South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-06
CHAMPIONS STILL
In AMATEUR GOLF
PLAY FOR TITLE
Stars Come Through First Day
of Championship Play
in Good Form.

THE COUNTRY CLUB. Brook
line, Mass, Sept. 5-The contest for
the amateur golf championship Of
the United States settled into a con-
hict Of champions Tuesday IN
matches that were tests OF the stun
OF which national golfng heroes are
made, reduction Of the field OF %
men in the first day of match play
was accomplished with all but six
OF the sixteen survivors being char%
piOns or former champions.
A little known champion. Rudy
Knepper of Sioux City, transmits
sissippi titlist, supplied the big SEN
satiOn of the day. Five holes be-
bind the burly British star. William
Torrance, at the end Of the morn
ing round Of IS holes, Knepper went
out this afternoon and played a
round in 20, equalling Jesse Gull
ford's course record OF yesterday,
and allowed Torrance to win only the
hole OF the last IS
Jones Has Battle.
+ A potential champ. Bobby Jones
Of Atlanta, playing against an early
handicap Of two down, brought his
deadly putting opponent J. j.
Beadle OF the Llaneich country club,
Philadelphia. to even terms at the
18th hole, and then never having
been ahead all morning. was never
behind all afternoon and won out.
9 up, / to play.
Chick Evans Chicago's champion
Of champs. was called upon for his
best by the veteran John Anderson
of New York. 1t was not until the
18th hole that Evans gained his vic
tory-and he was so glad TO get IL
then for when Anderson said he
would concede the hole. Evans hav-
ing two puts to go six feet, the for
mer national open and amateur
champion just picked up his ball and
said thanks. John" cutting short an
if which Anderson was voicing
These were the outstanding
matches because they were the tight
est OF the others only that which
little George Aulbach. BOstons pub
lie links player won from his fellow
citizen, Parker W. Schofield, ? and /,
went TO the seventeenth.
Champions Numerous.
But in the more summary decis-
ions gained by Jesse Guilford, the
present title holder; Cyril J. H. Toll
ley British champion of two years
ago; Francis Ouimet national anna
teur and open champion at various
times; Jesse Sweetser, Metropolitan
title holder; Robert A Gardner,
twice national title holder; W. g.
FOwnes. Jr., winner over the same
course in 1910. Willie T. Hunter.
former British amateur champion
Harrison Johnson of St. Paul who
yanqulshed another British star. T.
ID. Armour, now a resident of New
York; Frank Godchaux runner up
this year for the championship OF
the south. Reginald Lewis Of Green
wich. Conn; George Rotan OF Texas,
and w F. McPhail of Boston, was
golf play that promises keen action
in the pairings Of Wednesday.
These viii bring togther Sweetser
and Hunter; Guilford and Lewis;
McPhau and Johnson Gardner and
Jones; GOdohauX and Rotan; Evans
and Fownes; Tolley and AUlbach;
Knepper and Ouimet
In broad way, perhaps the
most striking general results OF
Tuesdays matches was the reduction
10 one place-TOlley-O the British
effort to win the American title.
The team that started out in quail
flying play numbered eight players.
declared 10 constitute the most for
midable combination ever sent out
OF England. Torrance and Aylmer,
the latter a Ga victim Of Ou!met
were the British casualties Tuesday.