GOLF.
AMERICAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP NEW YORK, July 10. The indoor Long Island American open golf championship started with a record entry of 360, of whom 90 played 36 holes to-day. Sarazen, Francis, and Gallett are bracketed in the lead for the first .1 8 holes with a score of 73. Hutchison is second with 74. Kirkwood plays on Tuesday, NEW YORK, July 9. Sarazen holds the lead for the first thirty-six holes among ninety players who participated in the first day’s qualifying round. His score was 148. Four players, including Hutchison, tied for second place.
SENSATIONAL PLAY IN AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Received July 11, 10.5 p.m. NEW YORK, July 10. Kirkwood broke the course record with seventy for the first eighteen holes in the Open Championship, barely missing 69. Sweetzer took 79, Ouimet 82. Entrants who had done sixty-nine on short tecs in the preliminary then equalled Kirkwood’s record on the regular tees, which are several hundred yards longer.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18822, 12 July 1923, Page 6
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158GOLF. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18822, 12 July 1923, Page 6
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