The Washington times., 1932-06-11
BALT|MOREAN
WINNER Of
TITLE
BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON

BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON
Memories of that final round
match between Ernie Caldwell,
sharpshooter from the Hillendale
Club of Baltimore, and w. K.
Lanman, Indian Spring Club,
for the Middle Atlantic amateur
golf championship will live long
with those who witnessed the
stirring duel.
Caldwell was the victor by a
4 and margin, negotiating the
course in So, two under par,
while Lanman covered the 18-
hole trip in II. The battle
ceased on the sixteenth, where
Lanman took 4, one over par,
Lanman conceding Caldwell's
putt for a par 3.
They played out the bye holes,
Caldwell getting two pars to be-
come the first amateur to shoot
the Columbia course in SO in
championship or tourn ament
competition. Lanman birdied the
17th and pared the final hole.
Several years back, Roland Mac
Kenzie carded 66, the non-com-
petitive amateur record. How
ever, Mackenzie's 66 is over
shadowed by Caldwell's 68, a
more notable achievement as 1t
was scored under the strain Of
competition.
Bid for 81 Fails
Caldwell boldly bid for 81
on the last hole, his long putt
for a birdie 8 hanging on the lip
of the cup. At that, his score
would have been 66 had he not
muffed easy puts on the 11th
and 18th. Caldwell paced off
the outgoing nine in 33, two
under par. going over par on the
second hole where he encount-
cred two traps and then over
approaching the green for a S.
Lanman was out in SO, mistakes
at the first, sixth and seventh
costing him the holes as we'll as
strokes to par on each.
Lanman played brilliant game
that would have brought him
home a winner in most cases. but
yesterday he was facing an oppo-
nent who. for the most part, need
only level his putting blade at
the cup-and the ball would roll
in, regardless of the distance.
On the short eighth, Lanman
nearly holed out his drive for an
ace, the ball hating six inches
from the pin. Undisturbed, Cald-
we'll ran down a 25-footer for a
birdie. At the ninth, Lanman laid
his second shot six feet from the
pin while Caldwell was Is feet
away. Both dropped their puts
for birdie 3's.
Three Up At Turn
Caldwell had come to the eighth
tee up and, through the medium
of his long puts at the eighth and
ninth, held this lead as they turn
ed for home. They were all even
to the fifth, where Caldwell low
cred a 15-footer for a winning
birdie 4. The Baltimorean had
assumed command at the first
hole when Lanman overap-
preached but surrendered his lead
at the second. He saved himself
from dropping in the rear with
single puts at the third and
fourth for halved holes.
Caldwell heightened his lead by
adding the sixth and seventh
with par As. At the sixth, Lam
man sliced his drive into the
rough, found the trap by the
green win his iron, recovered
neatly but blew a short putt.
He flubbed his iron into the trap
on the seventh and holed out in
two puts after reaching the
green in strokes, losing to Cald-
wells 4.
Lanman won the eleventh when
Caldwell missed an easy putt,
but dropped the thirteenth by
overdriving the green and became
dormie when Caldwell canned
a 12-footer for a birdie 3 at IA.
Lanman prolonged the duel with
a birdie 3 at the fifteenth only
to sky his drive on the sixteenth
that barely missed falling into
the ditch, thus marking finis to
a brilliant match. Their cards:
Out