Evening star., 1922-07-14

champions OF many SSSllOHS ol thS
While pairings mean nothing in
medal score tournament. a glance
through the pairings for today's play
gives an excellent idea of the com
prehensiveness of the field.
Evans and Duncan Paired.
Chick" Evans of Chicago, Ameri-
can amateur. plays alongside George
Duncan, British professional; John
Black, Pacific coast professional, Is
with Joe kirkwood. professional
champion Of Australia; Jim Barnes
of Washington, present American
open champion, is paired with BOB
Macdonald OF Chicago, one of the
best middle west professionals: Abe
Mitchell England,S pprofesslona4i,i I,
Johnston, 81. Paul amateur. who
ranks with Americas best non-pro-
fessionals; Willie Hunter, one OF Eng
lands great amateurs and former
British champion, Is pared with EN-
nett French. the Youngstown, ONO,
profe esSiOTal. who captained the
American team invading England
year ago: Tom kcrrigan, Eastern
professional, and Jock Hutchison of
Chicago, formerly British open cham
pion, are playing together.
Bobby Jones OF Atlanta, the
suuth's greatest amateur, and a top
notche2- among all the Americans,
tees off with Walter Hagen of De-
irDlt, the American Dorm
who recently won the British open
championship.
In fact, one might take any pair
that tees off, starring with the first
at o'clock, ana be assured of seeing
golf worth going some distance to
are amateurs. The rest are profes-
SIGNALS.
Eorty-Four shoot Under One-Fifty.
An intimation of the goltng ability
of the players may be founc in a
perusal OF the qualifying scores.
f'orty-four of the seVcnty-nine to
earn a chance in the finals Snot less
than $50 for the thirty-six holes of
preliminary play. Jock Hutchison.
the leader of the three days play.
turned in cards totaling 135-hve
strokes under par for thlrty-siN holes
while more than dozen had fewer
than li5 strokes.
Golf experts, in looking over the
three sections for preliminary play,
declared that the first section held the
most strength. The scores did not
bear out their predictions. True.
Hutchisou'S work the fist day was
the greatest from an individual staEd-
point. but the number to break 100
Increased daily. The high qualifying
score was l52 the first day, lJ3 the
second day. Originally IL was 1a2.
also, but an error in scoring one man
boosted it a stroke, and, yesterday the
final day, it was agaln i52. The golf
each day was spectacular and full of
thrills.
Given Plenty of Thrills.
Yesterday there was plenty to
please the big galleries. Boo Mac
Donald. giving wonderful display of
driving. in which most of the tee
shots were around the 300-yard mark.
led the way with I43, but there We're
sixteen other players within SIX
strokes of his mark and it was doubt
flIi who would lead until virtually the
last card had been posted.
Very little luck on long puts,
little better work on short puts on a
few holes. and Macdonald would have
come closer to Jock Hutchison's 13J
qualifying round. Bob generally was
putting for a birdie-pars coming
casny-and frequently the puts.
which would have meant brides
trimmed the cup or hung on the lip.
1T probably was evaporation at his
bad luck on these shots that caused
Bob to falter in the afternoon round
and go over par on several holes be-
cause of bad work on short green
shots
Hunter Leads the Amateurs.
Willie Hunter led the amateurs yes
terday with a BRILLIANT 145. matching
par on his second eighteen holes. A
lowed him about the course. Harrison
Johnston. ST. Paul. and Dewey Weber,
Edgewood, ILL.,. tied for second anna
teurs' hunors. with 14S each.
Harrison Johnston led the amateurs
yesterday with las. one stroke more
than was taken Tuesday BY Eddie
Held, nineteen-year-Oid st. Louis
amateur. Johnston had a chance to
beat Macdonald. but faltered with
his wood ordinarily the most efficient
club in his bag. Despite this general
weak work from the tees. two of his
best shots were made with wood. On
TIE fifth. a dog leg hole. he sent the
ball fully 800 yards across the crock
from the tee, but promptly spoiled it
with bad approach and a missed
putt taking >. one over par.
ON the thirty sixth Johnston got
his only other really good drive of
the day and followed with "a 200
yard spoon from a bad lie to within
ten feet of the cup.
There We're a dozen others whose
work was deserving of a place in the
tournament hall of fame. Among
these was Eddie Towns, who became