The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-26

IF George Lance, the Hoosier ANA
l. teur golf champion, never before
felt that he was in the good graces
of the Goddess of Luck, he feels to-
day that he got all his back allot-
ment Saturday. George won the
Indiana Simon pure" champion
ship for the third consecutive time
Saturday at French Lick Hills
course by defeating Dwight Mitchell
of French Lick one up, in a great
battle that went to the thirty sixth
hole,
Dwight Mitchell probably realizes today
that If ever he has chance to win the
championship, or better yet to defeat
Lance, who has run rough shod over
not be a, better one than he had Satur-
day.
After the little golfer from Terre Haute
ran down that three foot putt on the
thirty-sixth green that assured him the
state Championship for another year., he
walked over, to the Young man Iisi VINO nso
aThanks for the Christmas present,
Maybe Mitchell had never thought of
dred gallery fans who had saw the young
hotel auditor toss away a three-up Lead
on four holes and lose q match ne nae
led from the very start, they telt aust
like Lance.
IRON the time that. Lance took
T. three puts on the first hole
he had his supporters first on one
foot and then the other as he eased
out of bad holes just because Nit
chell failed to take full advantage
of his errors. Lance shot the worst
nine holes of golf he had fired all
the week of the tournament, a 40,
and Mitchell likewise was higher
than usual with a 38.
Mitchell led UP at the turn. and then
stubbornly held on to the lead through,
by matching strokes with the champion
as they both shot brilliant 33's, one
under par. Lance cut the lead on the
putt. They halved three holes and real
izing 1t took brides to win, Mitchell fed
one on the long fifteenth and again went
TRey both tried to sink puts on the
short sixteenth hole, but each missed by
fractions of an inch. Mitchell triec for
eighteenth green after being on the green
in and took S.
Vt appeared that Mitchell was
i again on even terms with the
champions high grade game as they
walked away from the nineteenth
green with As on their cards and the
twentieth with IS. Lance had re-
ceived the break on the last hole
when he holed out an approach shot
from off the green after being short
on his second shot,
Great golf cropped out on the next hole.
Both were in traps with their drives.
Mitchell came out and to- the. green
the pin. Lance, after Changing clubs a
couple of times. picked the right one and
was inside of Mitchell. Mitchell putted
manner that when he missed the cup he
laid Mitchell a stymie:. That cost the
French Lick man the hole. for he took
two more puts and a five to get In.
Lance became daring as he realized
that he must catch his challenger soon or
putt for a birdie on hole twenty-five. He
stepped into his second shot on. the
twenty-third that give him two puts for
a and q birdie. The match was square
as they walked to the twenty-fourth tee.
Il u
Every one thought Mitchell was at the
end of his chances. However. the rudy
faced chap took advantage of Lance's
missed shot on the next hole and won
with par and then regained his two-up
lead on the next hole by getting birdie
with one pntt.
r ANCE birdied the next one to
- win, playing the short way
over the trees with his drive around
a dog leg hole and sending a beau
tiful approach shot to the pin. One
couldn't win holes from Mitchell
with fives when par is four, and the
French Lick boy again was two up
at twenty-seven holes.