Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-08-11
UNKNOWNS BEAT
GOLF CHAMPIONS
At DENVER MEET
Three Stars Are Eliminated
in the First and Second
Bounds of the Trans Mis-
SisSippi Tourney.
az The Associated rress.l


Denver, Aug. l0,--State cham
pions, former champions and vete-
rams went down in defeat before
comparative unknowns in the first
and second rounds of the annual
mississippi Golf association
tournament on the course of the
Denver Country club here today
The afternoon round saw the elimi-
nation of Alexander Graham, Kan
sas state champions; Blaine Young,
Nebraska state champion, and
Harry G. Legg, five times champion
and four times runner-up in trans
Mississippi tournaments.
Eight golfers from five states
remained in the championship rum
ming after the second round They
were ]. c. Ward and j. c. SHUTTLE
OF Kansas City, Mo-; George Won
Elm Of Salt Lake City; ]. A. Ken
needy of Tulsa, Okla; 7. B. Cochran
OF Wichita Falls, Tex: A, H. Pal
mer, L. d. Bromfield and L. G..
Palmer of Denver.
At least two upsets came in the
second round. The first was when
A. II. Warner of Denver carried
Alexander Graham Of Wellington,
Kans., state champion, to the eigh
tenth green and defeated him one
up. The second surprise OF the aft
ernoon was furnished by T. b.
Cochran of Wichita Falls, Tex,
when he defeated the veteran, Har-
ry G. Legg of Minneapolis, three
up and two to go. Both Legg and
Graham had been figured as almost
certainties for the semi-finals.
The feature match Of the day,
however, was that between L. d.
Bromfield of Denver, Colorado
state champion, and Blaine Young
of, Omaha, Neb, state champion
and the conqueror in the morning
round of Robert Mckee of Des
Moines, the trans-Mississipppi
champion.
other favorites came through
their matches with comparative
ease, j. A. Kennedy of Tulsa, the
oklahoma champion, defeating f.
two to go and George Won Elm Of
Salt Lake, Utah, champion, defeat
ing H. A. Fisher of Denver, four up
and three to go.
Bromfield won his match by re-
rnarkable playing in the second
nine holes of the round, after being
four down on the first nine. In
the second round he had only one
hole over par and that was the
eighteenth, He had three brides
for a 81 on the nine, two under
par.
Bromfield won the first five
holes on the second nine, making
him one up after the fourteenth
hole and giving him the lead for
the first time during the match.
The next two were halved, but
Young won the seventeenth with a
birdie three and the match was
even at the start Of the, last hole.
y Both drove their tee shots short
and into the rough. Neither was
on the green in two, but Bromfield
had the better lie. On his third
shot Bromfield was on the green
and Young was just off the green.
Both put their next shots within
four feet of the pin: Bromfield
sunk his putt for q five. Young
missed his putt and lost the match.
/ Bromfield took the lead on the
fourteenth green for the first time
in the match when he holed So
foot putt Tor a birdie three.
: - For the round OK Young had 80
but ana Al in for "a total Of 80.
BromfieId had as out, and 81 in for
a total of 70.
The Colorado champion found
much trouble in the first nine
holes. He was continually in the
rough and shot his approaches in
TO bunkers several times. He got
into q bunker on the first hole and
took two puts He was in the
rough again on the second hole. He
had a four on the third, but Young
sunk a 12-foot and halved the
hole. They haIved the fourth, but
Young was three UP when he took
the fifth.
Bromfield won his first hole
when Young went into the bunker
on the sixth. The seventh was
halved and Young won the eighth
and ninth, making him four up on
the first nine.
Bromfield's tee shot went into
the creek. but he played 1t out
from a sandbar into the rough,
getting on the green in four Par
on the hole is four.
Tomorrow's matches will bring
together Ward and SHUTTLE; Warner
and Won Elm; Bromfield and Ken
needy: Palmer and Cochran.
Second round championship
Eighth:
&C. Ward, Kansas City, defeated
Elmer Oberg, Denver, and 3.
J. c. SHUTTLE, Kansas City, defeat