Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-14
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! TW0DOWNAT 18TH
Trails West Coast Youth in
Amateur-Noyes and
MarSton All Even.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, September 14-Fight-
ing another battle against elimination
Ross Sandy" Somerville was down
to William Lawson Little, jr., 22-year-
old San Franciscan, today after the FIRST
Is holes of their 36-hole quarter final
match in the United States Amateur
Golf Championship.
Somerville managed to hold Little all
even for the first nine, but the defend
ing champion was unable to match the
Western youths sub-par golf and spec
tacular recoveries on the back stretch.
Little negotiated the last nine in "a,
one under par, and carded a 70. His
most amazing recovery was on the
fifteenth, where, after driving into q
ditch and taking penalty stroke, he
reached the green with 150-yard
mashie iron wallop and hurdled a
stymie with a niblick, holing the ball
from Is feet for half in As.
Dunlap Up On Held.
George T. Dunlap, jr, of New York,
Walker Cup star, gained the biggest
lead of the morning competition by An
ishing the 10 holes 3 up on Eddie Held,
his rival from the metropolitan district.
In the upper half of the draw, l8-
year-old Jack Munger of Dallas fur
nished another surprise by gaining
lead of up on Jack Westland of Chi
cago, the 1881 runner-up. while Sid
ney w. Noyes, jr., New York youngster,
fought his way back to even terms with
Max Marston, veteran former champion
from Philadelphia, in the most spec
tacular duel Of the morning.
Noyes, 3 down with to play, finished
the last nine holes in an electrifying 80,
three under par. Chipping and putt
ing with deadly accuracy, he regained
the lead only to have Marston square
the match again with his sixth birdie,
on the seventeenth. Both cracked par
for the round with 70S.
Somerville appeared somewhat tired
after his two marathon matches yeSter-
day and lacked his usual accuracy with
his irons, although he carded "a
Dunlaps par II gave him a fair-sized
lead over Held, but the latter rallied
from a shaky start to hold his inter-
nationalist rival on even terms through
out the last nine.
The sun broke through after another
overnight downpour. The course was
still soggy and many bunkers looked
more like water hazards than sand
traps.
N0yes- Marst0n.
Noyes. meeting the thick-set, hard
hitting Marston, plunked his second shot
into trap on No. !. but exploded about
five feet from the cup and got his half
in par As. The col!egian went l up
at the short second with an easy 3,
while Max pulled his tee shot into a
bunker and took three more pleWS to
get down.
Marston laid a brassie shot on the
562-yard third within four feet OF the
cup and bagged a birdie to square
the match. 1t was fine recovery after
being trapped of the tee. Noyes was
partially stymied and took 5.
Noyes went up by taking the fourth
in par MarSton was bunkered.
Max evened the match on the 1874
yard fifth. sinking l5-foot putt Tor q
deuce while Noyes took two puts.
They halved the sixth and seventh
in par.
Noyes Clipped up and sank a 7-foot
putt to save his on the sixth. He
was trapped on the next with his APP
proach, but again recovered by blasting
within 10 feet Of the cup and holing
out for a 4. MarSton was straight all
the way.
Marston spurted into up lead by
taking two holes in row. He was Out
in SO. even par. Max Won the eighth
when Sidney overplayed the green and
took the ninth by getting down an g.
footer for his 4. Noyes was in the
rough all the way and carded D.
Noyes. out 80. 4 3 5 5 4 5 5-38
Marston, out 4 5 4-36
Starting back. Marston uncorked q
blast Of syb-par golf for three holes.
but Noyes eefused to crack and halVeo
two of them. Max got down Is
footer on the tenth for birdie 5. He
nearIy drove the 3l5-yard eleventh and
chipued dead for another birdie 3. He
placed his tee shot only eight feet from
the short twelfth and got that putt
down, too.
Moves, after barely missing q long
putt ON the tenth, sank lO-footer Oh
the eleventh and dropped an l8-footer
on the twelfth for brides.
Marston was only 5 up after THIS
barrage and then lost the thirteenth
to Noyes' third successive birdie. ON
this hole Sidney's long iron stopped
only six inches from the cup for 8.
Max took the regulation four and was
only up.
Noyes cut Marston's margin to ! up
when Max OverShot the fourteenth
green and took to Sidney's 4.
Moves continued his dazzling come
back. Squaring the match on the nj.
teenth. where Marston was stymled and
going l up at the short sixteenth. Max
was lust off the green, but f1ubbed his
! second and took to Sidney's 8.
Marston squared the match with his
sixth birdie, Oh the seventeenth, where
his third shot stopped only feet from
the cup. to clinch 4.
Moves putt from 10 feet for blrole
hit the back Of the cup and bounced
out.
Marston hoped a stymie on the
eighteenth, using SPADE 10 get over
Moves ball from about two 1eet from
the cup. This gave Max hall IN tours
and kept the match all even.
Moves. IN 3 2 3 4 4 3 S 1910
Marston. tn..3 3245 S 4 4 1910
Munger Westland.
Munger. the well-built, bespectacled
Texas youngsters, played Westland IN
the upper half match and went l up
forthwith by annexing the first hole'
Munger ran down 15-foot sidehlll putt
for a birdie 8, while Jack took 4.
Both were trapped on the second
but the Chicagoan made the better re-
covery and holed 3-footer for a WIN
ming 8, squaring the match.
Munger's third shot on the long third
nearly hit the pin. The ball stopped
only a foot away and the birdie was
winner for the Texan.
Westland came back to square mat
tiers on the fourth when Munger g.
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