Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-20
F FRANCIS 0U|MET
IS MEDAL|ST IN
GOLF CONTEST
Plays the 1851 Yards Course
Twice With 144 Strokes;
Sets a New Record of SO
On First Round.
tBy The Assoclnted Press,

st. Louis, Mo-, Sept. 19.--Francii
| Ouimet of Boston, former nationa
open and amateur champion, to-
day was medalist In the 36-hole
| qualifying round of the nationa
amateur golf championship, play.
! ing the 6,531 yards course of the
st. Louis Country club twice with
| LA strokes and setting a new
| course record with 50 on the first
round. His golf was splendid as
! he made only two or three errors.
r. e. Knepper of Sioux City,
Iowa champion, was second with
77-70--147, while Bobby Jones of
Atlanta and Jesse Guilford of Bos-
ton tied for third with ISL.
Robert Gardner of Chicago,
twice champion. shared the next
best score, 152, with e. Hoover
Bankard of Chicago. Reginald
Lewis of Greenwich. Conn, and II.
r. Johnston of st. Paul.
Willie Hunter. British cham
pion, and It. d. Armour. former
Scotch champion, both qualified
with 154 and 1855 respectively.
Equaling the pace Of Hunter were
George Won Elm of Salt Lake City,
trans Mississippi champion; Clark
Speirs of Seattle and O. f. Willing
of Portland, Ore. These three
players led the pace northwest in
vaders, who survived with Lee
Steil and Bon Stein of Seattle. H.
Chandler Egan and Rudolph Will
helm of Portland failing to qualify,
and Russell Smith of Portland ty-
ing for last place.
Egan's defeat left only three
former champions out of five who
started, s. Davidson Heron of Chi
cage failing to survive Saturday.
1t required 1862 to be safely In the
fold for match play. but Prescott
Bush of st. Louis and Russell
Smith of Portland, Ore. with 1888
tied for thirty-second place and
will play off tomorrow before the
36-hole first round matches start.
Champion Chick Evans display
ed both championship golf and
carelessness that at one time
threatened to crowd him out of the
qualifiers. He started with a 80,
but came back in 3s. for II. In
the afternoon he changed his tao
tics, chalking up nothing but As,
except for two IS for "a. one I'M
der par. Then he began to trifle
with his putter, taking at least one
extra putt to the green while on
the 180-yard twelfth. He scored
an eight, taking seven single-hand-
ed puts
In this manner, although he
drove and approached well with
out effort. he took AZ strokes to
get home, giving him an 81. but his
complete score of 1853 qualified
fairly well up in the list.
Ouimet. putting we'll as usual,
played evenly under the last nine,
where the heat seemed to slow up
his game, as he took 40 for this
nine, as against S5-34-35 for the
first three mines. His record SO
was all the more remarkable be-
cause of the slow and soft condi-
ton of the grounds. 5~
The United States Golf associa-
ton today adopted another inno-
walton by permitting players to
clean mud from the balls when on
the putting green's and to move the
when approaches sank in the soft
soil. '
Knepper's we'll balanced 35-35--
10 this afternoon was the second
best score of the day for IS holes
1t consisted of an intermixture Of
pars and brides that almost coun-
terbalanced each other, his incom-
ing score being one under par. He
played all departments of the game
well during this round, avoiding
the breaks of luck that ran his
morning score to IT.