Evening star., 1940-07-24
FurgoI, New Yorker;
5timits, Colorado,
Tie With 1886
l49, Another Mark, High
In Test, CopitoI Man
Scoring in PIoyoff

In Test, CopitoI Man
Scoring in PIoyoff
DETROIT, July 24.-Sixty-four
of the Nations crack pay-as-you.
go golfers today got down to. the
business Of determining which one
of their number is to be the 1910
national public links champion.
They are the low scorers who sur.
vived two days of record-shatter-
ing golf and who set out in the
first round of match play that leads
to the title four days hence.
Few amateur tournaments in the
country's golfing annals ever ap-
preached the current one from q
competitive standpoint.
Andy Oliveri was Washington's
lone survivor. He was paired with
Labron Harris of Guthrie, Okla.
John Jankowski, Kenneth Zent
and Robert I. Morris, other members
of the District divot-digging delega-
ton, fell by the wayside in the
qualifying round and Oliveri got in
only via an extra hole playoff. jan
kowski carded 160: Zent, 1863, and
Morris, 159. Oliveri gained berth
after tying with several others
at 149.
Washington was twenty seventh
in Harding Cup team competition,
which was won by San Francisco.
The quartet took an aggregate Of
472 for the 36-hole route.
Beats Record by Stroke.
Out of the two-day 36-hole quail
flying test emerged these records:
l. The lowest qualifying mark
ever made In an event sponsored
by the United States Golf Asso-
citation.
2. The lowest score ever required
to qualify for amateur play.
Worth Stimits, jr.. a Colorado
College senior, and Edward J. Fur
gol of Utica, N. Y, hung up the
new qualifying mark-l38-one
stroke better than the former rec
ord made last year in the national
by Thomas Sheehan Of
Detroit.
Stimits, Rocky Mountain Con.
ference champion. and Furgol. a !
metal polisher, set the Rackham
course afire with their
subpar golf.
The Colorado collegian fired sue
cessive rounds Of SO, while Furgol,
who has been playing only four
years and whose left arm was in
jured In an auto accident, added
a 3-under-par So to a 70 of the
day before.
Their efforts bettered the former
public links qualifying record of 139
set by George Aulbach, Boston. in
1922 at Toledo, and equaled by Don
Ahambra, Calf, in 1887
at San Francisco. ..-I
149 Previous High.
The qualifying score of 149 or
better was equaled by Sc of the 100
but two-Samuel Alex
ander of Omaha, Nebr.. and Frank
Ogrin. jr., of Chicago-were elm
mated in an extra-hole play of
This was one stroke under the
former mark of $50 needed to quail
ify in 1883 and equalled then by only
half as many players.
Failing to meet the blistering pace
were two former champions, Charles
Ferrera, San Francisco structural
steel worker, and AL Leach of Cleve-
land.
Ferrera. 1881 and 1893 winner, one
Of the. six co-leaders at the half
way mark with a SO, scared to an 50
yesterday and a Isl total, while
Leach, 1898 champion, had 77-75-
l52.
Defending Champion Andy szwed-
ko Of Pittsburgh. David A. Mitch
ell, Atlanta, 1884 titleholder,, and
Carl Kaufman, also Of Pittsburgh
who won the crown in 1927, 1928
and 1929, kept in the running.
Kaufman carded q 72-73-145;
74-73-147, and Mitch
ell, 74-74-148.
Two Have 66 Rounds.
Matching Furgols round of SO,
lowest of the tournament thus far,
were Charles Lind of Denver and
Walter Gillian of San Mateo, Calf.
Lind, with II on the opening day,
tied the old qualifying mark and
took third place. Gilliam's 40 total
put him in a fourth-place tie with
Adrian French, unemployed Hunt
ingdon Park. Calf, craftsman. who
shot successive rounds Of SO and II.
In sixth place even with par,
with 72-70-142, was James john
son. Detroit insurance salesman.
San Francisco displaced Los
Angeles as team champion with a
36-hole aggregate of 1876 by William
Fritz, Einar Hanson and Edward
Castagnetto. Pittsburgh was second
with 437 and Chicago third with AZ.
Two 18-hole rounds today will
reduce the field to 16 by tonight
and two more rounds will cut 1t to
four tomorrow. Thirty-s holes will
be played by the semifinalists Friday
and the finalists Saturday.