Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-10

of open championships. whicl
blow-up Of favorites ever wri
struggle Of steadiness between hal
chance before the title chase open
Jones, Hagen and Willie Mach
three who with Macdonald Smith v
the championship opened Thursday
the final 36-hoic is played today, VIII
New York, dapper Joe Turnesa Of
caddie, and now professional at Shae
the lead Of the favorites, struggle +
Washington has but two men In
pionship out of the Ave who startei
of Congressional, and Ralph Beach Q
to win, but Armour has q chance to
Armour and Beach made the grade
where Roland Mackenzie Of Columbia
Fred Mcleod, Columbia pro. and Bob
Barnett Of Chevy Chase, all failed,
beaten down by q hurricane Of wind
which transformed this golf course
into a bowling wilderness Of high
grass and bunkers.
Armour's Play Improves.
Armour reveling In the high wind,
reminding him Of his native Scottish
links, where ocean breezes sweep high
yesterday was around In 76 to add TO
his total Of 81 Of Thursday. putting
him well in the list Of 81 men who
went out to play for the champion
Beach, one Of the last to get in with
S6-hoie total OF 1E9, just made the
mark. and for q time yesterday after.
noon it appeared he might be crowded
out. The dead line between those who
fell out yesterday and those who play
today was 159.
Fred Mcleod, playing plain. down
right poor golf, was one shot out with
a total Of 100. Roland Mackenzie was
16S. adding an 81 yesterday 70 his
card Of 81 OF Thursday, while Bob
barnett ran into q flock Of IS to score
an IS and 36.hole total Of 16e.
First Hagen, then Bob Jones, then
John JUNIOR, the tail Scot from Oregon.
dropped far down the list yesterday
as the high wind took its toll OF good
and bad golfers alike. Melhorn and
Turnsea, Diegel and Klein started IN
the morning, finding but the usual
gentle Midwestern breeze. But when
Hagen started, just before noon, the
wind had freshened and by the time
Bob Jones got away from the hrst Tee
a young gale was romping across the
hay-fringed fairways OF the scioto
course.
Haren slipped shot after shot. get.
ting out in 40 and struggling back ~
81 for two-round total Of loo. seven
shots back Of the splendid 143 total
Bin Melhorn shot to lead the pack.
Jones In Much Trouble.
Then Bob Jones, playing the worst
golf he has shown In any open cham
pionslip since 1920, took q % gel
around this golf course. nis Wors,
score in any competitive me0al rounc
since the young Atlanta star DegaI
playing In the big. time champion
ships.
break at the ninth where q tee sno,
sfrlck q gallery official and bounded
into q bad lie In bunker, and two
Denalty strokes on the last nine, the
| first where a sliced tee shot found
ditch and the second on the putting
green at the fifteenth. where his ball
turned over on the slippery green a.
he addressed It.
Even then Bob faced the long
eighteenth hole with Tor e 70,
quite q respectable score In the oay
OF the big wind. But ne pushed 2
tee shot into the rough to bad lie,
didn't e 80 yards with his second
shot. nut his third again on the rough
on the other side Of the fairway.
reached the green in q and took
three puts for q disastrous Z.
Then came JUNIOR, tied with Jones
for second place at the end OF the
frat round, slipping comfortably over
the first four holes In even As, run
ming into q s at the fifth and getting
out in II. The real blow Tor the
Oregon star, however, came on the
last nine, where pair of Is blew
his chance to win higher than wind
blown kite.
Meihorn, he Of the hunched up
shoulders and the ungraceful. but
powerful swing, breezed through the
turn on q comparatively calm morn
ting In &c. ran into trouble getting
home, but got back In 80 for Is, leav-
ing Jones and JUNIOR q wonderful loop
hole to breeze through, into q short
lead.
Turnesa FORCES Ahead.
Joe rurnesa, playing the finest
golf Of the day, golf almost fiawiess
In its execution, turned In q a to
land two shots back OF Melhorn at
las, in q great place II Wild Bill slips
today. Then came Young Danny
Wlklan10, SDOOIlu8 1uOtl1cI ~ put -
struggling -. to get In shot behind
Turnesa at 146.
Leo Diegei worried and fused
through q rs to go into tie for
fourth place with George Mclean at
148, ana Jack Forester added q rs
to his 13 OF Thursday to tie Bob Jones
at 149. Hagan was $50.
Then came White MacF arlane, play
ing with big gallery gathered to
watch the open champion do his stun
and seeing him slip shot after shot
on the last nine after getting out in
81, to come home In ~, his poorest
nine In many years or championship
competition. While finished with q
at the last hole, where q Z would
have tied him with Jones.
Al Espinosas who was tied at the
end of the flrst round with Turnesa
ct n, slipped and slxidded through &
l7e to tie with Chick Evans at $50.
Chick added another steady rs to his
70 Of Thursday.
Anything may happen today, but
with Melhorn and Turnesa playing
grand golf. any man with more than
seven shots back Of them does not
stand much chance.
Armour Gets Good start.
Tommy Armour played fiawiess
| gOle on the first nine holes. hitting