The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-04
Two 18-HoIe Rounds on
Program; Jones Faces
Omaha Youth.
Holman TIES CHAMPION
Johnny Lehman, Gary,
Meets Ntzhugh,.
BY FRANK GETTY
United Press Sports Editor

PEBBLE BEACH, Cal, Sept. A.
The business of determining whether
there is an amateur golfer in the
vicinity who can take the measure
of Robert Tyre Jones at match play
began today on the links at Pebble
| Beach.
With the big field which started
in the thirty-third national anna
! teur championship here reduced to
thirty-two by the qualifying test,
the survivors went out two by two
for a couple of rounds of eighteen
hole match play which will bring
the current tS0'nament to the eve
of the quarter-final stage by night
fall.
The amateur champions first OPP
ponent was a young man from
Omaha, little known to national
golfing fame, by the name of
Johnny Goodman, who barely es-
capped disqualification by the August
y. S. G. A. because of his reported
connection with a sporting goods
firm back in Nebraska.
Natives Like Jones
It was generally conceded it would
be the best kind of a joke on the
U. S. G.. A. if Johnny should hap
pen to tip over the apple cart and
eliminate Bobby in the very f1rS6
round. The crash in gate receipts,
should such thing occur, would SET
an all-time record.
California crowds are with Bobby
to the last man, woman and child.
There seemed little likelihood OF
the Albanian biting the dust. Even
allowing for the vagarieS OF match
play over the eighteen-hole route,
Bobby was a Q to l choice to romp
right through the rest of the week
to his third successive amateur
championship, which will be the
fifth he has won in the past SIX
years.
One of the most promising of the
DAYS matches brought together
George Won Elm, amateur champion
himself three years ago, and Chand-
Ter Egan, the veteran of a score OF
such campaigns and designer of the
Pebble Beach course on which the
tournament is being played
Today's Matches
The pairings for the sixteen morn
ing matches given in the order
which indicates how the survivors
will meet in the second round dur
ing the afternoon were as follows:
Cyril ToIley VS.. Eddie Held; Fay Coleman
VS.. Gene Romans. r r.
B. Hunter vs.. ia BouTn: uos
less sTeetssr vs. Io,n E1P MoBd mGman;
Rudy Wilhelm vs. Lee Pendergrass.
George yoight VS.. Vince Dolp; Don Moe
HARRISON Johnston VS.. j. De PaoIo; Ro-
land Mackenzie vs.. Egstace Storey. c,
Francis Ouimet VS.. Dave Martin; Gar
ence Hubby VS.. Gibson Dunlap.
Bobby Jones VS.. Johnny. Goodman; Law
Little w. Phillip Finlay.
The field represents the cream OF
the seasons amateur crop, the only
serious casualty of the qualifying
round test being that perennial
optimist of the royal and ancient
pastirne, smiling Chick Evans of
Chicago.
For the first time since the U. S.
G.. A. rules permitted thirty-one
qualif1ers for match play in the
amateur tournament, Chick failed
to make the grade, missing out by
single stroke with an aggregate Of
161.
Held Noses In
There was playof in the twi-
light Tuesday evening with Eddie
Held, who, with three others, had
an aggregate of 100, winning the
remaining place in the charmed
circle of thirty-two qualifiers with
a par four at the very first hole.
The others, F. H 1. Brown, the
long-driving Honoluluan; G. A.
Griswold and D. j. Armstrong, were
nervous in the presence of the huge
gallery which stampeded along to
see the fun and all took five
There are three champions IN the
field, Eddie Held, the Canadian
titlist; Cyril j. H. Tolley, monarch
of British amateurs, and the At
lantan himself. There also are
three former title holders, Won Elm,
Sweetser and Ouimet.
Eugene V. Homan of Englewood,
N. j., and Princeton university, tied
Jones for low medal score in the
qualifying round of thirty-six holes,
getting a 72-73-145. Jones, play
ing in the miniature gale that blew
in from the Pacific, wound up with
70-75-145.
Lehman Places High
Gibson Dunlap, who set the pace
on the first eighteen holes with a
So, added a IS Tuesday for a 147,
being nosed out of third by DR.. o. F.
Willing and Doe Moe of Portland,
Ore, who took 72-74-146 apiece.
Tied for sixth place were Johnny
Lehman of Gary, Ind, former Big
Ten champion from Purdue univer-
sity, and Roland Mckenzie of Wash
ington. D. c. Mackenzie had a To-
76-148. Lehman shot a rs Monday
and lost a chance to tie the two
leaders Tuesday when he went one
over par on each of the last three
holes for a 73-75-148.
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