Evening star., 1932-12-21
CALDWELL-LANMAN
MATCH HA|R-RA|SER
Kick in 0uimet's Round at
Five Farms-Great Rally
by Sarazen in Open.
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

\N/ thrills OF 1882, the major
Y heart -throbs of year
of competition which
specialized In pulse-quickening
situations along the bunkered
pathway?
Was SaraZen's great last nine at
Fresh Meadow to win the open
championship the biggest thrill of
the year? Was Francis Ouimet'S
stand aga::r.st George Voigt in the
first round of the amateur cham
pionShip the main pulse-Quick-
ener, or was it the smooth strok-
Ing OF Ross Sommerville to win
the championship at Baltimore, a
rank outsider coming from behind
to NOV down all the big shots of
the game?
None of these gave this reporter the
kick he got cut of one of the really
great competitive rounds of golf this
year, round that for sheer brilliance
been equaled in amateur golf around
Washington.
This was the exhibition that Ernie
Caldwell of the Hillendale Club Of Bal
timore put on last June at Columbia
TO beat w. K. Lanman Of Indian Spring
in the final round of the Middle At
lantic Golf Association championship.
For stark drama and pop-eyed thrills
1t surpassed anything the year pro-
duced
Caldwell shot a 68 over that Anal
round to beat Lanman's II by and 2
Both rounds were played out.
D1cTURE Caldwell, . lanky. free
L swinging youngster who never be-
fore had won major tourlla-
ment. ordinarily poor putter. pitted
in the final against methodical ma
chine-like golfer. Lanman was Of that
type, a man who made few mistakes,
a scrapper from the first tee shot and
as fine mechanical golfer Is any
player around Washington. The day
before the final he had picked OF five
brides in a row in the second match
play round of that Middle Atlantic
Tourney to score IL.
After a tame start. the fireworks
started at the long NTH hole, where
Caldwell holed a l4-footer to go I up.
He won the sixth with I and the
seventh with another 4 to 60 3 up.
But at the eighth Lanman decided to
put a stop to this procession. He
played high iron shot stone dead to
the pin at the eighth From the tee
it looked an ace. Caldwell laid an
the hole in birdie deuces with q 15-
foot putt They halved the long ninth.
one of the hardest holes on the course
in birdie IS, both sinking lengthy puts.
This string Of brides put Caldwell
out in 80 against Lanman's 36. And
Caldwell had the reputation Of being
an indifferent putter. Lanman won the
eleventh. but Caldwell won the thir-
teenth and the Baltimore boy stood 3
up on the fourteenth tee. At that hole
he struck home the thrust that killed
Lanman.
Well inside CaldweH=after the second
shot. Lanman watchen the lanky Bal
timorean whip out his magic putter
and roll 25-footer right across the
green and into the cup to win the hole
and go up.
But Lanman was not yet done. For
sheer grit his exhibition on the fifteenth
has seldom been equaled. He was
dormie 4 down to an inspired man. who
could do no wrong. but he didn't quit.
He stuck a spade shot within feet OF
the pin at the fifteenth and won the
hole with another bird. Could he win
three more and square? Caldwell said
No For he matched Lanman's shot
to the green at the short sixteenth, and
both were down in the regulation two
puts, bringing to an end the most
spec cular match of the year around
Washington.
EOR sheer brilliance of execution
i nothing ever done even by Bob
Jones, even those 31s shot by the
Atlanta master over the first nine at
Minikhada in 1927 equals the 80 which
Francis Ouimet shot against George
Voigt in the first round of the amateur
championship at Baltimore.
That hackneyed phrase, '-unbeatabl :
has been applied many times. but never
has it been truer than in the case Of
that round by Ouimet. The defending
champion was not only fiawless from
touch was rolling 'em in from any ano
oil angles
George got out in a sub-par "a him.
self. and was down TO Ouimet's 80
They thought the Five Farms course
was tough but that round made it look
easy Ouimet's stand was one OF the
great thrills of 1882 golf for the day
before he had qualified with but single
stroke to spare.
Undoubtedly the biggest nationa
thrill of a year Of golf thrills came from
Sarazens last round charge at Fresh
Meadow. The stalwart little Italian
American, fresh from record shatter'
ing victory in the British Open. came
to Fresh Meadow, where he had beer
the resident pro for three years, strone
favorite to win. The first two rounds
found him far back of the leaders
Dutra and Jurado-with bunch Of
others strung along between them ane
Sarazen.
Gene played the third round in 70
closing with a "a over the last nine
And Just as he did to win his frs1
championship-back in 1922-he ended
with a burst of speed that left all hi:
competitors gasping for breath, stroke!
behind the swarthy little New Ycrker.
Gene holed q 20-footer for q deuce Al