Evening star., 1932-09-04
BEATS TOM CREAW }
IN 3-H0LE MATCH:
:
Plays 0Iin Dutra, conqueror
of Ed Dudley, for Pro
Crown Today.
BY PAUL NICHOLSON.
Associated Press Sports writar


Associated Press Sports Writer.
= I. PAUL, Mimi, September 8.
Turning back a dramatic
~ challenge by Tom Creavy in
a stirring overtime struggle
OF SO holes, Frank Walsh of Chi
cago today joined Olin Dutra, the
par-buSting toreador from Santa
Monica, Calf, in the final of the
national professional golf cham
pionship.
Creavy, fighting the battle of his golf
ing life to keep his crown, wrote q
comeback saga for the northland gall
leryites over the wind-tossed Keller
course. Eight down after the morning
round, he stormed back in the afternoon
to square the match on the thirty-sixth
green and then tossed it away by muf-
fing five-foot putt on the second ex-
ira green.
Dutra fairly romped into the finals
with 3 and triumph in a battle of
the giants against Ed Dudley of Will
mington. Del, grabbing fsur-up mar
gin in the morning with brilliant 81
his fourth score in the sixties during
the tournament-and playing with fair
comfort during the afternoon except
for brief fiurries by his rival as the wind
played tricks with their pellets.
NTALSH'S struggle against the 22-
w year-old Albany, N. Y, youth saw
one of the most remarkable come
backs in golf.
Walsh, playing slowly and deliber-
ately enough to make Creavy nervous,
went right out with a par-cracking IS
on the front nine to zoom to four-hole
lead. He stretched it to four more on
the back nine of the morning to obtain
his stunning lead Of up, banking tina
slipping champion without single hole
on the entire round and breaking par
by one shot with fine IL.
But in the afternoon, their medal
scores were exactly reversed. Walsh
never a good player against the wind,
began to slip on the twenty-flrst hole
and Creavy tore into him. He started by
dropping his approach two feet of ths i.
pin for birdie 4 on 81, captured the
next three holes with pair of deuces
and a par 4, hesitated as Walsh won the
LWc1lLy W sO y uP again dl1t t1lCA
barged through with pars on the last
two holes of the final outward nine to
shave Walsh's lead to three.
THEY swapped the twenty-ninth and
i thirtieth with brides and still stood
holes apart after halving the 3lst
and 32nd as they fought the wind of =.
the thirty-third tee. 1t was there that
Creavy whirled through his staggering
rival.
He won SO and "a with par as Walsh
missed the green and putted poorly
and squared the tusSle on the hnal
regulation green with a six-foot putt
for a birdie that pivoted on the cup
and dropped But his magic puttef
turned against him after they came
to the thirty-eighth green.
Both were 20 feet from the cup with
their seconds and 5 feet away with then
puts. Creavy studied the slightly roll
ing lie carefully and missed. Walsh
sank his for the conventional par and
it was all over.
DUDLEY might have given Dutra
- e royal fight right down to the
final green today If he had been just
a little luckier with his puts. On the
front nine of the morning, he almost
matched Dutras great 80 with SO,
despite two missed puts from six and
five feet.
The big Castillian rushed right on
over the back nine, won three more
holes with a 35 and shut Dudley out
to go to lunch with a prohibitive
I'D margin Dudley had carded medal
score of II, one under par, but 1t sim
ply couldn't add to 81.
Even IS couldn't gain single
hole on the first nine OF the afternoon /;
as Dutra swapped two apiece with him
with another 35 to round the three
quarter turn still 4 up. The matcn
ended on the thirty-fourth with both ;
PLAYERS almost exhausted in the battle
against the wind that blew tents and
yalleryite hats all over the fairway.
Because of his great record this
season and his par smashing tendencies ,
during the current Championship drive,
c-s>a ranks as forbidding favorite -
for tomorrow's 36-hole final.
Picking up from his triumphs in the -
Metropolitan and North Shore (Chica- =
so) opens, he has tanned par by exactly =
Is shots since last Tuesday over the .
!, ,686-yard Keller range. winning the
medal with 140 strokes.
Walsh, however, has been a greatly
golfer since his serious acci- n
lent in an automobile crash during
he Phoenix, Ariz., Open, last Winter. !,
After suffering for eight weeks with
ractured skull, he went back to the
,olfing wars better than ever, walking
much slower but hitting 'em farther.
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