Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-02
TOMMY HAS 146,
FOUR FROM LEAD
Al Espinosa's 142 Is Best.
D. C. Star Is Playing
Barnes Today.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

~ ALTIMORE COUNTRY CLUB
- Baltimore, Md, october o.
Tommy Armour of Congress
IL SIGNAL had no easy assignment
today as he started in the first
match play round of the Professional
Golfers Association tournament over
this Course.
Armour drew no less a parsonage than
Long Jim Barnes, who won the open
1921 and annexed the P. G. A. title as
far back as 1916. Tommy should win,
for Barnes is not playing as we'll these
DAYS as he used to, while Armour is
right on top of his game.
Barnes has made half million dol
lars or so in the stock market in the
last few years and is very much the
bloated bondholder these days. But he
is still a rough, tough egg at match
play, and Tommy will have to be right
to beat the tall Cornishman.
The draw In the P. q. A. is not seed
ed. as is the draw in the amateur cham
pionship, and the result has been a
natural one All the good ones, with
but one or two exceptions, are in the
lower half.
The top half looks like cinch for
AL Espinosa, who led the field yesterday
with a fine total of 142, two over par
for the course. But in the lower half
the talent is punched as close as a
flock of stake horses at the finishing
wire. Down there in the bottom half
of the draw are Hagen and Armour,
Sarazen and Mehlhorn, Barnes and
Armour. Dutra and WatrouS, not to
mention that jumping jack of the links,
Leo Diegel of New York.
Even though Tommy finished second
in the 36-hole qualifying round yes
terday, he has no set-up today, for
Jim Barnes, once past the medal
round, is rough customer, and Ar
mour's game, judged by the scores, was
the most consistent OF any OF the pros.
His 36-hole card of 146 should have
been bettered by at least 10 shots.
For Tommy's putting was nothing short
of atrocious. Had he been putting even
as well as tyro at the game. he prob
ably would have led the field with
strokes to spare.
Over the first round Tommy missed
no fewer than eight puts of less than
eight feet. Even at that he got around
in 70 blows and was tied with Hagen,
George Christ and Neil Christian for
third place at the halfway mark.
In the afternoon the story was much
the same. His putting was pitiful. At
the second hole, siX-footer failed to
drop; at the third, after driving in the
ditch paralleling the faiyway on the
right, he laid a mashie shot within
three feet of the pin and still might
have secured par 4, but he blew the
putt. At the 163-yard fourth, his iron
shot left him but a six-footer for
deuce and again he missed. He took
three puts on the ninth and was out
In 80.
In the morning he started back with
three fives at the tenth, eleventh and
twelfth, but In the afternoon he played
them all in par, even though he left
himself q tricky putt for his 4 at the
eleventh and twelfth.
Tommy should have secured birdie
2 atSthe short thirteenth, but his ball
Tipped the cup, and rolled three feet
past the cup. From there In he played
the balance Of the holes in impeccable
fashion, all In par.
Armour's cards, with par for the
course, follow:
Par out ......4 4 4 3454 4 3-35
Armour, morning round.
44435 AS 3-37
Armour, Afternoon round,
ass 45 "A +3S
Par In .....4443 S "A 3 +35-70
Armour, morning round,
$3.50 4 4 2 +36-73
Armour, afternoon round,
4443 S 4 4 5-35-73-146