Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-10
PRO GETS Sl,@.9
IN WILTSHIRE LODE
Runs West Coast Winnings
Above $1,000 In Triumph
at Los Angeles.
BY PAU. ZIMMERMAN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


T OS ANGELES, January TO-
Craig Wood, a sturdy young
L. Fastener who had heard
that there was gold in
CALIFORNIA; golfing hills and wales,
has struck his third lode.
The blond and beaming profess
sional of the Hollywood Country
Club, Deal, N. J., won the eighth
annual Los Angeles open cham
pionship at the Wiltshire Country
Club late yesterday with a sub
par total of 281 for 70 holes.
Victory brought him $1,525.50. which.
coupled with his triumphs In the San
Francisco match play tourney and the
Pasadena Open recently, made his
earnings in less than a month Of divot
digging exactly s3,232.39.
Cool as a veteran under the fire OF
the other members of the field of So
players, Wood came home with a final
round of IL, even par, to win by four
strokes. He never was over standard
figures for the barranca burdened
course. He started out in a tie for first
with SO, two under; slowed down to a
II on the second round, giving him q
tie for second, and then yesterday
morning banged out an impressive 70.
WOOD won the battle from a man in
w his own threesome, Leo Diegel,
Aqua Caliente, Mexico, profess
sional, who twice has won the National
P. G. A. title. Larrupin' Leo trailed
k,x,f CD ~ he vryiA
tie for second place with methodical
Willie Hunter, Los Angeles. They COLI
lected S932.25 each in prize money.
Diegel was bit unsteady on his last
two rounds after starting out with two
70s. He wavered to 10 in the morning
and rallied to 70 in the final Is.
Hunter. former amateur champion Of
Great Britain, but now driving range
professional lost his schance for first
place on his third round. He started
with a 70 on the first day and then
added SO, the lowest round of the tour
ney on Sunday, but slipped to "a yes
terday morning. A steady par II
brought him back into the golden glow.
Into fourth place swept Harold
Sampson, Burlingame, Calf, with q
sparkling 68 for his final round. This
gave him 287 total and $685.. Charlie
Guest, another Of Deal, N. US profess
SIGNALS, after leading at the halfway
mark, finished fifth with 288 to earn
$395.
THE tournament was hard on the
l. champions. Gene Sarazen, New
York. national open champion Of
the United States and Great Britain,
who made a flying trip here for this
and the Aqua Caliente tests, was forced
to quit after 81 holes and was taken to
Santa Monica hospital with a high
| fever. His condition was reported
| favorable today.
He played the third round despite a
severe cold which left him in a near
| state of collapse. Physicians said he
could not appear at Aqua Caliente and
that he would be confined to the hos
pital several days.
/ Olin Dutra, Santa Monica, national
| p. G.. A. champion, finished with as294,
13 strokes behind the winner, and re-
ceived only $34.50. Macdonald Smith,
New York, three times winner Of the
tourney and defending champion. was
In tie for sixth place at 289 with
Eddie Loos, Chicago, and Fred Morri-
son, Pasadena, Aqua Caliente champion.
Each won 1925.
Ten thousand persons attended the
| tournament over the three-day period.
making the gross gate receipts SIS, 1865
available for the prize money. Five
| thousand dollars had been guaranteed.
The golfing parade was headed toward
old Mexico today. for the annual Aqua
| Caliente open tomorrow.