Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-10

ingtn, who gathered himself togeth
TO become one of the eighteen to gu
1nwood. Leo was way out on lin
bad at the fifteenth, but both men ca
finish to qualify.
Mcleod and Standifer will have
lots of competition to make the grade
TO-DAY. One national champion. a
former holder Of the title. and
half dozen men who must be figured
in any championship are in the
ninety who started today. all hope
full Of being in the first eighteen
when dusk gathers this evening and
the mosquitoes begin to wing their
way across the lnwood marshes. Pos
Sibly. as was the case in the first
skirmish, a few who were not figured
in the title chase may crowd out
some of the talent today. 1t always
happens so in any championship, and
this one is no exception In fact,
the reverse is apt to be the case
here, for two or three bad holes by
and let an unknown slip in where
the stars of the game hope to locate.
Course Provides Tough Test.
This Inwood qualifying test is
tough grind for even the best of
them. Eighteen men to qualify each
day of a total of ninety or more,
1t sits out the finest there is and
two out of the picture.
Neither Mcleod nor Standifer played
at lnwood yesterday. They both
were at Lido. where the breezeS from
than the half-gale which blew at
lnwood yesterday and dashed the
hopes OF many a fine golfer. Fred
may make the grade today. but he
Will have a hard row to hoe among
such stars as Harry Hampton. Jim
mi sue TnA
Kirkwcod. Alex Cunningham, John L.
Black. Francis Ouimet. Clarence
Hackney, Gil Nichols, and the others.
II Fred finds himself in the first
eighteen tonight he Will have done
we'll The same applies for Standifer,
although he is in the tournament more
for lark than with the real hope
of qualifying.
Guy may strike a streak of real
golf and click off a pair of 1873. If
has shattered the prognostications
Of the experts and they now say 1873
or 159 will make the grade.
few faithful Washington golfers
were in the gallery which followed
Gene Sarazen and Leo Diegel yester-
day. They watched the champion
do his stuff to the queens taste. lead
ing the field at the end of the day
with a very sweet score of 14S for
the double round of the stiff Inwood
ing the ruddy checked titleholder
shot for shot in the morning, fade
quickly away Sfter the turn in the
afternoon until he seemed certain not
TO qualify and then stage one Of the
finest come backs ever seen in any
tournament to land five strokes inside
the $50 mark, the highest score to
qudlliE Gene was around in the
morning in 70. hitting his shots
BEAUTIFULLY and putting with a touch
or inspiration.
Leo Saves Clean Collar.
Leo took rs. but it might just as
well have been 70 or better, and. on
the other hand. it might have been
couple of strokes worse. Leo saved
himself shot at the eighteenth by
playing his ball out of the water.
but he provided work for the laun-
orE man by scattering a nice clean
sweater and shirt with mud and
water. However. he saved shot
and shot might have meant the
difference between qualifying and not
qualifying. Out of Difference to
clean collar he removed both collar
and tie before taking his voluntary
mud bath.
Leo got into difficulty at the sec
ond hole in the afternoon, winding
up with a after finding a water
hazard to the right of the green
another at the fifth came along
when he was trapped and took three
puts. He got at the seventh.
where he took in the morning and
was out in IL. Apparently he was
all right, especially after he pitched
dead to the pin at the tenth and
was down in a birdie 5. But three
puts followed fine iron shot to the
eleventh green and pitiable exhi-
bition came on the short twelfth.
where he took a against the par 3.
Leo.s pitch to the small green,
played too fine, went into the water
on the 10S-yard hole and his third
shot was over the green. He fin
lshed the hole by adding three puts
n sliced drive. a missed iron shot
and three puts at the thirteenth cost
him another 6. and Diegel stood on
the fourteenth tee with his back to
the wall missed shot at any of
the succeeding holes would elm
mate him and Diegel knew it, He hit
sweet iron second shot to the four
teenth and was down in a birdie 4.
He stuck his pitch to the fifteenth
eight feet from the pin and ran down
the putt Another birdie. A trapped
drive off the sixteenth looked bad for
Diegel. He got out and then stuck
a full mdirOn dead to the pin and
got his par 4.
Scores Another Birdie.
Circus stuff, surely, and he looked
safe. But even more was to come
Leo hit fine ball off the seven
teeeIlll, ldlu y lndSnle dead and was
down in another birdie g. Three
brides out of four holes by a man
with his back against the wall. He
stood on the eighteenth safe. He
could kick the ball down the eight
zenith and qualify. He flashed with
a and a total of 1856, well In
Chick Evans had much the same
experience. Chick was going bad in
the morning. Around in 50, Chick
was a worried man at luncheon. He
knew he had to get rs or better in
the afternoon, and he started out
with a determination to do that very
thing. Out in 3S, Chicks chance
looked good. but he took at the
295-yard tenth, where Sarazen and
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