The Pinehurst Outlook from Pinehurst, North Carolina • Page 1

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1 iimMiHntiiiiu.nmi.iuiHtntm.iiumiiuii.il. iiumiiiiuuiniiHuiiHiiHmiumii.iHHii.iiiin.n.Hi.iiii iiiiimimiHiHiiiimiiiimiHiiiimiMiiiiiiimiminm Amateur-Professional Best Ball Championship Harry Hampton and Jack Davison Win First Money Quaker Ridge Club Takes Club Trophy (By E. A. Denham) Boyd, of Fox Hills; John Golden, of Tuxedo, and a strong trio rom Washington comprising Freddie McLeod, Leo Diegel and Wilfrid Reid. Thursday, comprised the hardest going, as is indicated by the figures just given and more convincingly evidenced by the long string of figures, given in the summary at the end of this There was a lot of wind on that first day and although Hampton and Davison and the Atlantic City' team, Clarence Hackney and Tom Wootten, both disposed of the first round in 69 they the only two teams to cover the first 18 holes under 71.

In fact, these two teams, to- gether with the Quaker Ridge team, Johnnie Farrell and Harold Bloch, who finished in 71, and Emil Loeffler and Tom Morrison, of the Oakmont Club, who went around in 72, were the only ones to finish better than 73 on that first round. Bob Macdonald and Willie Hunter, who were perhaps the leading favorites at the start of the tour namenf and who eventually annexed the second honors and emoluments, finished some distance from the top, with a 74. Otherwise there might have been a different story to tell, for they outplayed Hampton and Davison by a total of two strokes jn the succeeding rounds, and fin-, ished the last 54 holes in 68-70-68, as compared with 72-68-68 for the winners. The second round, played on Thursday afternoon, was very much like the first, with only five teams finishing under 73 and with Macdonald nd Hunter as the only pair to break 70. Their 68 for the round brought them up into a tie for second place with Farrell and Bloch and these two teams were trailing Hampton and Davison by only a single stroke at the end of the day.

Hackney and Wooten, tied for the lead at 69, at the close of the morning round, took a 76 in the afternoon and finished the day with four teams ahead of V. I. THE third annual Amateur-Professional Best Ball Tournament, played on Thursday and Friday, November 16-17, and won by Harry Hampton, the Detroit pro, and his amateur partner, Jack Davison, of New York, attracted a strong and well balanced field of 72 players hailing from all parts of the country. Among the well known amateurs taking part in the proceedings were Willie Hunter, British title holder in 1921 Alex. (Sandy) Armour, who won the Scottish title in the same year Chris.

Dunphy, of Washington and Boston Guy M. Standi fer, of Washington and Portland, who had a hand, with Fred Mc-Leod in winning a leg on the Club Trophy last year for the Columbia Country Club; F. M. Laxton, of Charlotte, who has won the North and South Carolina title two years running Tom Wootten, of Atlantic City, and the trio of golfers who have been monopolizing the amateur tournament honors at Pinehurst so far this season, C. A.

Lohmann, E. L. Scofield and Donald Parson. The 36 professionals included, at least a dozen who have figured in the money in recent national tournaments. To name a few of the pro's at random and without reference to the order in which they and their amateur partners finished in the event under field included Emmet French, of Youngstown and Southern Pines, who chalked up a new world's record of 274 for 72 holes in the recent Ohio Open; Cyril Walker, of Englewood, who had a 67 on the championship course on the day preceding the tournament Harry Hampton, of Brook-lands Clarence Hackney, of Atlantic City Johnnie Farrell, of Quaker Ridge; Bob Macdonald, of the Bob-OtLink Club; Charlie Hoffner, of Philadelphia; Tom The interest taken in the Club Trophy contest, limited to pairs entered from the same club, was evidenced by the number and the quality of the teams that had a try for a leg on the trophy.

Four of the leading seven teams and eight of the first fifteen pairs, in the tournament proper, were composed of players registering from the same club. And there were nine more club teams among the twenty-one pairs who also ran. In other words, the club team idea has decidedly "caught on" and the club that eventually annexes a third and deciding leg on the Club Trophy will have won something to be proud of. Douglas Edgar and Perry Adair won a leg on the trophy for the Druid Hills Club in 1920, the first year this tournament was played, and Fred McLeod and Guy M. Standifer won the club team race last year.

This year the trophy passed into the temporary possession of the Quaker Ridge Club as a result of the united efforts of Johnnie Farrell and Harold Bloch, who led the Youngstown Country Club team, Emmet French and Donald Parson, by a margin of two strokes in the club team race and who incidentally finished third in the tournament proper with a total of 284 for the 72 holes of play, i Harry Hampton and Jack Davison led the big field by a margin of three strokes, in this tournament proper, and won a well-deserved victory, plus $500 to Hampton and the handsome major trophy to Davison, with a total, of 141-136-277 for the two days of play. The first two rounds, played on.