Evening star., 1923-07-11

golf championships. And one man
Inwood test, where the bracing salt
carries the ball into places weird ano
of them all.
Only the masters make the grade
here, and the gents who crack par
below the belt on other courses and
then laugh behind its back repeat the
performance here only at rare inter-
walls. Inwood and it's bunkered bat
tlefield is taking its toll.
Washington entrants have done
with Inwood until Friday. One OF
them is in to play for the champion
ship Friday and Saturday. The pass
ing of the other two was tragedy
to Washington's hopes, particularly
that of Guy NJ. Standifer, who had a
far better chance than Fred Mcleod
to beat the Inwood test and qualify
yesterday Missed putts-fen OF them
spelled the story of McLeods fall
ure while a miserable exhibition on
the last three holes of the afternoon
round put Columbia's star amateur
out of the picture.
John Black of Wichita, Kan, sensa-
ton of the championship at Skokie
last year, hung on the ragged edge
for several hectic moments after he
had missed a putt of less than a foot
at the last hole for a total or l5S.
But when Standifer missed his shot
out of the water in the Sir Harry
Lauder trap at the final hole yester-
day afternoon. Black was in and
Standifer was out. Washington
1921 amateur champion had missed
his finest chance to qualify In the
national open, giving his place to
finer golfer and one who has chance
to win the title.
Fred Betters Guys Showing.
Fred Mcleod at 160 missed by a
stroke. Standifer with 162 missed by
cfr
ceded the Columbia amateur in at the
end of the first round. while few gave
Mcleod a chance after he took
seven at the third hole in the after
noon. Yet Fred made better show
ing than Guy and had putt or two
dropped in on the last nine holes Fred
would still be in the running for the
title he won in 1908.
There was hardly an excuse for
Standifer. With a IS IN the morning
he was certainly sitting pretty. His
morning round was beaten by only
one man-the Americanized Austria
liam, Joe Kfrkwood, who shot a grand
144 to lead yesterdays section of the
qualifying round. Yet Guy went out
in the afternoon and even with. an
out nine of IL stood an excellent
chance to beat the test. He shouldn't t
have faltered. but he did, and at the
sixteenth he stood with three fives TO
qualify. Not hard fives, any Of them.
but all hard fours. He finished s, s,
Z, for a card of 81 and total OF 162,
three strokes too high.
A missed second shot and three
puts at the sixteenth cost him six,
a hooked second shot at the seven
teenth, which found a trap. cost him
another six, and he put his second
shot in the water of Harry Ladders
favorite hazard. SO named because Sir
Harry couldn't get over some years
ago. Guy walked down the near
bank of the hazard and played the
shot. The water rose. but the ball
didn't and Guys silk shirt was ruined.
Then he showed a touch Of tempera-
ment worthy of Bobby Jones or Gil
Nichols in their palmiest days. He
grabbed his niblick and threw 1t
across the green, taking a chunk out
of one of Inwoods treasures. OF
course. he played another ball. but
the pardon came too late. He fin
ished with a seven and an ST. far too
high to qualify.
Fred's Putter on a Strike.
Fred McLeod's twin rounds were
both tragedies of missed puts. The
popular little Columbia pro never
played a better long game, nor was
he ever more accurate with the
mashie. He missed few shots. but
they all miss them. Fred's Waterloo
came on the putting green's. There he
resembled a plumber, rather than a
golfer. He might have holed them
with monkeywrench, but he
couldn't do it with his putter. Ten
puts of less than four feet failed to
drop. Many of them hit the cup. but
some were wide of the hole. The put
ting green's kept Fred Mcleod out of
the championship yesterday. Had he
been in his customary joyful putting
mood he would have qualified with
strokes to spare.
70 ha ~;v II
yesterday with three As to qualify.
His second shot found one of the
gruesome bunkers that have wrecked
the hopes of many an aspiring young
pro at Inwood, and he Clipped out
and took three puts. From then on
Fred was through. He holed a ten
footer for a at the seventeenth and
laid a niblick shot dead for at
the eighteenth, but again the pardon
came too late. Fred was out by a shot.
Leo Diegel of Friendship is Wash
ington's only remaining hope in the
championship, and Leo probably is
the capitals best standard bearer in
this title chase. He is long from the
tee, where Mcleod is comparatively
short, and given Fred's short game
he would be favorite to win the
championship. He may win, but his
short game is hardly good enough.
Black Has Narrow Squeak.
Grandfather John Black had mar
row squeak. John played last year at
Skokie, with an old black dudeen be-
tween his tight-set lips and in a pair
OF long white pants. The last day he
wore a fancy brown sweater as con-
cess!on to vanity.
But John came down to Inwood with
knickers and in place of the black
dudeen he smoked cigars. expensive
ones, for John has fallen upon better
days In a financial way since his
Skokie experience. Perhaps these fic-
kle concessions to golf1ng fame have
taken some Of the sting out of John s
old-fashioned game. John was seventy
five yesterday morning and might have
easily been seventy-one. He found
tragedy in the shape of II on the first
nine in the afternoon, but John was
blowing serenely along in his dour, Scot
tish way. never dreaming of the neal
catastrophe that was about to over
take him. He holed 3 at the tenth
where he had holed a chip shot in the
morning. had a at the eleventh and
holed the short twelfth In 81
Then dire misfortune aided by bit
of carelessness c-ept into Johns
serene path. He hooked his tee shot
into an orchard at the thirteenth
carelessly hit his second shot. missed
his third. was bunkered on his fourth
was in another bunker In 8, failed
10 get out in and was out in z. The
net result, a meats on 4 par hole.
John Stages a Comeback.
The situation changed in an instant
Francis Ouimet, with whom john. wal
playing. tried to cheer him up and the
fcrty-hye-year- Scot came back
with a splendid birdie at the four.