The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-17
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Perfect Card
Gives Simpson
Lead at Half
Veteran Fires Par Golf to
Go Pup on Young
PettigreW.
BY DICK MILLER
Times staff Writer

BY DICK MILLER
Times staff Writer
RICHMOND, Ind, Aug. IL
Johnny Simpson, Washington, three
time winner of the Indiana amateur
golf championship, shot a sizzling
par u over Forrest Hills Country
Cub course here today to lead Leon
Bud Pettigrew, Pendleton, two
up at the halfway mark of their
36-hOIe match for the 1885 title.
Pettigrew won only the sixteenth
and seventeenth holes during the
morning round.
RICHMOND, In6.. Aug. IL
Johnny Simpson. washing t o n.
three-tim champion. was two-up
on Leon BUD Pettigrew, Pendle-
ton. at the end of nine holes in
their 36-hole championship match
of the Indiana amateur golf tour
nament here today.
The Pendleton youth. called
yellow peril by the large gallery
which followed the match because
he almost invariably wears canary
colored sweater, went down on the
sixth and seventh holes.
Simpson, champion in 1915. 1921
and 1926, had a medal score of
SO for the outgoing nine, equalling
par for the Forrest Hills Country
Club course
Falters on Sixth
Pettigrew the state junior cham
pion, was out in 38. Both competi-
tors shot par As on the first and
second holes and carded birdie
IS on the third. They matched
par in the fourth and fifth holes.
Pettigrew went one down on the
the sixth when he took a five on
the para hole. while the Washing
Jonian was shooting the hole per-
fectly.
The Pendleton youth drove into
the rough and took three shots to
get on the green. He was down in
two.
Three Puts on No. Z
Pettigrew lost the seventh hole
when he three-putted for a
while Simpson was shooting a
par 5. They halved the eighth and
ninth holes. Their cards:
Par out .............. 4i4 5S4 $3.50
simpson ......... 443 53t 544-s6
Pettigrew ............. 443 5S5 6A-3S
Winner of his first state title in
1915, repeater in 1921 and 1926. run
ner-up in 1916. 1919. 1927 and 1888,
the veteran Simpson, who has fea-
tured the present state title play
with dramatic finishes that gave him
victories in both quarter final and
semi-fln matches, battled a young
ster today who was participating in
his first state amateur tournament.
In 1921. after winning the state
amateur title. Simpson also won the
state open title. the only amateur
to accomplish that feat.
Rallies After 3Oth Hole
To gain the spot they occupied to-
day. Simpson defeated Bill Reed Jr.,
indianapolis district champion. in
a 36-hole semi-flnal match, 3 and
2. and until the Both hole of the
match the veteran was never up.
Pettigrew defeated Phil Talbot,
Bloomington star, and 2. Talbot
was runner up for the state title in
1881 and 1882 and because of his
fine play in the early tournament
rounds was looked upon as a prob
able winner over the junior champ
yesterday.
Pettigrew piled up a two-hole lead
during the first 18 holes, but was
called upon to present par golf and
plenty of courage to Stave off a
vicious rally by Talbot on the first
nine of the afternoon round. The
eX-Indiana University star scored a
brilliant sub-par 33, three under par,
to wipe out Buds two-hole lead and
be all square at the end of q holes.
Pettigrew won because he was able
to fire an even par SO in the face of
such determined opposition.
Instead of folding up. losing his
courage or his game, the lad who
first broke into the limelight in
1888 when he won the state high
school championship and who was
the lowest scoring amateur in both
the 1884 and 1885 state Open cham
pionshipS, turned on the heat
himself.
Near Hole -in-One
He tossed four pars and three
brides at his opponent on the last
seven holes. one of the brides
nearly being a hole -in-one and the
result was hardly in doubt after the
twenty-ninth hole.
Simpson qualified for this tour
nament with a 70, one over par,
Monday in the 18-hole test. Petit
grow had 81.
In the third round Simpson de-
feated Marion Coulter. Richmond,
and l. in q 36-hole match, while
Pettigrew defeated Jack Bixler Of
Lafayette, and 4.
In the quarter-fnals Simpson
staged a great rally to defeat Mark