New Britain herald., 1929-05-07
 
BETTER WEATHER
 FOR GOLF TODAY
Most Americans Hold Stltssic
 Positions in British 0ptu

Gullane, Scotland. May R-Most
 American entrants in the British open golf championship held good strategic petitions as the second and final round of qualifying play got under way at at Muirfield and Gull lane today.
 The rain clouds had poured them- selves out over eastern Scotland last night and this morning there was clearer weather with intermittent sunshine and patches of blue in the sky. The wind which had veered
 from east to northwest continued strong and gusty. According to local weather prophets a west wind rare ly brings rain so prospects were for somewhat better conditions than yesterday for players who can keep up a straight course.
 The professional contingent. with the exception of Ed Dudley and pos sibly Johnny Farrell and Gene Bar azen, needed to play no better golf than they did in the rain and wind yesterday to qualify. Of the five ann ateurs, however. George Won Elm, former United States amateur cham- pion. seemed to be the only one cer- tain of his place when play in the championship proper begins tomor- TOW. Only total collapse in his game could keep Von Elm out of championship play after his fine 7s of yesterday. silas Newton. New York, and Max Rehr. San Francisco. who scored S2 and S3 respectively for the first IS holes. had an outside chance of qualifying but Joshua Crane, Boston. with an ST. and F. W. Sites. Philadelphia, with 1Ol. hard ly could finish within the first 100.
 Farrell's friends believed he would do much better than the s2 he SCOT ed yesterday and Sarazen should lower his score of s1. Dudley. how ever, was in serious danger. He needed an extremely good card to- day to make up for his S5 on the first IS holes.
 Scores of other American entrants yesterday were: Bobby Cruickshank. 73; Leo Diesel. 74: Walter Hagen. 75: Tommy Armour. Jimmy Thomp- i son and Al Watrous. all 77: Horton Smith. 7S: Macdonald Smith. Jim Barnes. Johnny Golden. Joe Turnesa and Bill Mehlhorn. all 76. and Al Esninosa. 80.
 The low 100 scores with all ties for tooth place qualify for the 72 holes of championship play. Scores were relatively high and 1t was considered probable that all s6-hole totals of ls0. or perhaps l65, would be within the magic cir ,ie. The first IS holes of the cham- are 10 be played tomorrow: 10 more on Thursday and the final 30 on Friday.
 Today, Farrell. Dudley. Watrous. sarazen, Golden. Armour. Macdon- i'd Smith. Barnes and Newton play he municipal course at Gullane; Hagen. Won Elm. Cruickshank. Die gel, Espinosa, Turnesa. Horton smith, Mehlhorn, Crane. Behr. stites md Thompson play at Muirheld.
 Walter Hagen. the defending champion. got into numeroub diff ,ulties on his outgoing journey to- lay and took 41 for his first nine holes.
 Fred Robson, British Ryder cup cam member. did the first nine n 70. His outgoing card. 545. 2ts, l6k-&0.
 Some of the other early starters besides Hagen soon got into difficult les. indicating that the scoring .sain would be high. ''Wild Bill" Mehlhorn was out in 3s. much wor- jed because of his inaccurate ap- breaches to the greens which were 'apidly drying in the wind and sun- thine.
 Mehlhorn's out card: 63l. l55. l45-39.