Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-24
EMPEROR SERVES
NOTICE HE'S RIGHT
STEVENSON Ayers He's Done
With National Event.
Mackenzie Fails.

NN ERION CRICKET CLUB,
M Ardmore, Pa, September
1 Y l 24.-As six young men
gathered around the first
tee at Merton today to decide
which one shall get bounced from
the national amateur golf cham
pionship, one fact stood out OF
the maze into which the title
chase fell last night when dark
ness put an end to the most
elongated play-off the tournament
ever has seen. This was that
Bobby Jones is right.
He served notice yesterday that
he is the single outstanding COM
petitor in the field by winning the
qualifying medal when he was not
out there merely to qualify.
Bobby added Q 70 to his opening
round of SO to win the medal by q
single stroke from George Won Elm, the
mysterious gent who has announced his
retirement from the championship after
the current event. Bobby's total OF
40, q shotain front of Won Elm'S 143,
tied the record for low qualification
score made over the Merton course by
Clarke Corkran In 1924.
The situation today was this:
Just as most of Washington was hav-
ing its morning coffee at $3.50 daylight
time, which meant 1880 Washington
time, six earnest young men were out
there struggling to see which one would
mot play in the championship. One
SEas to drop out, the other five were
tp 60 In.
STARTED on the play-on last night, which
Was brought to halt by darkness aft
eH IL golfers had played the first hole
r3or eight places. Chick Evans, that
grand old veteran Of Chicago, and
Leonard Martin, also Of Chicago,
dropped out on the first hole. Phil
Finlay, Charles HEAVIER and Ross HON.
nlerville all got pars on the first hole
and were in. But Eddie briggs, Maui
rice j. Mccarthy, Jesse SweetSer, Watts
Gum, Charles Ahern and David w.
Ward all took SIS and darkness stopped
the affair. So the last six played OF
today.
Champion Goes Out
Out on the sidelines was Harrison
&ka
shot q fine 73 yesterday to add to his
IS Of the opening day only to ind that
his 156 total WAS . stroke too high.
That's the way the scoring was IN
this hot tournament You shot two
78s and you were out Of the tourna-
ment. Miller B. Stevinson, Washing
ington's lone entTant, also was out, but
. Stevenson did not expect 70 qualify
after his opening round Of 81 Monday.
George Weight, former Capital public
links star, was very much IN, Voight
In the upper bracket and If things
go as expected Voight VIII meet Ouimet
In the semi-f1nal. That il the way
they were seeded. George Won Elm,
who served notice yesterday that he is
nobody's white meat by registering q
70 TO finish second to Jones in the
half Of the draw with Jones, and that
half may find Won Elm and Jones in
the semi-final tomorrow, II all goes as
advertised. But today's twin 1S-hole
rounds are something else again and
some one may pull good man before
the day Is over.
The real battle starts today, at match
play, and Jones Is hot for it. He struck
his stride in practice Sunday and has
gets through the 1e-hole rounds today
he u q cifich, for he murders them at
IS holes. He has only once been beaten
over that distance, and he was bad that
day.
All the men who played on today
we're placed In the bottom half Of the
draw, along with Jones. May be that's
the penalty fop tieing for last place.
But Voigt looks to be a setup to reach
the semi-hnal, Jones and Won Elm also
seem certain to clash in the penulti-
mate round. Jones met q tough egg
today In the first round in the person
of Ross Somerville, the Canadian
champion, while Voigt met Lester Boil
stad of Minneapolis, once public links
champ. Johnny Goodman is in the
: same half as Jones, but the chances
are they won't meet. 1t looks as If the
semi-final tomorrow will find Voigt
against Ouimet and Jones against Won
Elm.
STEVENSON Way OF.
Out Of the tournament unless he shot
a round lower than any Jones has beer
able to do, STEVENSON got away to bad
start and did not improve. His heart
was out of the struggle after that 81
on Monday and he knew a SO was al
most hopeless to expect. So he went
along with Ellis Knowles. his partner
and ran out his string. The string wa
as. which gave him a two-day total Of
I72. STEVENSON will not play in an
other amateur championship. He sale
last night as he YEARLY laid down hi
clubs in the locker room.
Too much nerve strain. Too mucf
fuss and too much anxiety. It ISM
worth it to me-" and as We watched
men like Tolley and Chandler Egar
suffer through the torture of the quail
fying round it seemed that Stevinsor
was right
STEVENSON was out in ~, and bacl
in 43 for his IS. He took three sixe'
in a row coming home, but his hear
- ,.of n, his work Here is his fina