The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-18
BOBBY JONES AND CHICAGO PLAYER SHOOT GREAT GOLF
 N NATIONAL AMATEUR PLAY
Francis 0uimet Sets Course Record For Event With A
 Score Of 73-Dave Heron Third In Qualifying Round

Chick Evans of Chicago, the only man who ever won the national open and amateur titles in one year, today tied for low medal score at 149, one above par for the 36 holes of qualifying play In the national amateur champion ship at Flossmor, both stars shooting 75 on Saturday and equalling par I4 today. It was thrilling finish for the large gallery as Evans started late and knew what he had to do to beat Jones' score. He settled to the task, at once, scoring birdie on the first hole and finishing the first nine in 35 one under par. Jones' score for that half. He slipped two shots on the short 11th and 18th as well as one on the long 10th, but reached the 17th tee with two birdie 4s for tie with the southerner. He slammed out two wonderful wooden shots on the 46S-yard 17th and was hole high, six feet from the hole, but missed his putt for an eagle three.
 Jones had had a birdie 4 for a 72 at the 18th tee but had sliced his brassie to a bunker on the 497-yard hole and taken six. Chick did not miss his woods. driving 260 yards to fine position and smacking a beau tiful brassie to the hillside Green, 30 feet over the cup. He was five feet from the cup in three, his ap- proach having slipped away on the slope and he stopped an inch from the hole and victory with his second putt, but insuring a play off between these wizards of the game for medal honors.
 It fell to Francis Ouimet of Boston. formerly national open and amateur champion to set the course record for the event, by chalking up a 73, not one of the 12O players in two cir cuits of the 6.704yard course hay ing been able to better that figure. although on most links such galaxy of golfing stars invariably produce at least one score of 70 or better. The qualifiers, however, were not widely separated for the highest score that let any one into match play was 161, and six players tied at that figure for the last three places among the 32 elected to contest for Jess Sweetser's title at match play. None of the contestants equalled par for the S6 holes, and Jones and Evans were the only two to get under 150.
 Dave Heron of Chicago, who won tie title three years ago at Pitts hurg by defeating Jones in the finals. was third with 151, being one of five players to make par for the Rittsburg. another former champion scored a par "A to finish in fourth position with 152, while Ouimet and George Won Elm of Salt Lake City. formerly trans Mississippi champion, recently reinstated to amateur stand ing. tied at 153 for fifth place.
 Willie Hunter of Los Angeles, for rnefly British amateur title holder, playing with Evans, improved his game four strokes today and scored B. three under par for the first nine for 75 to tie for next place at 154 with Albert Seckel of Chi go, once inter- collegiate champion.
 Rudolph Knepper of Sioux City, Intercollegiate champion last year. for Princeton, was only one stroke behind with 155, while Bob Gardner of Chicago, twice national champion and famous as Yale athlete, fall ing off from his leading score of "A, made on Saturday. today took S2 to tie at 156 with Joe Wells of East Liverpool o.
 Yale players showed up well in the next block at 157. Jess Sweet ser of New York defending cham cago. sharing that score with C.. F. Wells of Univer sitv of Michigan, Max Marston of Philadelphia and Harold Weber of Toledo. The only other Pacific coast player to qualify besides Hunter was H. K. E. Davls of San Francisco, who got 15S, the same score returned by Jesse Gull ford of Boston, formerly champion. Guilford came back today after poor S3 on Saturday and by shoot ing two under par on the second nine got a 75
 St. Louis got into the running with the qualification of Jimmy Manion at 15S while Eddie Held and Don Anderson tied for last place at 161.
 Chicago got fraction more than . third of the qualifiers landing II players in the charmed circle Of 32 going into match play. The rest of the qualifiers were widely dis trlbuted geographically. St. Louis having 2, Boston 2, Texas 2. Penn sylvania ?, Ohio 2, and California 2, while one each came from Utah, West Virginia Michigan, New York, Iowa Indiana, Georgia, Wisconsin and Illinois.
 In the play-off of the tie at 161 for the last three places, c. J. Mur- phy. Washington, D. C., and Hoover Bankard of Chicago, lost out at the first hole by taking six each. Eddie Held of St Louis, trans Mississippi champion, and Russell Martin of Chi cago got in at the second hole by scoring par and T. B. Cochran Of Wichita Falls, Texas, got the last place at the third extra hole by SCOT yAg par to Don Andersons 6, the Rt. I,ouisan missing a putt for half.
 The pairings placed Jones ana Evans in the lower half so that both of them cannot reach the finals even if they survive preceding rounos, but they are so drawn that they might come together in the semi finals. Jones, apparently, has the easiest quarter through which to play this way to the penultimate rounds, first meeting T. B. Cochran and then the survivor of the Marston-Sl Simpson match. If he should be successful in those rounds he would have to meet the survivor of the quartet composed of Joe Wells, c. F. Wells, H. K. B. Davis and George Blossom.
 In the lower half of the second bracket, Evans must meet Willie Hunter and if he survives that champion he will play against the survivor of the Ouimet- -Haines match To reach the semi-finals, Evans would then have to play the winner of the two matches comprise ing Manion, Francis Blossom, Won Elm and Carter In the upper bracket there are four former cham pons and the present title holder, Jess Sweetser. No two of these meet in the first round, but If Sweetser survives his contest with Seckel he would possibly meet Heron, who is matched with Russell Martin. Also, If Gardner should defeat Knepper he might have to face Fownes, who plays Frainey Guilford's only chance of meeting another former champion would be in the semi finals, for. If he survives to that point he might run into either Sweetser or Heron.
 On the basis of the qualifying scores the favorites for the semi finals in the upper bracket would be Heron and Fownes while In the lower half they would be Jones and Evans.
 The pairings follow In order of draw:
 Upper Half-Guilford and Jacoby. weber and Cummings, Heron and Martin, Sweetser and Seckel, Soot and Held, Sweet and Allis, Franey and Frownes, Gardner and Knepper.