The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-18
LOCAL STARS LOSE IN STATE JUNIOR GOLF
CITING
PAR
BY &A Dick miller


places in the quarter-hnal field Of
eight remaining junior players bat
ting for the state championship
over West Lafayette course. They
were captured by lanky Ed Beeson
of Highland and John David OF
Hillcrest, a powerful lad built along
wrestler lines. Both we're eliminated
in the quarter-flnals this morning,
however.
Beeson staged a fine rally yester-
day afternoon to come from behind
and defeat Jack Taulman, Column
bus.
David staged the upSets of the
first day match play, defeating Bill
Russell indianapolis star. in the
first round and taking the measure
of the champion, Bobby Dale, IN
the afternoon.
DEESON had found the rough on
~ the first hole, hit tree on the
fourth, missed his second shot on
No. and the green on the short
No. 7 to be three down to Taulman.
When Taulman missed the green
on the short eighth hole, Beeson
stepped in with a par and won it.
Then both players scored brides on
No. 8 and Taulman was up.
After the tenth was halVed in
pars, Taulman shot over the green
on No. II and found ditch on No.
12-the match was all square.
The Columbus boy went one down
when he missed his second on
No, 10. An approach to within
eighteen inches of the cup on No IA
by Beeson earned him a birdie and
that hole for Cup lead Taulman
three-putted on the next two green's,
lost four straight holes and the
match, and ,.
II
VOUNG BOB HAMILTON, who
Il likes to play the first nine holes
of this course and did it in 81 Mon
cay for new course record Of IS,
was sticking his approach shots up
there dead in his second round
match against Ray Beaver of Rem
sselaer yesterday afternoon
Puts of one, six and eight feet
netted him brides, but one of them
was lost when he took three to get
in from the edge on the third hole.
After hitting tree on No. 10 and
taking six. Hamilton saw hopes of
a low round fade and coasted the
rest of the way in.
TINE gallery chose the Reed
Il Hudlin match yesterday after
noon and rightfully so. The two
youngsters put on a thrilling exhi-
bition. Hudlin found a trap and
lost the first hole and three putted
on the third to go two down. He
evened the count when Reed hit a
trap on No. 5 and three putted on
No. z.
Both were wild on the eighth hole
to take As, but Hudlin hit couple
of beautiful shots to get birdie 4
on the ninth and take a one-up
advantage.
His putt for another birdie on
No. 10 was only two feet long, but
he lost all the advantage when he
missed the green with his tee 5hct
on No. II and Reed ran down a
fOur-foot putt to birdie No. II.
Reed could not get puts down,
and they halyed the next three
holes. Then the indianapolis star
weakened and missed shots on the
next two holes. They cost him the
match.
TOHNNY DAVID caught Bobby
- Dale, the defending champion.
mapping. Bobby caught a little
shut eye" between matches and be-
fore he hardly had his eyes open in
the afternoon he had lost three of
the first four holes and halved one.
His shots we're wild and with a
three-hole lead to overcome he found
the going pretty tough. David
missed a drive on NO. 7 and lost the
hole, but came right back to drop
a ffteen-foot putt for a birdie and
win NO. 8.
Dale was short on No. 10 and
went four down. Dale hit straight
to the pin to win No II and ran
down a twenty fve-foot putt to
halve No. IS and remain in the
battle.
1t was Dayid's day, however A
hfteen-foot putt gave him birdie
on No IS and congratulations were
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