Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1926, Page 21

SIX DISTRICT PLAYING IN LINKSMEN TITLE EVENT Voigt and MacKenzie, Though, Carry Main Hopes of Washington—aAll Capitalites Score Low in Practice Rounds at Baltusrol. BY W. R. McCALLUM. Facing the same field he has conquered f September 13.— the past two years, Robert Tyre Jones, jr., of Atlanta set out early today in defense BALTL’;RU[, COUNTRY CLUB, Short Hills, N. I.. of his national amateur golf championship. ment no other amateur has cver at His goal is an achieve- tained. He alsg has a triple goal to achieve in the championship, which started with the first half of the 36-hole qualifying round. If he win s this title chase he will be the first golfer ever to annex the American amateur championship threc years in a row and the first ever to hold the American and British open titles at the same time as the amateur. Jones was one of 151 crack amateur golfers who undertook the task of beat- Ing the tortuous fairways and hidden intricacies of this difficult course. The 18 holes today and me rdute tomorrow, with 32 men to qualify for the match play rounds beginning Wednesday morning. The United States Golf Association, s its experiment at as embarked upon ar and has sched- uled two 18-hole match play rounds for Wednesday. And match play rounds have not been played for a decade in the amateur title JONES IS FAVORED a new fleld this TO WIN THIRD TIME| SHORT HILLS, N. J. September 13 (®).—Notwithstanding the threat of a dangerous field, &obby Jones is the favorite to win the national amateur golf title again in the tournament starting today on the Baltusrol course and ending next Saturday. He s trying to win the champion- ship for the third consecutive time, something that never has heen done. No titleholder ever began a cham- plonship event under more favorable auspices. Jones already has won the British and Ameri open titles this year, and has b 12 the great- est golf of his career. Today's play is the first half of a | 36-hole medal play, test which will | produce 32 men for ma . Big cen holes will be playe row. On Wednesday there will be two rounds of match play at 18 holes After that matches will be played at 36 holes. nty-five pairs wer © the first tee in five- | s today, beginning at | 7:30 a.m. standard time, and conclud ing at 2:45 i The time selected for Jones to start was 10:30 a.m. He was paired with D. Clarke Corkran of Philadelphia, hol- der of the low record for 36-hole quali- fication in the national amateur tourn- aament. Cockran made this record— 142—at Marfon two years ago, then lost to Jones. Playing over the course vesterda in practice, Chick I 70. Jones had a 69 Ixperts it today that com petitors at 1 must break 80 twice in_order to qualify The card of this cour: Hole. Yards. Par. H 1.... 4 10 | Included -in the list of starters to- | day were six Washington men, all of whom have a chance to qualify in the field gathered here. Roland R. Mac- Kenzie and George J. Voigt, represent- ! ing Columbia and Bannockburn, stand | out as the two most likely qualifiers | from the Capltal City. They both ployed the course in practice yester- day along with most of the other en- trants. Page Hufty of Congressional, A. 1. Houghton of Manor, Miller B. Stevinson of Columbia and Silas M. | Newton of Burning Tree are the other ‘Washingtof entrants. MacKenzie, Voigt and Stevinson have been here since Thursday prac- ticing. All the Washington entrants have scored well in their practice |rounds, but have concentrated on familiarizing themselves with the rather than the attainment of low scores. Jones, kingpin of American ama- teurs for two vears, and unofficially ranked as the leading golfer of the world, is a prohibitive favorite. Odds as much as 3 to 1 are being offered on the titleholder with few takers. Jones has beaten the same fleld with- out effort two years in a row and, with the improved game he showed in | ingland and at Columbus, no man is bold enough to say he cannot win |again. He has been scoring low in his practice rounds here. His only possible chance of defeat seems the twin 18-hole medal play rounds, with some one setting a hot pace against him over the abbreviated route. At 36 holes Jones has been proved practically unbeatable. Cer- tainly no amateur in this field can match shots with him over the double route the ANDY PEPPE RMINT FLAVOR c‘}qfier Every Meal i - THE EVENING EVANS' AMBITION IS TO MEET JONES! By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 13.—Chick Evans, wizard of the golf course of | other yvears, is anxious to meet Bobby | Jones, reigning magician of the links, once more in match play between now and Saturday, he told a reporter for the Herald and Examiner at Short Hills, N. J., scene of the na- tional amateur tourney. “I want to play Bobby,” said the Chicagoan, many times Western and twice national amateur champion, “because this year he's shooting at the last record that I hold in golf. If he wins the national amateur and the national open in the same year he's even-up with my mark for 1916. I don’t envy him all the glory that he can get, but at the same time I'd like to have the pairings so work out that he’d have a chance to get past me before he tied my record.” In all his golfing days Evans has played Jones just once—in an ama- teur champlonship for the Western title at Memphis in 1920. Evans won that one, 1 up, in a heartbreaking finish. “I'd like to meet Bobby just once more,” Evans repeated to meet him this year. Next year it may be too late. I don't suppose there are any of us that can beat him, but I'd like to have a chance to_try.” Evans is entering the national ama- teur with a new spirit, due to the lifting ,of some, althought not all of the flnanclal worries that have harassed him recently. GORE IN VET NET EVENT. Capt. A. J. Gore will be Washing- ton’s only entrant in the national vet- erans’ singles tennis play which will be held this week along with the na- tional singles at Forest Hills, Long Island. NEW YORKER WINS RUN. ST. LOUIS, ~September 18 UP).