The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-20

Scorer Mcmahon, who has been
following the tournament with the
u. s. G.. A. for the past ten years,
gave out the official entry list as 265.
Mackenzie did a fine thing and
quite in keeping with the golf dis
played by two of Columbia's entrants
who came through in the pinch.
Freddy Mcleod. the home pro,
squeezed into the limelight with rs,
playing well within, himself through
out the nerve racking first round
when the green's behaved like well
waxed dance floors.
Our Bobby" Plays.
BOBBY Finkenstaedt, also of
Columbia, District golf champion.
showed real championship caliber by
forcing Walter Hagen all the way.
Hagen got "a and Finkenstaedt a
rs. which caused his name to be car
ried in the dispatches along with that
Of Nelson Whitney, of New Orleans,
who with Pat O'Hara. of Richmond,
took low scoring honors with cards
Of 70.
1t was great day for the lads who
golf below the Mason Dixon line. OF
the forty-three players coming
through in the qualifying round no
less than six OF them were South
ern players, which is good enough for
a lead il the locals hadn't grabbed it
first.
Whitney, Finkenstaed., Mcleod,
Bredemus, the old Princeton ath-
lete. who COLTS at San Felipe, Tex;
Charles V. Betschler, Of Arlington,
and James Donnachie, Of Hagerstown.
were the seven of the first eighteen
to crawl under the wire
And in the general discussion of the
qualifying round it might not be amiss
to report that baby putting" killed
many of the good ones and sent the
scores soaring for altitude records.
Timid In Putting.
They are still 'Tbeefing" about the
eighteen holes for the qualifying
round as well they might. With the
greens baked hard and as fast as
lightning there is small wonder that
the boys were as timid with their put
tiers and mashies as the Scotch are
said to be with their bankrolls.
Certain 1t is that the golfers were
never up and never in. They were
scared to approach and scared to putt.
A strong determined putt sent the ball
rolling away. A baby tap. as most Of
them were, caused the ball to roll al
most any way.
At any rate the scores were ridicul-
ously high for a championship qualify
ing round, and brought from the pro-
fessionals the same complaint the
American amateurs made at Hoylake
that the green's threw them off.
A few Of the good ones failed to
make the running, but for the most
part class told as II always will. Jock
Hutchinson and Walter Hagen were
forced to extend themselves coming in.
Zach faced a 40 at the turn, and
when Hagen got down to it he shot
81 on the home voyage and Hutch IS
coming in.
Mitchell In Form.
Abe Mitchell was consistently good
and consistently long. He showed
that he is to be reckoned as being
vary much in the hunt for the title.
Abe uncorked a wonder drive on the
seventeenth which went over the
green and on to the railroad tracks.
He was six for the hole when he
might have had a three, which would
would have made him u.
And being in the act Of mention
ing the drive it would appear that
such a poke deserved something bet
ter than a penalty and punishment
On the second stroke or third 1t
might be well enough Any golfer
who drives over the green from the
tee where IT now is should not be
penaIized according to our way of
thinking. II played as a four-stroke
hole it is easy enough, the easiest in
fact Of the eighteen for a golfer.
Today's play, barring rain, should
result In the same hectic finishing
that marked the initial trial. Leo
Diegel, Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen,
All and Otto Hackbarth. James A.
Kennedy, Jim Barnes, George Dun
can. ]. Douglas Edgar. Willie Ogg.
Charles Hoffner, William Melhorn,
Emil Lceffer, Charles r. Murray,
Nicol Thompson, Chick Evans, Jesse
w. Sweetser. and Jesse Guilford are
all going under the wire among the
ono hundred and thirty who hope to
be among those present when the
bell rings Thursday morning for the
big time.