Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-26
DOLP DEFEATS NOVOTNY
FOR WESTERN GOLF TITLE

By the Associated Press
" OBJ O'LINK CLUB, CHICAGO.
u August IS up Defeating three
star golfers from the Pacific
Northwest was Just trifle too
big a job for Gus Novotny OF
Chicago. especially when the last of the
trio shot within four strokes OF par for
SO holes
So Frank Dolp of Portland today be-
came Western amateur golf champion
for the second time in three years by
beating the fighting Illini 4 and 3, after
the Chicagoan had downed Bon Stein
of Seattle, defending titleholder, and
Or o. F. Willing. Pacific Northwest
amateur and open champion.
The former captain of the University
of Illinois golf team did not give up
without a terrific struggle, although his
ragged game In the morning put him
s down and he was seven holes TO the
bad when Dolp took the nineteenth
with a birdie.
Makes Game Fight.
Then the sturdy young Chicagoan Of
Bohemian race bent his back TO what
proved to be a hopeless task. But he
made the best Of it until, after halving
or winning IS holes straight and cutting
the lead to 3 up he finally became
conscious Of the precarious position ana
missed 30-inch putt on the thirty
third green To lose the hole 10 Dolp'S
eighteenth par, to say nothing OF seven
brides the Portlander had.
Novotny had taken 81 strokes on the
first round while Dolp with an excel
lent 70. despite a poor on the ninth,
.IN l.
partment He was outdriven ut times
by Novotny, but his irons and putter
worked to perfection, except ON two
holes.
He pitched stony 10 the pin on the
l65-yard fourth for deuce, Novotny
conceded birdie at the long nfth,
where he missed two shots and he
Clipped In from the apron of the green
at the seventeenth for birdie 3.
Novotny sank n 7-foot putt for d
birdie on the long eleventh, but he
missed several of even shorter scope,
found traps and rough and approached
inexactly He lost three holes in a row.
beginning at the fourth, but cut the
lead to 2 up at the ninth. His nitdie
st the eleventh left him down, but
ne then lost three more straight to be
down and dropped the last two notes
Oh the tbuUu 10 De tioWlis
He was "a different Novotny when ne
emerged from luncheon,
The game of up did not suit Gus
after losing the nineteenth and after
having the twentieth. He took the
twenty first with a par. The twenty
second was halved in par 3. and ne got
a birdie on the 545~yard twenty
third. but Dolp sank l2-foot putt Iof
half
A birdie not proving good enough Tor
win, Novotny tried an eagle on the
495 yard tWenty-foufth and that sue
ceeded. although nothing less would do,
for Doip got birdie
This disconnected Dolp for time and
he took three shots to get out OF
trap al the twenty~fifth green and lost
To a par. but was still 4 up TneF
haived the next two. both getting
above par on the twenty~seVenth De-
spite this slip. The Chlcagoah haa
reached the turn in 81, or below par
while Dolp, with bad on the twenty
NTH, was only 80
Approach Hits Woman.
Still playing like wtldfire, Novotny
got his first lucky hWak at the oDo"yato
tWenty~cighth, where his pushed APP
proach hit Il woman IN the gallery aho
stopped on the slope Of the elevated
green and he Clipped dead for halt
IN par,
They halved the twenty~ninth and
the Oregonian. who had not won a hole
IN 10 chances. pitched inside NaVotny
at the 200-yard thirtieth. but Gus put
ted within 4 inches OF the cup from
50 feet while Doip was even closer
from 10 feet and they haiVed In par >,
Lead X
M at the thirty~first where Dolp got
IN two traps and took 8, but he could
get no better than half at the thirty
second This INSIDE the thirteenth hole
that Noyetny had either halved or won
and he seemed 10 have sure nan on
The 4i5-yard thifty~third D0lp got
down all right as usual, but Novothy,