Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-12
SIX FAV0R|TES OUT
OF GOLF T|TLEPLAy
Won Elm, Evans, Gum and
Others Defeated-Voigt
and Jones Win.

BY the Associated Press.
BRAE BURN CONTURY CLUB,
NEWTON. Mass. September l2.-
George Won Elm of Detroit, 1926 cham
pion and one of the tournaments big
gest favorites, was the victim of sem
sational upset in the opening round of
the national amateur golf champion
ship today He was beaten by Arthur
w. (Ducky) Yates of Rochester, N. Y.
by a margin of 3 and in the first
1S-hole match of the day and sum-
marily eliminated.
Playing par golf in a drizzling rain,
Yates obtained an early lead on Won
Elm, made the turn at the ninth 3 Up
and settled the issue on the sixteenth
to eliminate the player who had been
generally expected to reach the finals
and there meet the defnding champion,
Bobby Jones. Won Elm's ragged work
around the greens was the principal
cause of his downfall.
Voigt Wins. 3 and 2.
George Voigt of Washington. D. c.,
and New York. the medalist. got bad
oeuAL oiId Wdo dOWlI w llA0 liFdl, Oily
McPhail of Norfolk. Mass, at the third
nole. McPhail took the first with birdie
and Voigt conceded the second. when
he was stymied by tree and then went
into trap
Voigt overcame his bad start. quickly
caught McPhail and led by up at the
turn. Their cards
McPhail-Out. ..3 5 S S 4 5-4l
Voigt-Out 4 4 4 S 3 4 4 4-33
Voigt continued to play steady golf and
defeated McPhail, and 2.
Jones Wins Match.
Bobby Jones. next to the last to get
away in the morning round, was even
with j. Wolcott Brown of Spring Lake.
N. j.. at the end of three holes. The
champion lost the second to Browns
birdie 3, but won the third.
Jones and Brown who holds the New
Jersey title, halved the fourth in con-
ventional 4s and were still all square.
Bobby drove into the rough at the
long fifth, sent his second into a patch
of woods and was 80 yards short of the
green in 3. while Brown was on. The
champions approach was well past the
cup and he took puts for 6. while
DIOWli SOC - dllu DCtdIIlC up.
tee shot stopped dead feet from
the pin on the short sixth and he got
his 2 to square the match. while Brown
took 3.
Jones, making the turn in even par.
35, was only one up on Brown. The
champion got this margin with birdie
three at the ninth. The cards:
Jones, out. 80. 4 4 d 4 6 2 4 4 3-35
Rrown ont 2 a q Art
CIings to Champion.
Brown clung to Bobbys heels on the
tenth and eleventh, both getting birdie
Is on the tenth and par As on the
next, the New Jersey star sinking Is
foot putt to do so. Jones became up
at the twelfth. when he got down III
par to Browns 4, and increased his
lead to up at the thirteenth. getting
par 4, whilc Brown caught trap and
took g..
They halved the fourteenth and the
match ended on the fifteenth green with
Jones up and 3 to play.
Pairings This Afternoon.
For the second round of 18-hole
match IS this afternoon, the pairingS in
the upper half of the draw put together
Yates and Perkins, John Dawson and
Free Wright of Boston, who eliminated
the Canadian, Gordon Taylor, 3 and
2; Dr.. Willing and Storey, Jess Sweet
ser and George Voigt.
In the lower half the brackets were
Finlay and John d. Ames of Chicago:
Harrison r (Jimmy) Johnston of st.
Paul and George T. Dunlap, jr., of
MapleWood, N. H.: Somerville and Beck.
Bobby Jones and Raw Gorton, home
club star.
Others Fall by Wayside.
Two more seeded" stars fell by the
wayside when John Dawson, Chicago,
put out his fellow townsman and for
mer champion, Chick Evans, 2 and l 4.
while DR.. o. F. Willing of Portland,
Greg, conquered Watts Gum OF At
lanta, and 3.
Eustace F. Storey, Great Britain. de-
feated Max r. Marston Philadelphia
up.
Jess w. Sweetser, New York defe!ted
D. j. Armstrong. Aurora, Ill. 3 and ..
The marathon match between Don
Moe. young Portland. Greg, star. and
Phil Perkins, British title holder. was
decided on the twenty-second hole,
when Perkins, with par 4. to Noes
5, emerged the victor by margin of
| up. The Briton had staged great
rally to square the match on the sew
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