Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-15
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

and the path has been made clear for
the lads who are going somewhere IN
this title chase. it becomes more ana
more apparent as the second round Is
being played today that Bob Jones
again Is due to be the chief actor on
this bunkered stage.
A grimmer Jones started his Sec
ond round today, determined to re-
trieve the errors of yesterday and TO
cease the succession of bad shots
which found him a trio Of strokes
hack of Harrison r. Johnston, long,
shifting amateur of st. Paul, and the
rejuvenated veteran, Harry Hampton,
who now has the professional berth
at Memphis. Bob is in a pretty posi-
ton to catch the leaders today, and
should be out in front or close to the
front runners at the close of play.
Yesterdays game was a struggle to
overcome Oakmont's mud and little
else for the reigning title holder:
struggle that found most of the visit
ing British team dropped hopelessiy
in the rear, that gave a quartet OF
pre-championship favorites near heart
failure and that put Tommy Armour,
Congressional's pride and hope, five
shots back of the leaders.
Johnston and Hampton are bracket
ed for the lead at Is as the second
round of the title chase gets under
way today, with Armour having rs, in
a good position to slip down with the
leaders, giving as fine round as the
Congressional professional is apt to
uncork at any time.
Beach Out of Running.
p Ralph Beach of Burning Tree, the
other entrant from the Capital, is
hopelessly out of the championship.
An Sc yesterday through the mud and
rain of the first round has placed
Beach in a position where only trio
OF 70s will do him any good. And that
Is virtually impossible over the fear
some stretch of bunker bordered fair
ways and sandy expanses that con-
stitute Oakmont's test.
In between the two leaders and Ar.
mour are group of players who rank
among the Nations best. Only one
foreign invader is in the group which
can be said to have a chance-the
steady Ted Ray, winner of the title
In. 1920 and captain of the British
Ryder Cup team. The others are
away up even the long hitting Aubrey
Boomer, who took SO blows over the
first round. while his partner, George
Duncan. who played with him at Con-
gressional last Sunday, is "a.
Il Armour is in a tie at IS with 10
others, among them Leo Diegel, for
merly of Friendship: Jim Barnes,
former champion: Watts Gum of At
1anta and Mike Brady. One shot be-
hind the leaders, at "A, comes Light
horse Harry" Cooper, who came
charging over the last nine yesterday
at a pace that seemed certain to over
whelm all opposition. and with a
chance to lead staring him full in
the face, blowing sky high at the
short seventeenth, where he took a 6.
Little Gene Sarazen, out to win this
time, with better game than he has
played for three years past. is tied
with Cooper. Larry Nabholtz of
Pittsburgh, Emmett French of South.
ern Pin IS and noisy Bill Mehlhorn
of New York are 70, one shot in front
of Bob Jones and Ted Ray.
Farrell Gets Poor Start.
Johnny Farrell, Metropolitan open
champion, and Joe Turnesa, runner-up
in this championship last year. started
the second round today with an almost
insurmountable deficit staring them
in the eyes. They were tied at 81, eight
shots back, but still shot in front of
Willie MacFarlane, who skidded back
from the heights he reached at Wor-
cester two years ago to do an 50 yes
terday.
How tough the Oakmont stretch was
yesterday can be judged by the IS
turned in by Chick Evans of Chicago,
holder Of this title IL years ago. Any
where along the route a missed shot
or two may drop favored contender
down in the ragged abyss of doom.
And even then only the man with the
great recovery shot can win, for they
all skid some time-eyen Bob Jones.
The. Atlanta marvel skidded yester.
day-badly--on the last nine. A small
gallery plodding around through a
pouring rain saw the open champion
OF two nations struggling for pars. and
frequently not getting them Usually
they come easy to the impeccabIe
Bobby. and his approach puts usually
are for brides. But yesterday he
struggled and struggled for his pars,
the elimination of all his poor play
coming at the fifteenth, where he
rolled up CHASTITY on the same hole
tnat was to cause Tom Armour a Z
an hour later.
Jones was ragged around the greens.
His touch was gone, and he seemed to
be playing safe, something a gallery
seldom seer .ne Atlanta youngster do.
yet poor as he was, he got around in
20. watch him today and even bet.
ter, watch him tomorrow, for he will
begin to bear down as the chase grows
hotter. and, instead of PLAYING for
pars, viii begin going for the brides,
he Is IN just the place he wants to be
To-Day, TAR enough back to come with
rush and not. leading the race.
waiter Hagen is dangerous. He
played IKE a beginner going out yes
terday to get over the first nine in al
and then romped over the first eight
holes of the in-nine in even Dar
nnishIng with three puts on the last
green for So and II. But Hagen
doesn't seem right. His puts are
slpping away from the cup and he
doesn't resemble the Hagen of old.
Beach Encounters Trouble.
Beach started out in the worst OF
the rain and wind, and from the very
hrst hole found his game going badly
Starting with at the first hole
he got out in Al, but where things
were only bad on the first nine they
were terrible over the last nine. He
rang up s on the tenth and another
at the twelfth. following with a {
at the fifteenth to come back in as
He played today. but had little chance
of finishing among the Ga men and
ties who will play SO holes tomorrow
for the championship.
Armour. who started later thar
Beach and found conditions not quite
so bad, got out in q good 80. ever
with u & at the 53G-yard fourth hole
which he made up for at the shor,
sixth, laying high iron shot dead t.
the pin and securing a birdie 2. HI
ran into a at the long twelfth