Evening star., 1923-09-18

Dunphy's erasure really came abo'
through his last round OF 81, althoul
first extra hole in the play-of lhau
which Eddie Held, the trahsr1issis
which he was made by holing Il
n1ent.
AS the draw stands today the bulk
OF the talent is in the lower half OF
the pairings, with the probability that
two former amateur champions will
do battle in the second round If
Ouifnet and Evans both win their
matches today. Chick has a job on
his hands to lick Willie Hunter, 1920
British champion. while Francis has
easier going against Anthony ~ Hain9S hni5
player Bob Jones should have no
trouble beating G. B. Cochran OF
Texas in the first round.
In the other half of the draw the
two Jesses-Sweet the defending
champion. and Guilford from whom
he won the title last year at BROOK
line-stand out like sore thumb.
Jess and jesse should repeat their
Brookline battle in the third round on
Thursday. Both should win today and
tomorrow although Sweetser is play
ing a tou~h nut in the person or Al
bert Seckel of Chicago, a former
western champion. Guilfofd probably
will meet Dexter Cummings OF chi
cago. the intercollegiate champion,
tomorrow. if both win today which
they should.
Gardner Playing knepper.
Down in the last bracket of the up
per half of the draw Bob Gardner OF
Chicago and Rudolph r. knepper. the
giant killer Of Brookltne, are clash
ing today, with the odds favoring the
former. Little Rudy, however, Is a
bad boy TO tackle if he gets his back
up, as Cyril Tolley and Francis
Ouirnet will testify. The foregoing
a. INa fl.a Ttla &c rF g..
although Max Marston is found in the
lower half of. the draw and should
meet Bob Jones in the second round.
Max swings like rail-fence gate,
but he plugs them down the middle
far and straight and may cause an
upset in the Flossmoor festivities.
Chris Dunphy lost like the sports
man he is in the play-of. Chris play.
ed with r. Hoover Bankard ana ana
Johnson of St Louis played with
Eddie Held of st. Louis and Cochran
of Texas. Chris and Bankard drop
ped out at the first extra hole, where
Dunphy, playing his brassie shot a
bit too fine, found the bunker guard
ing the green and wound up with a
s, the same figure as that of Bank
ard, who also was trapped. Chris had
a twelve-foot putt for half, but II
Tipped the cup, after his third shot
had oVerrun the green and he chip
class worked its way through the
field in the qualifying round in which
the urbane Chick Evans. Chicago's
golling idol tied with Bobby Jones
of Atlanta, the national open cham
pion. for low score, with 149. Two
shots back of this pair came s..
Davidson Heron of Chicago. who
won the championship over Jones in
1919 at Oakmont. Bob Gardner, the
leader of the first half of the medal
round. f1ivvered badly yesterday. The
puts were not dropping for Gard
ner and he rolled up SO blows before
his ball dropped into the tin at the
eighteenth for total of 156-well
behind the men who tied for the
medal which would have been his
had he duplicated his run of "A made
on Saturday.
Jesse Guilford, the Boston siege gun.
was worrying about qualifying along
about the fifth hole, where he had
taken altogether too many puts, fol-
lowing his SO of Saturday. But Jesse
doomed one into the bunker at the
eighth, which is supposed to catch
the second shot of the ordinary play
ers, and from then on he went like
the grand golfer that he is. Out in
80, Jesse clicked eff par after par to
the seventeenth. where he ran into
trouble in the shape of a missed sec
ond shot, which cost him a 6. But
, Jesse came back with a vengeance on
Nthe long eighteenth, where his second
shot slipped into shallow trap bor-
dering the green, and he holed out
from thirty yards, with putter, for
an eagle 8. Jesse finished with nine
of SO, for card of rs. and a total
of 15S-comfortabiy in, where last
year he led the, field.
Jess SweetseBtthe defending cham
pion. never he'd any trouble during
his last qualifying Tound yesterday.
Jess was long and straight and, play
irg we'll within himself at all times.
in - frlr~% a 3sr~fx-
hole total of 15T-,, His par rtner. Capt.
e. F. Carter of Fiossfnoor, didn't have
such an easy time. but he got in by a
shot. Ata ~.
Bob Jones threw away the medal
on the eighteenth hole by taking
three puts from the edge of the
green, just as Chick Evans threw Il
away a few hours later doing the
same thing. Playing in the morning,
while Evans started In the afternoon.
Jones came to the eighteenth with a
for 70, with practical certainty that
he would annex the big gold medal
But Bob hooked his tee shot to the
rough, one of, two he had hooked all
through the round and played fine
spoon shot which just found the trap
guarding the green. 1t Feally was a
magnificent shot and deserved far
better fate. From the srap Bob
Clipped up to the edge of the green
and then proceeded to take three
missing a three-foot down hill putt
for 5 and 73.
Bob played magnificent golf yester-
day except on the third and eight
eenth holes. At the second hole Bob
missed his second shot and found a
bunker, but with these two excep-
tions he was fiawless. He wasn't
putting as he was Saturday, but his
game otherwise was perfect.
Evans In Typical Form. 5
Every one gravitated to Chick. in
the afternoon, because he had the
best chance of any of the others for.
the medal, and he came through in
typical Evans fashion. 1t brought
back memories of eleven years ago
MT Wheaton, where Evans holed a
thirty-foot putt across the last green
at the Chicago. Golf Club to tie Har-
old Hilton of Observation-Disclosures
winning the play-off. Chick always
plays his best before Chicago gall
ieries. and nobly he performed yes
terday His four wooden shots to
the seventeenth and eighteenth holes
will stand out for all golfing time as
four of the finest shots ever made by
any golfer tinder pressure, where the
slightest muscular loss of control
would have lost the tie for the medal.
Debunnaifs Chick balled UP only
one hole ali day. q remarkable thing
on this Flossn1oor course; where any hole
carries potsntia1ities full of dyna7
mite for the man playing in a. medal
round. This was the tenth, where
Chick, after, beautiful out nine of
35, got "a brainstortn and took s.;
Chick was out one under par aided
bv brides at the first and ninth.
where his iIncanny pitching gave. him
short puts for the BRIDES. He hit
a splendid bail down the tenth fair
way and then hooked his second shot
to the rough, He. really could have
|. kickeh the ball. on the green in 81.