The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-04
MACDONALD SMITH
Is BELLEAIR LEADER
Metropolitan Open Champion
Of 1914 Two Strokes Ahead
Of Hutchinson.
FACE RAIN AND A GALE

BELLxAIR, Fla. March 3.-Rain In
morning. half . gale In afternoon and a
course that ID difficult under the best
Of conditions. all helped to make the
scores unusually high to-day In the hrst
half OF the Florida West Coast open
championship. Both rounds were played
over the No. 1 course Of the Belleair
Country Club and the leader at the end
Of the day wa Macdonald Smith. the
metropolitan open champion Of 1914. His
score for the thirty-six holes was 156.
He liked the rain much better than
be did the wind. for his fine ~ this
morning was supplemented this after
noon by q most Indifferent So.
In second place was Jock Hutchinson
OF Allegheny, whose total Of 1853 left
him only Two strokes behind at the end
OF the irst round. He was seven strokes
more than Macdonald Smith. for the
best he could get in tho ~downpour was
an 81. but this afternoon he got down
to work and went around In II. gaining
five strokes. Alex Smith was third
with a score Of IS. Sl-l59 and Bob
Mcdonald and Jim Barnes tied at 100
for fourth place The four Boston home
breds. Tom McNamara, Mike Brady.
Tom Ksrrigan and Pat Doyle. did not
play with their accustomed skill
Doyle was the best Of the quartet. with
l6l. kerriean was next with 1854 and
Mcnamara with 1871 and Brady with
ISs were pretty far down the list.
Macdonald Smith. who has been play.
ing great golf hero all winter. was the
only ono OF the entire field who did
not seem to mind the rain this morning.
lie plugged right along. although soaked
10 the skin. and making few mistakes
came home with the only really good
score Of the day. His worst hole was
the short fourth. where he overplayed
the raised green and took 8 for the
hole, although par is only 3.
In the afternoon he began TO worry
about the wind soon after the start.
and as some OF the early holes are close
to the water and get tho full sweep of
the wind from the Gulf. he sooa had
plenty to worry about. lie dropped "A
stroke here and there on the outward
journey and reached the turn In 30.
Coming In he began we'll enough. bu, on
tn. one shot twelfth took three puts.
and on the thirteenth made matters a
thousand times worse by taking four
puts and a Z for the hole. His lard:
MscDonsld smith. Beiica,r morning
round
2 i"'.:.. .::.:s5;:-ss-.
Afternoon round:
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Jock Hutchinson was well pleased
with his good round this afternoon.
which put him In second place. and IL
would have been even better had II not
been for Il streak "t bad putting on the
first i've or sjN holes. once that Vas
out of his system. however. he pla, ID
excellent golf. Alex smith had "a nne
chance To head the ltst until he reached
seventeenth hole this afternoon.
where he flubh~d his third shot, into a
bunker and took an s.
The second thirty->iA holes Of the
championship test Will he played to-
morrow over the No. : course. OF the
80 who started IS turned In complete
cards.
The summaries:
Macdonald ninth Rell-s'-. -, s.--i5,
JACK hu,.hiR.on Aliegheny,. u 7;-lGs
Mcdonald Bur.io' ss. 7;--isO James
Barnes. white Marsh. 50. leo; |I'atricn
! ro nI,,., s aJsion; alT W.Iier
Grsa, Neck. 81, sa-is7; Tom McNam,fs.
i Ss" ?0Th, -a;s " Goorx. n so :; h,Aa re 3,s.
s.. ss-ise C.ri Anderson. Boston. s.
t3-lss Herbert L.acerhlade.- riuehur-t. -
George Law. sai,a.roi s. ss-,iss Jazz
jolly. Newark, 81. sS-l7s Eugene X
jacksonville, -. sa-i76.
croke Exmoor, -. VIII. Joe dis
gins. Reading %. Sells Frank Bell
rood. Garden city; 80. s5-I;s. J, skipper.
R.iieair, 81. Ss-isa: Harry Cowie ,srna.
teur,, Boca Grsnde, 30. si-is3.