New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-17
Eastern Golf /
Teams VictOrs
Over Bunkers
With Os1in1et as Captain, At
ian,ic Coast Players Carry
Off LaureIs at St. Louis
By GrantIand Rice

ST. LOUIS, Sept 1s.-As a curtain
raiser to the twenty-ffth amateur golf
championship Of the United States,
which swings under way tomorrow,
four inter-sectional teams, representing
eight million square miles OF bunkered
territory, battled for team supremacy
to-day, with the Eastern team romping
in four strokes to the good.
The eight-man Eastern team, cap
tanned by Francis Ouimet, turned in
total Of 631 strokes, an average Of 10
70 the man. Just back Of the Atlantic
coast delegation the mid Western sec
tor, captained by Bob Gardner, finished
with 635 strokes. The Southern team,
captained by Cameron Buxton, took
third place with 654 strokes, leaving
Captain Chandler Egan's Pacific North
west team bringing up the rear with
664.
While the Eastern sector led in team
play, it remained for the South TO pre-
sent the individual star of the day in
the person of Bobby Jones, the lgoling
jewel of Georgia. Bobby, of to
whirlwind start in behalf of Dixie.
broke the amateur and professional
record of the course with a remarkable
7o--a more than remarkable mark from
the back tees over the extended ter-
rain.
st. Louis Upholds Prestige
Jones was three strokes in front Of
Jesse Guilford, with a 10, and five
strokes beyond the fine rounds OF WOLF
and Manion, who registered 75s, there
by unfolding the prestige of St Louis
golf and proving again that st. Louis
talent must be reckoned with in the
championship just ahead.
O,,i,oat
Jimmy Johnston. of St. Paul, played eff
fectively with brace of 76s, and were
therefore big aids to their respective
sectors.
The round that Jones turned in over
Swallowed all other performances. The
Georgia youngster was far and straight
from the tee, but it was the perfection
of his iron play, almost every effort
winging its way on line to the pin,
with his steady putting, that brought in
his record score. The course was soft,
the tees well back and the valleys
steaming with heat when Jones,
Ouimet, Gardner and Egan got away
together.
The distances Of the Country Club
course follow:
Out s2tstsl 100 3 1 ? .
H.. 1 o 3 = : 0 s4s7
IS o 3 o-s. 4oo-grand total
Over this distance the Georgian
turned in the following card
fR Put .::....: 33ss $50 SO
One for Jones
Jones had but one 5, and this was
due to a hooked tee shot at the first
hole. He matched his two 6s with a
brace of rs and the rest of it was all
3's and As.
Jesse Guilfo1d, the Boston siege gun,
went out stroke faster in "a, but
couldn't hold the pace coming in over
the longer O.
The team scores follow:
:. East-ouimet: rs; Marston. IL: Guilsord,
81 ASas annoy T. g; Pstt0n q Lewis So
Midwest-wolf. 10; Manion. is: Johnston,
~ ~ ce gaTd Inc IS KnepDeT 50; HERON 81
soqthern-Jones, 70; Boyd, so: Hickey
81 Dexter. 81: Buxton. SO; Wenzler, 81
'a4e5o go by 81 IL Kenny. IS Total. 90;
Wilhelm SO; Egan. So. smith. 81, SteIi.
So; spiers. Sc; Wilson, %. Total ss4, 'e'''
The scores turned in by thirty-two o.
the picked golfers here prove again
that this is man sized course. The
average was fraction over 81. With
number of doglegged holes. the dis
tanees are even greater than those re-
corded upon the cards, since few care
to take the chance of hugging the Turk
ing oaks and naples too closely with
disaster located under their forest
shade.
With the qualifying round of 14s
players starting early Saturday, the
championship gives promise of more
than one brilliant battle, with Evans.
who arrives Saturday. facing grim
battle IN defense of mis- crown. Evans
and Jones are favored by the talent.
with Ouimet not far behind. but the
long hikes and the sultry Kansas
winds that come drifting in vii WORK
more against Ouimet than against such
stalwart entries as Gardner and Gull
ford, who are in better physical shape.