Evening star., 1933-07-09
SHUTE BEATS WOOD
| FOR BRITISH TITLE.
Has 149 to Rivals 154 in
PIay-0ff of Their Tie in
Open Tourney.
by FRANK H. KING,
Associated Press stan Writer,


- T. ANDREWS, Scotland, July
- 8.-Slender Danny" Shute,
- 26-year-old American golf
ing artist with steely wrists
and q steely temperament, cool
as the westerly breezes that blew
over the ancient linksland of st.
Andrews, today whipped his long
driving countryman, Craig Wood,
by five strokes in their 36-hole
playoff for the British Open golf
championship.
Shute scored 75-74-l49, Wood 7s-
76-l54, and the outcome was seldom
If ever In doubt from the frst hole,
where Wood shed his shoes and sox,
waded into the famous Swilcan Burn
with his niblick, and experienced the
first OF . series Of mishaps. A pair
Of IS on the first two holes cost Wood
deficit of four strokes, which he was
never able to Offset.
Shute Is Outdriven.
CHUTE thereafter always looked the
winner Although far behind
Wood on almost every tee shot,
sometimes by as much as so yards,
Shute scored a well deserved victory by
the mp stery OF his irons and the con-
sistency Of his rusty old putter.
Squatting oddly with feet far apart.
Shute rolled up shots over the wide
spreading st. Andrews greens, and
q IN
ground that the New Jersey blonde lost
at the very outset.
Shute was three strokes in front after
the first nine holes, still that much
ahead at the eighteenth. and jumped
to a six-stroke lead at the twenty
seventh. from where Woods closing
nine-hole drive in par was only good
enough to cut a single stroke from the
new champions margin. A at the
twenty-fifth hole, where Wood blasted
out Of one trap into another, was the
final blow to his fleeting hopes.
First Big Victory.
CHUTE'S victory, his first in any ma
- tional championship. marked the
tenth consecutive triumph for
American goifing arms in the British
open. He succeeds Gene Sarazen, who
lost out by single stroke in the regu-
lation 72-hole battle in which Shute
and Wood tied at 292.
Shute was no more spectacular today
than he was when shooting four
straight 73s to tie the brilliant Wood.
Until his last round yesterday and the
play-off today the Philadelphia profess
sional was given scant attention by
the galleries. but from start to finish
he was the most consistently accurate
shotmaker in the tournament.
There was not a single 6 on Shutes
cards today, whereas Wood had three,
and there were only four IS on Dennys
tally for the previous u holes. He was
not once in the famous hell bunker"
on the fourteenth hole. the yawning
trap that swallowed Sarazen alive. cost
ing him an 3. besides ending Walter
Hagen's championship hopes and ruin
ing the cards Of two Britons. Sgd East
erbrook and Abe Mitchell.
Mrs. Shute Elected.
IRIS. sHUTE, the champions wife,
VI was even more excited than her
husband She followed the en-
tire play-off and said she mentally
played every shot.
Giving up hope Of producing cham
pion of her own, Britain hailed Shute
as the next best thing, for his 75-year-
old grandmother still lives in the VII
lage Of Northam. near Westward Ho,
where his father was clubmaker before
going to the United States. The Shutes
are q well known family in Devon and
the veteran ]. H. Taylor. famous pro-
fessional at Westward Ho, was among
the first to congratulate the new cham
pion.
Shute plans to visit his relatives.
then see Paris with Mrs Shute and
play several exhibition matches in Eng
land before returning to the United
States.