Evening star., 1932-06-26
LAST ROUND TOTAL
OF 66 SETS RECORD

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first nine. came home in 35 for a 6s
to tie Perkins
These scores were only a spur to the
doughty little New Yorker, who now
is on top Of the worlds golfng heap
Starting with a par and going l over
par at the second. Gene knocked in
brides at the third and fourth, picked
up another bird at the sixth, and holed
a l5-footer for a bird at the ninth
to get out in 80. He thereby picked
up three shots on Perkins, and led the
Britisher by two shots. But Perkins
had played the tenth, eleventh and
twelfth IN 4, 4, 2. SaraZen played them
in 4, 4, 3. exactly par.
Two pars followed at the thirteenth
and fourteenth, with a 20-footer lip
ping the cup for his third deuce Of
the round at the fourteenth. He ram
med home the putt that finally put
the championship on ice at the fif-
teenth, where a screaming drive split
the middle, mashie shot ended Is
feet at the left of the pin and he
holed the putt for bird 3.
BY this time the galleries which had
followed Perkins and Cruickshank had
Wildb OdthI Ndo anu
5000 people followed him up the fair
way at the long sixteenth. Gallery
marshals had some trouble with the
crowd before Gene could putt. but
finally he made a par 5. again Just
missing another birdie At this hole
Perkins had taken a buzzard 6, so Gene
led by three strokes with two holes to
20.
He was in, and he and every one else
knew it. Only a miracle could cost
him the championship now. He pushed
a tee shot to the rough at the seven
teenth. played another great iron shot
above the hole and rolled the ball down
the sloping green to get his par 4.
Ignores Noise of Crowd.
Splitting the middle at the seventy
second hole with another of the sizzling
tee shots which he had hit all day
Gene banged mashie shot into a trap
at the right Fifteen thousand folks
were banked around that green. SHOW
ing and pushing for q look at the new
champion For fifteen minutes the
police and gallery marshals tried to
quiet the crowd, but they refused to be
silenced. All wanted a look at the
winning putt.
Finally Gene, who had been quietly
waiting for silence. asked the caddie to
take the pin out and with the uproar
around him at It's height, calmly
whacked the ball out of the sand six
feet from the pin. Then he stepped up
and rolled in the putt for to win
by three shots. Sarazen had become
the first man in modern golf history
to win the American and British open
golf championships in the same year.
They say the Italians are an excit-
able race. Gene must have imbtbed
some of the stoidity Of forgotten Ger
man ancestor, for at no time while he
was in the grim chase after the flying
Perkins did hh show any sign Of an
noyance or worry.
Hitting his shots with the precision
and accuracy of well oiled machine,
Sarazen simply transformed himself
into an implacable golfing robot, put
ting for a birdie on every hole and
seemingly incapable of going over par
During that hot last 81 holes Of the
tournament only once did he exceed
regulation figures. That came on the
second hole, where a second shot slid
across the green into a bunker. He
immediately retrieved the mistake with
brace Of pars and then plodded
monotonouslv on his wav. gathering in
the pars with an occasional birdie to
make Phil Perkins and Cruickshank
more nervous.
A Truly Great Champion.
Your American golfer has a real
open champion. He won his newest
title in the most convincing way a
title can be won. coming from behind
with a burst Of golf that no one else
could match. This is what a cham
pion should do, and Gene did it today
He is a truly great champion and a
great golfer-perhaps the greatest pro-
fessional ever produced in the United
States.
OF his nerve there never has been
any question. Always a great finisher,
Sarazen never has put on such a finish
as he put on today. He won his first
championship in 1922 at Skokie with
a 90 over the last round. But here,
over one Of the worlds hardest golf
courses, he played the last round in
g. four under par, and the last 27
holes in seven under perfect figures.
He played the last SO holes in eight
better than even fours. Can any more
superlative golf be shown?