Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-14
e GOLFERS WIN
WAY |NT0N NATIONAL
OPEN TOURNAMENT
MacD Donald, Chicago Pro, Leads
Field in the Qualifying
Round,

Skokie Country Club, Glencoe, ILL.,.
July 13.-(By The Associated Press.)
The qualifying rounds in the ma
tional open golf tournament ended
Thursday night. and Friday 70 players
many of them champions, and all sur
vivors of a field representing every
golfing nation in the world will start
the 72-hole finals for the American
open championship.
Officially, the winner will be cham
pion of the United States, but in the
minds of many he will be considered
holder of the worlds golf title, for
victory will be obtained only through
defeat of champion club swingers from
all golfing sections of the universe.
Twenty-fOur men won their way into
the finals in Thursdays qualifying
round. Robert Macdonald. the Chi
cago professional, leading the field
with a score of 72-71-143, the score
necessary to qualify again being 152
All of the better known stars qualified
except A. A. Armour, Scottish amateur
title holder, and Freddie Mcleod, the
Washington, d. c., pro, who formerly
held the open championship.
Four amateurs were in the list OF
Thursdays successes, Willie Hunter
former British champion. leading the
way among the non-professionals with
a score of 75-7O-145. while Harrison
r. (Jimmy) Johnston, st. PauIs bril-
liant young shooter, took three strokes
more. Dewey Weber, of Chicago. also
14S. and William R~autenbusch, Chica,
goan. were the other amateurs to
guilty.
Bob Macdonald. in leading the field
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times being on the verge of brilliancy
but at others falling down on oppor-
~tunities to break a par total. The big
fellows driving was the best seer here
in many a day.
Macdonald, paired with Pat O'Hara,
of Richmond county. New York, drew
the biggest gallery of the day and their
playing deserved 1t. O'Hara, after
some very bad holes in the morning
and early afternoon, pulled himself to-
gether with some great putting-and
ended with 147. Four of the qualifiers
turned in par seventies in one of their
rounds, the quartet being Ned McKen-
ma, of Rochester, y. Y. Willie Hunter,
George K%errigan. of White Beeches,
N. j., and II. o. Hart, of Marietta,
Ohio.
There was quite a bit of freak play
ing during the day, one of the most
unusual shots coming when Willie
Hoare holed a niblack from a sand trap
on the thirteenth. Chick Evans
made almost identically the same shot
a few days ago and at the time re-
marked that it probably would not be
repeated by himself for at least 10
years
The most amusing play of the day
came when Bill Mcclure. Chicago ANA
teur and formerly western conference
golf champion, sliced his drive on the
sixteenth into a barn at the side OF
the fairway. The ball rolled in the
door and when Mcclure came up he
found it under a horse, one Of the ami
mails hind legs created a stymie. After
some persuasion. the horse moved over
and Bill tried to pitch out through
n window. The window was too small
and Mcclure finally resorted to
couple of puts back through the door
way. finally totalling eight on the pal
four hold.
One of the prettiest plays of the day
came on the ninth. with Pat oHara
as the shooter. O'Hara's drive lay or
the green and at the foot of a two foot
slope. Twenty feet away and at the
bottom of the anne slope. which ex-
tends across the green. was the cup
Pat sent a rather hard putt ~diagonally
up the slope and just rs it seemed that
the ball would go past the pin, ii
twisted around at almost a right angle
and rolled in for Il birdie two.