Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-11
KAUFMAN WINS
THIRD MUNY TITLE
Pittsburgh Links Sensation
Fights Uphill Battle to
Hold Crown.
BIT PAUL r. NICHOLSON.

"OREST PARK, st. Louis, August
lO.-Carl Kaufman, the SOM
ber.faced golfng clerk from
Pittsburgh, is the national pub
lie links champion for the third
straight time.
battles In his brilliant career, Kauf1-
mann retained his crown today by con-
uuering Milton Soncrant, the TOLEDO
man man, 4 and 2. In the ma! 30
hole match Of the national muny tour
nament. The match was fought on
the Forest Park course before q record
gallery Of 5000.
Catching the champion on his usual
game, Soncrant stroked his way to o
3-up margin at the end Of their first
II holes, but from that time on gradu-
ally yielded to the Nations muny links
master. Unperturbed by his opponents
margin, the champion shot almost per-
feet golf the rest of the journey. tax
ing the eighteenth hole to become but
down at lunch and then forced
through to gain q Cup margin him
self at the end of the twenty-Seventh
hole. From that time on he was
never headed and ended the duel on
the thirty-fourth hole.
Wizard with Irons.
wizardry with his irons carried the
champion to his triumph. Soncrant
vantage. but Kaufman more than
made up this discrepancy by laying
his approaches dead to the pin. Time
and again, when it looked like Soncrant
was certain of winning hole, he would
whack the pellet to within and some
times 3 feet Of the pin and snatch the
hole. Soncrant, however, was con-
tinually short with his approaches and
because Of that weakness lost what
looked like a good margin.
Kauffmann's superiority Is shown by
the fact he was but over par on the
"a holes, while Soncrant was Is over
perfect figures. Only once did the cham
pion bag a birdie and that was on 439-
yard thirteenth and remarkable pitch
shot from a sand trap, 80 yards from
the green, gave that TO him.
The two failed to halve hole on the
morning outward trip until they reached
the eighth green. A ball driven into q
creek Melted Soncrant the first hole
with par. He lost the second and third
to perfect golf, won the fourth, dropped
the NTH. won the sixth and then lost
the seventh to go down to Kaufman.
Rounding the quarter turn, l down,
Soncrant went / up again by capturing
the next two holes. After Kaufman
had evened the match on the twelfth.
the Toledo mail man came back to get
up by shooting better than perfect
golf and winning the next three holes.
Fights Uphill Battle.
Kaufman. wild of the tee and nerv-
Gus with his puts. stopped his rally
with half on the seventeenth and
then whitfield his margin to up at the
eighteenth carpet.
Not until the twenty fourth hole was
Kaufman able to break through to
even the match. so consisten and safe
did Soncrant play. Then he started his
assault He won the twenty-f1fth hole
by laying q perfect approach from bad
rough for a par (, while Soncrant took
two strokes to explode from sand trap
They halved the twenty-sixth, but
Kaufman got the next one and be-
came 2 up. For this. s-hole route he
shot par. while Soncrant's best was AZ,
or over perfection.
Kaufman went 3 up by winning
the twenty-eighth. Soncrant won the
next one and then Kaufman put the
match on the shelf by winning the next
two to 60 dormie 4. A bad drive by
Kaufman gave Soncrant his last hole
on the 325-yard thirty third, but 1t all
ended on the next one when the chal-
lenger drove the ball into a creek.