Show Smith Leads Links Field By 3 Blows By Dy BILL BONI DONI DONIN N NEW NW YORK May 14 UP Bt Before ore t starting the final 36 holes of ot the metropolitan open golf championship champion champion- j. j ship today Lanky Horton Smith put i himself under the microscope and came up with the observation that he owed his three-stroke three lead and andone andone one under par score of 13 to the ithe the 1 breaks L 1 The tall handsome Missourian has been in the professional golfing business for 12 years and that's long enough to have taught him not r to kid himself His intensive study has isa left him with the conviction lon that hes he's not playing as well as he used to j Three-Stroke Three Lead My swing isn't as uniform as it 1 i 1 was a few years ago said Horton s who held a three-shot three advantage over Defending Champion Cl Jimmy r u Hines with his other dangerous rivals from two to six strokes farther far far- fari i j ther then backI back 1 I got the breaks on those first two rounds but I still know that In Im I'm playing mostly by ear other words I have to make adjustments adjustments adjustments ad- ad t in my game as I go along c. c First one thing goes wrong and ft s then another r His analysis has led Horton to i ian an extreme distaste for being called 1 the master putter S. S I 1 hate all those superlatives he said Theres no man nian in this game who's good enough at any any one thing to rate being eing called a j wizard From what they say about t my putting you'd think I could J thread a ball through the eye of a needle Lot of Nonsense Nonsense'S S 1 a lot of nonsense For For 1 consistency on the greens Id I'd rate Henry Picard Johnny Revolta and t tPaul Paul Runyan every bit as good as f J I 1 am if not better J J-J J Jt I t |