Evening star., 1932-08-23
WINS MINOR EVENT
| WITH SCORE OF 1888
Shows He Is Ready for Test
That Begins at st. Paul
Next Tuesday.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

~ HICAGO, August 23-Olin,
the larger of the two
" Dutras from California,
sounded a very definite
warning to the journeymen
golfers with ambitions to win the
National Public Golf Association
championship at st. Paul next
Tuesday, when he won the North
Shore Open here Monday. Olin,
ground out a 67-71 over the Sun
set Valley course to win the North
Shore Open by one shot and
played a superb brand Of golf in
the winning.
The North Shore Open is only
minor championship as championships
go, but with many OF the Journeymen
professionals in this vicinity for the
homebred foreign-born team matches
later in the week and the P.
G. A. next week it drew a fine
field. Included among the contestants
were Jose Jurado, the wandering Ar
gentine; Harry Cooper, Horton Smith,
a pair of Espinosas, Clarence Hackney
and a lot of others to whom par Is no
stranger. So Dutra,s conquest was
something above the ordinary, particu-
larly since his 81 in the morning es-
tablished a new course record for Sun
set Valley.
MYTH only four holes remaining to
w play in the morning, Dutra was
six under par and old Sunset field
was about to wrap up and go out OF
business under his blistering wood and
iron shots and his deadly putting. Out
in SO, he started back this wise: 3-2-
4, which means three strokes under par
But it is the little things in golf that
often count mcSt. On the fourteenth,
Olin parked his drive beneath large
oak and the shadow from the tree
caused him to misjudge the distance
of his second, which overcarried the
green and into some thick bushes
From the underbrush he played gal
liant shot and almost holed q 10-foot
putt. He dropped stroke to par on
two Of the next three holes. but I'm
1shed with handsome birdie 3 on the
eighteenth.
On the afternoon round Olin's putter
missed fire several times ana when he
came to the sixteenth tee he was told
he needed 3 brides to assure victory.
And brides was what he made. They
used to say Olin, the larger Of the two
Dutras, was not good hnisher. But
at Sunset Valley he finished, 3-4-3.
On the sixteenth he had only an
eighteenth-inch putt to drop: on the
seventeenth, which Is well over 500
yards, he was home with drive and
"a two iron and on the homs green he
left himself only four-foot putt. There
is real golf, my masterS--gof that Will
force the greatest stars to play surper-
lative shots II they are to beat the giant
descendant of the California conqui-
stadores in the P. @. A. battle.
YXJHoM do yesl suppose was second
wv to Oiin, the larger of the two Du-
tras, in the North Shore test: None
other than that gallant old warrior,
Jock Hutciison It has been some time
since the thistle haired Scot was alter
ing ct the doorSof any chamr!onsh1ps
but at Sunset Valley, he had 7t-66,
for a total of f39. Jock O. the Hutch
played fine golf from tee to green and
Will be a tough hombre IN the matches
between the home hreds and foreign
borns later in the week.
Jock tok his single-stroke defeat IN
his accustomed manner. Accosting
Dutra d1Cer the UOuIIldIllCHb Woo Of~Af
he said: I'm glad you won. Had you
tied. you would have beaten me and
nv feet won't stand any extra hoies.
TO see the old Hutch playing as he dlo
at Sunset Valley reawakened old men,
ories. II has not been so many years
since Jock, Hagen and Jim Barnes
were the big three Of American eoI,
and it was the Hutch who started the
American stampede fer the British open
championship. The Draw Scot still can
hit mashie shots with any man living,
but the longer tournaments consume
his stamina too rapidly.
MAKE no mistake but what Jose
wi Juraco, the wandering Argentine,
is a first t-rate golfer. Give that
little fellow year to accustcm MN
self to United States greens and ne
will win many tournaments. Jose mas
only recently changed from blace 10
an aluminium putter and his work on
the greens at Sunset Valley was much
improved.
This story has wandered far away
from Olin, the larger of the two Dutras
but keep an eye on him when the T. q.
A. battle gets under way at st. Paui.
DIN won the Metropolitan open WIN
282;- now the North Shore with l30
and the P. c. A. is coming up Tnree
in a row is his slogan and can't think
of any one likely to stop him II he con-
tinues to play this same brand Oh goH'