Evening star., 1932-09-12
FISCHER, WITH So,
LEADS AMATEUR
Intercollegiate Champion
Gets Five Brides in Par.
Shattering Round.
Ey the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, September 12.-Johnny
Fischer of Fort Thomas, KY, inter-
collegiate champion from the University
of Michigan, today shot into the lead
in the first round of the United States
amateur golf championship qualifying
test with SO, one under par
Fischer, a tremendous clouter and
fine all~around shotwaker, had five
brides on his round over the Five
Farms course of the Baltimore Country
Club. He climaxed his great trip by
holing 15-foot putt for birdie on
the eighteenth green to take the de-
cision from old man par and the lead
from Charley Yates, 19-year-old Georgia
Tech sophomore, who had posted 70.
Among the early starters in the field
of more than $50 players Johnny Rob-
bins of Portland. Greg. furnished an
other surprise by shooting fine "a.
Yates had brides on the second. fifth
and sixth holes. getting down 40-foot
putt for 4 on the difficult 459-yard
sixth, which was proving a Waterloo"
for other contenders. Yates made his
fourth and eighth greens.
He was hitting his iron shots beauti-
fully, using the wood only once for a
second shot As result of fine ap-
proaches. he needed to get down puts
of only 8 and feet, respectively, for
his brides on the second and fifth.
Gets Into Trouble.
Yates was not quite so steady coming
ho rk 10 1Ncr CIV and
eleventh, where he got into the rough,
and put his second into the woods on
the long fourteenth. He fired a beau
tiful iron shot to the fifteenth to get
par 4 on this difficult 425-yard hole,
and his putt for birdie on the seven
teenth from 80 feet trimmed the cup.
The defending champion. Francis
Ouimet, was paired with his Walker
Cup British rival, Tony Torrance. in
the qualifying play.
Knapp of Baltimore, former State
champion, and G. Wolcott Brown, New
Jersey star.
Right behind them we're George T.
Dunlap, jr., of New York, youthful
Walker Cup star, and R. Emmett Spi-
Ger, jr. of Memphis, twice holder of the
Southern amateur championship.
Spicer dropped a stroke by driving
into the rought on the first hole, but
settled down quickly. He started s.
54. while Dunlap. who fired two
beautiful shots to the 424-yard first
green, got under way with 4-5-4.
virginian Has Difficulty.
Chandler Harper of Virginia Beach,
Virginia open champion, encountered
trouble on the second hole and wound
up with T. He had pars on the
first and third holes.
Knapp and Brown reached the turn
in 80 and 40, respectively, compared
with the elusive par Of 35.
Dunlap and Spicer each posted 38
for the first nine. the latter getting a
deuce on the 1853 yard fourth hole.
Harper. who qualified hardly year
ago with his rival Virginian, Billy
Howell. skidded into a nine on the 500
yard sixth hole, where he got of the
line trying to negotiate the dogleg.
Gene Vinson of Meridian, Miss, shot
the outgoing nine in a snappy 36. HIS
companion. Johnny Robbins, was 81 TO
the turn, despite seven on the tough
sixth hole.
Ouimet and Torrance picked up the
battle where they left oil. ah square,
in the Walker Cup matches at Brook
line a fortnight ago
Ouimet just missed So-foot ontt
for birdie on the first hole. where
Torrance was trapped and took a S.
The veteran American then drove out
of bounds on the second hole and took
7 on this 433-yard layout. Tor
rance got his par despite being par
TALLY stymied by tree on his second
shot.
Ouimet came back with a par 4 on
the third to Torrance's S, the Briton
again finding a trap Ouimet just
missed holding a 25-footer for deuce
on the short fourth. His was matched
by Torrance Both took SIS on the fifth
hole, Francis 3-putting after Tony
topped his drive and sliced his second
into the rough.
Ouimet sank 25-footer on the long
sixth for birdie and played the next
three holes in par figures to reach the
turn in 3s. as compared with Tor
RANGES 40
Scores for the first .1s-hole round
follow:
Alex NJ: Knapp. Baltimors. ss--ss-7s
! 5s1Mn sDIcsr clsmenMt1n MsmIS,, 40 som4s
&C, T. Dunlap. jr.. Garden City. N Y.
Charles Yates, Atlanta. Ga. 3+38-72.
o. Johnny Robbins, Portland oreg. 81
Gene Vinson. Meridian. Miss. 3s-4o-7s.
G. D. McHugh. Chestnut Hill. Pa. 50
Robert M. Grant, weathersfeld. Conn,
Chandler Harper, Virginia Beach. Va,
Ben h Cowdery. Omaha, Nebr, 37-42-7e
-7s As' B. Sweet norwood Park H. 40-ss
r. A. Jones, jr. White Plains, N Y. Al
Sam Perry. Birmingham. Ala. 42-42-s4
Johnny Fischer, Fort Thomas, KY,
Frank Folp, Portland. ores.. 37-39-7s.
w. c. Chaplin, Rochester. N. Y. 37-39-76.
j. 8. Manon; St Louis. MO. 39-38-77:
H. NJ Eichelberger, jr. Los Angeles, Calf.
E. ". Homans. Englewood. N. j.. 42-3s-So.
Francis I. Brown. Honolulu 4l-35-76.
T. S. Taller, jr.. Newport, R. l., 39-l-80.
Carl Cramer, Wilkes-Barre. Pa, 39-37-76.
e. j. Rogers, Oklahoma City, Okla. So
c. j. NJ Tolley. England. 3s-36t74.
H. H. Newton, Long Beach. N. Y, SIS
41--76.
Harry G. Pitt. Norbeck Md. 40-43-s3
Max r. Marston, Haverford, Pa, 80
.oJ. Wood rlatt' Newton Square Pa, IL
Stuart Hawley. jr, Oakland, Calf. a.
39-8l.