New Britain herald., 1930-07-11
TWO SCOTS TAKE
 LEAD FROM JONES
Players in Open Go Round
 Course in Intensive Heat
By o. B. KELLER

Minneapolis. Iinn.. July II Pl-- Along in the cool of the evening of Thursday. wha1 the thermometer on the Interlachen Country Club WIS away down around SC degrees, two veteran Scots decided to take the lead for the first day of the national open golf championship away from Ecbby Jones and Wiffy Cox, who had held it at T all day, and when the shades of night and a few fleec- ing and well-gorged flocks Of mos Quitoes had settled about Mirror lake, Tommy Armour, national champion of 1927. and Macdonal Smith were tied at 70, two strok1s Lelow par. each having done the last and longest nlne holes in 33.
 And there he matter rested for 2 few hours while the dride-out com petitors absorbed gallons of water in cffort to regain the fluidity which lad enabled them to initiate lawn sprinklers all over the lnterlachen.
 If you haven't tried it or at least observed it, you can have no idea how freely the human system can G;sburse moisture at a temperature of 100 degrees mingled with what is unpopularly known as humidity.
 Bobby Jones consumed three suc- ce8sive thermos bottles of ice water in playing his round and when he gained the refuge of the locker room about 1 o'clock his neCktie was ln a sodden knot and he couldn't unite f and I tried it and failed and then took and cut it off him so he could get ready for a shower.
 The aptest description of NJ. Cyril James Hastings Tolley in action on yesterday was, to my ~Sy of thind- ing. as follows:
 MT Tolley," said a prim lady spectator sitting under q large shady tree, looked just like an iceman who has carried hundred pounds of ice up five flights of stairs an found the lady of the house not in.
 Mir. Tolley was dressing and IT, garding a small heap of extraoc- Ginarily damp golf clothing.
 T wonder how much weight lost. playing that round" he specu- lated.
 How much do your golf clothes weigh ?" I asked.
 Three pounds, normally" he sai1
 I put the damp bundle on the scales. It weighed six pounds anc q half, but this increase did not in. clude what MT. Tolley had lost al together by radiation. After somc coaxing he got on the scales himself I promised not to tell what the rem nant weighed but it was nine pounds less than MT. Tolley had scaled whcl he set out three hours before. Chick Evans, who won both tn open and the amateur champion ships of 1916, told me the heat af tested him curiously in that quite { number of shots were struck whil' he had lost the vision of the ball Not one of them was an entirely ba, shot, Chick said, but not one was al entirely good shot, and it is curi ous fact that without ever being O. the fairway in the is holes. or talk ing three puts on any green, Chici returned a card of 6l.
 Don Moe missed the shortest put oe the first round and turned in 75, at that. The putt was thre inches on the 12th green.
 T was swinging like some dear ol' lady" confessed the Portland infan 1 blushing. "I couldn't seem to pu any punch in my shots. But 0 course it does not take a lot o punch to hole inch putt. I ju. went up to it. after missing the pre- vious one, and tapped it into tn
 hole but it did not go in. Th1 | happens sometimes
 | Charlie Hall. the hard hitting Bir mingham professional, after turnin ! in a card in the gay 90's told me vas too hot for a mere southerner. i The man with the thickest skuI slould win this tournan ent," sa. ! Mir. Hall, If the weather continues. l There are now three claimant