Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-11

- T. ANDREWS, Scotland, July IL.
Bobby Jones. failing to play
quite up to the brilliant golf OF
~ his practice rounds, returned
card of 76 today for his first
qalifying round of the>British open
golf championship in his campaign to
retain the open crown he won so dra-
matically last year.
Bill Mehlhorn, another American.
who started early, had a round Of 70.
Both cards were well within the limit
estimated for qualifiers.
Mehlhorn's was considered particu'
larly good, as it was made over the
so-called new course, which most golf
the championship layout itself over
which Jones played. Mehlhorn's 70
equaled par for the new course.
Rain which flooded st. Andrews for
the first hour of championship play
ceased as Jones entered the loop"
district from the seventh to eleventh
holes. The weather improved as
| Bobby's round progressed, but the
champion couldn't seem to inject any
of the brilliance into his game. He
| finished strokes down to par, losing
| them in bunkers and being unable to
recover on the greens.
Heavy Greens Battle.
! The heavy green's seemed to battle
the young Albanian. The brides
simply would not come and he played
the entire round without a single
one. He missed more than half a
dozen puts for IS that would have
helped him draw level with the ex-
acting par standard for which he was
playing. Several of these puts were
short, the one of the eleventh. being
about 8 feet short and the others
ranging from 8 to 20.
Bobby, however, plugged away and
even without any particular. display
of brilliance kept his card from
mounting too high. His partner, E.
r. Whitcombe of Dorchester, outshone
Jones on the trip out, turning in a
SO, but could do no better than Is on
the homeward journey for an 81.
Charles Mayo Of Pomonok turned
in an 80, which is considered on the
border lire for the qualifying mark,
although wagers are being laid that
164 for the SO holes Of qualifying play
will be good enough to get in the
sels1t 100 tomorrow night.
| Other scores turned in today were:
Cyril Tolley, 70; Edward Ray, rs;
Archie Compston, rs; George Duncan,
80; Jim Braid, SO; Arthur Havers, 81.
| Joshua Crane, the veteran Bos-
tonian, turned in 90, which prob
qualifying.
Anderson Has q 10.
Johnny Anderson of the United
| States was out in 40 and home in SO
for a total of 70, while Joe Kirkwood
had a IS.
Frank Sweeny, Los Angeles anna
teur, took go, while Robert Harris,
the British veteran, took IS.
Starts Out in Rain.
Jones teed off in a pouring rain
with a breeze blowing off the North
Sea. The downpour did not keep q
gallery of about a thousand from
following him.
Varicolored umbrellas circled the
| first green as he holed out -FOUR
foot putt for par A.
Jones lost a stroke with 5 al
the 4O1-yard second hole, where his
second from 140 yards overran the
green into a. bunker. He played out
| 20 feet beyond the pin and was down
| in two puts.
The Albanian took his par As at the
third and fourth holes, the latter be
| ing well earned with a single putt
at a difficult down-hill angle after his
second shot overshot the green. He
dropped another stroke to par at the
long fifth hole, where he was bunk
cred and took 6.
After a par on the tenth hole
Bobby made the first brilliant shot
| Of his round at the famous short
eleventh. With the wind at his back
and the Eden River in front, he plac.