Evening star., 1933-06-13

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GuIdahPs Finish.
.sTHE evil that men do lives ter
i them; the good is oft irtced
with their bones," remark' a
Shakespearean orator.
This seems to fit Ralph Gulhls
case. The lanky 21-year-old Tan,
playing from st. Louis, will be rertn-
bered largely in 1888 as the entryho
missed 4-foot puts on the fifteentEnd
the eighteenth greens, where one Vlld
have tied and both would have wd
Not so many remember the Want
pursuit he offered down the strch.
Playing in blazing heat where Day
walked, tyrant with a flaming syd,"
the young Texan was nine stroke lck
of Goodman with only Is holes lat.He
had started seven strokes away, AID ad
lost two more to Goodman's en- 8
and birdie 2 on the second and Iird
holes.
Yet in the face of these killingdds
he had 4-footer to pass Goodna on
the fifteenth. On this same cen
Goodman had just holed a longeTutt
than Guldahl faced. On the lext
green, the sixteenth, Goodman hac
holed slippery downhill 10-foot to
keep even. When Guldahl,s secoa A.
footer, on the eighteenth, stayed ut
two putting lapses on the lastfff
holes-these mistakes became tf1ae-
membered episodes of the day. IL
The human machine isn't peAct
and these mistakes were overshaR-
ed by as fine a piece of stretch IN
ming as any tournament will ever hoy.
The main wonder is that a 21-yea-d
golfer should have stuck so stauclR
to an almost impossible job an
should have come as close to tyig G
winning with such an overwhsinini
margin to cut away.
Runyan's Sportsmanship.
WHEN it comes to matter of O.
w bined courage and sportsmanSp,
no one in the field excelled HI
Runyan's act in reporting an incorct
score to the committee. The miske
had been made by the scorer and RI
yam had overlooked the error. Mt
morning, still in the middle of he
fight, he caught the error. He KEW
what it meant, but without any day
or hesitation he turned the gun OF T.
qualification against himself
In my opinion the penalty of Is
qualification is entirely too harsh, Is
pecially when the error is reportedb.
the player himself.
Yet the rule is there and any lpse
OF rule enforcement in an open, It'll
$50 competitors involved, would por
lead to all sorts of trouble. The cor
rect score is vital detail in an bpel
championship, vital detail to ger
player in the field. The scorer shot
be careful, competent marker and !
player should be careful in a fla
checking up. Il
In this case Runyan came out vtf
world Of credit, for it took more tar
average strength of character to peet
the situation as he did.
By the Breaks.
NEARLY all open golf CHARLTON
IN ships are finally decided y ths
breaks. For example, no ne ii
the field seemed to be hitting the al
better than Craig Wood and the wt
Dutras, yet none of the three could arr
IN one OF those sub-par rounds, ne6eo
to win.
The winner has to have the ball 'oll-
ing for him, and there are times Jller
the ball doesn't roll the winningway
even though few mistakes are mhe.
Goodman proved again what ause-
ful instrument a putter Is. He haI
fewer lapses on the green than Al
man in the field, and unless the putd
is working there is little chance to wi
The margin among the leaders is d
thin to be broken in any other way |
In Goodman's case it wasn't a matt
OF putting luck, but of putting forl
complete coolness and confidenI
around the green. You never eypecti
to see him miss anything between fol
ana seven feet-and he rarely did.
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