Evening star., 1933-11-13
PAUL MONEY MAN
IN TWO JOURNEYS
%LittIe Poison" Plays Safe
Game to Win at KenWuod.
Now at PinehurSt.
BY W. r. McCALLUM.

IRMLY planted on the VIC
r. tory path at the very out
i set of the Winter campaign,
dirninutive Paul Runyan,
professional at the Metropolis
Country Club of Westchester
County, N. Y, today is grooming
his war clubs at Pinehurst, N. c.,
for another foray after the money
which goes to the gent who knocks
'em straight and far.
Little Paul has made a gallant start
toward becoming the big money win
ner of the Winter circuit, for in his well
lined jeans reposeS today a check for
$780, representing first money prize in
the National Capital open chs mpion-
strip which wound up yesterday in a
whirl of sub-par and -equsling
scores with Runyan in the top spot with
54-hole total of 2ll.
One shot behind Little Poison" came
sturdy, stocky Walter Kozak from
Flushing, Long Island, the man who
should have wen the tourney but for
brainstorm on the tenth hole of the
final round, esconced at 212, while four
shots back OF Kczak came Al Hough-
ton, the Kcnwood pro, in a tie with
swarthy Al Watrous of Birmingham,
Mich, for third place. at 2l6.
Paul Dominates Tourney.
n UNYAN succeeds Horton Smith,
n the tall pine from Missouri as
the National Capital open title
holder, but the keen-faced lad from
Westchester County won only after q
stirring last nine scrap to hold his fail
ing game together over the final stretch
For Paul, three strokes in the van with
only nine holes to go. and still three
strokes in the lead with two holes to
go, almost blew himself out of clean
win of first money over the last two
holes.
From the moment Runyan fired his
opening snot in the third renewal of
the tourney on Saturday, the las
FOUNDER from New York, truly
diminutive figure in the procession of
burly gents who left the first tee, DOM
mated the tourney. He led in the
opening round with card of 10. He
led at the END of the thirty sixth hole
with twin round score of 139, ana he
finished with his tiny nose IN front
at the finish with total of 211, demon
strating once again that they do not
pay off on the tee shot in goif Yards
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game from the tee, Runyan played not
only with his clubs but with his head,
chipping and putting with the accuracy
and f1nesse that has made him the most |
feared man in the land around the
green and stretching out his long shots
only when he needed to do so.
Leader Plays Safe.
TIME after time over that final
round, where he knew he had to
play a cagey game to retain his
margin over Kozak the smiling Runyan, !
deliberately chose to play for the front
OF the green and rely on chip and a
putt rather than take the dangerous over
head route, which might lead to trouble |
His hrlal test, on the eighteenth or fifty
fourth hole, where he had to play a
firmly hit Pitch to the green and get |
down to to beat Kozak, found him |
meesing the test with his usual spartan |
like fortitude, and he knocked in g.
inch putt to become the third National |
Capital open champion. 3H
Runyan Is off to running start in |
his chase after coin to top the money |
winners of the Winter circuit. He
picked up $1,000 by winning the
Eastern open near Boston three weeks
ago, and he added $500 more to the
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by his sterling display of chipping,
putting and heady golf He may knock
of a slice Of the s2,400 that goes to
the gents in the money at Pinehurst
tomorrow and Wednesday, ana after
that little affair and one at Miami in
December he will hop rattler for the
West Coast, where gold again will
sprout from the fairways of dozen
golf courses before the regular Florida
season opens late in January.
Little Paul had no royal road to
victory in the Kenwood open yester-
Gay, even though he topped them all
throughout the tourney. For Walter
Kozak, the Stubby little Pole who held
the metropolitan P. G. A. title two
years back, pushed the winner right
down to the final putt. And had Kozak
better break on the tenth hole OF the
final round he might have pocketed
first money instead Of Runyan For
at this 275-yard, par 8 affair, Kozaks
firmly hit brassie shot took en- erratic
hop to the right, finishing behind
bunker when it might as we'll have
kicked onto the green. He pitched into
the sand and took a 5 on the hole,
where 3 would have won the tourna-
rnent for him. Refusing to let this bit
OF Ill fortune disturb him Kozak fin
ished carefully for a 36 and 10. He
put on the finest squirt of the final
Gay, scoring 68 and 10.
Horton Hot Too Late.
ITORToN SMITH, last years win
ner, scoring a dismal 80 on the
second round, finished in a blaze
OF fireworks with a SO for 224, four
shots outside the money. But AL
Houghton, Kenwood's own professinal,
sent the home folks back to their firesides
IN happy mood as he blasted out a
final-round 10 to tie for third and
fourth money with Al Watrous at 2I6.
Ine amateur prize went to Chandler
Harper, the Virginia State amateur
titleholder from Virginia Beach, with a
total of 229. Art Lynch from Winged
Foot, N. Y. won second amateur prize
With 23l, noSing out John c. Shorey
OF KenWood by single stroke.
At the end OF the second round of
the tourney the picture was this: Run
yam had added a 90 to his opening 10
for total of 139. Kozak had pulled
up with round of 68 into second place
with l42. Watrous had added 73 to
his opening II for IA. in a tie with
Willie Klein, who scored q second round
The main scrap lay between these
!our, with the others only able to break
into the picture by phenomenal round.
Kozak, out in "a. looked like the winner
until he took on the short tenth.
But Runyan, carefully and meticulously
playing his shots, matched Kozaks "a
and stood on the tenth tee three shots
in front. Although he missed a wee
putt on that tricky tenth green he
picked up another shot with a 4. He
matched Kozak's par 4 on the eleventh
and his birdie 4 on the long twelfth,
played the holes through the sixteenth
in par figures and stood on the seven
teenth, or fifty-third tee, with three
hitting the ball with the skill that had
marked his narliar nlav He was care