Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-22
FREDDY, WITH A 73, ONLY
THREE SHOTS FROM TOP
Champion Has 70 and Will Have to Improve to Be in
Running-Sandy Armour May Qualify, But
Hunter Appears to Be Out of 1t.

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two grand ones on the eighth and ninth.
Three regulation par As followed after
the turn, and he went one over par on
the short thirteenth. where his niblick
shot was short of the green and mis-
chip shot was short of the pin. At the
fourteenth, where Tommy Armour took
six, Freddie barely missed 10-footer
for 3. He played the hole with two
full wooden shots, where the longer hit
terS were getting home with easy irons.
Three pars came from perfect golf
at the next three holes and Freddie
| finished a birdie 4 at the eighteenth,
holing i2-footer for his score of 70.
Only three shots back of the leader.
If Freddie continues his fine brand of
golf he is going to finish close up, for
this course is getting fast and just suits
him with his accurate tee shots and his
fine chipping and putting.
Hunter Puts Poorly.
Hunters failure was due mainly to
lack of accuracy from the tee and in
ability to hole those ticklish puts under
10 feet. For once the Indian Spring
mentors putting stroke was off, and he
was struggling all through the round
against indifferent putting. At the
eighteenth hole he lost his ball, absorb
ing a penalty of stroke and distance.
and took an 8, finishing with three
puts.
Sandy Armour took Z on the 400
yard third hole. where his second shot
found the water hazard in front of the
green. He was out in IL and ran into
at the lengthy fifteenth. where he
pulled his second shot into the woods.
His tee shots were again off the line.
and his iron play was none too good.
Mccarthy Does Well.
Maurice j. Mccarthy, registered from
Old Flat Bush, who is a student at
Georgetown University and won the
Washington tourney last May. was
paired with Walter Hagen and played
the Haig of his feet. Fully as long as
Hagen from the tee, and usually
straighter, Mccarthy was out in a bril-
liant IS. But he ran into 7 at the
twelfth and had brace Of IS on the
fifteenth and eighteenth to get back in
AZ for a n. finishing with 6 at the
last hole, where Hagen got a to beat
him by two strokes.
The gallery appeared to bother Nc
Carthy slightly, for he played before
one of the biggest crowds of the day,
drawn out by the magic Of the Hagen
game and name.
Jones Finishes With Six.
Bob Jones. as usual, played before
the greatest crowd of the day, a mob
of 5000 persons that pushed and showed
to see the great Atlanta youth display
his usual briliiance to the home hole
and then play like a duffer to score
6 for 10. Jones was out in IS and
played with his usual impeccability
coming home, except for the eleventh,
where his tee shot was bunkered.
But the eighteenth was pitiful to
watch He played short of the green
with his second shot. hit his short
pitch like a duffer and then took three
puts We said yesterday that Jones
would not win. but we have TO revise
that he may go wild today and score
a so or anything. As usual, he is the
greatest approach putter in the world.
Takes Four Puts.
To show what tricky green's these are
at Olympia Fields. George Won Elm
took four puts on the eighth and three
more on the ninth. Still he was around
In "a.
The leaders, as the second round
started today, were the 20-year old
Henry Ciuci OF STatIor0, conn, ana
Frank Ball OF Atlanta. Ga. who just
have absorbed of Bobby Jones' golf.
They are bracketed at 70 for the lead,
but they probably won't remain there
long. When the pace gets hot and
nerves grow frayed the old experience
counts more and more.
Then is when the stars bear down
and the minor leaguers fall like chat
before a binder
Leo Diegel. once of Washington, is In
a good spot at 70, tied with John Col
den, Bill Leach and Horton Smith.
while in between the two leaders and
this quartet is Leonard Schmutt of
Lima, Ohio, at III, another who may
fade when the pace gets warm.
Fred Mcleod is bracketed at 10 with
six others, including Bobby Jones,
Johnny Jones, Fred Morrison, Willie
Hunter and Willie McFarlane, the
champion of 1925, and Jim Barnes, who
won at Columbia In 1921.