The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-11
HARDWOOD PLAYS PERFECT
 GOLF AND TURNS IN CORD
 OF 144 FOR LOWEST SCORE
Second Qualifying Round Of Play In National Open Championship Brings Out Great Rounds

ne strolled across green falrWayS, driving little white balls with deadly accuracy. On the greens he sank long butts. Sometimes he encount- cred traps, but pitched from them hard by the cups. Just before sleep left, him this morning he walked across adjoining beds into Inwood club dormitory, dreaming he was pushing his way through a large, cheering gallery.
 The dream came true today In the second qualifying round for the na- tional open championship. With Jess Sweetser, amateur champion, for partner, Kirkwood played a perfect game on his two trips around the course, turning in @ card of IA. He was around during the morning in 70. two under par and his afternoon card was "A, two above. He was ten strokes better than any other of the eighteen, who finished within the limit of 159 to qualify.
 Kirkwood played the first three holes in the morning in one under par. On the fourth he was trapped on his second shot but managed to make par five. After being trapped again on the fifth he laid his mashie shot within seven feet of the pin and sank the putt for a birdie four.
 In Trouble.
 He encountered trouble on the last two holes. On the eighth, his second was in the bunker and he took a five one over par. His drive on the ninth was sliced and his second hit the branch of q tree and came to rest under the steel fence skirting the hole. Climbing over the fence he hit the ball squarely twenty feet back into the fairway. His fourth, beau tiful mashie niblick shot, was dead to the pin and he sank his putt. He scored 37 for the first nine, even par. On the incoming nine he con- tinued his marvellous play and was home in SS. On the eleventh, thir- teenth, sixteenth, he had birdies. kirkwoods wonderful putting played large part in his 70, for he had eight one-putt greens.
 In the afternoon he carried on and finished the first nine in 36, one un- der par. He was aided by birdies on the third and sixth hole. On the long third he sank putt of more than twenty feet and on the short sixth after laying his iron shot within six feet of the pin, he holed the putt for two He ended the perfect day with a 3S for the last nine. The only slip he made on the green was at the thirteenth hole, where he took three butts.
 Sweetszer Starts Rad,
 --- Sweetzer started in the morning by finding the trap at the left of the first green and he took a five. The next two holes he played in par, but at the fourth he was in the rough and ended with a six ,one over par. At the seventh hole. par of which is three, the anna teur cham pion's drive landed in the fairway and kicked sharply against a fence and lay between 1t and hedge. He straddled the hedge and managed to get his ball to the fairway. His pitch to the green was short of the hole and he took two butts for a five. This apparently upset him and he took three puts on the eighth hole after being well on In two He was out in 42, five strokes over par. Coming home he reeled off nine fours in succession for a 36, giving him 7S for the round
 The best Sweetzer could do on the first holes in the afternoon was string of lives. The fifth, sixth and seventh, he played in par. On the seventh after being trapped on his drive and forced to play short of the green on his second, he laid his third within IS feet of the pin and sank the putt for a par five On the par four nineth he again found trou- blo and took a five.
 He was out In 40. Sweetzer started for home with two par fours on the tenth and eleventh holes, but over pitched the par three lake hole and took a four. On the thirteenth hole his second shot was 10 feet from the pin. He putted for a birdie three, the ball hesitating on the lip of the cup. Kirkwood then made a few mystic signs over the ball and 1t fell in the hole. Sweetzer got another bad break on the 17th when his drive rolled into a wagon rut In the rough. He made a good recovery, however, but failed to get his third shot up and took a five. All through the day, his butts refused to orop.
 Black Gets Good Start.
 John Black of Wichita, Kan. > started this morning in fine style, going out in par 37 with birdies on the long third and fifth holes. Com ing back he scored two more birdies or the tenth and 14th, but went into the traps four times, taking 38 for a 75. On the tenth he shot out of a trap 75 yards and dropped his ball for three.
 Francis Outmet. Blacks companion on the round, got into trouble on nearly every hole, driving from trap to bunker and back to trap again. lie took 40 both ways for a round trip of so.
 Positions Reversed.
 In the afternoon, positions were reversed, Black managing to find the hazards for an S4 and Ouimet pulling a 75, with par 37 out and a 3S back On the par five fifth hole, Ouimet, after hitting trap, drove about 300. yards to the green and copped a bir- die. Black went to pieces on the par four thirteenth, taking nine to find the cup. On his drive the ball hit a tree and bounced back of a brush pile. He tried for distance coming out and through heavy foliage. drop ping short of the fairway. His third shot took him into a trap. the fourth fell back and two more took him to the green, where he used three butts in holing out.
 On the urteenth, he made a birdie four then par three, and one thS last three par four holes he took six, five and five for an S4. just qualify ing with 159. Ouimet qualified easily with 155.
 Three of the ten amateurs who played today with the salaried bri- gade qualified. Jess Sweetser, na- tional amateur champion. made the grade as did Francis Ouimet of Bos- ton and Alex Armour of Rye. N. Y. Find Inwood Tough.
 Those who found the Inwood links too tough golf proposition were Rudolph Knepper. Sioux City. Iowa; James A. Kennedy. Tulsa. Okla; Jo- seph Ford. public links star of New York; G. F. Lamprecht, Cleveland, O.; c. E. Van VleclS, Jr.. New York; Gar diner White, former metropolitan ameteur champion, and Guy M. Stan differ. Washington, D. c.
 Five nrofeSsiOuals failed. by ono