Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-05
JESSE GUlLFoRD
HAS Low MEDAL
IN j, s, TluRME

Sept. A champion led his 81,
contending title seekers TODAY =,
Jesse p. Guilford of the Wood.
Golf Club came home through =
and rain, boggy fairways and 49,,
logged greens. winner OF medal M.
ors in the qualifying round n y,
holes In the national amateur
championship tournament Nhi,s 4 ]
decide his successor. His score
144-74 in the perfect condition,
Saturday when the first ia M
were played. 30 under the difcr,.
caused by rains that fell conv,,.I
all day today.
His round OF this afternoon ~.
ly constituted new Ana,cnr -.
petitive record for the country -
course. supplantinc the IL mad.
Bobby Gardner OF Chicago on :
urday. 1t cqualled the profess -.
record. held by the British mas,
y
Edward Ray. and went TO make
aggregate OF IA. which equals
lowest medal score ever made i,
tional amateur title Tournaments
qualifying round in any prcvious :.
competition was conducted -
marine conditions equal to thoss
today.
Guilford came by his honors u
medalist in a competition remark,A Il
under the conditions of play
prevailed. Only a stroke rerc,S
from him was Bobby Jones. the vt,S
der boy golfer from Atlanta,
went around today in - 10 COMBS
a card of 145. Jones a few mlrg 4
before had broken lie be,u,sN
Great Britain and the United 81. I
for low scores. Cyril J. II. ToTr
British amateur champion las, y
had set the medal mark for the IA
a las with "a under the wet conc
tions of the morning. Chick Evs.1
another champion asserting hmx
had trudged over the treach.rul
ground several hours later In the "A
ternoon and tied Tolley also VIII Z
"A. First Jones and then Guilic1
bettered this mark.
1t took 162 TO qualify for the ID
of the 80 places and five men Ind i
play knock out for the last thrI !
places.
West and East members Of the B
fetal British golf team and nar 4
Americans, were represented in i q
list.
Those who go into match rlay 4
morrow include;
W. c. Fowncs of Pittsburgh, VI
ner in 1910: Robert \, GaydnaE
twice national champion; Franz
Ouimet titlist in 1914; W. B. ~
rance and G. G.. ANlmer OF the SO
ish team: Willie J. Hunter, Br,x
amateur champion last year, row Z
resident in New York; Thomas
Armour also "A star in Great Bntf
until he took up his residence IN W
York: Rudy knepper of Sioux
whose ~ was a notable effort IA
gained him the place today and
A. GodchauX. Jr., of New O'eaN
the southern champion.
Hunter. kcntworthy and VIZ
were the men tied at lG2 who "
the play off for the last three plale
C. III. Buxton OF New York an n
NJ. Wells of East Liverpool Ohio, \
ing the players knocked out.
winners each made the first hole
fours, the losers in fivcs, Hunt
loft from the race track hazard
a pretty shot that gave him his pa
The golfers who failed of place
the match play round included w y
erd, John CavCn and W. II. W.
Mackenzie, member of the BIZ
team. who played out the iui!
holes. and Bernard Darwin ana I
L. Hooman who withdrew when 4
found their strokes were taxing 'A'
beyond the limits Of qualification e
a. Armour, brother OF Tommy
mour, and like him now resioeh'
New York was another casually
Eddie Held of St Louis, WHINE,
the public links championship a.
ledo. Ohio. last week: Edward u
man of Pinevalley, who holed OUT
forty foot puts consecutively 'oo'
and r. Pollack Boyd Of Cha''anV
Tenn, and Dartmouth college L
champion. were a~
the Americans who played 'h'V'
and failed to qualify.
More than 25 players gave up WI
ing for the day when they iouhu
they wnre called upon