New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-18
Sioux City Golfer Propes Big
Sensation on St. Louis Linz.
Rudolph Kneppner Cow
ers First Nine Holes in
"a in Amateur Tourney

81. LOUIS, Sept. lit remained for
the land of the setting sun, somewhere
west of the Mississippi River, to show
golf in its highest form to-day when
the big field started in its first elm
nation test to record the lucky sixty
four or more who were to move for
ward on Monday for the final medal day
in the national amateur championship
golf tournament.
Sioux City and Seattle, seldom plas-
tered in large letters on the golfers
diary, were the two cities which offered
the winning talent to an anxiously
waiting clientele. From out where the
sun goes down, Rudy Knepper, of Sioux
City and Princeton, led the parade with
brilliant 10, tying up Bobby Jones's
record of yesterday and thereby prov
ing his supremacy for the time being by
two full strokes.
Rudy is one of our younger products
who are coming on, and if one is to
judge from the returns he has already
come quite a distance, with only lit
tie of the trail left to be covered.
Knepper, with a fine long tee shot
and sound iron play went out in "a and
stalked back in SO, amazing golf with
the stiff wind that roistered back and
forth across the course and came
blowing in against the player upon all
the long holes.
Seattle Player Is Second
Just hack OF the Sioux City entry,
Seattle presented it's claim to golfng
growth in the person of Bob Stein,
who turned in ", taking the
hurdles with ease and grace as he
moved along. Stein is a newcomer in
polite golfng circles, so far as the
Middle West and East are concerned,
but his game to-day justified his score.
Taking these and other scores, the
West still insists that Eastern SUI
premacy is Pullman car supremacy, due
to geographical location and not bet
ter golf.
1t remained for another great
veteran from the dim and distant past
to show his class when H. Chandler
Egan, once from Harvard and Chi
returned a IA with 7 and s in his
card. But for these two slips the old
amateur champion from 1904 and 1905
would have been up with Knepper.
Egan was again playing his fine long
game, and length is an important aid
upon this course.
Most of the stars, those listed with
chance to win, were all closely punched.
Bobby Jones and "Chick" Evans were
Armour and Bob Gardner. Max Mars
ton reported with a steady "a, while
Ouimet and Guilford, the Boston stars,
were content with 75s. These scores
were sufficient proof that the leading
talent was we'll up on it's collective
game, prophetic of close and brilliant
matches to follow when match play
starts on Tuesday.
Heron Fails to Qualify
AS usual, the big excitement Of the
day came when those who had turned
in 84s began to hover around the
scoreboard with their pulses taking an
extra jump. In this list were Dave
Heron, former champion; W. W.
Patten, of Mohawk, who helped to de-
feat Duncan and Mitchell; Cam Bux-
ton, Harold Weber, Sheriff. Sherman
and others, who had figured in past
championships. For short while it
looked to be certain that the Gas were
safely in, but the last bunch out began
to come in strongly and at the finish
only the SSs had broken through, as
dlsconsolate coterie began to look else
where for solace.
The failure of Heron to qualify
was distinct upset, as the ST. Louis
course, with its long carries, is much
after the manner of Oakmont, where
Heron won his crown two years ago.
Dave had an eight-footer to qualify,
but the attempt failed to go down.
Willie Hunter, British amateur
champion, moved around in 70, safely
in by four strokes, thereby surprising
Cyril Tolley's showing of a year ago.
Hunter still finds the long distances
against his game, leaving him more
than normal work around the green's.
which to-day were exceedingly keen.
1t was no great trick to take three
puts for distance of ten feet if one
attempted to go for the hole, as the
ball had habit of sliding and drift
ing well on by when any such effort
was made.
AS result of this first test, East.
West and South are all strongly repre-
scented, with promise of one of the
greatest championships in many years.
J Judging from the quality of golf shown
! IN the first medal test. 1t has added
much interest to the occasion to have
Evans, Jones, Ouimet, Gardner, Ar
mour, Guilford and Marston. among