Show Charleys Charley's Card Was Good Enough En gh To Have Qualified in an 1 18 8 Trials s I By LESLIE AVERY United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK Aug 28 UP UP Charley Charley Yates a good enough golfer to win the British amateur title title two years ago may well wail about the injustice of it all today because he failed to qualify qualify qualify for next months month's national amateur with a score better titan those posted by exactly 84 successful qualifiers I While nothing better than the district qualifying system has turned up yet it certainly failed to work out equitably y yes yesterday e s y for young F. F Yates who without without with with- 7 v vout out a doubt is isone isone f. f one of the best simon pure club swingers in the the land With successful successful successful suc suc- r qualifying qualify qualify- t J Jing ing scores soarIng soaring soaring soar soar- ing as high as Yates' Yates for 36 holes was was was' not good enough simply because he Yv was playing in his home district dis dis- Vines ines at Atlanta where only four places were available Charley who at 26 is one of the nations nation's youngest vice presidents presidents presidents dents of a bank would have qualified qualified qualified in 18 of the 28 districts with his 77 72 77 72 and he would have I had a chance to play playoff off for the thelast thelast thelast last place in three others Yates however r will wilt nave plenty of prominent company on the sidelines sidelines sidelines side side- lines when the field of tees off for the amateur crown at Winged Foot club Mamaroneck N. N Y September 9 With rain and chilly weather marring play in many sections constituted the best scoring in the nation and three players tied at that figure They were Jack Shields at Tulsa Albert Scotty Campbell at Seattle and Bobby at Durham Durham Durham Dur Dur- ham N N. C C. And the jackpot qualifier at was Don Peddle at Minneapolis After Yates the most prominent prominent prominent nent failures were T. T Suffern Taller and Bobby Kuntz at New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Jack Munger and Don Schumacher at Dallas Jack Emery Emery Emery Em Em- ery at Detroit and Ed Kingsley a semifinalist in 1938 at Denver Ellsworth Vines professional tennis tennis tennis ten ten- nis star who qualified last year Dan Topping professional football football football foot foot- ball magnate and P. P Hal Sims bridge expert also missed the boat at New York Of all the celebrities Crooner Bing Crosby I Idid did the best He carded a at Los Angeles to qualify as the first alternate in case one of the successful players falls fails to make the trip east Wilford Wehrle low amateur in the 1940 national open and andone andone andone one of the favorites for the amateur amateur amateur ama ama- title escaped by the skin of his teeth in the Chicago district where 15 places were open He carded for the very last place Of yesterdays yesterday's qualifiers I there were four who turned in I totals They were Walter Emery at Tulsa Captain K A. A Rogers at Tampa Ted Bishop at Boston and Ed Jr at Cleveland There also were four shooters shooters Johnny Johnny Cree at Rochester Tommy Barnes at Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta At At- lanta Maurice McC McCarthy at Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati Cin Cin- and Pat Abbott at Los Angeles A week-end week golfer Bobby Jacobson Jacobson Jacobson Ja- Ja of Deal N. N J. J set the pace I in the biggest district at New NewYork NewYork York where were firing for 25 places He carded to best such golfing stalwarts as Dick Chapman Ray Billows Charles Whitehead and Robert Sweeny Jr another former British amateur amateur amateur ama ama- titleholder Sweeny posted a just managing to escape a play-off play for the final place where Whitehead landed with |