Evening star., 1929-12-08
DEFEATS FARRELL,
G AND 4, FOR TITLE
Breaks Aid Leo in Second
Round-Johnny Is Leader,
! Up, After First.
By RUSSELL J. NEWLAND,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

7 OS~ ANGELES, December 7.-On
the rolling fairwayS of HillcreSt
today, Leo Diegel of Aqua Cali
- ente, Mexico, met and matched
a final challenge to stroke his
way to one of the priced golfing titles
of the Nation-the Professional Golfers
Association championship. Defender of
his title, Diegel came through today to
turn back smiling Johnny Farrell of
New York in the final 36-hole match
play round, and 4.
Some 1000 persons VINO trailed tie
match today, saw, not SO much an cX-
hibition of great golf, but rather los
ing rally by the champion that was
aided largely by two unexpected
breaks" One up going into the
twenty-Seventh, Diegel added that hole
cup by Farrells putt.
The crowd hardly had recovered
from its surprise when the same Incl
dent occurred on the next hole. AS on
the preceding green, Diegel laid his
slender rival half stymie. Each time
Farrell tried to shave past and each
time failed. His ball propelled Diegel's
into the cup for unlocked for wins.
After the match had ended and
champions cup, medal and $1,000
check, he said:
I'm just very lucky boy. Johnny
rutted for me couple of times and
guess that won the match"
First Round Unexciting.
The first round was an unexciting
AFFAIR and produced some of the poorest
golf Of the tournament, but the gallery
thrilled to several brilliant recovery
shots and a few long puts whose per-
feet execution gave Farrell new lease
on life and enabled him to stop for
lunch with 1-up lead.
After the first two holes were halved,
Diegel captured the third to take 1-up
lead. He won the next three in a row
and it appeared that Farrell was in for
. first-class trimming.
The New York youth steadied to win
back hol:s z, and 9, which left him
! down at the turn. On the eighth,
great out from a trap put Farrel'S
bah less than foot from the pin, while
on the ninth he. fnk 39-foot putt
for the win
Diegel won the. 18th to 60 two UP,
bus LIST the n3-st hoe UlCn Farrell
uncoTked a sparkling niblick shot that
set his ball two feet from the cup. Far
rell squared the match on the seven
teenth when his 40-foot putt curled
into the hole for birdie 3 and dropped
his for on the eighteenth and went
out up.
After the rather loose exhibition in
the morning, Diegel got down to busi-
ness in the afternoon. He won the
nineteenth with birdie 8 to square the
match. The next two holes were halved
and Diegel won the twenty-second with
a birdie 4. Farrell evened the count
again on the twenty-third, but went
down on the next green, A bad tee
shot. pulled into the rough, and a
strong chip shot that oyerran the
green lost the hole for Farrell.
Two Breaks Follow.
The two breaks when Dieg2l's ball
was knocked into the cup followed. On
the twenty-ninth the Aqua Caliente rep
resentative received little uncalld for
aid when his second shot plunked into the
back of a spectator and bounded into
the fairway. The victim of the mis-
placed shot was Conway Tearle. AS a
result of the carom shot of the mo-
ton picture actors back, Diegel played
from a good lie and ended with half
for the hole. He won the thirtieth and
thirty-first to put Farrell dormie 5. Far
relrS hopes were shattered on the
thirty-second. After Farrell had missed
a 10-footer for a 4. Diegel dropped his
from 4 feet away to win the hole.
Championship card:
Par. out 43!5ss ES$s =,