The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-19
STREAKED GREENS
FOR OPEN TOURNEY
Brown Fungus Is Responsible
for Condition of Columbia
G. CPS Course.
TITLE PLAY TO-DAY
One of the Wonder Practice
Rounds Is Joe Sylvester's
Card of SO.
TITLE PLAY
BY KERR N. PETRIE.

Special Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD
WASHINGTON, July 1S.-Excepting for
the tragic fact that Fred Miley of Home
stead. Mass, has Slipped rib" and by
the edict of the doctor cannot compete :
that Harry Hampton, the Detroit star
let window fall on a finger and may
join Miley in the gallery, and that last
reports had Chick Evans, the national
amateur champion, headed Southeast,
under full sail. all well, but due to ar
rive late, the national open golf cham
pionship is due to start tomorrow at
the Columbia Country Club as per
schedule.
Evans should have been in line for to-
morrow's qualifying round. However, to-
day the United States Golf Association
executive committee received q telegram
requesting that the name of the amateur
champion be transferred to the Wednes-
day qualifying division. The request
has been granted. but Evans may have
TO begin the championship without any
preliminary practice or chance to ia
miliarize himself with the links over
which the tournament is to be played.
The strange case of Fred Miley has
most of the professionals guessing All
they know for certain is that Fred had
to abandon some driving practice which
he was taking on Sunday and HE him
to doctor. who gave out that Miley
had Slipped rib To whom the rib
has been slipped is not known although
the supposition is that 1t was intended
to reinforce the ribbed mashies of Jock
Hutchinson and thereby enable the hold
er of the British open championship to
impart trifie more ''stoppum" to the
ball.
Ae fo, IJo r,.,r 1To ,,,>tor - c,x.~.x~. A..
is being wasted than now is possible on
the piebald Columbia greens. In fact,
all the boys are remarking rather cal
lousy that any one who closes window
these days in Washington has no right
to look for sympathy.
Greens Not In Good Trim.
The putting green's inject into the
championship whatever sour note is
heard. There Is no blinking the fact
that the greens are not of champion
ship calibre as they now stand, but for
that nature alone and not the Columbia
Country Club or its officials Is to
blame. Two weeks ago, we are told,
these putting strips were the acme Of
perfection. In that period has crept
In the brown fungus which is the dread
and bugbear of golfers of these parts,
and as they lie to-day swetering In the
with black and white. as IL they were
first busted off with white sea sand
and then sprinlled with charcoal.
To be perfectly fair they are not so
bad after one passes the first four or
five holes, but they are decidedly puz-
cling to golfers who have come down
from fine velvety stretches Of putting
turf found at this time of the year
on the. courses of Westchester. Long
Island, New Jersey or even New Eng
land. There is Just this much to be
said nevertheless: All have to play
them as they are, and no one will have
an advantage over the other.
To judge by some of the scores made
to-day it does not look as If the green's
are In any way to initiate against the
golf or the scoring. One of the wonder
rounds OF the many played on the last
practice day was that of Joe Sylvester
of st. Adams, who should have bettered
by two strokes Bobby Jones's record
card of 6S made on Sunday. Sylvester
finished at 60 because he took three
puts on each of the last three green's.
scoring 4, 5. instead of the par of
3, 4, 4.
When he made this card Sylvester
was playing in a fourball with Bobby
Barnett of Tredyffrn, Pa. as his part
ner, against Willie Leach of Merchant
vile and Walter Howe OF Tatnuck. 1t
was quite round and quite a match
punctuated by many a scintillating Incl
dent. Although Sylvester and Barnett
had best ball of 65 they did not win
by more than 3 and 2.
Robbed of Hole In One.
On the eighth hole Sylvester was
robbed OF hole in on account of his
tee shot being held out of the cup by
the flagpin He made up for the mis-
fortune" by sinking his second shot for
on the twelfth which from its back
tee Is 500 yards, but was not so being
played to-day. In any event II is par
3, no matter how 1t is played, and Willie
Leach. who got g. two under par or
what in the parlance of the links IL
termed an eagle" considered 1t was
real mean of Joe to make it three un-
der par, thereby giving the bird an extra
head.
When Sylvester went bad on the last
three holes Barnett took charge of the
game and finished with 3, 3, 4. Leach
himself had 70.
Following are Sylvester's figures:
pnt......-.... 2 2 4 4 $40 SO az
After that scores in the low 70s
looked quite commonplace There was
quite n crop of cards ranging between
~ and n, several at 73, few at az
and sprinSling OF II. One of the lat
ter was credited to Abe Mitchell of
England, who was out playing with
John c. Anderson, the amateur as his
partner against NJ. ]. Brady OF Detroit
and John Farrell of Quaker Ridge,
N. y. Farrelrs 3 on the home hole
won the match despite Mitchell's fine
Homecoming card OF a.
The feature of that last nine by the
Englishman was his at the seven
teenth. where he drove the 2S5 yard
green and sank his putt. This distance
Is not much for Abe, but as the green
Is on the top of hill and not very
wide II naturally is a very difficult
one to hold. Walter Hagen also drove
and holed here for his O.
The following IL Mitchel's card:
Dut................ 434a5 45 3 5-3T
in......'........... "a 40 8 Q . 4-34-71
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