Evening star., 1933-09-15

ngureQ 10 WIN III IIle pre-
tournament dope, the national
amateur golf championship moved
into the semi-final phase today,
with a 41-year-old Philadelphia
broker, who won the title just 10
years ago. meeting a phlegmatic
pre-school kid from Texas in one
semi final.
In the other semi-final bouncing
young athlete. who looks and acts like
Leo Diegel and is getting ready to en-
ter his senior year at Stanford Uni
versity. matched shots with a 25-year-
old gent from Pinehurst. a graduate
of Princeton and already a semi-flnal-
list this year in the British amateur
championship.
The middle-aged gent is portly, ro-
tund Maxwell r. Marston. Philadel-
phia's fair-haired boy wonder of other
years, and the phlegmatic lad he meets
is 18-year-old Jack Munger. the ma
tional interscholastic champion from
Little. 23-year-old son of an Army
colonel, is the college lad. Against
him is arrayed George T. Dunlap, born
with a silver spoon in his mouth. who
does little else but think. eat and sleep
golf when he isn't busting records on
the golf course.
Marston Has Experience.
TOR three of them the semi-final
round is a new experience. For
Marston it is nothing new. for
the portlv Philadelnhian has been up
there thrice and has won the cham
pionship once. as we'll as having oc-
cupied the runner-up post once.
The broad-shouldered Little.
165 pounds of dynamite packed
in an underslung frame, ranks
today as the favorite to win this
surprising tournament. which
finds not a single top-ranking
star in the penultimate round.
Max Marston has not been Walker
Cup team material for six years. Dunlap
made the team last year and shot the
Brookline course in 66 in the rout Of
the British. but neither Munger nor
Little ever has been favored with con-
sideration for the blue ribbon team Of
international golf.
The whole tournament is topsy-
turvey and anything can happen. 1t
would hardly be in the cards for
Marston to cop again, but funnier
things have happened. It would
scarcely be considered regular for
Munger to win it. either. 1t would be
quite according to the dope for Brother
Little from San Francisco to grab the
crown, for he did nothing much yes
terday but whip Sandy Somerville, the
canny Canuck who won the tournament
last year in a match that convinced
every pop-eyed galleryite that Brother
Little is not only a tenacious gent. but
Cne who knows something about play
ing the game called golf.
Dunlap Not Durable.
EORGE DUNLAP can win it. but
II George has shown nothing SO
far in his varied career on two
continents that would lead any one to
believe he can go the route against
rough-and-tumble scrapper like Law
son Little. In fact, Dunlap has the
reputation of gently folding up along
about the third round of these tour
naments. He is none too strong and
husky, while Brother Little, judged by
his looks, could kick a grizzly in the
lug and get away with it.
Mdrston is in there today be-
cause young Sidney Noyes of Ne,D
York had a brainstorm on the
3Sth hole OF their ding-dong third
round match yesterday and blew
the thing out the 1cindOU by
taking three puts.
Previous to that the boys had in
dulged in every kind Of golf mayhem
including a brace of subpar 70s in the
morning. which found them all square,
a penalty called on Noyes by Marston.
a missed putt by Noyes and grand
comeback by the same gent at the end
81 lypnrroI Nnyvpc' no II
into the hole on the thirty-sixth green
to enable Moves to square the match.
Then Moves blew it all away on the
second extra hole by weak approach
putt.
Noyes Violates Rule.
CTRANGELY enough, Noyes perhaps
lost the match because he picked
up a pear lying alongside his ball
in an old roadway on the tWenty-SlXth
hole.
Unthinking, the youngster tossed the
fruit to one side in order to make
better shot at the ball. He Immediately
was advised that he had lost the hole
for removing the hazard near which the
ball had come to rest.
Marston seems to get fat.er
with the years but he still can
good enough to beat Harry Pitt
at Five Farms two years ago,
however.
Ross Somerville, playing Indifferent
golf, never got his nose in front of the
scrapping Little Col. Little'S lad won
the second and third holes. and al
though Somerville was square at the
ninth he went to lunch 2 down. Then
he squared again at the tWenty-flfth
only to have Little bowl in a 9-footer
for a birdie at the next hole and again
60 into a lead he never lost.
colossal gallery p,owed through a
flock of transforms and play was
suspended for an hour while the greens /
difference to Little mud horse su-
preme-he slogged right along. out
driving Somervillc by yards, turning the
tWenty-seventh 2 up, going dormie 3 up
at the thirty-third and winning the !
match on the thirty-fifth, where they |
halved in par SIS
No Bobby Jones in Sight.
TACK MUNGER, who will never
create a record for fast play in a
~ golf tournament, was 2 up on
methodical Jack Westland of Chicago
at noon with 73. went UP at the
tWenty-siXth. only to slip back before
a Westland rally. but finally closed out
the lightweight from the Windy City
on the thirty fifth green. and /.
Dunlap always led Eddie Held the
hook -nosed gent registered from New
York Three up at noon with II, |
Dunlap added to his margin throughout
the afternoon play with steady golf, |
and finally beat Held by 6 and S, the
largest winning margin Of the tourna- !
ment to date These tournaments are |
not like the old days, when all you had
to do was to find some guy who was
going to be runner-up to Jones and
would whip 'em by something like eight
or nine holes. Nowadays the thing is
wide open. and there is no JONES any, |
where in sight.