The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
NEW YORK STAR HAS
LOWEST CARD OF TWO
Savannah Crack, Dave Spittal Is Up Among
Leaders Dewey Weber Plays Great Game

CHICAGO, May 2S.-(By Asscci-
ated Press.) -MacD Smith Of San
Francisco shooting the last nine in one
under par. today finished in the lead
Of AZ golfers from the west who quail
fled at Oak Park Country club for the
national open golf championship at De-
troit by totalling 14S strokes for the
80 holes. The California open cham;
pion scored par Il yesterday, but re-
quired Al strokes for the first nine to-
day and took 20 for the round.
This allowed him to finish one ahead
| Of Emmett FrFench, Youngstown, o..
l-whe shared the best score for today's
round with 70, with Dave Robertson Of
Detroit.
Harry Hampton. canton, o.. and
George Kerrigan of Los Angeles tied
for third place at 16g and AL Watrous
| of Grand Rapids came next with Isl.
Only 80 and ties for last place were
to qualify and this let in eleven players
who cored 16S. Among those who bare
" won ticket TO Detroit for the T2-hcle
play-od with those from the east who
qualified for the championship were
three amateurs, the only ones to enter
the select circle. They were Chick
Evans, s. Dawson Heron, formerly
amateur champion, and A. b. Sweet, all
of Chicago. Evans, after scoring q, fair
q yesterday and getting a 80 for the
first half today, went wild on the hnal
holes and took 81 strokes.
Heron Comes Back
Heron, after an unpromising 80 for
the first round and Al for the first
half today, played some Spectacular
golf in the home stretch for q 81.
Five players finished In a tie for
sixth place at 1852. They were: Dewey
Weber Of Chicago, Jock Hutchinson. for
mer British champion, who took 40
round and added " to his first round
ertson and Wilfred Reid of Detroit.
In addition to the two Ohio play
ers who landed in second and third
place, three buckeye golfers, P. o. Hart,
Marietta George B0wden, Cincinnati,
and John Rogers of Dayton, shared
with Laurie Ayton of Chicago, score
of 163.
George Sargent Of Columbus, who
won the open title in 1909 and Get a
record for the Oak Park course in
for his rouhd today. giving him final
score Of 164.
Alex Campbell of Cincinnati, dean
Of all professional golfers in America
showed the revival Of his old time
form By scoring a "a today and joining
| the last contingent entitled to play off
for the championship.
There, were only three southern as
pirants who played at Oak Park and
| two of these, Frank Sproegell and e. K.
Mccarthy of Memphis. by scoring IS
and II, respectively, managed TO sur
vive the ordeal. Ray Ouimet of Bris-
toll, Tenn, did not find his game either
day and was well over the qualifying
mark.
Ira Couch of Chicago, western junior
champion and John Black of Wichita,
Kan, who tied with Bobby Jones for
second place to Gene Sarazen two years
bae0 at Skotie, also lacked one stroke Of
surviving as did John Bremedus Of
Houston, the only Texas aspirant.
| Aside from these near qualifiers there
were few upsets in the predictions. A
| pair of 79's, or 1853. had been predicted
as the largest score that would qualify
over the difficult links and this proved
| true, almost to q man.
Most OF the players agreed that scor-
| ing conditions were not as good to-
day as yesterday end many scores
proved their contentious. A breeze
bothered the players during the. mid
die Of the day.