Evening star., 1927-10-02
PROS FINISH ALL SQUARE
IN FIRST HALF OF MATCH
Best Ball Links Battle for s. 900 Purse Transferred
to Lakeville for Final 80 Holes After
Staemate at Congressional.

il the latter pair plav as tWell "a they
played yesterday-and Armour and
Farrell as poorly. Exact medal play
scores for the quartet could only be-
approximated, as when tho hole was
won or halved. the other ball was
knocked away and no attempt made
tn putt out for the medal score. Smith
had an approXimated 68 over the
morning round, with several conceded
puts. the hest exhibition of the dav.
which ended with Smith and Sarazen
up on Armour, and Farrell. mainly
due to the brillianCy of the I.akeville
pro.
Armour was the big gun for his
team over the morning round BUT
the afternoon match, before Il greatly
augmented gallery. found the situa-
tion reversed. Where Armour was
the mainstay of his team in the morn
ing. he played relatively poor golf
in the afternoon. leaving much Of the
burden to Farrell. which the New
ORR lad with the Irish name carried
brayelv ana gamelv.
ON the other side OF the picture
Sarazen was the fair-haired boy. step
ping in where Smith fell down To MAIN
tain the lrad for his side To the final
hole. where Armour and Farrell both
Armour. however. rang up a brace Of
birdie 2s over the last nine Of tue
afternoon 1onSt, normally good enough
10 Win b":h holes. But the tacit,lr1
smith, his ominOusly accurate put.er
swinging smoothly against the bs-i,
haINed them both. However, he didn't
naive one deuce. the one John Farrell
secured at the thirteenth, where a
2Oiooter found the bottom of the tia
Vi TORS Get Lead FIRST.
First blood was scored by the visit.
ln~ pair In the morning, when Sara.
Z, sank an S-footer for at tina
short third, only to have Farrell run
in an eagle 3 at the long ffth and
Amour sunk a birdie at the SIXTH.
Ihe visitors squared with birdie 4s at
the eighth, where Armour took thres
puts. The ninth was halved, and
smith got n birdie at the tenth.
while SaraZcn got birdie / at ths
twelfth to put his side - up. Thati
tine way they finished the mOrninq
round, although Tommy sank Il .uol
putt at the fifteenth to halve the ho!s
In birdie is. and Smith got down a
Sood one at the eighteenth to have,
Tommy stuck Il high iron shoi
inches frcm the pin at the second ilai
OF the afternoon round to win. only
20 have Sara=cn snatch the hole hicJ
with birdie 3 at the fourth And
Farrell got down a birdie 3 at tht
sixth 10 win. They turned with Smith
and Saraztn still / up. They split tn,
tenth in 5s and Smith and Armou,
halved the eleventh in 2s with Sara.
@on winning the twelfth in 4. Ru
Farrell came right back with a deuce
to win the thirteenth. and the neyi
n in
his side | down and to play, Ar
mour stuck Il spade mashie shot lea
than lS inches from the hole at tht
snort sixteenth. only to get a han
when Smiths : smoothly moving put
ter again rolled the ball into the hoN
for and "a half. They split thu
seventeenth in par Is, and everv
thing pointed TO a victory for Smith
and Sarazcn.
But Armour and Farrell. calling OF
an they had. both drove the green al
the eighteenth. while Smith hooked Il
bunker and Sarazen pushed ont
away off to the weeds on hillside al
the right. Smith got out of the bun
ker well, hut missed a fiva.foot nutt
for the half. conceding Armour and
Farrell their puts for SIS.
Best Ball Scores.
The best bali scores follow:
MORNING ROUND.
Out
f21. famqar and Farrell sia3i455ttt$sEssi
Smith and sarazen. 542 So
In
Par... ~ 53534434 4-35-~i
Smith and Sarazen. 1 "a "a 33 ( 3-31-6l
Armour an Farrell 3 > $ 2 3-33--fi
AFTERNOON ROUND.
Out
Armour and Farrell 53344344 3-33
Smith and Sarazen. } ) , y 1 + SIS
Armour ami Farrell
a:5 "44e4 43-31-6+-13i
Smith and Slrazen
). t3l4" 4--3.,-6S-II