The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-05

Brookline, Mass, September IA champion led his field of title seek CTS today. when Jesse Guilford. or the Woodlawn golf club, came home through mists and rain, boggy fair ways and waterlogged greens, win ner of medal honors in the qualify ing round of 36 holes sthe National amateur golf championship tourna- ment, which Is to decide his suc- cessor His score was 14474 in the perfect conditions of Saturday when the first Is holes weae played, and 70, under the difficulties caused by rains that fell constantly all day to- day.
 His round of this afternoon not only constituted a new amateur com petitiye record for the Country Club course, supplanting the 71 made by urday. but 1t also eQualled the pro- fessional ecord held by the British master, Edward Ray. and Nent to make the aggregate of IA which equals the lowest medal score ever made in national amateur title tour naments. No qualifying round in any previous title colnpetNion was conducted under marine conditions equ~s to these of today.
 Bobby Jones Second
 Guilford came by his honors as mcdalist in a competition remark ah.s under the conditions of play that prevailed. Only stroke removed from him was Bobby Jones, the won der boy golfer from Atlanta, who went around today in 72. to complete, card of 145. Jones a few minutes before had broken a tie between ~ ta;. Il for low score. Cyril J. Tolley, Brit ish amateur champion last year, had set the medal mark for the day at 14S, with a "A under the wet con ditions of the morning.
 Chick Evans, another champion as- serted himself, had trudged over the treacherous ground several hours later and tied Tolley also with a74
 First Jones and then Guilford bet tered this mark. A British gclfer of standing watching the players send balls with bones in their teeth across the green to the home hole, remarked:
 This is great sport; but is 1t golf?" He had withdrawn from play, saying that under similar conditions they called off play in champion ship at St. Andrews some years ago. But class asserted under the exact ing conditions and none but the champion group who headed the list, men of previous proven ability and youngsters who had shown their ability to drive and putt over good ground on Saturday came through In the rain.
 Took I62 to Qualify
 It took 162 to qualify for the last of the 32 players, and five men had to play knockout under a rainbow spanned sodden course for the last three places.
 West and east, the members Of the official British golf team and native Americans were represented In the list.
 Those who go into match play to- morrow include:
 w. c. Fownes, Pittsburg, winner in 1910: Robert A. Gardner. twice na-. tional champion; Francis Ouimet, titlist in 1919; W. B. Torrance and C.. c. Aylmer, of the British team; Will lie H. Hunter, British amateur cham pion last year. now a resident In New York; Thomas D. Armour, also a star in Great Britain until he took up his residence in New York; Rudy Knep- DOT of Sioux City. whose Y2 vss a notable effort that gained him the place today, and F. A. Gudchaux, IT., of New Orleans, runner-up for the championship.
 Hunter, Kenwortny and Wells were the men tied at 162 who won the play off. The winners each made the first hole In fours, the losers In lives, Hunters lift from the rack track hazard was pretty shot that gave him his place.
 Miserable Conditions.
 It was agreed that conditions could scarcely be worse than they were today and have course at all play able. Overhead rain fell in floods to put players at great personal dis- comfort while trying to perform feats with clubs that required the coolest nerves. Under foot, casual water ran in rivulets in some places and settled in ponds in others. Greens had water hazards. The only de- parture from the strict letter of the rules was permission to clean the bah on putting greens and to lift from embedded lies.
 These were the conditions under