The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-28
Chandler Hurls Yanks To so Win Over Mats
Tops Qualifying
NATIONAL Open
Former Amateur Champion
Cards 1874 To Lead Field OF
LOO; Hogan Fails In Test
3y HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR.


BY HUGH S. FULLERTON. JR.
NEW YORK, May 27.-R-Wil-
liam Lawson Little, Jr., former
"grand-slam' amateur golf cham
pion of the United States and
Great Britain, came into his own
as a professional today as 1879
hardy survivors in a field of more
than LOO earned starting places
in the 1910 National Open golf
championship.
Professional golf has been a
long, hard grind for Little, whose
specially as an amateur was match
rather than medal play. Today he
proved he belongs when he led
the entire field in the rs sectional
qualifying tests for the Open with
an amazing 36-hole score of 1874.
1t was probably the greatest feat
he has turned in as a pro, for his
winnings so far have been limited
to a couple of tournaments on the
winter tours.
Little put together rounds of IS
and 50 owe the difficult No. 4
and No. l courses at Chicago's
Olympia fields club to show the
way for the largest field to at
tempt to qualify in any of the 25
districts. His IS was a course rec
ord and he cut eight strokes off
par for the two rounds. He was
three strokes better than the next
best scorers among the 1,132 start
ers. Leonard Dodson, who led the
Kansas City district qualifiers,
shot 6S-69-137. Lloyd Mangrum,
second at Chicago, and Lewis E.
Worsham, leader at Washington,
D. c., shot 1855.
Little's feat was all the more re-
markable when it is considered that
some of golfing's famous figures
failed to make the grade at all.
With the field for the Open at
Cleveland, June 6-S, limited to ITO
and with 81 players exempted from
the sectional qualifying, only 1879
places were left to be decided to-
day.
Among those who failed to qualify
were Ben Hogan, sensation of the
winter tour, who earned only an
~alternate's berth in the big
New York district where AL Brosch
led the way with 14o. Hogan was
just ten strokes behind. Willie
MacFarlane, 1925 Open champion,
Willie Turnesa, 1888 amateur cham
pion, and Ray Billows, last years
amateur runner-up, also missed out
in New York.
Chick Evans, Open and anna.
teur champion in 1916, and Jock
Hutchinson, ST., British Open cham
plon in 1921, were among the prom
lnent players who missed out at
Chicago. Others included AL krue-
ger, Bill Mehlhorn and Amateur
Art Doering. Incidentally, Jock
Hutchinson, Jr., made the grade.
Billy Burke, winner of the Open in
1881, failed to get by at Cleveland,
another big district, but two of golf's
grand old men were successful.
Gene Sarazen, who had to play
through for the first time since 1920,
and Walter Hagen both shot credit.
able scores. Johnny Goodman, Tony
Manero, Johnny Farrell and Sam
Parks, Jr,, all former Open winners,
qualified easily. Goodman, also a
former amateur champion, was five
under par with a 139 at Omaha.
Two of Argentina's three-man dele.
cation, Martin Pose and Aureli Cas-
tanon came through with 145 scores
at New York but Enrique Bertolino
missed out. At Chicago Jim Ferrier,
Open and Amateur champion of Aus
tralia, came in with the same score.
at Chicago.
Exempted from today's sectional
tests because they placed in the low
30 at last years Open were Cham
pion Byron Nelson, Craig Wood. who
lost to him in a title playoff; 41arvin
(Bud) Ward, 1889 Amateur cham
pion; Sam Snead, John Bulla, Ralph
Guldahl, Dick Metz, KY Laffoon, Jug
McSpaden, Paul Runyan, Harry
Cooper, Ed Dudley, Henry Picard,
Horton Smith, Sam Byrd, Olin Dutra,
Clayton Heather, Amateur MILFORD
Wehrle, Jimmy Hines, John E.
Rogers, Tommy Armour, Jimmy De-
maret, Johnny Revolta, B b y
Cruickshank, Jim Fouls, E. J.
(Dutch) Harrison, Mat Kowal,
Victor Ghezzi, Ed Oliver and Felix
Serafin. Waldo Crowder, the pro at
Cleveland's Canterbury club where
the big tournament will be played,
also was exempt.
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