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Show J SIXTEEN GOLFERS TO COMPETE AT ST. LOUIS ST. TjOUTS, Juno 17. Low score in the qualifying round, and close contests in the first match today reduced tlia1 contestants con-testants In tlu: western amateur golf championship at the Sunset Hll! Country club to slxtoen who will go over th bhirfcy-six-hole route tomorrow. Nothing higher than 164 got into match phy, while seventeen qualifier's scored leai than 160 for thirty-six holes. Clarence Wolff of St. Louis took ttis low medal score, 73-74-147, defeating Warren K. Wood of Chicago, 2 and 1, In ; the first match round at eighteen holes. Nelson Whitney of New Orleans, transmississlppi champion, who will meet Wolff tomorrow, had an easy task to defeat Eliot Evans of Chicago, 6 and 5, the same scoro by which Donald Edwards Ed-wards of Chicago downed Blaine Young of Omaha. Chicago players fared badly, A. X. Loeb, who defeated John D. Cady of Rock Island, 2 and 1, and Donald Ed- , wards being tho only winner of th eighteen-hole, eight round; Paul Hunter, who qualified with 155, was put out, i and 3, by J. S. Thompson of St Paul; Gardner, eliminated 1 up by E. G. Waldo of Detroit, R, B. Sullivan losing to R. E. Knoper of Sioux City, 5 and 4, and Dewey Weber to L. D. Bromfield of Denver, 5 and 4. . Weber played well, but the Colorado J expert, who finished in third place in the qualifying round with 154, burned up the I course on a pair of twos, two par fourar ' a birdie four on the fourteenth. . Richard Bockenkamp, runnerup In the , transmiyslsslppi tournament, who waa -tied with I,egg and Hunter at 155 for the j fifth qualifying score, defeated Dudley Mudge of St. Paul, 2 and 1. ! |