Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16

y y hero, particularly the open
wilere haloS are made an
lost every hour. A chap named John
ston, a tall. rangy, blond lad from
Minneapolis, who signs his name Har
rison r., but is known to his friends
as plain Jimmy. is the hero of th'
hour at Oakmont today.
Jimmy, out in front of the fines
International field that ever competed
in the American open championship
AS the third and final day got under
way today, got his" in the war He
came back to Minnesota shell shocked
and with bad lungs. For several
Years he was unable to do much more
than kick the golf ball around the
White Bear course, where he plays
most Of his golf. But in 1921 Jimmy
began playing golf seriously again
and got somewhere. Two years later
he won the Western amateur and was
n member of the American Walker
Cup team.
Ten days ago Jimmy stepped out
on the Minikhada course, where the
national amateur will be played next
August, and shot himself a 67 to
break the record for the course
which will stand as a monument to
the untiring energy of Walter r.
Brooks. Jimmy shot this score from
the back tees over a course more
than 1000 yards long, fully as long
as Oakmont. according to those who
have seen it this year. and as tough
p test Of the game as the layout
over which Jimmy is leading the
field today.
Scioto last year had it's Turnesa
leading the pack until tho last nine
holes. Worcester the year before
had its Willie MacFarlane, who won.
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Walker. There is one III every open,
the hero of the hour. short lived,
though 1t may be, setting the pace
until he cracks and the old-timers
step in to win. This year it's Jimmy
Johnston and the young man doesn't
look a bit like cracking. His fine
temperament. tempered in the cruel
BILE of international championship
competition, brought him through
big test yesterday and may carry
him through to the championship
crest today.
Armour Strong Contender.
Looming ominously in the offing,
not so far back but that a missed
shot or two by the leaders may bring
him well into the van, is Tommy Ar
mour, crack professional Of the Con-
gressional Country Club Of Washing
ton, who registered the finest effort
Of the day yesterday in cracking par
by a shot, and who seems well on his
way to a real bid for the champion
ship. Tommy. whom most of the ex-
perts. including the New York variety,
picked as an also-ran, showed the boys
a thing or two over Oakmont's bun
kered expanse yesterday, romping
over the hills of this great course in
IL strokes, to finish the first two
rounds two shots in back of Jimmy
Johnston and a shot behind Gene
Sarazen, who wants very badly to win
this championship.
Tommy is I49, Johnston is 147, and
Sarazen is 14s. They loom as the
most dangerous ones, but not far
back, where a putting streak will put
them up in front, are Walter Hagen
and Harry Cooper, charging center
from the Pacific Coast, who added
rs to his "A of Tuesday. Hagen was
around in 70 yesterday and is in
dangerous position, just the place he
likes to come through from with a
rush over the last round.
But Jimmy Johnston and Tommy
Armour are the heroes of this title
chase as the final day gets under way
today, Johnston for his par-cracking
effort over the last nine yesterday,
and Tommy for his gritty and per-
feet golf when nothing but that would
keep him In the race.
Jimmy ran into a at the fourth
hole and staggered out in Al, with
all the Bharps saying, There's the end
for him. He has cracked" So his
gallery left the tall Minnesotan and
Jimmy promptly turned around to
shoot golf. Tom Paine of Atlanta,
who waa keeping score for Johnston,
said his golf over the last nine was
the finest exhibition he ever has seen,
and Tom should know, for he has
nursed Bob Jones along in a dozen
major championships and seen the
worlds greatest golfer at his best in
scores OF tournaments.
Three Brides In . Row.
ltacular until the fourteenth, although
he played the FIRST four holes Of the
last nine in exactly par. At the
fourteenth he holed an eight-footer for
a birdie 8, Then came birdie at
the fifteenth, a birdie at the 230-
yard sixteenth and a pair Of As to
finish for SO, two under par and the
finest nine Of the tournament. Add
SO to Al and see what it makes. 1t
tells Of the spirit of this blond Swede
from Minneapolis and means scrap
today, for Jimmy is right and he
doesn't care who knows ii.
Tom Armour, little heralded and
without a gallery, went out in 80. al
though he had a buried ball at the
first hole, which cost him 5: missed
n two-footer at the short sixth Tor
a par and blew a flve-footer at the
ninth for a birdie 4. That left Tom
with par for 20 and 1t looked as II
he was skidding on the tenth where
a loosely hit iron shot found a trap.
But he laid a niblick shot up within
6 feet and holed the putt. Another
par.
From then on through the four
teenth every approach putt was for
a birdie. He played fiawless golf, ex-
actly par for the four holes through
the fourteenth, but at the fifteenth
he skidded again. Here he pulled an
iron shot to a trap. pitched out over
the green and holed a 15-footer for
5, over par.
His tee shot at the sixteenth found
D trap and a 20-footer for par
cuTled away from the cup. That left
hooked into the rough, laid a niblick
shot Is feet from the cup and ran
down the putt for birdie 8. His
putt for another birdie at the eight
zenith barely missed going down and
he was around in II. the finest score
of the tournament to date and the
real SEN Ation of the day.
Tom Needs Pair of 7Ps.
Tommy must be installed as a cham
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