New-York tribune., 1922-09-05
Defending Champions 20 Sets
amateur Record for Course
Bobby Jones Finishes Sec
ond, With I45, Iolley
and Evans Tie for Third
BY Grantland Rice
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Contestants badge carried the number
f&s. At this point for the two
rounds ne had taken las strokes. He
decided then and there TO take bis
chance at 8. on the hard s20-yafd
nepae hole. A great drive was followed
by pitch to within ten feet of the
cur, and, giving his ball every chance,
he hit the back of the cup for the 5
he was looking for.
Evans Duplicates Feat
ft seemed for many hours as If this
148 would stand on top. And then
Chick Evans got under way. Evans
started with the tidal wave fairly
sweepfng the course, and yet in spite
Of this handicap, which happened TO be
the heaviest Of the day, he stood on
the ninth tee with a for 36. He
had taken seven Is and one 2 under
conditions that seemed impossible The
ninth cost him 8, but, swinging along
AZ the Same brilliant pace, he came
back in 3s for "a, tying Tolley at
148.
Evans had the roughest weather
break Of all who played. There was no
moment through his match when the
ram was not thrunming down and
when both fairway and green's were
rot running water. He had more to
fscc than Tolley had, far more than
srr topliner in the field. There was
talk then Of q play-of between Tolley
and Evans until Bobby Jones hit his
Two Great Wooden Club Shots
Jones began by lacing two great
wooden club shots through the cloud
bnrst to within twenty feet of the first
pin. Here sweepers with brushes were
busy at work clearing the ocean off the
greens and Jones decided to take a
chance with his putter. The ball, well
struck, threw up spray and ran only
sss feet He used his mashie, pitched
dix feet over and then had to use his
nsshie again from this distance to get
kis5.
IN the meanwhile, Roger Wethered,
the long-hitting Briton who was paired
with Jones, needed shots to get down
from the edge OF the green. Wethered
vas giving one of his most astonishing
exhibitions of wooden club play that
have ever seen. Not only straight
dowa the middle, he was hitting the
ball from twenty to twenty-five yards
beyond even scch mighty hitter as
Gullford, but when it came TO play
around the greens he was hopelessly
lost He frequently carried from
twenty to twenty-five yards beyond the
extended limit of Jones's fight, and the
Georgia star is one of the longest in
the game.
1Wethered, in spite of the magnificent
display Of wood. had such miserable
luck on the greens that he was out in
a, and so doomed. On his way home
he hit the cup no less than four times
without having one drop, and the
quality of his play can be judged by
the fact that he had fairly short puts
fof brides on six of the last nine
green's. Yet not one found the bot
ton Of the cup, despite his hard battle
to make the grade.
Takes 6 on Eleventh
Jones, who was out in 3S, took a 6
"a the long eleventh, where he needed
three puts, and this seemed to count
nini out. But he came back at the
short twelfth by planting his mashie
pitch to within two feet of the cup, and
frem there in his golf was flawIess. He
Iairly hummed home in "a for a 72.
leading the field at 145, three strokes
below Tolley and Evans.
1t was here the gallery surged back
TO Guilford. The present champion
hAd gone out in 81. That in itself, un-
ger the conditions, was super golf.
But 1t was nothing to the sequel that
broke with a roar shortly afterward.
ne started home with 8, and about
ynis time the heavens ran out of water.
he mad the last eight holes to play
Inaer better conditions, and the big
bostonian leaped to the chance. FROM
q, snat point on he made no mistakes.
Lne dove had brought the olive bough
e lne ARK and this water began reced-
hg from the greens, just as it had re-
ssuea lor zones the last few holes.
In Line for Leading Score
wlen ne stuck his mashie shot to
"ithin SIX feet of the cup on the ff-
leen.h and had sunk his putt for a 3
vuiliord was in lire for the leading
score lie needed at the short six.
! @ssoth, but countered with a birdie at
W. seyenteenth. This left him d at
.ae nome for LA and the medal hon
on Of the day. His drive was long
sss. sas straight, his second was thirty
sss. lfom the cup, and after lifting
n.y. Sn,.s 1iom casual water he almost
,,sssa ass =. Ms approach putt for q 8. Here
tss sts .is Guilford and Jones cards for
bais es .wo .. low scores of the thirty-six
Saturday.
out ous g5ailiord 5ard ...4 445442 4-s5
In 1,ses 1synes .,..4 A 4 4-35
In nn gss.lora ...4 "a S t--ss-74
Monass-. Ms .,,...f A 4s4 S-3s--73
Out, Guilford--
Out Jones'
IN c.ru. 45445 4 4--as
IN Joro.s Jonsas 3 "a 3 4--S3-7o--i44
=. s.ss - 3 4--s4--72-145
tbss - might ,l be noted in this connection
aSa;ns. asa; .he stroke which Jones called
Net.tAlst nlMself IN s-n.~...4nn