The Washington times., 1935-06-24

high winds of Muirfield, finished
with a 39-38, II.
Smiths card:
Out ......... 44s4s 54 ga
In ........ asa 4-32-6G
Had Five Brides
All told, the grand old man of
the links had II parS, five brides
and an eagle during this glitter
ing round, his only fall from
grace coming at the seventh
where he went a stroke over par
with S.
Smiths 66 set record for the
Gullane course, his phenomenal
round beating the best previous
mark by five strokes.
w. Lawson Little, holder OF
successive British amateur titles
in addition to the American
championship, ran into Difficult
ties to take a 78.
Smith Puts Well
Smith clipped two strokes from
par going out, sinking g. and IL.
footerS respectively for brides at
the second and sixth and losing to
par only at the seventh, where he
was trapped with his tee shot and
short with his recovery, finally lip
ping the cup with a 20-footer.
Then came the tenth-and fire
works. The veteran blazed one
off the tee so far down the fair
way that, he needed no more than
No. 2 iron to get home. The
result was a great shot, seven feet
from the pin, and, sighting care
fully, he knocked the putt in for
an eagle 3.
Smith followed with a birdie at
the twelfth by chipping stone dead
after running over the green with
his approach from a bad lie. Then
he sank a 12-footer for birdie at
the sixteenth and, after weak
tee shot at the seventeenth, he
had magnificent second, nine
feet from the pin. Down went the
putt for another birdie. He had
pars at the others to complete one
of the great rounds of all British
championship history.
Joe Ear, the Texan, was an
other American to range we'll
down in the low scores with 73,
represented by SO out and 81 back.
He played Gullame and was one
stroke over par.
Meantime, Frank Ball, another
American, shot the complete 18
holes at Gullane in a par 72, in
Guiding a subpar final nine. Little
played Muirfield, where perfect
conditions prevailed. Ball, how
ever, encountered a fitful wind at
Gullane.
Other scores at Gullane were:
Arthur Havers, 73; B. S. Wea-
stell, 76; Graham Patrick, 80;
Stuart Murray, 33, and ]. T. Book
less, 80.
Other Scores
At Muirfield, Herbert jolly had
an 86, G. Chairman 76, James
Brodie, jr., 78, William Crockett
IS, Jim Frazer an 80 and Tom
Fernie an 80.
R. V. K. Finlay, another of the
British contingent. had 79 here,
while F. C.. Jewell took "a and
K. Greig II.
Then Arthur Lees, the York
shire champion, came rollicking in
with a II at Muirfield.
After three-putting the fifth
from the edge of the green, Little
doomed a beautiful tee shot off
the sixth and followed with an
approach that just caught the
near side of the green. He was
several yards over with his ap-
proach putt but sank the next 10
get a par 4.
The Americans iron at the short
seventh was Is yards shy Of the
pin but he almost holed with. his
next shot and got a par 3.
Pulls Out on Eighth
He also pulled out of the eighth
nicely with a drive that stopped
on the edge of the bunkers, a
d second that just reached the
edge of the green and an approach
putt to the shadow of the flag, the
gallery cheering.
Then came the tragedy of the
ninth. First he drove into the
rough and then played his second
out of bounds. Dropping another
ball, he played it to tthe rough at
The edge of the green, finally chip
ping home in S. He had a 12
footer for but missed.
Little lost another stroke to par
by taking a S at the tenth, and,
while he followed with a par 4
at the eleventh, three more strokes
were frittered away at the twelfth
and thirteenth with SIS. The lat
ter is a par-3 hole.
MiIder Trial
Gullane had become a milder
trial than Muirfield at this point,
the latter's scoring beginning to
mount with a difficult, shifting
east wind.
At Gullane, Owen Sanderson
and George Duncan had 74's and
T. B. Halliburton a 78. R. Walker
followed with a rs while Red
Hartley, English amateur, went
into a tie for third position with
a Subpar II. Sid Easterbrook
also had a sound score at Gull
lane, a 73 while j. j. BuSson had
IA and Phil Rodgers a 78.
At Muirfield, H. w. Fiddaman