Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20
YOUNGSTER BEATS
SHUTE BY z AND |.
Wonderful Approach Shots
More Deadly Than Foes
Exceptional Putting.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., Septem-
- Der 10 (R.-Tom Creavy, 20
/ year-old Albany, N. Y, pro-

feSsional, today won the
Professional Golfers Association
36-hole championship match, de-
feating the seasoned Densmore
Shute of Hudson, Ohio, by 2 and !
on the difficult Wannamoisette
course.
This highly exacting competi-
ton, which demands an entire
week of air. tight golf, and its
1000 first prize went to the AL
bany youngster because his mar
velous approach shots were more
effective than the deadly accurate
putting that Shute employed to
defeat the worlds outstanding
champions, Tommy Armour, Brit
ish open winner, and Billy Burke,
holder of the American open title,
on two successive days.
Shute's greenswork against Creavy
was even more spectacular than against
Armour and Burke yesterday and
the day before. Denny, during the 35
holes, used his putter only So times and
had 10 one-putt green's. He sank 10
and 15-footers with amazing ease, and
on the twenty-fifth hole he got a birdie
by canning one that was fully IS feet
from the pin. This achievement, al
though Shute made it appear easy,
stunned the gallery and caused Mrs.
Shute, who stood in the front row, to
scream excitedly and loudly.
Is One-Putt Greens.
That sharp-shooting, however, could
not be compared with Creavy's chip
and explosion shots. He put them so
close to the pin that he had to putt
only once on is greens and only 81
times during the entire match.
Both Creavy and Shute had many
lapSeS getting over the fairwayS. They
trapped many drives on the numerous
tricky short holes and sometimes were
ragged with their distance irons Tom
carded at 10, three over par, on his
morning round, which contained three
brides, and used up So strokes on the
II afternoon holes, cracking par on
two of them.
Shute's morning trip, during which
he shared pair of brides, gave him
76, and in the afternoon, when he
shot three more brides, he required 81
blows.
Two down at lunch, Denny gamely
set after the approach-shot wizard
early in the second round and, by hole
ing extra Long puts on the nineteenth
and twenty-fifth for brides, cut
Creavy's lead in half.
Squirt Is Decisive.
Creavy met this challenge by sharing
brides of his own on the twenty-eighth
and twenty ninth, and his par 3 on
the thirtieth put him 4 up on his
valiant foeman. This three-hole sweep
spurred Shute on to greater efforts, and
he captured the next hole with a par
4, and when Creavy missed a short
putt halved the thirty-second in SIS. He
became only / down by winning the
thirty-third with an 18-footer. which
gave him birdie deuce, and the next
with par 4, when Creavy blew another
short putt after chipping almost dead
to the pin.
Then Shute tossed away his last
chance to win. He had the honor and
hooked his drive into the rough. Then,
gambling with spoon, he put his sec
ond shot outside the fairway and it cost
him a stroke to get back on. He
reached the green in four and took the
usual two puts, dropping the hole to
the now cautious Albany boy, who
played safe for the par S that ended
the match.
MORNING GARTH