The New York herald., 1921-06-21
AMERICAN GOLFERS
PLAY WELL ABROAD
Charles HOffner and Joseph I'll.
KirkwoOd Tie With % at
st. Andrews.
CHICK EVANS HAS AN 83
Bobby Jones Comes Through
First Days Play for British
Open Title With 76.
by BERNARD DARWIN.

Special Gable to THn New YORK fEEsALD.
0opyriOht, 1921, by THE New YORK HERALD.
ST.. ANDREWS. Scotland. June 20.--To-
day was the first OF two days qualifying
play for the British open golf champion
ship and America came out on the whole
remarkably well. Chick Evans, who
took an SO, may be in jeopardy of not
qualifying. but Bobby Jones had a
fine 76.
Jim Barnes OF the Pelham Bay Golf
Club came through with q respectable
78. while Jock Hutchison had II. Wal
ter Hagen of Detroit with an 80 was
higher than he ought to have been, but
undoubtedly he will play well enough
tomorrow to make himself safe.
The best score OF all was made by
Charles Hoffner of the Philadelphia
C. c.. with 73.
Half Of the players played over the
old course. others over the Eden course
The procedure will be reversed tom Or
row.
Hofrner had to play over the old
course, which Is the harder of the two.
Moreover. he played early, when the
northwest winds were blowing really
hard. out in 81 was very fine golf in
deed. for there Is but one short hole,
Che eighth. to give relief.
Homecoming with the wind Hoffner
was so good that he wanted two As
FOR a II. The man who tries for As
Is apt to get 6's or rs. Hoffner wisely
got a safe 5. He took another A, which
was unnecessary. and SO finished
Evans Not Cautious.
It was pity Chick Evans was not
more cautious at the seventeenth. He
was too strong with his second ball
which ran over the green into fatal
road, tucked itself close to a wall in a
heap of stones. Chick" dislodged 1t
successfully. then tried a pitch run shot
that should just climb the bank onto
the green without running too far over
into bunker.
1t was too gently hit and back the
ball came again onto the inexorable
road. On the third shot the ball did
reach the green, but the hole cost T..
Weak putting meant a at least, and
what might have been a 20 was turned
into an SO.
,'Chick's'' partner, James Braid, got
into no roads and finished steady with rs.
Some of the best golf OF the day was
seen over the Eden course. j. II. Taylor
and George Duncan each had IS. The
latter looks as IL he is coming back into
the game in the nick Of time. He played
confidently and as If the game did not
WOrfy nlHi
Abe Mitchell went around in II, and
there was nothing about it to make his
hacker whose name is legion, dissatis-
fed. II it was not the best golf, Il was
powerful easy golf, played well within
the players strength
Kirkwood Impresses Enormously
J. II. Kirlkwood the Australian open
champion who finished In 73, impressed
me enormously No description can
describe the curiousness Of Kirkwood's 8
style.
He has no waggle and no mannerisms.
OF this result there can be no doubt, and
that Is that he is an unusually good iron
player.
never saw any man hit the ball with
more nip and cr'ispness. 1t flies away
as straight as an arrow. And when he
pitches the ball clearly 1t has plenty Of
stuff on it. He seems TO putt well. too.
without any unnecessary fuss about the
line.
Altogether this young Australian Ia
going to take some beating. l hardly
think he can hold up against the vast
hitting OF Mitchell and Yet l don't
know.
He Is a natural phenomenon 10 whom
ordinary rules do not. perhaps, apply
and he IL uncannly accurate.