Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-23
IBR|TONS BARRIERS
IN WESTERN GOLF
ToIIey and Perkins Seen as
Threats in Battle for the
Crown Moe Wears.

| By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 23-The tussle
for the Western amateur golf champion
ship crown, worn by the youthful Don
Moe of Portland, Greg, swept into the
match-play grind today with strong,
nternationally-fa field in the
| fight.
Facing the young champion as the
fight opened over the stubbornly
trapped and tree lined Beverly Country
Club course were at least half dozen
campaigners able to give an argument
| in almost any kind of tournament
They were the two Britons, Cyril Tolley
and T. Phillip Perkins, who have won
their own country's national amateur
titles; Chick Evans and Johnny Leh-
man of Chicago, who battled to dead
lock with lat totals for the medal IN
| the 36-hole qualifying round; Keefe
Carter of Oklahoma City, former cham
| from Des Moines, Iowa, who already
has captured two transmississippi cham
pionships in succession.
From the standpoint Of real threats,
it was probably the fastest field In the
tournaments SO years of play.
Moe, spared the task of qualifying
faced an experienced golfer as his first
rival in Vince Huntington of Chicago,
who breezed into the qualifying bracket
yesterday with 155 total. Moe ranked
a big favorite naturally, but his game
has been slightly off color siiace his re-
turn from the Walker Cup wars in Eng
land, and Huntington expected to stop
his march before he got started.
Lehman, former Big Ten champion,
drew Lloyd Nordstrom of Davenport,
Iowa, the dark horse" who topped the
field with a 70 at the end of the first
l8-hole qualifying round, while Perkins
faced Fred Lyon of Pontiac, ILL.,, West
ern junior champion.
Evans Tolley, McCrary and Carter
were located in the lower and harder
bracket and faced tough matches from
the outset. Tolley was paired against
Ben Goodwin of st. Louis, player apt
to set a course record one day and take
an "a the next; Evans was challenged
by Dick Martin of Chicago, the be-
speckled Big Ten title holder; Carter
faced Art Sweet, the golflng reporter
from Chicago, who reached the semi
finals last year at Kansas City, while
McCrary had AL Huska, the long driv-
ing amateur of Chicago, who qualified
with an 158 yesterday despite an out
rageous 10 on the final, par 5, hole.
AS the championship drive opened
via the match-play route today only
two of the many favorites for the title
were absent despite the heavy toll OF
strokes taken by the rugged champion
ship course. They were Larry Moller
Notre Dame sophomore, who reached
| the finals in the recent national inter-
collegiate championship at Oakmont
and Gibson Dunlap of Los Angeles, for
mer Pacific Coast collegiate champion
Moller and Dunlap fell afoul the bunk
erS and traps yesterday and withdrew.
Evans comeback still was the topic
of much discussion around the golf
yard today. His clubs, ineffective since
he captured his twelfth major golf
championship in 1923, suddenly yielded
to his artistry yesterday and he added
a sparkling 70, one over par, to his pre-.
vious total of rs to tie Lehman for the
medal He putted well, and looked TO
be on his game once again.
Today's elimination program called
for two Battle-Ground matches after
which the battle of the fittest will enter
36-hole matches until the champion
ship final Saturday.