Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-02
ALL D. c. ENTRANTS
FALL BY WAYS|DE'
voigt and Mccarthy Qualify.
Howell Shows Class in
National Debut.
BY w. Il. McCALLUM.


~HICAGO, September at
may sound rash to make a
~ prediction so early in the
game, when four more days
of match play competition stretch
out before some gent reaches out
to take Bobby Jones amateur golf
championship, but inasmuch as
the championship must go some
where it looks as If it will go West.
Judged from the way the Eastern
delegates to this convention OF.
divot diggers have been collecting
generous amounts of strokes, and
the niggardly and tight-fisted
fashion the Western boys have
been saving them, it looks as if
the West has the Indian sign on
this championship.
Our personal choice to win is Charlie
Seaver, the big blond lad from Califor-
mia, who ran down sloping 5-foot putt
yesterday to tie for the medal at 14S
with Johnny Lehman of Chicago, last
years Western amateur champ, and
Ducky Yates, the roly-poly ex-foot ball
star from Princeton. But so many
funny things have been happening in a
golf way out here in the great open
spaces that some guy who has never
been heard of in national golf may cop
the title. Perhaps it will be Gus More
land the impassive youngster from
Ii III, - -
medal yesterday with a bad finish.
Perhaps it will be some other gent who
never has been heard CT In big way
in the East.
Our second choice is Lehman, the
lad who so far is the only one who has
broken par en- the Beverly Country
Club layout Lehman shot himself
10 yesterday to post the first two-day
total of l48. Later in the day Ducky
! Yates came in to tie and then Charlie
Seaver came home with another tieing
148, and those three will have a merry
time of it next Sunday in the play-off
for the medal. Last night there was
another and grimmer kind of play-off
| at Beverly, where IA gents of varying
degrees of golfing skill moved out at
dusk to play for i've places. Last year
there were eight at Merton, but Chi
cago does things in a big way and they
stretched the play-off to IA men. some
of whom went three holes to finish in
the dark long after respectable din
ner hour.
ONLY one eX-champion is out there
| ~ battling with the group of kids
who qualified yesterday. That is
Francis Ouimet, the lone survivor of
the old guard who qualified where four
other eX-champions failed. Chick Evans.
Max Marston, Phil Perkins, Cyril Tolley
| and all the Washington contingent
failed. Francis was in fairly soft spot
as the first round opened today. paired
| the half OF the draw with George Voigt
and may go a long way. Up there in
| the top half Of the draw is Billy Howell
| the Middle Atlantic champion, who
/ qualified in his first attempt at the
amateur, and Gus Moreland the Texas
! lad; SO is George Voigt Down in the
bottom half the feature match of the
frst round should come in the struggle
between c. Ross, Somerville. the Ca
madam champion. and Gene Romans
runner-up last year to Jones' The bot
/ tom half looks little stronger than
the top half. In there are Seaver.
paired in the first round against Ducky
Yates. Maurice Mccarthy and Russell
Martin, and Fay Coleman of California.
one OF the gents who won a place on
| play-of last night. Today is the black
Wednesday of the championship. There
VIII only be eight survivors at the close
OF today's twin 18-hole matches and
there may be an upset or two.
A LII the Washington entrants are out
\ of the golf tournament and SO far
out were they at the end of yester-
days hectic qualification round that
only miracle would have put any of
them in. They all played through a
thin rain which slowed up the already
slow Beverly fairways and made the
work around the greens none too easy.
Roland Mackenzie of Columbia added a
sloppy 81 to his 7s Of the first day for
a total OF ISL. John c. Shorey of Ken
wood put on fighting finish to close
the qualification round with final card
of II and total of 163 Tommy Bones
of Columbia scored just as he did on
the first day. finishing with an SO for
a total of 172. For Shorey and Bones
this tournament was their first trip to
the big time and neither of them en-
tirely recovered from the thought that
they had to shoot lot of brides t.
qualify.
Mackenzie lost his putting touch COM
pletely yesterday. Needing a 70 to
qualify, he started with brace of IS
at the first two holes, and then buckled
down to steady golf to finish the first
nine with a 40. But he booted shot
away at each of the next two holes and
wound up his chance by taking on
the fairly easy par 4 fourteenth hole
Here he sliced to a bunker, found the
ball buried in wet sand and wound up
by 3 putting the green. He ended with
a buzzard for an 81 and total Of 161
CHOREY really put on quite a burst
- of speed over the last nine holes
yesterday. He chung closely to PAL
for the first four holes, went one over
at the fifth, took on the long seventh
and ended the ninth with 5 for 40
Then he holed a 15-footer for a bird
at the tenth, took a buZZard 6 on the
long eleventh, picked up bird at the
thirteenth and stood on the fifteenth
tee needing par from there for "a
and IA. He took on that hare
fifteenth, on the fourteenth ane
finished with two pars for ST. II
and total Of 163
Tommy Bones. who never had q
chance to qualify after his opening
round on Monday, went out to shoo
the works yesterday. But the putt:
soon began slipping by the cup anC
when Tommy wound up with another
86 he had amassed no fewer than si1
3-putt green's. He scored A and AZ fol
his &c. His dad. who is here with him
took it philosophically and said 1t al