Evening star., 1935-06-24
SMITH SHOOTS66
IN BRITISH OPEN
Veteran Scot From Glen.
dale, Calf, Qualities Six
Strokes Under Par.
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generally high. Arthur Lee was the
only early finisher to dent par. He
had q 71-one under regulation figures.
Bad driving, rather than the ele-
ments, contributed to first round 10
for William Lawson Little, jr., the
broad-shouldered Californian and
world amateur champion. His tee
shots hit the fairways on only two
holes over Muirneld.
Low Scoring Mt Gullane.
Practically all of the low scoring
was being done at Gullane, which al
most totally escaped the mist, wind
and rain. With 40 players finished
at Muirfield, only seven had lower
scores than Little's 10. Among those
finding Muirfield tough was the vet
eran Jim Braid, who required an 83.
Another 10 was added to the Gullane
list by w. e. Brown with q pair
Of SOS.
Robert Burton. young British pro-
fessional, provided the first TO over
Muirfield with an outgoing "a and an
incoming 36.
After going out in "a, Henry Cot
ton, the defending champion, required
81 strokes for the second nine and
posted a first-round 71-one higher
than the pace-Setting Burton on the
Muirfield course.
Cedric Sayner, q young professional
from Birkdale, gave Smith q close
| race in the barrage of low scores over
| Gullane with 33-35-68. Joe Ear.
the ambling American from Waco,
Tex, came up with q IS fashioned
from q 36-37.
Joe Kirkwood, the trick-shot artist
from Chicago, found q place among
the leaders with fine par u through
the mist and wind over Muirneld. He
was even fours on each nine.
Better Scores Reported.
As the wind died and the atmos-
phere cleared. better scores were re-
ported at Muirfield. Edward Jarman
Of Cavendish produced 10 and Fran
| chs Francis, wealthy young British
amateur, shot a brilliant 36-36-72,
while Jock Mclean OF Scotland, the
leading amateur in the open for the
last two years. produced "A from
outgoing and incoming mines Of 81
each.
Henry Picard, the Hershey (Pa)
SHOEMAKER and regarded by British
critics as the most dangerous foreign
threat, found trouble from the start
/ on hie rnaInd QUAR- A,,irfald Ia ~lfnad
his drives. which repeatedly got him
in hot water. Making matters worse
he three-putted the second and third
holes from 20 feet and hit poor sec
ond shots on both the eighth and
ninth.
Picard-Out ...... 454 454 355-39
Picard wasn't able to strike his form
in the second nine and consequently
took 80 for q first-round II.
Picard-In ..... 445 335 446-3s-77
Sid BrewS Of South Africa, who I'm
ished with 288 last year to wind up in
second place flve shots behind Cotton,
took the test at Gullane and produced
a 1.-two shots better than Joe Ear
of Waco Tex.
mioole$ 0Ai0W Little.
| One hundred Annapolis midshipmen
from the ships Arkansas and Wyom-
ing, anchored In the Firth Of Forth
for several days visit. joined the big
gallery following Little.
| Little started with a poor on the
first hole. missing q short putt.
One Of the United States entries,
William Medart, st. Louis amateur,
was scratched.
Little took q disastrous z over par
7 on the ninth hole for an outgoing
81. The world amateur champion
generally played shaky golf, but sew
eral brilliant recoveries enabled him
to keep presentable figures until he
reached the ninth.
Little-Out 80. 535 354 347-39
The husky American amateur blew"
three strokes on the short thirteenth
and sixteenth holes to come home in
SO for q rs.
Little-In ...... 544 554 444-3e-7s
| Smith In Rare Form.
Smith toured the first nine at Gull
lane in 34-l under par.
Smith-Out ....... 444 343 543-34
Smith started back with an eagle
on the 480-yard tenth hole and
then bagged brides on the twelfth,
sixteenth and seventeenth for q slz-
cling 5 under par 81 and . first
round &C.
Smith-In ..... 344 S45 234-32A66
Smith looked like he was bent on
justifying his short odds as he started
with burst Of some Of the finest golf
Of his career. He drove to the right
of the apron on the first hole, but
missed q 4-foot putt for q birdie. His
second shots caught bunkers at the
third and fifth holes, but he made
grand recoveries. At the sixth hole
| he stuck his approach 2 feet from the
cup for o birdie 8. His only came
on the seventh, where his tee shot
was badly bunkered and he took two
| strokes to reach the green. He almost
holed out from the edge Of the green
for q birdie 4 at the ninth.
"It was probably the best round Of
BOlA L AA6NC CNSA PAaySAS Ss%AS ~AAA-"@4
jubiIantly. "It seemed like couldn't
miss"
His iron shots held fiat all the way
around and he putted beautifully,
holing q 30-footer for birdie at the
sixteenth. On o few occasions, when
his drives were or line. his mastery
recoveries more than made up for the
lapses. His 10-foot putt for birdie 8
on the last hole trimmed the cup.
Ball Spins q u.
BAH shot the last two holes Of the
front nine in 3 under para birdie
at the eighth and an eagle at the
ninth-to reach the turn in regulation
figures after losing strokes at the Sec
ond. third and seventh holes.
Ball-Out :. ass 354 433-36
Ball-In 80. $50 345 344-36-72
Bagging brides on the second and
ninth holes Cotton was out in "a over
Muirfield.