New-York tribune., 1922-09-03

quaiify over here two years ago. but
they took separate trails to-day. Tolley
went out after the course with ths
earnestness of big game hunter
for his fine "a, but Wethered could
never get going. He was paired with
Boppy Jones, the two enticing away
the largest gallery of the day. Jones.
as usual, was on top Of a brilliant ner,
romance. He was out in Sc, but
slipped trifle at the eleventh and
! twelfth holes. From here on he came
back to par again till he thought the
ball might have moved on the seven
teenth green
Wethered, wild from the tee, started
with a at the first hole, where his
| second found the road. He had an
other at the third, and SO he strug-
/ gled on until fine 8 at the ninth got
him out in a. Even then he might
| have broken 80 with ease if another
| heavy cave-in hadn't attacked him at
| the fifteenth hole. This hole, only 375
yards in length, cost him Z, and now
unless he can throw aside all excess
4 baggage and go after To, on Monday
he will find himself out of the carnival,
once more a, spectator apart from the
i combat forces. The tragedy of this
4 lies In the fact that Wethered has the
| game to make any one hustle when he
! Is In the mood to let it out.
! Cyril sToIiey was in no mood to re-
| peat his experience of two years ago.
Standing on the first tee dashed into a..
wooden Club he. shot 800 yards down
! the middle and then pitched his second
On this 440~yard hole to within two
feet of the cup. This start was elo-,
quent testimony to Tolley's grim de-
termination to be on hand this time
when they start match play where he
Is always at his best
Drops Twenty Foot Putt
BY dropping a twenty-foot putt for
a at the ninth, he was out in S5. but
his masterpiece for the day came at
the long eleventh hole, SIS yards from
tee TO green. Here Tolley crashed out
one of his mighty drives, but the ball
came to rest in a cuppy lie, where he
was forced to take his stance with one
foot, eighteen inches above the other,
resting on slbping mound. His old
match play instinct; couldn't be denied.
In place of playing for safety hestook
out spoon and let fly for the long
carry of the guarding bunker, 225
yards away 1t was q shot that only
one with steel wrists and the heart of
an OK would ever try. To carry 225 yards
from cuppy lie over an. upgrade
bunker is an undertaking that few in
medal play would ever think of. But
Tolley turned the trick and beat par
by stroke onfa hole that had cost
more SKIES than any other or the
course. He had fine chance for the
medal until he slipped bit near the
finish, where. he seemed to ease UP and
take the closing stages of the journey
without any violent effort.
By way of summarizing, here are
the scores of those entered from
British clubs-Torrance, 70; Tolley,
IA; Aylmer, rs; Tom Armour, n;
Caven, 78; Mckenzie, 70; Sandy
Armour, 80; Hooman, 81; Darwin, 81,
and Wethered, 88. As it wiilatake 157
or 1853 to qualify, you can do your own
figuring at this point
Aylmer, out in Al, came back in 85
for his score, and Tommy Armour,
after slow start raced back in the
same select figures. But it was not
all a matter of mere scoring Word
came from various parts of the course
of the mighty hitting of Tolley, Gull
ford and others. But Ellsworth,
Augustus, the big, powerful Mayfield
star from Cleveland, shut off all com
petition at the ninth, when he lit
the fuse to howitzer that looked once
as If it was never going to stop.
This drive was measured at 327yards
and the course is on the soft side
When they get. this far som ething
should be done at law about It. II ism t 4
reasonable and it doesn't seem right to
1.-THE countless thousands who are strug- 4
l'gling with such desperate earnestness
to get their 200 yards somewhere down
the course. Augustus is the golfer
whom Alex Smith tipped as the longest
hitter in the world. If he can get many
wallops for 327 yards over soft
course he is at least entitled to carry
HIS precinct. Augustus had rs which,
SO far, is good enough,
Johnston Takes So
Several of the British are not in ex.
elusive possession of the shaky limb.
Jimmy Johnston, the St. Paul STAR a
member of the international team, |
started by missing his first four tee
shots and finally needed an 81 John
ston is the Westerner who defeated
Francis Ouimet at st. Louis and then
carried Jesse Guilford to the final
green in one of the most desperate en-
gagements of the championship. He /
was sadly off to-day, but he has the
stuff for comeback if the gods of
golf so elect.
Rudy Knepper, another crack West
erner, was around in 70, playing stead |
lily, but trifie below his top form. All
in all the pace is much faster than
most of the eonlbatants looked for |
There were more than thirty-fve under
so, and the original prediction that
is0 would slip through has been blown
to shreds. The main point is that
East, West and South have most of
their star standard bearers safely be-
yond the breakers. The West Ii bank
ing heavily on Evans and Gardner, the
East on 0uimet, Guilford, Sweetser and
others; the South on Jones and Roam.
After groggy start the tall Texan had
a 70, coming hack with fine assurance.
1t is worthy of note here that |
among those who acquired their first |
start on public courses that Greer, of |
Philadelphia; Aulbach, of Boston, and
others are still among the elect. |
Young Eddie Held, who just finished
winning the public links championship
at st. Louis, arrived just in time to