The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-07
PAUL COOK SLONE
ENTRY IN RUNNING,
FROM CAPITAL CITY
Defending Champion Has Hard
Time Disposing Of H. D. Paul.
son in Match Wednesday
FOWLER BURNS UP COURSE
Shoots Record Amateur Score
on First Nine to Defeat
James Barrett, Minot

Fargo. N D., Aug. 7.-lEJ--Fargc
and Bismarck alone of the field O.
80 which set out Monday in quest Of
the 1880 North Dakota golf champion.
ship have entrants remaining in the
running for the laurels.
OF the quartet which sets out In
the 36-hole semi-final matches today
two are former champions.
Bill Fowler, Fargo and Paul Cook
Bismarck are the former champions
and all along have been favorites tc
reach the final round.
Fowler, 1880 medaiist and cham
pion in 1927 and 1928, burned up the
course in his Quarter-final in what
generally was expected to be the fea-
u r contest. Fowler was paired
against Jimmy Barrett, the only other
former champion who made the quar-
ter final round.
He shot a 80 Oh the upper half of
the 18-hole layout and was z up at
the turn. The score turned in by
Fowler on the upper nine is the best
ever shot for that layout by an anna
teur. The match ended on the 18th
where Fowler won 6 and S.
Cook, the defending champion.
scored a 3 and l conquest over H. D.
Paulson, Fargo. Paulson pulled a
surprise and Cook was never able to
gain more than a one-hole lead.
j. N. Thompson. Fargo Country
club. meets Fowler in the ppe
bracket Of the semi-finals. He de-
feated William Kostlecky. ST., Dickin-
son. but only after KoStelecky had
rallied and won four holes in a row
to cut T~hompson's 5 up margin at the
18th to ] up at the 10th. Thompson
won the 18th to go 2 up.
Play Extra Hole
Verne Gallaher and L. C. Sorlien.
both Of Edgewood, Fargo, played an
extra hole before Gallaher came
through. Gallaher missed a three
foot putt at the 18th for a birdie and
won both the 18th and 18th to square
the match. Sorlein won four in a
row from the 18th to the 18th.
Gallaher is 10, Fowler and Cook 20.
while Thompson is in the 3Os.
Roy Stranahan, Fargo Country club.
and Fred Cummers, Jr., Edgewood are
semifina]ists in the upper bracket of
the championship flight consolation.
Stranahan defeated r. +. Barnard,
clubmate and former runnerup, 5 and
& Cummers won from DR.. r. w.
Pote. Fargo Country club champion
and former state titlist, 4 and 3.
Fred Tunnel. Bismarck, won his
way into the semifinal lower bracket
through a 2 up victory over Oscar
Martinson, Fargo Country club. He
meets Tom Nee, Edgewood, who won
from L. J. Stranahan, Fargo, 2 up.
Fred Behling of Edgewood, meets
Or. T. L. Stangebye Of New England
in the final of the first flight cham
pionship. Behling won from Porter
Corby, Valley City, 4 and 3. STANCE
bye had a Sd edge over N. H. Hinkle,
Fargo.
Frank Talcott scored a I up victory
in 10 holes of the semifinal match
in the first flight consolation with B.
G. Anderson, Maddox. Talcott meets
Fred Anderson, Fargo Country club,
in the final. Anderson won from Jim
Slattery, Edgewood, 2 up.
II. G. Young, Fargo Country club.
meets j. Whaley, Edgewood, in the
final Of the second flight. Young de-
feated L. c. Follett, his clubmate, S
and 4. and Whaley advanced through
default by Ray Power, Mayville.
Darrow Seeks Consolation
Dr.. Kent Darrow of the host club.
meets Bob Loucks, Edgewood, for the
consolation championship in the e
ond flight. Darrow defeated 16-year-
old H. H. Bond. Jr., Fargo Country
club. in the semifinals 3 and 2. Loucks
won from w. E. .........., Fargo
Country club, by the same score
The third flight championship is
staked in a match between William
kostelecky. Jr., Dickinson, and c. v,
Peabody, Fargo. Kostelecky won from
Jack Hilber, Edgewood, / up, and Pea
body defeated Andy Mckay. Fargo,
4 and 3. q
Kenneth Graves, Edgewood, won
from A. L. Mundy, Bismarck, by de-
fault and meets James Cleyelend
Maddox, in the third flight consola-
ton championship. Cleveland de-
feated G. c.. Rasmussen, Edgewood
2 up. Victor Fischer, Edgewood, Is
years old, M finalist in the fourth
flight, meets L. U. Stambaugh, Far
go Country club. Fischer won from
A. L. Lantz, Casselton. 4 and 3
Stambaugh defeated w. H. Clemens
Fargo Country club, 2 up.
Bob Gaffaney, youthful represent
alive OF the Fargo Country club, meets
A. D. Heaton, Dickinson, in the con-
ISOLATION championship. fourth flight
Gaffaney Won from Art Kepner
EdgewoOd, 5 and 8. Heaton defeated
q fellow townsman, Harry Gardner.
and 3.