The New York herald., 1921-02-20
M'LEAN'S OLD SCORE
EQUAL TO DIEGEL'S
Two 65s at Dunw0Odie as
Good as 67-63 at Pasa-
dena, Says George.

P1NEHURsT, n c.. Feb. 1s.-George
Mclean, who played a lot Of good golf
at Pinehurst this month. and who is now
making his way leisurely to Florida in
company with George Fotherngham,
has dug up an old score card which
he offers to match against Leo Die
gels sensational 81 63-1S0. recently
achieved at Pasadena. McLean's card
Is a valued souvenir or the qualifying
round in the Dunwoodie club champion
ship, May 1916, when George. who was
then connected with Dus. woodie, played
around with w. w. Harris. member
of the club. and disposed of the thirty
six holes in So. 65-130. straight
medal play. This Is the best that Nc
Lean has ever done for thirty-six holes
and it's a trifle better than has been o
far claimed by any of the other pro-
fessionals now at Pinehurst.
Phil Carter and Emmet French, the
Youngstown professional, are the only
players who have broken lao for two
consecutive rounds on the championship
course here, although Mike Brady holds
the official record with a 81 achieved in
the final of the North and South open
a few years ago. Unofficial 6Is, In
four-ball matches, have also been re-
corded for French and Parker White
more, the Brookline star.
The most memorable of French's 6's
was the one achieved last year In
match between Charlie Motherselle and
French on the one hand and Francis
oumet and Perry Adair on the other
a match in which Ouimet went around in
par II and failed to win hole
(Which" quoth Francis sadly. "is some-
thing that never happened to me before
and that devoutly hope will never hap
pen to me again"
During the winter months the resort
Of Southern Pines claims French's al
legiance and he comes over to Pinehurst
once or twice a week and cleans up
There is good deal OF talk around here
of the possibility OF his going abroad
next summer as member of the profess
sional team. It's hard for the Pinehurst
crowd to see" anybody but French this
season, so far as the local courses are
concerned. They got UP a big purse for
a professional medal play tourney here
the other day and one chap subscribed
by offering to add FLYER for each score
better than Frenchs. He admitted
cheerfully he had nothing against EN-
met ana was dCIudltu SOlcly Wy HlpNiFNS
of economy. 1t didn't cost him anything.
as things turned out. although there
were seven other good pros in the con-
test.
over at Southern Pines "A fortnight
ago, French established new course
record with q G7. all puts holed out.
and followed 1t up with 60 in medal
play event the next day. The 81 in
cluded, in the first place. two strokes
lost when his ball jumped out Of the
cup after jumping in for an apparent
brace Of 2s on par holes. And in
the second place it included two short
puts missed on the last two greens
puts which i'm both cases had been con-
ceded by his opponent but which French
insisted on playing for purposes or rec
ord He came to the seventeenth tee
with fairly easy 3 and for So and
finished with 81
Emmets low scores at Pinehurst are
usually made in Sunday play. when no
caddies are available and the sand
greens arc left unswept The latter arc
In pretty bad shape by the time the
afternoon comes around. but so far from
that bothering French to any noticeable
extent he seems to play better when
they are In bad shape than when they
are as smooth as n billiard table In
n bigmatc n played on a recent Sunday
afternoon, just after n heavy rain. Em
met didn't slip up once on the greens
until he came 20 one that an innocent
bystander had mopped UP and smoothed
down with the Persian rugs they use
here FOR that purpose. French wasn't
used to iuxurics OF this kind and he
promptly took three puts after getting
we'll on. "All that man needs" said the
discomflted amateur greenskeeper. "is to
have water spout and two-horse
plough go ahead OF him around the
course and he'd make Phil Carters ia
nous Sc look like one OF my own best
rounds in the eleventh division"