The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-23
OVER ESQ ENTER
LISTS IN FIRST
TULSA TOURNEY
Initial Meet Brings Out
Scores of Young Golf
ers From Over City
BY l.. l.. STONE.

DV H. H. CAVANfAs
u 9. Boutwell, 1905 r.. Fifteenth
.rest. won the city golf tournament
bsd over the difficult Country club
inks saturday and Sunday when he
Urnod in a score OF "a for the IS
holes OF medal score Saturday. Jack
Beacon, who plays end on the Tulsa
university gridiron aggrege ion,
psyed over the course Sunday with
7. rs knee In a plaster cast and turned
u a card of ~ for runner-up.
This tournament was the first
.ity championship match TO- be held
ef.. and more than $50 amateur
,Ifers teed off in the two days of
nav. The first entries started from
he first teo early Saturday morn
rg and more than l50 golfers, most
nf whom were not members OF any
club. covered the course during the
Jsy. over 100 enthusiasts were out
might and early Sunday morning
and completed the course. During
lie afternoon the light shower and
The threatening blustery weather
ppt damper on the play. although
several pairs started out to try their
/ skill during the sprinkle.
]. a. Kennedy. chairman OF the
/ ,nuutry club tournament, stated that
| he number OF entries surpassed all
\ expectations of club officials ana the
| .hort notice prevented many men
ron arranging their plans to take
| part Ia tho play
Plans for Next Year.
i n was announced last night that
II CLANS would he laid Immediately Tor
n .bc 1923 tournament and arrange
n nents will be made to make the city
II .hampionship match one of the out
n landing matches OF the year The
1. phy this year was lS-hole medal
1ay, but next years tournament viii
be q match play, according to pres
lent plans.
v A tabulation of the scores turned
! a al the close of the meet showed
~. c. Boutwell, was winner with g
\ score Of "a. Jack Beacon, second
4 with n. while l.. L. Van Zandt, l..
. Moore, 4. -. Stauffer and w. A.
4 stuart we're tied for third with a
.core OF IS according to figures made
public by the golf department
D. c. Boutwell, was among the first
entries 10 complete the course and
his score Of "a was one OF the lowest
he has turned In during the present
season over the club links, conceded
q, be- the most difficult course In the
rgte. His card follows:
ont ........554 553 425-S6
lu ..........544 433 555-3S--74
Had Knee Injured.
Jack Beacon, who has been play
rr football with the first string of
Coach II. NJ Acher's Golden Harri-
cane, played the course with his
right knee In a cast and his score OF
seven over par was a remarkable
| performance. Beacon had his knee
\ Injured early in the season, and II
| was dislocated during the Tulsa
university Oklahoma Baptist college
l gamo at Lee stadium Friday. The
\ eg was put in cast Saturday and
Beacon played around the links
sunday morning. His card is:
Out nam. ..553 635 443--3a
n In ...........3Si 535 56i-SS-77
Boutwell, and Beacon both COM
plcied the south nine in 3s. three
over par. but Boutwell, completed
The new north nine holes IN one over
par while Beacon took S9 blows 10
get around.
" Beacon was medalist In the last
L,Nestern junior championship held
j over the olympia Fields club course
IN Chicago last summer, shooting 90
for par ~ course. But owing "a
Illness IN his family he was not able
10 compete in the match play.
Young Beacon also holds the
rorse record for the is holes at the
EvaDston club In Chicago. Beacon
VIA probably lead a. team of golfers
in the Missouri Valley intercollegiate
championship this spring.
Beacon, in shooting bis ~ In the
city championship played a very fine
game and J. Robinson, who accom-,
panied him around the course. said
he played fine brand of golf. Twice
/ On the last nine holes, Beacon
missed long puts due to wet greens
II from the rain, that was falling
throughout the last part of tht
1 match.