Evening star., 1933-07-03
THREE TIED WITH I
At ST. ANDREWS
Horton Smith, Dunlap and
Irish Pro Shoot Sub-par
Golf in First Round.
By the Associated Press.

Horton Smith, American professional
from Chicago. shot sub-par II today
to go into tie with George T. Dunlap,
jr., Of New York. amateur star, for the
lead In the first qualifying round of the
British open golf championship.
Each was two strokes under par for
the new course, with Bill Burke, Green
wich, Conn.,, just behind at y, and
other Americans making a strong
showing.
Pat Nolan, Irish professional from
Portmarnock. made it triple tie for
the lead by duplicating Dunlap's and
The big British star. Archie Compston,
shot the old course In par 73 to share
the bracket at this figure with Gene
Sarazen, the defending champion; Olin
Dutra, American professional title
holder, and Joe Kirkwood.
One Of the old masters. Harry Var
don. put himself out of the running
wi an 87
latter Hagen shot "A to place him
self In safe position for the opening
round
Wood was the first Of the Americans
out and found himself in all kinds OF
difficulties on the first nine of the old
course on which he used up 43 strokes
where par Is 36.
The American started out with seven
IS in row, dropping strokes to par
in the process. took on the par 3
eighth and then succeeded in matching
par with at the ninth. The only
other hole he played in orthodox figures
was the long fifth.
Billy Burke, also playing the old
course, matched par figures of SO in q
great exhibition of steady golf The
1881 American Open champion sailed
through the first six holes. matching
par at each, slipped in a birdie at
the seventh, but lost stroke at the
short eighth. and then wound up his
outgoing nine with a par f.
Sgd Easterbrook. British Ryder Cup
player, took 30 over the old course
Other early scores were r. D. Vickers
OF Hull, who played with Wood, 81:
Edward Kyle, amateur. from the Keppel
Club, Singapore, SO; Phil Rodgers. Eng
land, 70; Willie Watt, England, II.
Burke continued his great golf home
ward. He matched par on eyery hole
except the 467-yard seventeenth, where
he grabbed q birdie 4.
Joe Kirkwood matched par outgoing
with a So. w. H. Davies, British Ryder
Cup player, was out in SO, one over par.
He was playing the new course.
Ted Ray, open champion in 1912. had
an 81 and J. r Bookless former Walker
Cup player, an 30.
Hagen Starts at Par Clfp.
Walter Hagen, four times winner of
the crown, started the new course at
4-4-5 clip, even par. His playing part
ner. Allen Daley. British Ryder CUP
member, went Hagen one better with
4-4-4
Henry Cotton. English pro of a Brus-
seS club, and a leading contender for
the title, was one over fours at the
sixth. which he three-putted He was
out in 38, one over par on the new
course.
Joshua Crane, veteran Brookline,
Mass, amateur, scratched from the tour
nament, reducing the American contin-
gent to Is.
Dunlap Travelled the first nine holes
OF the new course in 36. one under par
The former intercollegiate champion
from Princeton hung up brides at the
fourth and sixth holes but surrendered
one Of these str~ke at the short ninth.
Hagen was unsteady most Of the way
and turned in SO, one over par. The
American Ryder Cup team captain
an eagle 8 at the sixth.
Dunlap continued to play sensational
golf over the homecoming nine. He
bagged birdie at the fourteenth and
posted 35 that gave him a total of
II, two under par. The American
amateurs performance was all the more
remarkable, by comparison with what
the pros were doing. inasmuch as he
shot his sub-par round on the tougher
OF the two courses.
kunyan Trails Dunlap.
The youthful American Ryder Cup
player. Paul Runyan. trailed Dunlap on
the new course. taking 38 to the turn.
Runyan had three brides, but was
alternately trifle wild
Hagen played par golf over the new
course. coming back for q score of "a.
The four-times American winner of the
British Open attracted good share of
the gallery, but he was well satisfied to
play safely all the way.
Cotton duplicated Hagen's "a.
Laurie Ayton, the Scottish pro who
formerly was attached to the Evanston
Golf Club, near Chicago. had an 81.
A nine on one hole. after previously
losing two balls In the course thickets,
contributed to an "a for Tom Walker
Of New Zealand.
Rex Hartley Of the British Walker
Cup players was well in the running
with a IS.
Runyan,s tee shots were erratic and
he lacked his usual brilliancy around
the green's as he took 80 over the
inward nine for II.
He had bad luck landing in q num-
Der Of spots where there was no al
tentative but to take the penalty and
play safe. He had only one birdie, at
some fairly long puts to keep his score
within the safety zone.
Archie Compston. the big British pro-
feSsional, was in pursuit Of the pace
settlers as he went out In IS on the
old course.
Sarasen Shoots Par Out.
The defending champion. Sarazen,
shot the outgoing nine of the old
course in 36, even par on every hole
Horton Smith, among the late-start-
ing Americans. reached the turn of the
new course in 35. two under par, and
point. He had brides on the sixth and
eighth holes
Olin Dutra, American p. G. A. cham
pion, was out In 81, par for the new
course
Ed Dudley, another of the American
Ryder Cup squad, had some trouble
and vas out in 80 on the old course.
Dutra finished with birdie on the
home hole for his 70, even par. thus
making up for stroke he dropped in
the rough on the seventeenth.
Sarazen was alternately brilliant and
errAtic over the finishing line, but at
the end he was even with par. 49, The
champion had brides on three Of the
last five holes. but offset these by drop
ping . stroke on each of three other
holes.
Kirkwood Finishes With 73.
Kirkwood had brides on the tenth
and fourteenth and finished with q 73,
even par, despite a on the thirteenth.
Sara1en tried too hard for q birdie
on the last hole and wound up with
S. He pushed his last tee shot
within a few feet of q new fence
bordering . street. He managed to