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Show GOLF STARS ON SKOKIE LINKS Second Section of Players Begin Their 36 Hole Trudge SKoKIE County Club. Glcncoe, II) . July 11 i By The Associated Press ) The second section of players today started their 36-hole trudge around the Skokle course In tho qualifying rounds of the national open golf tournament tour-nament for the finals Thursday and Friday. While 108 players started, it was foreordained that little more than one-fourth of the stars, Briton, Scots, Americans, many of them famous the world over, would have scores sufficiently suffi-ciently low to place them in the championship 7 1 -hole contest, Th3 low 24 automatically qualified and ties for 24th place were expected to add three or four. StJFS NEW RECORD. Yesterday's golf was probably tho greatest ever seen In a qualifying round trom many standpoints. Not only did Jock Hutchison set a new tournament record with his 136 for 36 holes 5 under par but there were scores of cheer-bringing shots by famous stars, and several well-known well-known players failed to get Into the coveted circle of championship contenders con-tenders and, greatest of all from the dramatic standpoint, perhaps, "Chick" Evans, internationally famous for his steadiness, blew up with a 42 8 over par for his third nine of the day and was able to qualify only by an almost miraculous comeback on the final nine when he shot 35 against par. 36 JIM BARNES EXHIBIT. Jim Barnes gave a remarkable exhibition ex-hibition with his 144 Jim, present national champion, oontlnually got Into trouble, but his shots out of pits and bunkera were always far better than could have boen expected from a perfect lie In the open fairway. The officials have decided to eliminate elim-inate the penalty of a stroke on out of bound shots, the players losing only their distance. ' |