Evening star., 1932-06-23
SECOND SHOT SEEN
AS TELLING FACTOR
Three Given Edge for Their
ProWess in Making Long
PokeS to Green.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

NLUSHlNG, N. T., Jule Io.-
r. Some golfer with the knack
i of fading in a long second
shot to the green is going
to win this national open golf
championship, which started to-
day over Fresh Meadows 1000
yards of we'll trapped fairwayS.
No course for a hooker, this
Fresh Meadows layout, unless he
can hook them in and make them
stick, and hooked balls usually
don't stick.
That is why, as the championship
gets under way today, it appears as if
the 1882 open title is going to George
Won Elm, Billy Burke or Tommy Ar
mour. These men have the habit of
fading their second shots into these
tightly trapped greens, and unless some
other gent discovers the secret of bang
ing those second shots in with a tall
end fade, my hunch is that the cham
pionship lies among these three.
AS usual, all the boys will beWail the
puts they missed and the bad breaks
they had, but the real stcry of this
championship will lie around the sec
ond shots. Fresh Meadow is strictly
a second-shot layout and one that takes
ball we'll up in the air with lot of
spin on it. And il my opinion when
pay-off time comes next Saturday after
noon, George Won Elm will be in there.
Notwithstanding heavy rain two days
ago, the course is fairly fast. Armour
and Sarazen both had 705 yesterday
but they don't pay of on yesterdays
scores.
DOTH Bobby Barnett and Gene Lar
- kin, the Chevy Chase professionals,
believe that score somewhere
around 292 will win the title. All the
local entrants have found the course
plenty tough, but all five of them start
ed today hopeful Of qualifying for the
final day of play on Saturday. So far
they have not been serious about their
golf. but today they have to be. No
puts are conceded today. as the scores
count in the championship.
The Washington entrants are Barnett
and Larkin. Al Foughton of Kenwood,
Archie Clark of Congressional and Neil
Shorey Of Potomac Park.
This is the second consecutive tour
nament in which the pros are not
troubled by the Jones complex. Bobby
IS here, but be is not playing. He has
lest 80 pounds and is a slim little fel-
law. He says he has been ordered on a
diet.
With Bobbie on the side lines. the
pros may come back to earth and shoot
themselves some professional-like golf
scores. They didn't do it in the past
and the bOgie-man is out. But 292
should win this course, which is nearly
as tough as Oakmount.
FLUSHING, N. Y, June % (P.-Tha
J. rolling faiways and c,ose-cropped
greens CT Fresh Meadow Country
Club stretched out like magic carpet
to fame and riches Tor l48 golfers who
today began the 72-hole grind that is
the National Open.
The firing started not long after day
light, when Henry Ciuci, professional of
the home club, and Walter Kozakof of
Roslyn, Long Island, led the bulky field
away from the first tee. or the l46
stars who were to follow in pairs until
the last were of at midday, all but 10
were professionals.
All entries. including those from
England, Argentina and Japan, were
assured at least a tvo-day outing. but
the field will be chopped to around
so players for the final 36-hole gallop
on Saturday.
CEVERAL facts stood out as the classic
- got under way. The first was that
the player able to achieve a 72-
hole score of 290 90 strokes above par)
would have a chance of winning. An
other was that Billie Burke of Green
wich. Conn, the defending champion.
had been overlooked almost completely
in advance calculations that had estab-
lished Gene Sarazen. British open
champion. and Leo Diegel. the peculiar
putter from Aqua Caliente, as out
standing favorites.
SaraZsn, who gave fair warning YES
terday he was out to duplicate Bobby
Jones feat Of winning both the British
and American opens, was paired with
Billie Burke for the opening rounds
They were scheduled to start at Sis
am, right behind Diegel and Densmore
Shute.
Other crack pairs to follow included
Macdonald Smith and George Won Elm,
last years runner-up: Jose Jurado of
Argentina and Bobby Cruickshsnk,
Walter Hagen and Witty Cox, Olin
Dutra and Jim Barnes, Harry Cooper
and Charlie Guest, Bill Mehlhorn and
Al Watrous, and Tommy Armour and
Willie MacFarlane