New-York tribune., 1922-09-05
Amateur Champion Gets
10 for Id ON Flooded
Links, Breaking Prcvi-
GUS Record for Course
Jones, With IDS,
Goes Around in u
Miraculous Playing in
Downpour, With Greens
and Fairways Soaking

yE0HKLITE, Mass sept of'eSA
.anditsons that wouId have driven Noah
s,5a ,be Ark and perhaps foundered
.s.t ANCIENT vessel upon the rolling
snrs there was a brand of golf riayed
:. pyooklins to-day, in the second half
s, .ba national amateur championship
,ns,fy;ne round, that must stand as
a.s u the greatest competitive achieve
sssnts 10 the 4.ooO-year history of
sport.
This, perhaps, may seem to be lay
.av il on bit thick, but you haven't
hsard the half of it yet. Not even the
a;arter Of story that deserves to live
a. long as golf is played upon this
bunksred universe.
ina torrential rain that left most Of
he course looking like perfect replica
Of Venice at high tide, with the fair
ways series of inland lakes and the
putting greens a cluster of scream
swept spaces, Jesse P. Guiiford, of
Woodland, the present amateur cham
sion went around in 10 to break the
.maseur record of the course and tie
lie professional record first set UP by
Edward Rivers Ray nine years ago.
Five Follow Closely
This victorious march OF Guilford's
70 the low qualifying medal was per-
fognanee almost too amazing to be
conceived by any one who swan and
aoundered around the water-logged
course. And yet it is only part Of
one Of the most brilliant and historic
days in the annals of golf. For just
back CT Guilford at 70, for q total
score Of IA, came Bobby Jones with
as for 145, Ruddy knepper with
Il end Chick Evans, Cyril Tolley and
pesksr Schofeld with 74s.
These scores would have been fine
enough under the most ideal conditions.
But Byookline to-day was about as ideal
for golf as the middle of the Pacific
Ocean, and yet the masters of wood
and iron romped over %he historic bat
tsaeld with as much skill, power and
safenass as if they had been going for
ths cup under blue summer sky with
drift cfyellow September sur.
Early IN the forenoon the terrific rain
trose from black sky and by noon
nos even a sea-trained porpoise could
have done more than hold his own and
hope for the best. The rain. fell not
only steadily but heavily, without the
slightest break, leaving fairway and
green's under water; yet the mainslead-
eFs proved what q great golfer can do
u spite OF all the water from the heav-
ems above or the earth beneath or the
punkered cayerns under the earth.
Putters Discarded
On any number of greens it was
necessary to discard the putter and
from ten feet away pitch with the
mashie to the water hole known as the
cup, Yet not even this elemental bar
nsade could drive the big guns over
pT. Guilford's round of 10 under this
nmpestuous tidal wave was nothing
snort snort Of miracle. The big Boston
slege gun, as cool and serene as il he
we're putting on a sunlit lawn, took
!s' ~ the napa Of its hrawrfy neck and
@ssed II to ths lions. Out in 81, hs
s sMe Dack in q 38 by one of those
ssspss-marches that never will be for.
s..sn by the 500 braves who followed
ss.h, ssa, soaked TO the skin as they sank
s,ss ,asS numberless morasses or skidded
a1'as over soggy turf.
tolley Defes Elements
ihe first big shock of the day came
h;s hasa s Cyril James Hastings Tolley, the
s's hCn-hearted British star, reported
49,. = ior total of 148. Tolley's ef-
soas was worth trip across the con-
4. .nshs s1 % see. Facing the heavy rain.
- plase Of seeking shelter under an
sb;;.oLteils' s;a L' ne took off his cap. barred
.as.ls MS head to the storm and and APPARENTLY r, %
seveied in his contest with nature @ ~ at
/ Us worst Tolley is born f;abtsr
sa,au ana as he slogged along, head un and
ssfshe - M with his tangled hair as socgy
ss ss g ne turf beneath, You rather si feit
m.a ~ i mere was some primordial speci-
1iss1. Msa returned to earth to , show how
.l,tle a storm can mean in the life
- sa,sa Sne who was born to struggle and
sas ,0nniet. He could not have been
H. f.ots care free and light hearted as
is iss ram beat upon his uncovered head
tslshration. e 70 some oxford
II M ~ one instance that is typical
si.stns sals man; AS he stood upon the
s4seentn tee with the storm at its
sSohuaned on rams elesena