Evening star., 1932-06-24
ALL D. c. GOLFERS
ARE OUT Of RACE
Coast Pro Is Four Strokes
Ahead as Second Round
Gets Under Way.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

TLUSH1NG, N. Y, June "a
r. Is the thirty-sixth national
A open golf championship
finally going to the Pacific
Coast? Is it going to be another
British open such as Sarazen
pulled home two weeks ago? Or
is Olin Dutra, the burly, black
haired golfer from Los Angeles, a
front runner? Will he keep on as
he did yesterday, the only man to
crack par in the gale which swept
the Fresh Meadows course, or will
his game slide back as some other
gent comes with rush?
Dutra is quite golfer, no doubt of
that. He never has been up there be-
fore, but both he and his brother Mortie
are real golfers. Olin is built right to
battle the winds which sweep this
course from Long Island Sound. More
than six feet tall, weighing more than
200 pounds, a real slugger from tne tee,
he was the only player yesterday to
break 10.
Where so many of the stars ran up
to 80 and above and only handful
cracked rs, this descendant of Spanish
Dons whacked the pill around in SO.
Out in 36 and back in 80.
"A S the championship stands today,
IA Dutra is out in front by a mile,
four shots in front of Leo Diegel,
the next man. Then comes the chap
whom most folks pick as the winner,
Gene Sarazen, the little New Yorker
who hopes to make it a double by
adding this championship to the British
open he won two weeks ago. Sarazen
is tied at "a with Jose Jurado the slim,
black-haired fellow from the Argentine,
which makes the Spaniards and the
Italians up on the Scotch. Miyamoto,
the Jap who hits them so far, adds
nothing to the international parade, for
he took 10 on the fifth hole and grim
ned at it. His caddie couldn't under
stand what he said, but it sounded
funny ever. to New York bag-toter,
Not in many years has the opening
round Of the open seer SO few low.
scores. The whole thing is dizzy. Dutra
is ahead with 6S and no one is near
him.
Most of the stars blew up with
loud explosion. Anything can happen
now.
Pre-tournament predictions that 2s1
or 2e2 would win may not hold good
If Dutra keeps on as he started they
might as we'll hand him the cup.
Al Houghton of Kenwood says it's a
man sized golf course, and he says
something, for as it plays with the wind
whipping the ball all over tightly trap
ped greens, 1t is real one. Seven
thousand yards of man sized layout.
DUTRA played that SO with a
IL sprained wrist. Early yesterday,
just before ne started. he taped up
the Sprained right wrist, determined to
hit the ball with his left hand. How
well he did it the score shows Let that
be lesson to the buffers.
Walter Hagen, the old "duke" of golf
isn't the same. He came to the last
hole with the longest tee shot during
the day. reaching the green with a 3
iron. He had a i0-foot putt for 3
and 73 and he 3 putted, missing q
footer for f.
All entrants from Washington are out
of winning chance. Any of them will
do well TO qualify for the last day of
one or two will do that. Bob Barnett
of Chevy Chase led the five Capital
entrants with q card Of 70. Followed
by Al Houghton at 81, with Archie
Clark Of Congressional at S6 and Gene
Larkin of Chevy Chase at 81, Mel
Shorey of East Potomac Park picked up
on the seventeenth after a journey full
of nothing but grief and left for home
last night. Inasmuch as the qualifying
deadline for the last day Of play will
be somewhere in the neighborhood of
157 or 15S, Barnett and Houghton must
do lot Of golf today to get in. Clarke /
and Larkin are out.
THE new open champion will come
l. from a small group. composed of
Dutra, Sarazen, Diegel, Burke,
Hagen, Gullickson, Kozak, Perkins,
Armour and Hackney.
Won Elm. one Of the hot favUrItes,
took 79 yesterday, blowing puts all
over the place, and his partner, Mac
Donald Smith-favorite of Freddy Nc
Leod-missed enough short puts to
take an 80.
Tommy Armour scrambled out in 38,
playing bad golf, and then went COM
pletely haywire on the back nine to
come home in a. for an 80. He has
a lot of golfng to do If he is going
anywhere.
Willie MacFarlane, Armour's part
ner, gave a fine demonstration Of how
not to play golf when he scored a 6 i
on the par ninth, bounding lightly
from bunker to bunker and then three
putting the green. They all do it, even
the champions