The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-06-28
OL IA GENTRY BADLY INJURED, COPI0T KILLED. IN AIR CRAS
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on the brink from IL feet and he
didn't get the birdie he deserved.
The Chicagoan hit his second over
the bank at the twelfth green. He
found himself with a mean lie, but
his rejoinder was to hit a mean out
to within two feet of the pin for
a birdie. This was a golf shot II
ever there was one.
However, Albert or Aloysius, as
the case may be, Immediately
flouted prosperity with 5 on the
para thirteenth. Here he took all
of four puts.
Having done this, EspinOsa holed
a 2O.footer for a birdie 3 at the
sixteenth. The seventeenth saw
him trapped with his second to
take a s, and the eighteenth fooled
him with that first putt, which
meant the difference between the
lead and a tie.
Saraxen started his round with
six successive As.
thing the chief of staff ordered, al
though a stiff breeze was inclined
to hamper control somewhat.
Of As as though he was playing
one Of the nearby public links. He
hit a great shot off the first tee,
pitched his second safely over the
traps and ran down two puts. At
the second, his par 4 might well
have been a birdie . for he missed
an eight-footer by less than one
inch.
Gene then lost a stroke to par
when he pulled his tee shot at the
217 yard third and failed to hit the
green. but the fourth saw him
smash two shots home and two
puts down for another perfect 4.
Nearly An Eagle
A pluperfect followed at the fifth,
SIT yards from tee to pin. He
was just short of the green with
two woods and almost sank his
chip shot. This would have given
him an eagle but he accepted the
birdie without noticeable chagrin.
The 323 yard sixth found Sarazen
playing ccnserVatively, not a
notable characteristic of the little
Italian. Anyhow, he used an iron
and got a par 4.
So, having split the pin for q birdie
Q at the 170-yard seventh and being
short with his second to take q
buzzard at the eighth.
Putter Saves Him
Sarazen left the straight and mar.
row after the first nine and only
his putter kept him in the low
seventies. His iron shot from the
tenth tee caught a trap and Gene
caught a in consequence. How.
ever, after playing the next two in
a couple Of fighting pars, he re.
claimed the stroke at the thirteenth
with 20-foot putt for a birdie 2.
A 12-footer also went down at the
fifteenth for a birdie and, while
he was off the line to take a buzz.
card 5 at the seventeenth, another
putt and another birdie at the home
hole reclaimed this gesture.
Here, he tried to carry the rough
to the elbowed fairway, but the ef-
fort was short and fell in the grass.
He hit his approach none too well.
but it had plenty OF run and climbed
the hill to the green. Then he hit
a perfect 2o.foot putt on the line
all the way from blade to tin.
Peter o'Hara, 3s-s7-Ts-15O: Johnny
36-71-144: Joe Kirkwood. 41-4l-s2-
1879 Jack Sabol. 3S-3s-77--154: Jack
White. Scotland, 41-45-S6-158: Marshall
Crichton, 42-3s-s0--164: Bill Leach. AZ
37-79-15s: Charlie Isaacs. Fredericks.
Golf SUNNI aries-Gene sarazen, $3.50
-71-142; Jack Cummins, 51-38-Ss-
1877; Walter Hagen, 3s-42-SI-157:
Louis Chiapetta, 38-41--79-157: David
olgilvie. - picked up end first nlne) !;
c. w. Gambler, 44-37-S1-157: Al Espi-
nosa, 35-37-72-142; George Smith, as
39--77-154: Jim Barnes, 36-42-7S-l56.
John Goodman, Lakewood, Omaha,
Neb., 3s-A1-s0-13s; Tony Manero,
Elmsford, N. Y, 40-39-79-160; Harry
Hampton, Chicago. 39-39-Ts--1bs;
James Johnston. Toronto. Canada. So
43-S2-162: Jack Hutchinson, Golf, I'LL,
! 39-39--78-161.