The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-09-24
TWO CANADIANS GO
DOWN BEFORE GREAT
PLAY BY CHAMPION
Southern Wizard Has Now
Passed Hazards Of 49,
Hole Competition
GIVES SUB.PAR EXHIBITION
Opponent EquaIed Perfect Fig
ures in First Round; Just
Wasted Effort
GIVES SUB.PAR EXHIBITION
BULLETIN


Merton Cricket Club, Ardmore.
Pa. Sept. 2A.-R-Results 81 second
round matches In the national ANA
teur golf championship today:
John Lehman, Chicago, defeated
Charles Reckler,> Philadelphia, six
and five.
Gene Romans, Englewood, N. J..
defeated W. Lawson Little, San. Fran
cisco, 4 and 2.
Merton Cricket Club, Ardmore. Pa.
Sept. ELECTROMAGNETIC his second
straight Canadian opponent Bobby
Jones, despite an erratic display of
eolf, routed Fred Hoblitzel Of Toron-
to. 5 and 4, and marched to the third
round Of the national amateur cham
pionship. thereby hurdling the haz-
ards OF the opening two rounds Of Ia
hole match competition.
Jones required an approximate a
Tor the first nine, the worst golf he
has yet displayed in a tournament.
Jones crushed Ross Somerville. the
Canadian title holder, S and 1 In the
first round.
He was two under par for IL
holes and Somerville remarked:
There was not much chance for me
against that kind 4 golf."
The triple champion had his nlttsr
working almost miraculously as he
finished the outgoing nine with three
brides, 1872 to become four up.
Somerville put Up q game fight but
ne was able to win only one hole. the
18th. when Jones three.putted.
F. g.. Hoblitzel Of Toronto, the cole
remaining Canadian, turned I'M AZ
the second round opponent for Jones.
The stocky dominion star beat
Ellis Knowles OF New York 3 and /.
to go into the second round.
George Won Elm Of Los Angeles.
playing a brand Of golf as spectacular
as that Of Jones. overwhelmed Chuck
Hunter 6 and S, but such favorites
and seeded" stars as Francis Ouimet
OF Boston, T. Phillip Perkins of New
York. the former British champion,
and DR.. Oscar F. Willing Of Portland.
Ore, the 1929 runner-up. were elm
mated.
Two veterans Lose
Ouimet and Willing were the VIC
Tins Of upsets sprung by youthful
stars, the former losing to George
Kocsis, l~8-year-old Detroiter, 3 and 2,
while Willing, in a desperate fight,
was beaten at the 10Th hole by w.
Lawson Little Of San Francisco.
George Voigt Of New York. another
favorite, was hard-pressed to defeat
Lester Bolstad Of st. Paul, 2 and /.
Perkins. a finalist in 1928, fell be-
fore the consistent work Of Johnny
Lehman of Chicago. western amateur
champion, who won by 3 and 1.
Johnny Goodman, the Omaha ace
who beat Bobby Jones last year and
was favored to play the Georgian
again tomorrow, met defeat at the
home hole of the first round at the
hands Of Johnny McHugh. former
California state champion.
Goodman came to the eighteenth
n down and sent his second shot
In high grass under q tree on the
edge of the practice putting green.
McHugh was well on in two and
Goodman pitched over the tree Is feet
from the pin.
The Californian rolled his putt
close to the pin, clinching q four, and
Goodman holed his long putt for .
sensational four that was too late to
save him. McHugh tapped his ball
In and was the victor. one up.
A gallery that packed both sides Of
the first fairway followed Jones and
Somerville.
On the practice putting Green, just
before going to the tee, Jones met
Johnny Goodman, the Omaha Star
who beat the Georgian In the first
round at Pebble Beach last year.
They shook hands and wished each.
other luck. II they weather today's
double barreled storm, they will meet
tomorrow in the third round.
Jones stood in the trap and pitched
over a tree IS feet from the cup at
the first hole. Bob putted one foot
away, 6omerville was all close and
it was a half In par tours, all even.
Both drives were long at the 523
yard second but 6omerville was 80
yards behind Jones. Ross rtmmed the
cup with his approach putt. It IVES
another half In fours. These were
brides.
Jones Takes Lead
At the 105-yard 3rd the Canadian
holed In 4. one over par and Jones
CONTINUED on p4ge nine).