The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-25
RUNYAN; NELSON
 ACCURATE SHOTS FOUR UNDER PAR
Narrow Pathways Stump Stars-Hines Close Up;
 Leaders Passed Up
By HENRY AGcLEHGoRE

United Press stan CorrespOndent)
 Pittsburgh, May 25-(UP)-It was with deep humility and rugged de- termination to stay out of the rough that five score six of this country'a greatest golfers moved on the Pitts burgh Field club course today for the final qualifying round of the P. c. A. championship.
 Not in many years has course so earned the respect of golf's hired hands as the Field club layout did in the opening round Of play yester- day. All the boys teed of with rosy visions of sub-par rounds, and nearly half of them wound up in the crying room trying to explain how they failed to break 80.
 Not Too Good
 Of the big and starry field only six broke par over course that was considered set-up, and on day as perfect as if the founder of golf had personally ordered 1t. There wasn't enough wind to rustic a but- terfly's feathers: the greens would have held even an English pitch- af1d-run shot; the pins were in per- feet spots, and the fairways afforded good lies.
 There was only one thing wrong the 75-fooh fairways were Q little too tight for the boys who are acc customed to wander oil the straight and narrow without spelling their chances for hitting the green in two. That isn't being done at the Field club this week. The rough is real rough, and the only way to get out of 1t is with "dynamiter."
 The tip-o6 on the rough here lies in the fact that the two leaders to- day-Paul Runyan and Byron Nel- sor1-are gentlemen who place ac- cltracy above distance. They both shot record breaking 68's in the first round, and they did 1t by staying on the fairway. Runyan was oil the carpet just twice. So was Nelson.
 The smashing scores of this pair must have slightly reddened the faces of the P. G. A. fathers, for both were overlooked when the Ryder cup team was picked. Today they were a clean five shots ahead of the nearest selected Ryder cupperS, Henry Picard; seven strokes ahead of the next ones, Gene Sarazerl and Horton Smith; ten in front of two others Tony Manero and Johnny Re- volta, and eleven in front of Denny Shute, the defending champion.
 Handicapped
 The closest rival of these two sharp shooters was Jimmy Hines, the biz blonde who recently won the "niet" open. Hines gave g real exhibition of courage yesterday when, despita an injured right wrist. he whammed out a two-under-par 70. He hurt the wrist playing out of the rough in the met" and 1t tortured him on every swing.
 A stroke behind Hines were Lloyd Gullickson, a little, known and un- attached pro from Elyria, Ohio, Neil Christian, the Yakima, Wash, hope, and Harold (Jug) McSpaden. At even par 72 stood "Lighthorse" Harry Cooper of Chicago, who achieved this score despite the pres- ence of his card of horrendous seven.
 When the field teed of yesterday it was pretty generally believed that a score of 154 or better would be necessary to earn player one of the 63 berths in the match play which starts tomorrow. But after the sorry exhibition of the opening day 1t ap- peared that 156 or 157 would qualify for the hand-to-hand battles.