— Frank Titterton of the Millrose Ath- letlo Club, New York, won the na- tional A. A. U. 15-mile run here in the stadium of the Greater St. Louls | exposition. His time was 1:32:54. | | With a 78 Byrne Curtiss captured | the Tombstone tournament yesterday | at Beaver Dam. Thomas C. Smith, | W. W. Curtiss, G. H. Stoddard and J. . Keefer_each with 96 tled for sec- ond and W. C. McPherson with 99 | was third. Mrs. W. C. McPherson von the special prizes for women. | | “and I'd like | 3 STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. 'LONG MATCHES RESULT IN INDIAN SPRING GOLF an 84, won low gross in the qualifying rounds, with Fred Whalen and l N the Indian Spring Golf Club tournament yesterday Basil Manly, with Dr. E. R. Tilley tied with 86s for the second place. B. S. Embry, with a handicap of 20, won the low net score of 73. Extra-hole matches featured yes- terday. There were three flights of 16 players competing for the men's championship. In the championship flight Fred Whalen carried P. C. Knox to the twenty-first hole. In the second flight A. Y. Bradley and E. T. R Cummins staged a 21-hole duel and in the third flight Wilson Barrett forced Joseph Sherrier to the nine- teenth hole to eliminate him. James Harding with a low net score of 78 beat Michael O'Brien with 79, in a “rebel” tournament participated in by 20 players who falled to qualify W. D. 98. Finals of match play in the tourna. ment are carded for next Sunday following the second round set for Saturday. The club's woman tournament will | open Thursday with a qualifying round of 18 holes with the match play on Friday, Saturday and Sun- Y. Caddles of the Indian Spring Club were to meet today in their annual medal play tournament. Yesterday's match play follow: results FIRST FLIGHT. Basll Manly, defeated Col. H. A. Knox. and4; Tom. Moore defeated R. S. Stuntz. $"and 2: R, W. Diegs defeated C; H, Pardos. % "¥red Walen defeated P. C. Kn : B. 8. Emb{i’ defeated R. Geo rfie Holmes defeated utnam, uJ Willlam Williams defeated . Brownell, 2 and 1: Dr. E. i 6d K. S. Pope. 6 and 5. SECOND FLIGHT. 3. Mulroy defented J. F. McCormack G e 2 e Diekett defeated Campbell. 4 an “*H" Ducket, de rvmflmpgvmlow S and 1: C; M, ;1!'5"&» e foover. 3 Gofoated B H: Heltmuller e . R. Tilley de- Folsom won low gross with R Steele defeated R. E. Read. 3 and 2: A,n\. 'y defeated E. T. Cummins, 1 up in 21: “Batson defeated L. B. Chapman, 2 up. THIRD FLIGHT. G. W. MacWhorter defeated Jules Hender- 3 and 4: Joseph Sherriel feated W. Barrett, 1 up in 19: J. M. Porter defeated . A, Hauser, 5 and Von Steiner de- feated E. M. Newton, 2 W. L. Heap defeated G e, Fu!e? 1 up! Lea Stabler defeated A. G. Nichols. 4 and 3: C. D. Coun- ¢l defeated W. T. Peake 6 and 5: W. D. Haines defeated F. C. Clark, 1 up. 3 engaged _in Twenty-nine players to match | qualifying rounds prior | play. The leaders follow: anly. 84: E. R. Tilles. 86: R. Les.- V. Browneil, 80: Tom R ROW. D | Gl Putnam, ope. 97:_E. Heitmu Jackson, Mish. 109 3 G. Faircloth, 115 man, 118, Defeating Dr. Fisher in the’ final round yesterday, 5 and 3, Howard Nordlinger gained the Town and Country Club championship for the season. Nordlinger reached the final by defeating Nathan Frank, 1 up. Dr. Fisher defeated Daniel Sherly, 4 and 3. Qualifying rounds for Argyle Coun- try Club title, scheduled to begin yes- terday were postponed until next Sat- urday, the first round of match com- ;{ld ion to get under way Sunday. The next miniature tournament of the District Women'’s Golf Association will be held ptember 20 at Belle Haven Country Club. There will be six holes of qualifying and four flights of match play. MONDAY, SEPTEMB D- | relinquish the title. 13, 1926. TILDEN WILL PLAY DESPITE BAD KNEE | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 13.—Wil- liam T. Tilden is in quest of his sev- enth natlonal tennis title this week. The elongated Philadelphian first as- cended the tennis heights in 1920 and it his mastery holds through the an- nual tournament starting today he will have equalled the record of Rich- ard Sears and Willlam Larned. In the season leading up to the present tournament Tilden has suf- fered seven defeats from four play- ers. Three of these four, Rene La- coste, Vincent Richards and Alfred H. Chapin, jr.. are included in the lists this week. The fourth, Jean Borotra of France, was forced to de- fault because of business demands. , The champlon goes to battle under the handicap of a wrenched knee, an old injury which returned in the final ! | Davis cup match Saturday, when he was conquered by Lacoste. Neverthe- less he has chosen to go down fight- ing if it is in the fates that he must “I'd rather be eaten in the first round,” he said, ‘than default my title. Il be in there playing as long as I am able to_stand.” Richards with three victories over Tilden this season is generally regard- ed as the player lkely to give the titleholder the most trouble. Others among the leading contenders are La- coste, Richard N. Willlams, William M. Johnston, Manuel Alonso and Takeichi Harada. Feature matches at Forest Hills to- day brought together S. Howard Vo- shell and Watson M. Washburn and Henri Cochet and W. W. 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