The New York herald., 1922-06-29
Score 1905 for Four Rounds,
Four Men-Yale Second,
Dartmouth Third.
MEDAL FOR r. E. KNEPPER
Princeton Star Leads Qualify.
ing Play With Rodnds
Of rs and ~.
BY KERR N. PETRIE.

Defying all those haunting hoodoos
and gesticulating jinxes that are popu-
larly supposed TO camp on the trail of
medal winner, Rudolph z. Knepper
of Princeton yesterday led the field in
the qualifying round of the annual
intercollegiate Golf Association cham
pionship, scoring rs and n over the
Garden City Golf Club links to beat
his nearest opponent, A. p. Boyd of
Dartmouth, by two strokes. Boyd had
rs and rs. Next in line was R. L.
Wintringer of Princeton. with SO and
rs for 16o. and after the Gould cup
holder came d. Jones of Harvard and
j. Bush of Yale, tied at 165.
Knepper did not have nearly the
easy time of it winning the medal that
Princeton had annexing the team
championship. With Knepper, Whit
ringer, W. B. Sparks and f. B. Car
ruth going in their best form, the
Tigers took care of the grand aggre-
gate honors with 1906 points, and with
this they left Yale, the second on the
list, just SO points behind. Dartmouth,
the holders, came in third. s behind
Yale. while Harvard made fourth at
1858. Williams fifth with laos and
Pennsylvania sixth with 1.43s
Cornell did not have quorum And
while Columbia did start its quartet M
Schrieber was the only one to complete
the four rounds. all that was left of
the proud skirmish line that not so
long ago furnished the intercollegiate
champion in A. L. Walker. Jr.
Knepper's Fine Play.
There is no mistaking the class of
Rude Knepper in this tournament. This
time last year Knepper was carrying
Chick Evans to the thirty-sixth green
In the Western championship final.
Knepper appears to have something
on the field in steadiness, for he was
the only one to break so on each of
his four rounds. = Boyd of Dartmouth
came nearest to him in this respect for
only in the second round on Tuesday
afternoon was this fine little golfer baf-
fed to the extent of having to card
an 81.
Playing, as is his custom. with his
hands down at the end OF the grip of
his clubs Knepper cracked off in sue
cession 7S, rs, 75 and II. His morn
ing round was the lowest of the tourna-
ment. The Princeton star ought to
have made "a, but with such a score
In sight on a Homecoming half of 35
he took three puts on the home green
and so made IL SO for the nine and
rs for the eighteen.
Boyd in reply to this totalled 76 and
like Knepper went out in 49, Home
coming the Green captain was bowl
ing along merrily despite at the
tenth. He made UP FOR this by holing
a fifteen foot putt for a birdie al
the sixteenth. but was prevented from
getting his at the seventeenth by a
slice which was so wild that it fin
ished on the roadway.
The medal was won by Knepper and
lost by Boyd on the second nine of the
afternoon round. Going out in 81 Boyd
caught UP with Knepper but he dropped
several strokes coming back and took
Al for n rs. whereas Knepper went out
In 3S and came home in 80.
Knepper probably did not know how
hard he was being pushed Had III
heard how Boyd was travelling he very
likely would not have made the care
less backhand stab at the bali on hi!
short putt on the seventeenth. Thi,
cost him a valuable stroke. A shot int
the traps probably would nave rur
Knepper into a tie. but he LAID his bal
on the green. ran close from thirty fee
and holed out for q. par 8. The cards: