Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-12


Inmates. They are safely out IN fro
around the track. for the pros cons
to meet successfully, and once III the
Ninety players were to meet the
stars Of the game, one former open
holder and a lad who is conceded by
in the field.
Tomorrow the big show opens
fling with par over this course cove
aches. will add eighteen or twenty
60 out tomorrow to battle tor Gene
Today. as during the three other
qualifying days, u few OF the stars
will fall by the wayside, overcome
Inv Inwood's subtleties and the DIM
Guilty of playing against a pencil ana
:: score card. It's the hardest game
in the world. this, business of beatne
. the pencil, and well do tme entrants
Bobby Jones Jim Barnes, johnny
Farrell. Jesse Guilford and the others
Will heave long and sincere slsn VI
relief when they find themselves
safely in tonight One or more OF
hem NAV 90 astray, but so far none
Of the real cracks of the game. Win
the single exception of Fred Mcleod
who were figured to come tnrous h
have failed in the qualifying test.
The galleries at lnwood whlch nave
STEADILY Increased in size day by DAY,
had a real treat in store for then touas !.
Four stars of the game, men Mno
may do anything in par.snatter IN
way, were in the last sectioh -
qualifying round
How They Are Paired.
Bobby Jones was playing with BOD
Cruickshank, the pro at ShackainaN-
on, and a real golfer; Jim Barnes
who won at Columbia in loZl' was
matching shots with Tommy Har
mon of Hudson River a iaa WV vii II
stepping up and some DAY soon miri
Johnny ge n.y. Farrell of Quaker Ridge,
we'll known to and popular WIN
Washington golfers Is piaylnss VII" tba
Richard Walsh of New YORK tne
new public links champion. ana rom
Mcnamara of Siwanoy was around
with George Dowden.
Nine amateurs were in the nst OF
starters today. Led by Bobby Jones
and Jesse Guilford. some OF these
simon pures may displace the pros
Dexter Cummings of chicago, me
new inteTcollegiaIte CHAMPION Davis EH
former California champion We're
among the amateurs who started TO-
day. ,,
marks made by Macdonald smith;
Walker Hagen. George Sargent and
q few of the others who qualified
yesterday. the best day for gol1 so
far. but the one in which the scores
were higher than Monday and Tues
day when the wind whistled in off
Jamaica Bay with viciousness that
carried the ball into some tough
places.
and typically Scotch in appearance
and goifing ability. led the field of
qualifiers yesterday with a mark OF
$50. six strokes over Kirkwood's
leading total of Tuesday and two
t.
ting mark of Monday. Mac was
playing steadily clicking off par
after par. Not many brides. but
straight pars all the way along the
route.
Out with the spectacular Walter
Hagen. Smith showed the way round
the course in both rounds to the
former American and British open
title holder. Hagen qualified all right.
but there were times along the way
when a bad bounder or roll of the bali
might have pushed the former title
holder into outer darkness He didn't
have much of an edge. and another ey-
hibition like that at the thirteenth IN
the afternoon or that even worse one
the fifteenth in the morning-would
have put him into the gallery tomor-
row and Saturday instead of permit
ting him to play for the title.
What a crash that would have been.
But he would have had no one 10
blame but himself. for Hagen was
guilty of gross careiesspess in the
morning on the fifteenth hole--care-
iessness that might have kept him out
Of a crack at the title. Out in a.
bad golf for Sir Walter-he came
hack to earth early on the second
nine and started back 4 5. He
fifteenth! but his tee shot Went awry
and found a trap to the left of this
tricky hole, which may later decide
tho championship.
Hagen Pulls Boner.
walter stepped down into the sand
with his customary assurance and
hit the ball 1t rolled up to the
and then rolled SLOWLY back into the
trap. AS 1t was rolling back Waite.
took a practice swing and touched
the sand with his niblick. lie
Clipped out and was down in two
puts for at par hole. Astound-
ing. but true. and II might have
meant the downfall of "Hage.'
He came back as champion
should. however sinking a Sefoot
putt for "a at the sixteenth, and
for total OF 70 He holed
4-footer at the seventeenth and
2o-footer at the last hole.
Out In the afternoon Walter knew
he had to shoot real golf to get in
and he came back with IA vengeance.
He was out in 36. playing beautiful
golf. never missing a shot and hit
ting with all the wizardrs of the
Hagen of Deal or Braeburn.
Something happened at the turn.
Walters tee, shot at the tenth struck
spectator. and he took S. Three
puts at tina eleventh cost him an
twelfth and was all right, but another
piece of carelessnesS at the thir-
teenth looked bad. Walter sliced his
drive to trap right alongside Mac
G,4t n hnl I, To- I'D NVrf H.
green edge. but Walter barely got out
and into another trap, From this he
played into a trap at the right OF the
green and missed shot there. final
~ holing a twelve-footar for 8. 1t
might just s easily been or s,
Then Walter started breezing along
again in good shape. He got a S at
the seventeenth. where he reached
trap over the green and finished by
chipping dead to the eighteenth pin
for a 4. Waltz was in with stroks to
spare, but he was worried man
along the major portion of the route.
Mac Smith, on the other hand, was
like a machine. Brilliant out of trou-
along like well oiled watch, click
ing off par, after par with regularity.
He had no trouble leading the field.
Mac Smiths come-b back is the talk OF
Inwood. Winner OF the western open
championship in 1919, heralded as one
Of the greatest living golfers and con-
ceded the national title within few
years after he landed here from
Scotland, a Draw lad, and a rea
offer. something happened to him
He went wrong and for several years
passed out of golf. Then came the
war Smith entered the Army, and
went to France. There the retuvena-
ton came. He was mustered out and
went to California, unheralded ant
with only that magnificent game OF
golf to help him. Playing again, he