The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-14
MOYNIHAN ENTERS
KELLER GOLF OPEN
Will Come in Contact with
Best Players in Country
at St. Paul
ELIMINATED AT ALEX
d. B. Caughren Won Flight at
ResOrter's Tournament
Held Last Week

Walter Moynihan, Sank Centres
able golfing ambassador, left this
Thursday morning TO st. Paul to
enter the Keller open golf tourna-
ment, where many of the nations
best professionals and the states
ranking amateurs will compete for
$4,000 in cash and fine array of
trophies.
Although Walter doesn't entertain
any idea of winning the event, he
hopes to place high in the fast
field after the 72 holes of medal
play have been finished. Among
the amateurs he will try to Guido
will be Harrison r. Jimmy
Johnston, national amateur cham
pion, while the crack pros will in
clude Horton Smith. Leo Diegel,
Johnny Fsi1eiE Gene sarazen, Tom
my Armo1S and waiter Hagen.
The chances of Sank Centres
representative is conceded to be
good. Walter has been a promi-
nent figure in the tournaments he
has entered this year even though
he has not won more than the
Central Minnesota event. In the
state amateur Walter, after shoot
ing a sensational 50 on the second
nine of his first qualifying round
for a rs, took third place in the
medal test. He lost his first match
to Roscoe Fawcett, of Interlachen,
Minneapolis, but proceeded to win
the championship consultations by
defeating Harry Robinson, Jr, OF
Minikahda in the finals.
In the state open at Golden Val
ley, Walter had rounds of 78-84-78-
80 for a total of 800 which placed
him well up among the amateurs
AS he had in his match with Faw-
cett, he experienced difficulty with
his putter during this tournament
At Alexandria he shot a brilliant "
to tie with Pat Sawyer, the state
amateur champion from the Gold
en- Valley club, of Minneapolis for
second place in the qualifying
round missing medaiist honors only
when he took bad z on one hole.
After a great battle Walter lost his
first round match to Harry Robin
son on the final green. as he had in
all his other matches this year.
The only silverware taken away
from the Alexandria event went to
D. B. Caughren, who won the third
flight directors cup, and the trophy
which Willis Smith received for be-
ing runner-up in the twenty-fourth
flight H. A. Falk reached the semi
finals of the second flight after
qualifying with 70, while S. F,
Strong was eliminated by Dave
Caughren in the semi-finals of the
third. DR.. H. F. Hennemann, Bob
Falk and Bob Schoenhoff were the
other local entrants.
Not to be outdone by her broth
er Miss Irene Moynihan, Sank
Centres leading feminine golfer,
was a prominent figure in the
women's division at Alexandria.
Irene played some of the best tour
nament golf of her career to put
out Eleanor Fournet. st. Clouds
best girl golfer, in the quarter-fin-
ais before losing to the runner-up,
Mrs. Schultz Of Bismarck, N. D.. in
the semi-finals.
Irene shot an 81 to win from Miss
Fournet, getting six mems par in a
row and staging a strong finish to
accomplish the upset. Her first nine
total was AZ. Irene also qualified in
the recent state tournament at Du-
luth, winning her first match before
losing in the second round.