Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-06

mana 10 l0Hu ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lliIOueh-
out the additional SO holes today.
shot barely missed the bunker at the
right, and Won Elm out drove him
by 20 yards. Burke knocked his APP
proach shot up 80 feet short and Won
Elm pitched up to within IL feet.
Burke putted up 3 feet short, and as
Herbert Ramsay, president of the Golf
Association, marked the ball, Won Elm
looked his putt over from all angles.
Just as on Saturday, that putt had to
go down to tie. And just as on the
previous day he Stroked the ball
smoothly and into the hole 1t went for
the tying birdie. George didn't put
on the theatres and Stagger around
the green as he did on Saturday but
they did have q hard time letting
Burke hole his putt. And it wasn't an
easy putt to hole either. He had left
himself feet short, and any one can
miss a 3-footer under the grinding
pressure of knowing that If he doesn't
hole 1t, it may cost him many thou
sands Of dollars But Billy holed 1t
and they had tied again.
TXJE said there were l,14s other guys
w who would like TO win this cham
pionship. Well, there were l,15l
Cilti dAlIo DdCh III May Lie quail
flying rounds and 1873 survived the
qualifying rounds and 144 started in the
tournament. And at the end Of II here
are two of them booting the cham
pionship all around this fine golf course.
One Of them may want it. but you
wouldn't think so to watch them.
These 36-hole play-offs started back
in 1928, when Jones and Farrell tied,
and Farrell won. Jones and MacFar-
lane staged an impromptu 36-hole
play-off back In 1925. but that was
because they were tied at the end of
the scheduled 10 holes So, in 1928,
the powers that be figured out If an
other tie was forthcoming So holes
would be enough. And now Won Elm
and Burke have played 108 holes and
still they were tied. II they wind 1t
up today, they will have played IA
holes. And they may keep on forever
1t never has happened before and It
probably won't happen again. But If
they had quit at the end of 18 holes
as they used to do in the play.offs
for these championships Billy Burke
would be the winner. He still may be,
but he's gone a long way to win it.
The big kick of the morning round
came at the twelfth hole. Starting
with only handful of people follow
ing them, Won Elm went into 2-stroke
lead at the second hole. which he
birdied. but Burke quickly whitfield him
down to his size by continuing his re-
lentless and successful chase after par
until the stolid eX-iron worker had
worked himself into a 2-stroke lead
through the fifth Here Billy had chung
to par, while the blonde from Cali
fornia had gone out to sea on the fourth
and fifth with brace Of 6s and looked
to be ready to blow higher than Ben
Franklins kite. In fact George got
good at the fifth. 1t might have been
far worse.
Billy sank a twisting 2o-footer to
halve the seventh in birdie IS and
they split the eighth. with Burke adding
another shot to. his lead by holing a
15-yard chip shot for birdie 4. That
pat him out in IS, while Won Elm. who
had pushed his tee shot to the right,
had a 5 and SO.
GEORGE picked up a shot at the
" tenth by making a most remark
able 4 where he was bunkered
from the tee and sank a 20footer.
Burke got a good there and they
both scored par As on the eleventh. The
twelfth hole at Inverness is SIS yards
long. down a narrow fairway with a
green tucked away on top of hill
f1anked with tall pines and fringed with
shallow sand traps. Before today the
hole has been played into the wind but
today the wind had shifted and was
behind the players. George socked out
pair of great wooden-club shots that
put him on the green in 2 with putt
for an eagle, while Burke half f1ubbed
his second shot and from the rough he
put his third shot over the green. That
left him with one Of the trickiest shots
in the game. He had a two-stroke lead
and it looked as If he might lose all
of it and maybe more. His shot must
be pitched to a green going away from
him and 1t must carry heavy rough and
land on the green. He knew Won Elm
would get his and he might take
8 or more.
Carefully he took his stance and q
niblick and pitched the ball down to-
ward the green. 1t hit on the edge
of the green. rolled down the slope
and then, with roar from the crowd,
which then had grown to stable pro-
portions, came to rest between the flag
and the edge of the cup. Instead of
a or Z. he had made a birdie 4. and
instead of picking up brace of strokes
Won Elm only halved the hole. That
was the big kick Of the round.
George took at the par 3 thir-
tenth when his tee shot was bunkered
and Burke then was three shots in the
lead. They split the fourteenth and
fifteenth in par fours but Ven Elm
took a at the sixteenth, where he
tossed the championship away Satllr-
day, and was four strokes back with
two holes to go. Burke was in the
rough from the tee at the seventeenth
and lost one Of his precious strokes
and George picked up another at the
eighteenth, where Burke was bunkered
from the tee and took q 5, and Won
Elm's bid for his fourth consecutive 3
on this hole hit the cup and stayed
out Their scores were 70 for Burke
and IS for Won Elm, which is good
enough golf in any mans language in
such a tough test as the play-off for
the open.
RARNEVELDT AGAIN WINNER.