Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-07-21
IEy Associated Press. /

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w ASti iNGTpN. July 2o.-EiEhty-
.isns players Will compete IN the
.lniar rounds "f the twcnty-SiXth
annual national opcn golf champion
ship starting tomorrow over ;hc
course o: the Columbia Country Club.
rms field includes fortN-nvc who
qualified in the second half of the
qualifying round today. and the forty
three OF yesterday. survivors OF the
entry list Of 2i6 players who sough;
me open g"lfimg honors of the United
states.
Never in the history of the ma
ti"nal event has "a more representative
list been selected To tee off in the
ulniar rounds |; includes the lead
inS American professionals two at
the british star pros. two Australian
professionals and seven prominent
amateurs. MI VIII battle in tn"
S"Ncnty-,wo- hole two-day stroke
competition beginning tomorrow.
IL The play IN todayS half OF the
qualifying round can he tallen as a
criterion of what may he expected IN
the championship round. golc of the
most brilliant character is in store
Tor the thousands or spectators who
have formed galleries during the pr.
liminary rounds
Long Jim" barnes. of Pelham.
y. Y. set the pace today. when no
turned in tho record score Of ~. one
under par. in his eighteen hol"
round with George Duncan. the lo9n
british open champion. who try as
h" would, could not hold his American
cunfcrcC. aud came home three
strokes behind Barnes
Standard OF rIny Higher.
The standard Of play today was
nnsidcrahly higher and better than
that OF yesterday. although course
conditions generally were not much
different from those i'm the first half
Of the elimination. There was loss
wind, and considered as a whole.
letter class of playCrS competed. -
Indicated by the fact that the forty
i've players VIII" qualified today
showed an average Of approximately
S"Ncnty-iivc and 4 half strokes for
the fun eighteen holes
Following Barnes in today's scor.
ing. came MichHc! j. Bradley. Of the
Oakland iiilis Club, Detroit, with :.
"a. Peter OliIra. - brother of rat
- Hara. who led Yesterdays Held with
e score Of ~ and Clarence Hackney.
OF Atlantic city. wer" next in order
with "a pair of IFS. George Duncan.
81 En- land, was in NTH place with :,
tota! of -. three strokes better than
that made 10y his long driving coun-
trNman Abe Mitchell. who qualified
with "a - Coming to the bulk of the
pualincrs eight turned Ia cards of
u. including George Sargent, Siciotu.
Mex cunningham, Toledo, and
Charles Evans. ,Ir.. national amateur
champion. who. after a poor outwar!
nine holes IN forty. showed Il remark
ablc reversal uf form. particularly
in putting, coming homo in -. DUR
in. which trip he made several sem
sational E.coVcrics from the sand
pits. and had puts ranging from
eight To twenty feet
Six players formed the Scvcnty-Hvc
stroke CroUp, ana an equal number
turned in cards of 40 I'm tho latter
contingent WAS Jesse W Sw.ctsnr
~ N-lf ;-,t. -s...f 1..,, ...,
champion with card OF 0&". TWO
amateurs found places IN the seventy
Scvcu-Strckc group. one was Bob
by Jones. Of Atlanta, with Il sass
and Tho Other, john -. Anderson. of
Sjwanoy former Massachusetts
champion and runMcr-up in the 1915
championship to Robert Gardner. In
TINS combination. Leo bic"cl. one Of
h" fHVor!t"s for thc ultimate cham
pionShip, Charles Il. Murray. the ca
madam star and former Canandian
champion, held places Of pr0mincncc.
As VAS the case Yesterday. IS was
the high qualifying scor" Twelve
players turned IN cards which en-
titled them to places in the champion
ship proper. ~ against seventeen
who qualified Yesterday. In the
dozen golfers who slipped into the
tournament with The maximum Quai-
Tying score today. were Gil Nichols
Of Providence. and Charles II. Rowe
"l 'dklu"it. ana Jesse T.. Gu!lford.
q: the Oakland Club, the long -drivin.
Massachusetts star, with Il card of
il-3T.
Prominent Players Fail 10 Qunlify.
Among tn" prominent players who
idil"d I" qualify today. were Thomas
-. Armour, of Scotland. whose - was
one Strok" too high. William Crcary,
kansas city. with an so: Robcr, Nc
Donald. Chicago. with 50: Joe Mitch
ell, Montclair. and j. s. Worthinr-
ION. noih %! S!awnOy. who had ST.
IN" .ighty-cight TIaliiicrs Will he
divided int" for'y-rour pairs. each
par playing thirly-six holes ronor-
;oal stroke scores Ia count In ,uSc