Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-08 | Page 18 | Shute Trailing in British Open

Three Lead P.aAAce In Scotland, CARNOUSTIE. Scotland. July W Led by English Reginald Whit-combe's Whit-combe's three-under-par 70 for 12. the contenders for th British open golf championship gave par a thorough thor-ough going-over in today's second round of the tournament. Whitcombe'e 36-hole total was good enough fos a two-stroke margin mar-gin over Ed Dudley, big. genial Georgian who.. 70 ted th first round, and Charles A. Whitcombe. brother Reginald senior by three years and captain of th British Ryder cup team. Two strokes further back was Denny Shuts, American P. G. A. champion and winner of th British crown four years ago. He put together to-gether successive rounds of 71 for a twe east advanlss s two other U. & entrants, Walter Hagen and Horton Smith, and Bobby Locke, the South African youngster who was low amateur last year. 81 Shatter Par . With part of the field still to Com In, six men had bettered par of 71 despit the fact that the Car-nousti Car-nousti course had been stretched t Its utmost length of 7200 yards. In addition to Reginald Whit-combe's Whit-combe's 70, Smith and Charles Whitcombe carded Tl's, whil Hagen, U. S. Open Champion Ralph OuldahL with a total of 14. and Aubrey Boomer of Franc, with a half-way total of 151, were one under standard figures with ITu. Shut and Erie Green, a Briton who was far down th Ust at loo, equaled par on their second rounds. On Danger Lin As only th 40 low score n and ties will carry on Into tomorrow's last 1 holes, several of the American entrants were on th edge of being hut out. Johnny Revolts was none too secur with his 152, and Henry Pirard a shade less safe at 1S3. The 1M posted by Tony Manero. last year's American open champion, cham-pion, also was shaky, while Gene Saraien and Joe Kirkwood, who had il and M. respectively, yesterday, yester-day, shot themselves light out of the tournament. Gene, winner in 13J and low scoring American a year ago, took T7. as did Kirkwood. Kirk-wood. I Defending Champion Alf Padg-ham, Padg-ham, whose return to form with a 7 yesterday was encouraging to the home-bred fans, shot a 7 this after noon to Join Cotton and Bhute at lit, four strokes behind the leader.