Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-11
Chapman's 5-Siroke
Edge as Meda|ist
Thought Record
Takes So Puts on IS
Holes; a Ex-Chomps
Fail to Make Grade
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports writer
MAMARONECK, N. Y, Sept. II.
The qualifying scramble ended, "a
earnest young golfers from the cities
and from the forks of the creek
paired off at Winged Foot Club to-
day in two sudden death" rounds
of match play in the National Anna
teur championship
In the last two days the field of
hopefuls had been reduced from a
cumbersome 146. At dusk tonight
there were due to be only Is left to
carry on the cut-throat competition.
They go fast in the amateur.
Gone were such notables as john
ny Goodman, George Dunlap, jr.,
Chick Evans and Francis Ouimet-
all former champions. Gone also
was young John Cree of Hamburg,
N. Y, who shot a sparkling II on
his first qualifying round and then
scared to a remarkable 81 on his
second try. He used up nine strokes
on one hole, the 18th.
All Eyes on Chapman.
Dick Chapman of Winged Foot
was the one they all were watch
ing as he teed off in his first test
today. Dick, a night club crooner
during the off season, shot two sub
par rounds of 71-69 to capture
medal honors by what apparently
was a record margin. His two-day
total was five strokes better than
the Ass registered by Marvin Ward
of Spokane, Wash, the defending
champion, and by Duff Mccullough
of Philadelphia
Next best margin appeared to be
the four strokes by which Bobby
Jones distanced his amateur rivals
in 1926. Still, Chapman lacked a
stroke of equaling the qualifying
record of 139 set last year by Tom
Sheehan.
Scores of 155 or better qualified
all except the 155 shot by Tommy
Barnes of Atlanta. There were eight
at that figure, and in the knock
out competition for seven places just
before dark Barnes got mixed up in
the rough and took a six. 1t was
fatal
Four players tied at 146 for the
two rounds-George Dawson of Chi
cago; Maurice Mccarthy, jr., OF
Cincinnati. who led at the end
of the first round; Tom Whiteway
of Cleveland and Harold Mandy of
Avon, Conn. Frank Strafaci of
Brooklyn, Freddie Haas Of New
Orleans and Steve Kovach of Pitts
burgh were tied at lat. Bob Clark
of st. Paul, the national public links
champion, failed to qualify with
his 164.
Chapman Hot With Putter.
Bing Crosby missed the train, too,
with his 83-77, much to the dis
appointment of the Tournament
Committee and an adoring gallery,
but he made a commendable come
back.
The secret of Chapmans success
in the last two days lay largely in
his putting. He took only So puts
on SO green's, or IA less than the
SQoOOIAd1S dNEldSC Va bNO " lAAC
carpet. Ward, on the other hand,
had had very little success knocking
them in up to this point. and OBJ
servers thought he still appeared
the man to beat. A couple of well
known professionals, who preferred
to remain nameless. said they
thought it lay between Ward and
MILFORD Wehrle of Chicago, who
had a two-day score Of $50.
Chapman faced very tough COM
petition in the first round from Neil
White of Culver City, Calf. the
current Southern amateur cham
pion Ward figured not to have
much difficulty with 54-year-old
Ellis Knowles of Rye, NY. McC-ll-
Tough faced Henry Fabian of Steu-
benville, Ohio, while Wehrle met
Toby Lyons of Cambridge Springs,
Pa.
In the upper half of the draw
were such stalwartS as Chapman,
while Bill Holt, Mccarthy, Strafaci,
Art Doering, Bobby Dunkelberger.
Scotty Campbell, Ed Meister and
Dawson.
The lower half was loaded with
players like Ward, Jess Sweetser,
Haas, Ray Billows, Gus Moreland,
Willie Turnesa and Johnny Fischer,
to name only few.