broke badly for the Great Neck
player and he had to keep plugging
every minute.
AS he came off the eighteenth green
a bystander informed Georgia he would
in all likelihood get in. Eyes, but be-
lieve me- l had to work for it," the
the play of this second day was, on the
whole, exceptionally good.
Ben Nichols, who was the only one
in this country that defeated Harry
Vardon when he played here twenty
years ago--Ben turned the trick twice
that year-is making strenuous efforts
to come back Ben got couple of
we'll rounded COS. He got good start
on the first hole and made a grand
finish at the nineteenth. taking II on
each. Ben's speciality is the nineteenth.
Deigel OFF in Putting
Leo Deigel, who had the best score
of the lot Yesterday, took a 70 to-day
plenty good enough to qualify him,
and is still figured to have q royal
chance. Deigel was eff in his putting
this morning, but declared he will be
sinking them regularly in the grand
melee, even if he is getting occasional
twenty-footers.
The fellow about whom little is being
said and who is saying less himself,
Laurie Ayton, who came here from
Scotland last spring and who is now
located at Evanston, III. His pace to-
day was almost identically the same
as yesterday-74, IS, 149-and yet he
seems to be playing we'll within him
self.
Bobby Jones and Harry Vardon at
tracted most of the gallery again this
morning and gave everybody a good
show with some wonderful golf shots.
Their chances are rated almost as we'll
as those Of the four favorites.
A clark horse" has come to light in
the person of Jack Burke, home-bred
from the Town and Country Club of ST.
Paul, who came through with nifty
II to-day, which with his rs yesterday
gives him 146 for second place. This
exhibition of Burke's is no flash in the
pan. He has the goods, and if he can
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others hustle.
Amateurs Among Leaders
Charles "Chick" Evans is moving
along at nice even pace, the kind
that generally gets results. These
amateurs are having merry little tus-
sic of their own. Howard Lee, Michi-
gan state amateur champion, is right
up al the front with a total OF 153. and
showing splendid form.
Tom Boyd, the Fox Hills pro, made
a game effort to qualify. Yesterday
he tainted as he was about to leave
his hotel for the clubhouse, and had to
be attended by a physician. Despite
the doctors orders he went out in the
afternoon and shot an 81. To-day he
went around in II for total of 1853,
which just failed to get in. Emmett
French, Charlie Hoffner, Cyril Walker,
Carl Anderson, Arthur Reid and Joe
| Mitchell were other good players left
out in the cold
One of the star contestants suffered
terrible tragedy, which he claimed
was responsible for his high score. On
the homeward half of his round the
cork Of a bottle of priceless fluid
popped out. Said fluid Immediately
evaporated and the player in question
took three puts on each of the next
two holes.