Show SWEETSER IN LEAD ON LINKS National Amateur Champ Makes Official Courset Course t Record of 68 of 68 68 M itt liTI LD COUNTRY CLUB CLU CLEVELAND D Ohio July 24 O er Os or orthe the difficult and beautiful links ot of othe the tho Mav field Country club fast tast golf golC golwas played Monday In the first firs Ing round of ot the Western Amateur championship end and It tell fell felto to Jesse JessI Sweetser ot of New ew York national amateur champion not only to lead the field by three strokes but to establish officially his course record of ot 68 first scored score Sunday in practice Chick Evans defending defend In champlon chain cham- champion pion for tor fo the seventh time a as sc en strokes behind SI ho ho defeated him at Boston last car carIn carin In the event The Chicago Chicago- Chicagoan Chicagoan an anent went scent out In one under par buhe but buthe buthe he played raggedly on the cond n taking 40 for a 70 7 a al- al although 1 though he had h two 0 birdie two boles The nearest competitor Sweetser had in his better than par run was I wal Captain E L F Carter ot of Chicago Irish champion who wh scored 36 35 36 35 71 Ned c ot of I ew ew York who ho established the pre lous record ot of 69 for tor 1 sl 1 cars ago and who ho won on the e western estern tern tub title here hero in 1906 playing with l Carter took tool 76 toda r There were ere 34 scores of ot 78 or c better Monday Indicating that It would require to qualify for or match play it if the scoring should as low tomorrow In the second 18 8 holes of oC qualification pla pIa Lle Eleven Lleen en golfers goiters had 79 Mon Mon- dl making 45 who ho shot better 80 over oCr the vard links link made fast tut by dry weather rather but crested exceedingly difficult by na- na nature nature ture turc and man arta Direction makes the course cours fair fair- Ily fairly ly el easy It if shots are well placed and direction was as personified In InI Sweetser Monda lIe He wa was straight I as a an arrow arron from time the th tee In lost al every instance He lie did not cut his irons as crisply as pos possible but I butI they always held the carpet and he heI h I putted steadily but not spectacularly DI S TI'S SKILL I The national champion took one on e more thin par paron on both the and thirteenth holes and 20 T ards a rA g through tring t tn to play 1 safe saCe oai In ln the ire ml mass s of traps but hi bis eagle three on the vard ard ard tenth mat mal malan an cod th three ree blips with par And to prove prose e that he did not nc score well through luck his putt I for Cor an eagle agle 3 on the yard eighteenth stopped on the lip imp ot of cup where the slightest breeze would have home for tor a 67 6 I and broken his two successive No one scored a 72 but three 73 were scattered among Eddie Held of ot St Louis champion J 7 M Wells Veils of ot the tho East Liverpool Ohio and W H Gardi- Gardi nCr ner of oC Buffalo In n Couch of ot Chi Chi- Chicago Chi cago cage was the only contestant to t score 74 but six players tied Evans 75 5 including James Ken Ken- Kennedy nedy nody of ot Tulsi Tul Okla Okia champion who played with sith the 1 western estern chain cham- champion pion plon and outscored him three thre three strokes on the second nine lUH J 1 LOVERY UY IT E James Manlon Manton ot of St Louis had h l 1 Clo flosser flowers Cloer er exit Irons from the group of oC eight who scored 76 He drove droe his second shot on the tho eighteenth hole Ic Into a bed of blossoms at the end eio id of oC i a 1 se two seventy two CO ered Ith j t o e of ot red roses lie He dropped out to save the flowers figuring that ground under lion wa was under repair but the thC of- of ruled against him and he ie took tooh a penalty stroke tor for a 77 71 John Anderson Andrson of cf New York k who had a II 72 In practice Sunday Sund v sith Ith S Monday 1 could do no better than 79 and James Ward War ard d a brilliant from Kansas City got a bad bal start star that netted netti hi n a 42 strokes on the first halt half J I He lIe came homo home In a good 37 to toI keep In the running I The 32 having haing the lowest scores at the thc end of ot today's 18 holC holes of ot otI medal pIa play will VIII enter match play playon playon pion I on edne W day 00 |