New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-10

THE food that msdA Noah famous il
:, last revenged with reverse twist.
Gar forty-one days now uot drop of
ra;sture has settled upon the Skokie
Valley. where the sun is still. tyrant
rith a flaming sword.
n this hot. roister'pg western wind
t,,,s up, as it frequently does. there
iii be some queer .urns on Monday in
10 first qualifying rounds and more
,r,,k episodes than AIRY +cUrnament
s.,,yes known. II the wind dies away
.si no rain fails May scores will be
-.-arkably low, for at least four-fifths
sfthe course. outside % TIE four short
ssl,s, will be reduced 30 a drive and a
hin shot or short pitch. And it will
axe at least young cloudburst of
,v,nty-feur hours Duration TO soak the
ton crust, which tn day is as hard as
ary concrete ever put together. With
,as course as It now is he leading di-
srnosticians ars busy eguring in the
nm Of outside 'aiens that may be ex-
uemely dangerous.
Keen Competition Looked For
At fret The five leading figures were
Hagen, Barnes, Hutchinson, Duncan and
Evans. Thase FIVE are still striking
rossibilities, but they will now face
sorupetition from unexpected quarters,
srou, golfers who are fairly straight,
are pitching we'll and are tapping their
putss into the hole. In other words.
no fancy repertory of shots is needed
10 get by nicely
Tie brass.e, the spoon and the long
ron to the green will not count in the
slightest. On a vast majority of the
hard baked holes almost any golfer
entered car get far sway enough with
normal shot to pitch or chip to the
green, WHARF, the rest of it will be
largely mstter of putting. Two men
gho might be extremely dangerous,
for example, are Freddie Mcleod and
Pat O'Hara.
Mcleod is always in the money. He
ia consistently straight, with fine con-
troll Of the short pitch and one of the
best putters in the field. 1t was almost
under similar conditions most of the
way that Pat O'Hara triumphed at
pinehurst in the North and South,
where he led Hagen, Barnes and Hutch
son by several strokes on warm,
windy day, with the course we'll baked
by March and April suns.
Two new entries were discovered to-
day that had been lost in the shuttle,
running the list to 500. There were
2s5 entries at Inverness in 1920, with
264 at Columbia last July. So the
present total exceeda all past entry
records by 81, thereby smashing all
known marks in this country and Great
Britain, the FIJI Islands, South Amer
lea and all points East or West.
For three days there will be an in
terminable procession of golfers, start
ing at $50 q. m. and finishing at 1880
p. M, before the final survivors are
registered and branded for the 72-hole
march on Thursday and Friday
Mitchell Playing Well
Scores to-day meant little, as most
Of those struggling in the wind were
still exploring and taking life easy
Bobby Jones took 5 strokes from his
first round of 10, finishing with "a
after going out in 81. After fine SO
yesterday Abe Mitchell continued his
steady play to-day.
The silent Briton has at last dlscov-
cred his lost putting touch and this
had added immeasurably to his conf
oence. He was around in II at the
following pace:
A''hsll-9 iS 435t533t 3 3-s4
This array Of eleven AS and four 3's
shows how evenly and steadily Abe
was stalking the blistered hills and
valleys in his search for par.
The days best round fell to John
Black, of Oakland His 90 was excep-
tionally brilliant golf in the 50mile