The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-22
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TIM CAMPBELL'S Tech golf
Il team composed of Fred Gron-
auer, who shot IS, Anthony Petric,
n, Lynn Lee, 30, and Paul Gentry,
80, captured the team championship
in the second annual Indiana High
School Athletic Association golf
championship over the Speedway
course Saturday. Tech had a total
of BIT strokes, exactly the same total
that won for Jefferson of Lafayette
at South Grove last year.
Leon Pettigrew, Pendleton youngster,
banged out brilliant "a, three over par,
to win the medalist honors, one stroke
better than Gronauer Bob Hamilton of
Reitz, Evansville, had IS for third place
While Petric and Jack Taulman of CO.
lumbus were fourth with II each.
n
Columbus with a team total Of 333 was
strokes behind and the third place post
coached by Miss Margaret Kinerk and
Muncie, with 345 each.
Only two of the 36 teams entered failed
to appear They were Wabash and Ham
mond and cut the field from 144 to 1876,
but the golf displayed was high class and
the boys spoke highly of the course.
II
Bob Hamilton, Reitz star who finished in
third medalist position with IS, found
the difference between gold and bronze is
mud at least so far as he is concerned.
Bob made the startling discovery while
attempting a garrison finish to better or
equal the mark of Il that already had
been posted by Pettigren as a claim to
honOrs.
tee in even par, Hamilton found he could
make pars on the remaining holes and tie
Pettigrew for low medal.
He had a chance for a birdie on the
next hole. but couldn't get the putt down.
Then he got another par and walked up
to the sixteenth hole, short pitch over
for a birdie.
He hit the ball cleanly and it came to
rest FIVE feet from the cup. Again his MS
because he knew what he had to make
while the bows he was shooting at; Petit
marks for. others to eaual-and the equal
ing part in golf is the thing that cracks
There was long Gelay at the next tee
due TO a lost oall ahead. Then after Bob
had walloped his. drive we'll down the mid
die for 225 yards. he was DELAYED again
while aiding in the finding of a lost ball
in his threeSOme. The longer he waited
to shoot the less. became. his chances and
when he finally did step up to his ball. he
PLAYED the shot too close and it fell into
a mud-hlled trap at the front edge of the
green. Had he played the shot to the
green and not to the cup which was on
the front edge he might have come
through with a safe two puts. as there
was htty-foot of green surface back OF
His first attempt out of the mud only
drove the ball farther IN and the next
was on after he laid, back; but well past
the pin. Why Hamilton didn't take ad-
vantage, Of the ground rule permitting
laying back of mud when the ball was
lmbedded is another mistake he said he
made. but then Young Hamilton is the
type who believes in shooting his golf
shots and as long as he could see the ball
ne trleq 1t rather than take any. advan-
tage. He finally made a six and wound
up with a five on the last hole after a
His score card read 76 wAsSh gave him
third place and a bronze medal whereas
those TWO shots lost in the mud would
nave been good for a gold one.
A. L. Trester, high moguI of the l. H.
;. A. A., ran into some typical speedway