Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-07
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COLT VS.. VET
IN TITLE PLAY.
Sparks Gets Golf Chance With
Resener at KOkomO.

KOKOMO, Ind, Aug. To-day tbs
golfing skill of Bobby Resener, Kokomo
star, who has weathered many weary
! battle on the links, was to be tested
by Baxter Sparks of Terre Haute, just
out of his freshman year at college, and
not far past that stage in the game that
he has played with great form on the
Kokomo Country club links this week.
The youth and the veteran were to
meet in the final thirty-six hole scrap
Of the Indiana state amateur golf cham
pionship tourney.
Dope, what there was of it, favored
Resener because Of long experience in the
game but not because he has Outclassed
! the yOungster to great advantage IN
the tournament.
A solid week of tournament golfng is
both a physical and mental strain and
many times the brilliant players crack in
the final rounds before the steady old
war horses. That is what few of the
gallery expected Sparks to do today.
YOUTH EXPECTED
TO MEET TEST.
However, the majority of those who
gathered at the first tee long before time
for the match to start were Of the opin-
ion that the Terre Haute boy would give
the veteran one of the greatest battles OF
his career, and possibly send him down
to defeat.
The Resener- sielken semi final round
match yesterday was booked as the
headliner, bus the indianapolis player
went of on balloon trip after tic
first nine holes, letting R2Sener take
things as he wanted them, and when
night came it was realized that Sparks
and Taylor had staged the real thriller.
Sparks won his match one up, while
Resener was eight up with seven TO go.
Resener was never down TO the Indi-
annapolis star and former state cham
pion They reached the 1rst turn with
ruth inc
ninth hole, but after that the Kokomo
man opened up with a display OF bril-
liant shots that took all the fun out OF
the show. Sielken's early play was not 50
bad as it appeared TO be when com
pared with the doings Of Resener Inc
Kokomo representative had a lot of ex-
ira class and he used every bit OF 1t.
MATCH DECIDED
AT THIRTY-SIXTH HOLE.
The Sparks-TayIor match was decided
at the thirty sixth station. Both men
drove into the bunker to the right OF
the home green and the toss OF a coin
decided that Taylor should play nrst.
His mashie pitch to the green failed,
his ball hitting the bunker and rolling
back into the sand. His next shot was
on the green, but his fourth did not
sink Sparks won the match when he
sank his putt for three.
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thirty-first hole and it came near cost
ing him the match. Both men droys
into the ditch on this hole and had evil
dent unplayable lies. Taylor dropped
back and took his penalty, while Sparks
tried TO make his shot, only to lead his
ball into a worse position. He vas lucky
to halve this hole.
In the committee cup finals of thirty
six holes, DrOnberger of Terre Haute beat
Hunt Of KOkomo. l up in 81 holes.
In the presidents cup. Young Byrns
Of Lafayette beat Tuite of Indianapolis,
. and g. and Shaffer OF Riverside, IN
dianapolis, beat Hamill of Highland, In
dianapOlis. and 3.
In the directors cup flight Biedler OF
Lafayette beat Ledbetter of South Bend,
up.
In the secretary's cup fight Richard
Patten won from Bert Ijams, II up
and 10.
Hurst OF KokomO won the finals in the
goodfellowship consolation with Frank
Blinford of indianapolis, the runner-up.
In the gOodfellowship flight Calender
won the hnal with McCullOch, taking the
runner-up trophy.