South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-05
MEDAL HONOR WON
BY JESS GUILFORD
IN GOLF TOURNEY
Rain Fails to Halt Champ
Shoots Card of l44-BObby
Jones Is Second.


champion led his field OF contending
title seekers Monday when Jesse P.
Gu!lford OF the Woodland Golf club
came home through mists and rain.
boggy fairways and water-logged
greens. winner OF medal hOnors on
the qualifying round of SO holes In
the national amateur golf champion
ship tournament which is to decide
his success. His score was t44; IA
IN the perfect conditions of Saturday
when the first IS holes were played.
and 20 under the difficulties caused
by rains that fell constantly all day
Monday.
His round of Monday afternoon
not only constituted a new amateur
competitive record at Country club
course. supplanting the II made by
Bobby Gardner OF Chicago on Satur-
day. but il equalled the professional
record held b. the British master.
Edward Ray. and went 70 make the
aggregate of 144 which equals the
lowest medal score ever made in ma
tional amateur title tournaments
No qualifying round in any previous
title competition was conducted un-
der Marine conditions equal to those
OF today.
Gullford Strong.
Guilford came by his honors as
medalist in a competition remarkable
under the conditions OF play that pre-
vailed. Only a stroke removed from
him Bobby Jones, wonder boy golfer
from Atlanta, who went around Mon
day in y TO complete a card Of las.
Jones a few minutes before had
broken a tie between Great Britain
and the United States for low score.
Cyril J. H ToEey, British amateur
champion last year had set the medal
mark for the day at las with "a "a
under the wet conditions Of the
morning. Chick Evans. another
champion asserting himself, had
trudged over the trescherous ground
in the afternoon and tied Tolley also
with "a
1t took 162 to qualify for the last
of the AZ places and five men had
TO play knockout under a rainbow
that spanned the sodden course for
the last three places.
All Represented.
West and east members of the
official British golf team and native
Americans were represented in the
list. Those who go into match play
Tuesday include:
w. c. F'ownes of Pittsburg. winner
Of 1910; Robert A. Gardner. twice
national champion; Francis Ouimet,
titlist in 1914; w. b. Torrance and
C. c. Aylmer of the British team;
Willie Hunter British amateur
champion last year, now resident in
New York: Thomas ID. Armour. also
a star in Great Britain until he took
up his residence in New York; Rud-
dy Knepper- of Sioux City whose -
was a notable effort that gained him
the place Monday and F. A. Cod
chaux. jr.. of New Orleans, the
southern champion.
Pairings for Trophy.
The complete list Of qualifiers with
their aggregate scores and the pair
ing for match play Tuesday 10 which
they advanced, follows:
Jesse w. Sweetser New York,
G52) vs. II. F. Kenworthy. Provi-
dence G62)
William I. Hunter New York
G62) VS. l.. NJ. Lloyd. Greenwich.
Conn. 15s)
Jesse p. Guilford. Boston $40
VS. NJ. A. Greer. Philadelphia C16OD
r NJ Lewis. Greenwich. Conn.
C6O) VI J. d. Kennedy. Tulsa C16I
William f. McPhail. Boston (15S)
vs. Carleton +. Wells. Barton Hills.
Mich. G62)
T. d. Armour. New York (160) vs.
Harrison Johnston. St. Paul $3.50
A. Parker Seeley, Brooklawn.
C160) vs. Robert \. Gardner. Chica
go Q5D
j. J. Beadle, Philadelphia G6O)
VS. Robert T. Jones. jr.. Atlanta
G45)
r a. Godchaux jr. New Orleans,
(6O) vs. r : Kampman. Philadel-
phia G60)
w ". Patten. schenectady C6DI
" George V. Rotan. Houston G6O)
J. -. Anderson New York G5S)
We Charles Evans. jr.. Chicago t14S)
W c. Fownes. jr.. Pittsburg 15S)
VS. f. W. Dyer Montclair. y. J.,
.G5s)
Cyril J. r. Tolley. England C4s)
- r. c Newton Brookline G6D
r. W. Schodeld. Boston. G52) -.
c. +. Aulbach. Boston $3.50
W B. Torrance. England $50 vs.
r. r Knepper, Sioux CITY G50)
Francis Ouimet Boston G55) VS.
c. g Aylmer. Edinburgh G59D