Evening star., 1940-07-23
70 GET Par Or Better
On Detroit Course
In Blazing Round
Mad Scramble for Team
Honors; D. c. Golfers
Are Far OFF Leud
BY GEORGE STAUTER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

DETROIT. July 2S.-A wide.open
fight for medalist honors-with the
possibility of a new low scoring
was in prospect today as a field of
100 golfers teed of for the final
18-hole qualifying round of the
national public links tournament.
There was every indication a
score of l48 or better would be
needed to gain one of the "a qualify
ing berths for match play begin
ming tomorrow and that one of the
six co-leaders would hang up a new
medal mark.
So great was the beating par took
yesterday from the pick of the
Nations pay-as-you-go golfers that
nearly three-score entrants stroked
their way around the long Rackham
municipal course in 73 or under.
Only one of five ex-champions-
Charles Ferrera of San Francisco
was able to keep up with the leaders,
so hot was the pace set beneath
yesterdays blazing sun.
Six Are 2 Under Par.
Ferrera. a 35-year-old structural
steel worker who won the 1881 and
1888 championships, posted a 2
under-par So along with five others
after making the transcontinental
AUNT at his own expense when he
u by one stroke to gain a place
his city's public links team.
Bracketed with him were Fred
Hill, Worcester, Mass. salesman:
Adrian French, unemployed Hunt.
ington Park, Calf, craftsman:
Charles Harter. Indianapolis meat
packer: Worth Stimits, jr., Of
Colorado Springs, Colo, Rocky
Mountain intercollegiate champion,
and 20-year-old Luke Barnes, just
out of Atlanta High School and one
of last years four co-medalists.
One stroke back with 70s were
Robert Price. 40-year-old Oklahoma
City coffee shop operator; Edward
j. Furgol. Utica, N. Y, metal
polisher. and Donald Smith Of st.
Joseph. Mo.
Eleven equaled par of II while
II were deadlocked at u and 20
others were tied at 73.
Szwedko Has Little TO Spare.
Carl F. Kaufman of Pittsburgh,
only three time winner of the title
who returned to tournament COM
petition after a three-year alb
sence because of i'll health, was
among those who shot u.
Defending Champion Andy Szwed-
ko, also of Pittsburgh, and David
A, Mitchell of Atlanta, 1894 title
holder, had 74s and little to
spare. All but out of the running
was AL Leach, Cleveland, the 1898
winner. whose hopes were blasted
by a II.
A repeat performance by any one
Of the six co-leaders would mean
a new qualifying record. The pres
ent mark of 139 was made by George
Aulbach, Boston, in the first tourna-
ment in 1922 at Toledo, Ohio, and
equaled in 1887 by Don Erickson
of Alhambra, Calf, at San Fran
cisco.
A scramble for team honors also
was promised. Oklahoma City and
Pittsburgh finished with 2l7. a
stroke better than San Francisco,
Chicago and Honolulu. Dayton had
220 and Atlanta and Louisville 221
each. Los Angeles, defending cham
pion, was in three-way tie for
14tn place with 224.
District Entrants Far Back.
Andy Oliveri, with a 38-37-75,
appeared the sole Washington golfer
with a chance to reach match play.
Others scorers from the National
Capital were Bobby Morris, 37-41-
10; John Jankowski, $685., and
Kenneth Zent. 42--42-84.
The Harding Cup team of Zent.
Oliveri and Jankowski, with 240, is
far OF the lead.