The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
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Laying fiat on his. stomach Ralph
used a niblic to hoist the ball out
and on to the green and got out
without serious damage.
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Louis BOla, Highland assistant pro, and
equally as rard hitter as his boss, Neal
Mcintyre, had bit of bad luck that gave
him a 73 in the first-rOund instead Of a
II. Louie had short putt on the second
hole and it stopped on the lip of the cup.
Instead of tapping it into the cup, he did
as he frequently does in match play, batted
the ball away from the cup. He replaced
the ball and putted out later, but with
two stroke penalty, and it was 70 instead
Of IL for Bola.
7. @. Houston, an amateur player from
Elwood. displayed a great shot on the
eighteenth hole when he over-drove the
green and laid his ball against a bush I'm
able to make a right-handed shot, Houston
took his putter and took left-handed
stance and then made a sweet shot to the
green thirty yards away.
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All the boys who played with Herman
(Chief) Layer, Aurora pro, speak highly
of the young fellows game. Herman is
the chap who shot an individual 6S in the
record held by Johnny Simpson. On Tues
day, he fired an even par out on the first
nine and then came home with nine con-
secutive pars. being on and down with two
puts just as par is written on all holes
except the eleventh, where he missed the
green with his second shot, but he chinped
up dead and was down with one putt.
Herman formerly caddied over this course
when his father was greenskeeper.
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Neal Mcintyre and Billy Heinlein each
had splendid chances to break the course
record or at least equal it when they hung
up their SOS in the first round Tuesday
morning.
Neal missed short putt on the first
three puts on the seventh. He had few
opportunities to better his second nine
except that he had chance for another
birdie on the sixteenth.
Heinlein got in a trap and found his ball
buried on the third hole and putted miser-
ably to take FIVE on the ninth. He like
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two-foot putt on the eighteenth green.
Mrs 1eola Gibson. manager of the
club, entertained the pros and their wives
in grand style Monday night with a din
ner and dance, Beautifully. decorated
tables with small cut outs Of the lead
ing players on the club. miniature sand
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the center OF the tables look golf course
style. The gang danced until the wee
hours and the fact that several we're
not so fresh early Tuesday was easily
eXplainable. Anyway Mrs. Gibson scored
better than par with the pros and their
wives.
Louis Bola was not the only one who fell
victim to hard to take penalty. Freddy
McDermottt. ShelbyviIle pro and one of
the best iron shot makers in the state
took a two-stroke penalty because his
caddy was unable 70 get the pin out of
the cup in time to avoid McDermott's
approach shot from off the green strik-
ing it.
The peculiar thing about golf is the
way some players hang up scores. Johnny
Watson, state champion in 1880, would
be in favor of giving the player who is
regularly down the fairway an advantage
Of points.
Watson was playing with Johnny simp-
amateur and open champion. After both
turned in their cards at the end Of
thirty-six holes Simpson ask Watson how
many strokes separated them. Watson
said he had ISL and Simpson had 153.
simpson got great kick out of the
fact that. as he explained it, he was in
the traps woods and rough as well as
oyer the fence onto the railroad track and
still had l53, and Watson who was straight
every fairwsy and never in the rough was
Just two strokes better. OF course some
luck on puts partly was responsible for
Watson'S score. Simpson gave some great
exhibitions coming out OF the rough.