The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-07-15
CARRYING BAG Of RUSTY CLUBS,
VETERAN SGOTCHMAN SCORES 142|
GxAaEn6oNT COUNTRY CLUB PRO
PLAYS PHENoRNALIY AT
EKoxH COUNTRY CLUB.
Chips Nteloek shot For fifty Yards
And Cots Eagle TWO On Long
Fifteenth Hole.

Skokie Country Club. Glencoe. Ills.
July 14.-(By The Associated PresS) -
John Black. of the Claremont cIuo. OAK
land. Calf. q little Scotchman. with
bag OF rusty clubs and nothing In me
way OF conventional C1lt clothes To-
day swept through IN" first half OK
the 70 hole national open golf tourna-
ment over the Skokic course. and to-
night was we'll in the front OF the
greatest links celebrities the universe
many OF them only old enough 20 be
his sons, in the fight for the American
golfing championship. Incidentally nc
clipped niblick shot "itty yards from
a banker into the fifteenth cup this
afternoon for an eagle two.
Playing a game that could hardly be
surpassed for both steadiress and Drill
lance. Black made tho 3S holes or
todays play IN AZ strokes. two Tess
than his nearest rival. William Men
horn, OF Shreveport. La, professional.
and three better than the third scores
returned by Walter Hagen OF Detroit
holder OF the British open champion
ship and Gene Saraaen OF Pittsburgh
Following IN order were Bobby Jones
Atlanta. amateur who scored lA6: Lloyd
Culliokson, Dekalb. Ills, pro, with lti;
Chick" Evans. famous amateur. Lau-
rie Ayton. local pro. and Mike Brady
of Detroit with 14S each. and Jim Bar
nes present open title holder WIN lA''
Beats British Pros
Among dozens OF other famous play
ers swept aside through Blacks great
Climb swtnging, were Abe Mitchell and
George Duncan, British pros. Jack Hut
crimson, Of Chicago. formerly British
open champion: Jesse Guilford OF BoS-
tom National amateur champion. and
Willie Hunter, former British amateur
title holder.
Tonight Black confidently assorted
that tomorrow In tho final 36 holes or
the tournament he would repeat his two
seventy-ones OF today. but aside from
that he had little to say OF his game
Questions on golf caused him 70 switch
the conversation repeatedly 70 his one
and a half year old grand daughter in
California. for he 10 prouder OF being
a grandfather at 81 than OF all the
rolf shots ever made by himself. MS
eirht brothers and three sisters. all
Of them golfers, although one OF the
sisters IS rather averse TO the game.
Got Aarly STAR
pressed closely on golf. Black proud
" exclaimed that in 1889 he caddied ior
Harry vardon IN Scotland. Back In
1908, Black was an amateur In Troon'
Scotland-a plus six amateur. which is
0SC0t JHe hC1S Va
came TO America In 1905, and unable 10
affiliate with a golf club. worked as a
carpenter, winding up In San Francisco
six months later. where ne became
pro. FOR a club there. Eleven years ago
he went TO Claremont Club, at Oakland
and has been there since.
II Black comes through tomorrow In
the final half OF tho championship con-
test Il win be his first victory In other
than a sectional tournament.
was Nearly Lsfd Out.
He barely got into this tournament.
When he asked FOR his caddte he was
told he was not on the entry lists. 1t
developed that he had neglected TO pay
his entry Zee. but he dug up So and was
permitted 10 play.
To-day's golf as a whole was or tho
Inland out type-e1tremely brilliant at
times, but nearly every one OF the stars
had one bad nine with the result that
MANY totals were high, where they
would have been record-oreakins BUT
FOR the one slip. The British pros. Abe
Mitchell and George Duncan. played
erratic golf and Mitchell now has little
chance. Chick Evans did some great
shooting, but had 80 on ono nine while
walter Hagen spoiled an otherwise
" onderful day, scoring stSty-eight IN
the first round with a forty on his first
nine IN tho afternoon.