The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-23
TOMMY WRIGHT POSTS 132 FOR
 ATLANTA TEST
Sets New Course Record of GA; Montague, Mystery
 Man" Misses
By LESLIE AVERY

0y hESLAE AVER1 United Press Staff Correspondent)
 New York, May 23-(UP)-There will be lot of familiar names miss ing when the boys begin shooting for the National Open Golf cham pionship at Philadelphia, June 8, g, and 10.
 Among them will be greats like Walter Hagen, open champ in 1914 and 1919: Chick Evans, Jr, winner in 1916; and two real old- timers like George Sargent, 1909 champion, and Freddie Mcleod, who won the title in 1908; and John Montague, Hol- lywood's mystery man. These, and many more failed to qualify for the 43rd annual championship in sec tional 36-hole rounds yesterday.
 The 171-man field was completed except for three places-at Birm- ingham, Ala, where rain forced postponement until today.
 Tommy Wright, unknown Knox vile, Tenn, paced the qualifying with 68-64-132, eight strokes under par, for the East Lake course at Atlanta. His last round GA was a new competitive course record and his 36-hole total was only stroke of the record held jointly by Bobby Jones and Charley Yates. Clayton Heather, Charlote, N. C., pro, posted 137, seven strokes of par over his home course at Charlotte. Sammy Snead, leading money winner of 1888, led the Washington, D. c. dis trict with 139, which left him tied for third place with two other Charlote QualifierS, Walter Rev. holds of Rockhill, s. C., and George Slingervield of Greensboro, N. c. Floppo!
 John Montague tried to qualify at Chicago where 12 pjlaceS were available for 112 entrants, and fiz- zled out miserably. Drawing the major part of a huge gallery, he cracked wide open after nine holes and finished the first IS with an 81. He had a 39 going out on the second round, and maintained about the same pace coming home until the 18th green where he picked up his ball and silently marched to the club house. If he had dropped his putt he would have had an 83 and an aggregate 164-not good enough by nine strokes.
 Also at Chicago Evans, Jock Hutchinson, ST., and Jr., failed to qualify.
 New York, where Lloyd Mangrum of Los Angeles paced 119 hopefuls for 16 places with his card of 68-72 -140, was the sector where big names dropped like duck pins.
 Turnesas Fail
 They included Bob Sweeny, 1887 British Amateur champion; Jesse w. Sweetser, former National Anna teur Amateur champ; Frank Stra- faci, Metropolitan Open champion; William Klein, Henry Ciuci, T. Suf- fern Taller, and the TurneSa broth CTS, Joe, Mike and Phil. Jim Nich- ols, the great one-armed star, also failed.
 Hagen was not the only casualty at Philadelphia where l46 played 4CI 10 pldCSo. " IOOh Ao1 tO QudIAy and the "Haig" missed out by two strokes as did Joe Kirkwood. Gene Kunes scared to 158.
 Five other titleholders qualified. Tony Manero, 1886 winner, took the fifth and last place in the New Eng land section, and Billy Burke, the 1881 champion, was the last of five qualifiers at Cleveland. Sam Parks, Johnny Goodman and Johnny Far rell made the grade easily in their respective rounds at Pittsburgh, Omaha and New York.
 Majority of the qualifying scores ranged between 140 and 150, but they were highest at Winchester, Mass, where Jim Turnesa and Tom Mahan paced the field with 150's and Tony Manero qualified with the biggest total in the nation-157. The only other 157 to win a place was carded by Beverly c. Majors, Baton Rouge, La. amateur, who took the second berth at New Or leans after Fred Haas, Jr., was forced to retire because of an in- jured back.