Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-24


1vhnsa match play round started over
This course today. seemed sure 10 he
sticking around tomorrow when the
reo1 hattie starts for the title now
bnld nv George Won Elm of Los Ange
les. =.
Roland. lone qualitier of the SIN
bonefuls who entered in the cham
nionsh:p from the Capital. started out
81 q15 this morning against @o-yeat-
old George Thomas of ChlcaSo' WI"
qualified with "A score of 100 eNtctN
-be same mark as that registered pS
Mackenzie to make the grade WIFI (
Ceorce Noigt, Guy Standltef anu
three other Washington en'fah'S
failed. ,, no
should trim, the Chicago lad, he VIII
stack I'M against either Howard wal
ION or David Martin, two other en-
trants from the great open spaces:
"a u no wins his second rouno
match. will find tough nut 10 crack
for tho chances are he VIII hdtS"
shots with George Won Elm.
Roland made the grade in the
~,,ada1 round with a card Of 100, near
" blowing himself out OF the ciaiil
nionsbin at the sixteenth hole' pu.
settling down to hole a lengthH Put.
on the last green TO get III WIN
shot to spare.
Standifer Of i'm Putting.
S+andifer putted himself out OF
chance and Noigt's tee shots, nooheu
oil over the lot. combined WITH uv"l
,..;rc To cost him his chance. Mllier
3 STEVENSON Of Columbia. Page HultH
- congressional and A. l.. Hausntoh
- Manor never had chance from
the end Of the first day IN the laSt
srorins field, which found Ioo lns
highest card to make the sraue ",.o
Ief, II men bracketed at mat hS "
FOR seven places. These IL piaHeo la
into the darkness last eNeiiiliS, ~
falling shades Of night ofusn!hs .,,na
csrrn o,1t Of the championship plctuie
go iar-ing in Howard Walton OF 1iA-
-ofs on the third hole. where the
Was-srn entrant holed 3 birdie pE
match light. .. .,o
Va, Fir, and Jones are almost the
+,,7I length OF the draw apart. ana as
+ha D;cture stands today the h".'t
-.o,,v5 nay End these TWO StalWarts OF
,ba links repeating their cnamploll'
shin hattie Of last year. Scattered
+rr7,,rh the draw. however. are
e-o,,n ~ lads who may upset even
Yhoss two impeccable performers.
Homes. as usual. won the quaI.silis
round. shooting bewAderlns % ~
score a 1.2 total for the douple qnali,
<,;-g circuit. Won Elm staggered
s-oe;-s in IS and Just got in.
Maurice ]. Mccarthy OF New YORK
q student al Georgetown University
e,5 member of the WASHINGTON
Golf and Country Club, drew BOD
ZONES in the first match play around
.o5av and is due for an early exit
from the tournament.
Rob Jones performance was !ne
amazing burst of skill that the Brltlsh
onen champion pulls once or twice IN
every tournament. showing the nome
folks that here, at last, is the super
man Of golf.
Uncanny, f1awlesS-one couio use
q host of adjectives to describe the
bewildering exhibition the Atlanta
wonder put up YESTERDAY a1.1rnoon.
A gallery of 5000 excited deVotees
watched the blase lad from the South
register seven brides over the route,
rornp around in 81 to tie Jimmy
Iohnston's record for the course and
tie Clark Corkran,s record OF 142 Tor
tha winning score in the qualifying
round.
And after il was all over Bobby
was complaining over the he TOOK at
the seventeenth, the easiest hole on the
course. where his second shot KICK
ed over the green.
Seven brides, two holes over par,
and nine holes in par, this lad reg
istered in his crushing effort. And to-
dav he is an even-money bet 10 re-
gain his amateur crown, even though
he must win five match play ROUNDS
lust to add FLIP to the occasion
and give the boys in the back room
something to null oyer, Bobby neu-
tralized his at the seventeenth by
holine a birdie at the eighteentn,
5ixfoot putt finding the bottom OIL the
tin.
nuIled the big stunt Of the day, now
aver when he holed a 20-footer on
the last green to tie for the play
riff and won a place on the first hole.
Jimmy Johnston of Minneapolis
shot a Jolt into par by negotiating the
course in Il, but even that was not
good enough to stay level with Jones
Won Elm Has Trouble.
George Won Elm didn't have any
too easy a road to gain the cham,
. pionship flight. Plainly oiSsatislleu
with his game OF YESTERDAY, tne
grave danger. He started back q, g.
s missed a chip shot at the thlr'
1eenth to gain a birdie and was IN
tough spot. He knew it, but with
the helm of Doc Silas Newton's nerve
nils he crashed out pair or plrdles
on the fourteenth and fifteenth and
could miss a shot and still qually
His miss came at the sixteenth, where
a three -footer slid by the edge. But
the blonde battler from the FAR Yves,
finished the last two holes in per1ec'
figures to get in.
Nevertheless, there We're anxious
moments for the sturdy Los Angeles
lad and he bore down heavily over
the last nine, crashing the pail Iroii
the tee astounding distances ana get
ting behind it with all he had. lt's
been a good many years since tne
champion failed to QUARRY IN .ns
succeeding tournament. YESTERDAY
wasn't the day, though for a while
it looked as If II might be.
The worst blow-up Of the day, iron
the point of view Of Washington, wa:
the ascension of Guy Standifer
Safely ensconced in what appeared Il
be an impregnable position Monda!
with a fine rs behind him, needing
only an 80 to be sure OF qualifying
Standifer completely lost his putting
touch, and when he began taking
to get down from 20 yards away hi
doom was sealed. Even with poo
~ over the first nine there still wa
room for the Columbia player t
make the grade. But he started bacl
by pushing his ball to the woods a
the tenth, ran up Z at the thin
teenth, took to get down from tn
green edge at the fourteenth and fir
ally staggered home in "A for an 8
and a 36-hole card of 16l, five shot
too many.
His failure can be laid solely t
his putter, for Standifer, after missin
a Short one at the first hole, becam
hole shy and his ball commenced pol
ping around the edge. After that tn
end was in sight, for when the putt
dnn,t go down thew weigh on Ii