Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-23

ington entrants IN the ma
nonal amateur championship. AnC
Dnly two of them, Roland II. Mackenzie
and GUY NJ. Standifer of Columbia
have better than an outside chance
10 make the qualifying grade in a
feld that literally burned up the
tough Minikahda course yesterday.
/ Two more, George J. Noigt of Ban
nockburn and Page Hufty of Congress
kional. need fine rounds today to hang
on. while Miller b. STEVENSON of Co
bImbia and A. l.. Houghton of Manor
i virtually are out of a chance to quail
~. victims of Minikahda's terrifying
eSpanse of bunkers and wire grass
Rough.
Standifer and Mackenzie are sitting
pretty as the second qualifying round
gets under way today for George Won
Elm's amateur crown. Standifer with
IS and Mackenzie with a loosely
played IS behind him, which might
just as we'll have been a ~.
George Noigt and Hufty are bracket
hd at so. the Bannockburn star the vic
tim of a group of unfortunate cir
rumstances which came just at the
time he promised to romp around in
some fabulous figure, and Hufty. the
unwilling perpetrator of a trio of SKIES
when he seemed certain to get out in
s6, 1 over par.
Must DO 1873 TO Qualify.
a With upward OF so entrants in the
tournament under so as the second
POUND started today, 1t was a virtual
certainly that no score higher than ISL
hr 1853 would make the grade to play
tomorrow for the championship. And
based on the way the boys romped
around Minikahda's -boredered
reaches yesterday, it might drop down
h l56 For today is the day the am
bilious youngsters will take off the
Rraps and go out to hole everything
IN sight. knowing that only the best
they have will get them in the title
chase.
1t seems strange today to see an un-
known out there in front as the second
round starts.
Eugene Y. Romans. 10, a schoolboy
6onal Il, one under par. to lead the
field of 100 entrants Right at his
heels was another youngster, young
Phil F'eley of California. Last year
he was a student at Exeter and is
scheduled to enter Harvard in the
Pall. He got home the first day with
card of -, which just equaled par.
Just behind him came Jimmie John
kton and George Rotan at ~ and Rob
Jones and Chick Evans at rs, tied
with Standifer.
Won Elm himself is sitting on the
r. gged edge at 70, and the prospect is
n sight tomorrow of seeing the anna
teur champion joining the disconso-
late group of non-qualifiers who will
watch other and better medalists bat
Ting for the title.
Standifer Gets So and 80.
Standifer. who came here from the
Pacific Coast to play in the tourney,
MAS out in front of the big field, and
even though he had two 6's on the
first nine. he got out in So and back
in 80. He was bunkered at the first
hole and took three puts, repeating
the performance at the seventh, but
In between he scored brides on the
fifth and sixth. His IS was made up
OF sound, well played golf
Mackenzie, out late in the after
noon, attracting a large gallery, got
through the turn in SO, notwithstand-
ing a on the tricky par ninth, and
he started back, 5, 2, 4, getting par 5s
at the thirteenth and fourteenth,
seaving him par for 70. At the fif-
teenth he hooked his tee shot into
horrible lie behind bunker and play
ed one of the great shots of the day,
high mashie shot that left him but
an eight-foot putt, which he sank for
a birdie 3. So he then had three pars
for tie with Finley's ~. He pushed
2 tee shot TO the rough and got a
good at the sixteenth. And he then
irt niblick shot half way to the
seventeenth to get against the
par of T.
But at the eighteenth he gave
ritiable exhibition. Here he had a
for a "a and he hit one so far from
the tee that he had nothing left but
short niblick pitch. Again he played
p memory shot and the ball careened
across the green onto a steep bank
at the back. Yet that wasn't all. For
after getting back on, he took three
puts for a 6 and a rs. If he had
PLAYED all the holes as badly as he
played the last three he would have
been IS. But even playing that way
Roland looks good and he may step
out today and tear off TO-
VOigt Strong at Start.
Voigt started out like a house afire.
getting down a 30-footer for a birdie
AZ the fourth. He played the fifth in
par and then came to the pond hole
the sixth, where all the trouble start.
cd. Here he laid his tee shot IL feet
from the cup on this 195-yard affair.
and from the tee his partners ball
struck that of Voigt and caused it to
roll half foot. Neither player knew
)ust what 70 do. go Voict PLAYED the
hall from where it had been rolled and
holed it for ?. He then PLAYED an
other ball and had 5.
That started lots OF converse ton.
and George took a 5 at the seventh
But the real blow-up came at the
eighth. where he had and 5 for a
So. Here his tee shot to this 1872
Yard hole lay on the side of a grass
bunker. deep in the matted stuff that
wrecked many a good golfer. He
'ried to punch the ball out and it
went one foot He then got out in
8 and barely missed his. putt for a.
His tee shot at the ninth was only
half hit and he missed a three -footer
for a par g.
George got a good break at the
tenth, for he hooked to the woods
and a strongly hit mashie shot struck
the pin and dropped down 10 feet
away He. missed it and took 5.
Three puts followed at the short
eleventh. and George again hooked
10 the rough at the twelfth. scoring
= < one over par.
Here he was going badly. hut worse
was 10 come For he took at the
par thirteenth, hooking to bunker.
again TO the rough and finally getting
down A six-footer for the s.
Finds Trouble at Sixteenth.
He played the fourteenth and ff.
teenth in regulation figures and had
par left for 70. But fine second
shot caught the edge of bunker at
the sixteenth and. trying too hard for
his 4. he ran past and missed coming
back. The net result was a s. A
followed at the seventeenth and VoiGt
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