Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-23
GETS A RAGGED 50
TO So FOR JONES
STEVENSON, Mackenzie and
Standifer Trail in
Qualifications. |
BY w. r. McCALLUM,
stan Correspondent of The Star.

4 ' L 23.-Something between
Is and 20 firSt-clasS
mashie wielders-among them
four former amateur champions
and the reigning king, are on the
anxious seat today as they match
shots against the field and the
rigors Of the course that threw
them for loss yesterday.
Just as at every amateur cham
pionship the struggle for a place
in the titular flight is a struggle
worthy of champions, but this
year the old timers-champions of
other years-seem to be slipping
Q bit more than ever.
As the final qualification day got I'M
der way, Jess Sweetser, Chick Evans,
Jesse Guilford and Chandler Egan,
champions In years gone by, cannot
afford TO miss shot and still remain in
the race to determine the 80 men who
VIII start match play tomorrow for the
title now held by Jimmy Johnston of
st. Paul
The title holder was on the ragged
edge, his throne tottering under him as
be finally limped from the first tee to-
day, knowing he had to cling closely to
par to be sure Of qualification But
Jimmy Johnston was not alone. Where
the heir apparent to the throne-none
other than the peerless Bobby Jones
made the game look foolishly simple in
the opening round of the two-day quail
Tying test, with superb SO, one under
par, Johnston played like q beginner In
the opening test in defense of his crown
and began the final qualification round
today knowing that he could take no
more than 73 and still enter the match
play rounds.
His opening round was So, but he was
not alone. Out on the rugged edge Of
Jesse Guilford ct 20. Sweetser at 81,
Cyril Tolley at 80, Eugene Holmes at
80, s. Davidson Heron at 90 and Dale
Bourne, the British closed champion, at
81.
STEVENSON Nearly Out.
Miller B. STEVENSON, the lone Wash
ington entrant, Is virtually out of the
championship STEVENSON eliminated
himself yesterday by a ragged last nine,
which he played In ~ after getting over
the hardest part Of the course IN 30.
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Stevenson looked to be due for good
last nine. But q shanked mashie shot
ut the eleventh and hooked tee shot
out Of bounds at the fourteenth COM
bined with three-putt green's at the six
teenth and seventeenth to put him on
the verge Of elimination. STEVENSON
needs 70 today to have a chance to
qualify, and that is hardly within
reason.
But the popular former District cham
pion had a lot Of company over that
blistering opening round. Along with
him away up above 80 were Roland
r. Mackenzie Of Columbia at 50, Guy
NJ Standifer, former District cham
pion, at IS, and many others who play
golf good enough to break 80 on any
many's course.
Roland's downfall came at the first
three holes of the last nine, for he
played the first nine in 80, which was
good enough. But at the tenth he was
trapped. At the eleventh he was In
the brook and at the twelfth he was
trapped again. He had three consecu-
tive IS and kicked up another at the
fifteenth hole. where the bunkers again
caught him.
Maurice j. Mccarthy, former George
town student, and reigning metropoli-
tan champion, was the big noise Of the
first day, outside of Jones, for Maurice
holed an ace on the seventeenth hole
to finish with rs.
Stevinson's Round Tragic.
Stevinson'S round was tragic. He
started badly by taking 6 on the
first hole, but birdied the seventh and
ninth to get out in 40. After a shanked
mashie shot from the rough at the
eleventh he got good 6, and he might
have gone all right from that point but
g.. ~
the roadway cuts into the fairway at
the left, he hooked his tee shot out of
bounds, took the stroke and distance
penalty and topped his next drive, TAX
ing a z on the hole. He was trapped
at the fifteenth and took three puts
on both the sixteenth and seventeenth,
finishing with a huzzard for a AZ
and an 81.
George Voigt got a great rs. which
might lust as well have been 10 or
better. The one-time impeccable George
of Washington, who has gone on 10
big-time golf and today Is the third
ranking player in the country, put two
balls in the ditch at the eleventh for
q burly 7. Even at that, and with the
short putt he missed at the fourteenth,
he was back in 80 for a TO. Voigt is
almost a certainty to qualify, but he
won't win the medal as he did at Brae-
burn in 1928.
If it will take 1853 TO qualify-and
every one seems to think 1t will-how
about the boys who are at 30 and
above? Jess SweetSer was not in nice
spot as the last round started today.
Nor was Tolley, nor Watts Gum at 30,
nor Phil Finlay at the same figure. Nor
we're Eddie Held at 50 nor Jack Mackie
at 80.
Anent the Emperor.
So much for the boys on the hot
seat. On the other side of the picture
there was Jones, getting out in 36 and
breeZing back in 80, with a birdie 2 at
the thirteenth, again setting the pace
and almost certain to win the medal.
But Just q shot away is that grim old
warrior Of thousand tournaments, Doc
willing, runner-up last year, at 10,
bracketed with the youhgster, Sidney
Moves of New York. And just behind
them are Won Elm, the mysterious gent
of whom rumor has viii enter motion
pictures and eschew the championship
in the future; Francis Ouimet and
Johnny Goodman, the lad who upset
Bobby Jones last year, all bracketed
at 10.
Alex Knapp of Baltimore, the Mary
land State amateur champion, is in a
good spot at rs and If he shows any
thing like the game he played yester-
day over the last nine will qualify to-
day. Knapp had mediocre AZ for the
first nine YESTERDAY but came hack in