Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-11
Heat May Prove to Be Deciding Factor Play for Open Golf Championship

He was 4 under even Is for 10 holes.
He had played 10 holes in 36 strokes and
then apparently the enormity of his cf-
Tense against par beat upon his mind
for he suddenly slipped from the heights
to the depths TO come back in Al. He
used up two more strokes for the last
eight holes than he had gathered for
the first 10.
And these are only two of the many
incidents that made big gallery forget
its clothes were clinging to the human
frame after the manner of one who has
dived into a lake.
Day of Days.
THE first day was one of the great
l. days of golf dating back to the
misty morning King James blew a
2-foot putt. Most of the amateurs
broke before the pace,
Cyril Tolley and Jimmy Johnston had
80s. Chick Evans had an 81. Won Elm
had an 80. But George Voigt came
through with steady rs after one or
two bad breaks that might have yielded
better returns
AS they battle through the second
round today this is now championship
that any one Of 10 men can win. There
are almost no false alarms fighting
their way around the half turn into the
stretch. When you watch Armour and
Mac Smith lay those irons up around
the pin, or watch Hagen battle his way
through trouble and despair, to keep on
scoring you can get a better idea of
the picture.
And it might be mentioned here that
Bobby Jones win still take lot of beat
ing. He was hitting the ball well up
to a high standard most of the round.
Here is just one example. The ninth
hole here is 485 yards in length, with
the second shot played over a lake.
Jones drove as close to the waters edge
as frog can jump to safety and then
laid a No. 3 iron some 10 feet from the
cup.
He started home raggedly with
SIS where Hagen, Armour and
Mac Smith were even As and these are
the holes that usually find the Georgian
at his best. 1t was this sinking spell,
IN comparison to the others, that kept
him above 10.
At the 194-yard thirteenth Mac Smith
rammed an iron shot just inches
from the cup. For a moment it looked
as If the Lakeville veteran had his ace.
The last nine holes that Armour, Mac
Smith and Hagen turned in were
classics that will not be forgotten, for
they brought out every type of high
grade golf.
A T the start of the second days
n struggle there were % sterling
golfers only four strokes apart.
There we're over 80 only five strokes
apart and if you have played golf or
watched an open championship you can
understand how quickly these margins
can be lost and how suddenly these
deficits can be made up.
1t will be interesting to see how the
leading field is punched Friday night
as they face the killing stretch of
Saturdays play. But most of those now
in the big hunt should remain there,
for they are not the type that show
and blow, flash and crash, that fame
and then go lame.
Can Bobby Jones escape this Gordon?
Can he break the barricade. If any
one can he is the boy. But on this oc-
casion he has his work cut out. He
is in the midst of % professionals and
most of these have shown they know
the way from the tee to the bottom of
the cup. 1t will be the greatest test he
has ever faced.
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