The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-17

TT took best ball score of So to
Il win the firsg pro-amateur tour
nament of the season at Speedway
course Monday and a couple Of
newcomers, George Stark and
Charlie Braughton had it. Stark,
who is well known to the older
school of golfers as a former caddy
at Riverside and later pro at Coffin
course before he moved to Cincin-
natl, is back in town teaching at
Trey-Par driving range He still
is mighty hot on his golf game.
Braughton was playing in his first
pro-amateur, but the Speedway is
his favorite course.
Stark and Braughton teamed well. They
went out IN best ball OF 30 and back
cap, which applied on certain holes. ac-
eoFalns 70 nanaicap. aided in come in
Brauehton had an individual ball Of So 43
There we're thirty-twO in the field.
eighteen amateurs and fourteen pros Bill
Mllkinson ana Jimmy Hamblen amateurs.
a asgEl, 70 team and johnny. MCGUIRE and
5 ihs I heinlein likewise paired Up after all
in a hat and the pros drew out thar
partners by lot. The drawing BY lot be-
break I'd click" or continuous playing
oy good teams. OUTSIDE Of a little re-
tba on S9pe handieapS il appears
.. Inc nrst pair under the wire. Russell
Stonehouse and Henry Simons. had a best
g. aasS nag brous e h f6nsS T g.
q this. low score we're Roy Smith SIN iO'9 and
The crowd at the first tee shuddered when
street took the first drive MANY Thought
me me s Ii,a OF MS driver would double up
timing all Of his own.
street and Smith paired well on the
holes where Streets handicap gave him a
ONLY once did the amateur falter. elise else
refused to drop e Ks t vas va sr ssGrf pu 9Esi
the sensational shot OF the afternoon
hole that he win prize for a long time.
y
CTREET is a nine-stroke handi-
~ cap player and as such he gets
a stroke allowance on the eighteenth
hole, par 5, and 468 yards long.
Many of the pros and better anna
teur players have been able to get
down in a birdie 4, but Street
proudly exhibits his card with
score of 2 for the eighteenth.
It happened this way. Street hit one
on the eighteenth tee. He hit his second
harder and he was just eight feet of the
edge OF the green IN two. From there he
chipped the ball right into the. cup for an
actual eagle. three. a score Of two. when
his one-stroke handicap was deducted
When that ball hit the cup. Streets hat
II supplied the sensation Of hole-in-one
for him.
well together and Denny, as usual. was
had best bali g. but three more Of the
: four s tie for third. fourth and nth
places and required q play-off OF four holes
to decide II. The other 67s were Bill
wilkinson and Jimmy Hamben. Bill Helm
'ein and Johnny Mcclure and Chuck Gar
ringer and Mike Pollak.
The rough caught Lester Smith and
Denny on the FIRST hole OF the play-on, and
they dropped by the wayside with S.. Hem,
lein hsd third place N the SscS 9ut m 1an,a
wilkinson who missed short putt with
win in sight Garringer also sta bbed a
short putt and he and Pollak went out OF
on the third hole wilkinson made
grand recovery from trap ana sank a
putt 70 get 70 ssss do ~; Ai n m m The
fourth hole and Mcguire had to make a
short putt tos hslve the hole. he trimmed
the Gun giving wilkinson and Hamblen
third place and Heinlein and Mcclure
A0 Other O's scores we're: Ralph stonehouse
and Pert Bruder. II. Maurice Feenev and
Jerry Wiehl 10: Massie Miller and Pate
Kries II: Bob finder and Nelson Marks,
III Bill finder and Jim Stevenson. ~:
Neal MCINTYRE and Carl Smith. "a: Noel
Epperson and T. c. Houston. q; clayton
Schulz and T. Betz. rs. and Billy moore
and Rav Robertson. 49,