New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-20
francis Oui1net Breaks Record
And Leads Qualifying Field
Boston Star Has Wonder
full 90; Evans Tries One
Hand Putting; Takes 8
BY (srantland Rice

-. i-OCiSr ctpt. l3,~-lH Inc hurried
dash for the great white spotlight
which hovers over the championship
battlefield it is hard to say whether
Francis Ouimet or "Chick" Evans holds
the commanding position at the head
Of the parade.
Ouinet's claim to fame was record
breaking round OF 60 after the most
sensational golf of the tournament,
followed by steady rs that gave him
the low medal for the day.
Chicks" bid for fame came in taking
seven puts on the short twelfth hole,
where after his tee shot to the green
he had a 12footer for a 2. His first
putt rolled slightly up hill and stopped
twenty -four inches above the tin. With
an easy putt for 3 the ball slid off
to one side and trickled two feet be-
low.
1t was here the amazing exhibition
took place, for Evans then, before
huge gallery, began one-handed put
ting display without making any seri-
GUS attempt to hole the ball. After
hitting three one-handed carless puts
Hooker Bankard. who Was playing with
the champion, quietly suggested that
Chick take two hands and a little more
time. Evans then attempted to hold
his putt for T., failed again and
finally got down in an 8.
FoozIes on Short Hole
Evans had turned in Il n for the
morning round and had gone out in "a
for the afternoon. He had started
home 4--5, and so when he reached the
twelfth green, which is a full iron shot,
q here would have given him good
shot at the course record. His iron
Shot Topped only twelve feet from the
pin. but when he had completed his
very unusual exhibition his round was
Il wreck After that he struggled back
in At, giving him an 81 for the dis
tance.
1t is hard to understand how golfer
of Evans's experience and his high
rank in the game, still wearing the
champions crown, could have so far
forgotten himself upon such an occa-
sion. If Bobby Jones, who behaved
admirably under trying conditions,
with two out of bounds at the last
hole, had done the same thing the up
roar would have been terrific.
Ouimet's record breaking march of
the forenoon round featured the days
play. The lanky Bostonian was at the
top Of his game, playing with perfect
precision and yet always with some
thing in reserve
He had two unsteady spots with 6
at the fifth hole and at the 3o0-yard
sixth, but at this point he came back
with rush, finishing the outgoing
nine with q 2-3-4, all under par. This
sent him out in 35. On the homeward
journey he was far down the course
with his tee shots, planting his irons
in easy putting distance without a
slip. When Ouimet reached the eigh-
teenth green he found that he needed
8 on the 450-yard finishing hole to
break the joint record held by Bobby
Jones and Rudy Knepper at TO-
A fine drive, q magnificent approach
and the record-breaking putt rolled
into the middle of the cup for a 3.
many calculations that 70 would never
be broken.
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Many Thrilling Incidents
All in all, the final qualifying day
was replete with stirring incidents
that kept big galleries romping from
knob to mound, winding their way up
and down the valleys and across the
hills In the afternoon Rudy Knepper,
the brilliant Sioux City product, again
went after the course record, and
turned In his second 70, only one
stroke above Ouimet.
Knepper finished at 14T, three strokes
above Ouimet, but still four strokes in
front of Bobby Jones and Jesse Gull
ford, who we're content with 151 in a
tie for third place. Bobby was a
rifle erratic at times, but his remark
able recoveries always kept him in
close touch with par. His match play
card was close TO unbeatable.
After taking Z at the thirteenth
hole in the morning round he promptly
settled down without batting an eye
lash and turned in IL cluster of 3s on
three Of the next four holes, missing
short putt for his fourth three in
row at The 4S0-yard fifteenth.
Just back OF Jones and Guilford the
West was massed in a solid phalanx
Jimmy Johnson, of ST. Paul, Bob Gard
ner and Hoover Bankard, Of Chicago,
were in circle around Reggie Lewis,
of Greenwich, at 152. All four were
playing with consistent steadiness, bar
ring the one bad break for Bankard-
This long-hitting Chicagoan was rae
ing along until me was bunkered at
the fifteenth and here, after a slashing
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