The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-15
Talbot Grabs
One-Up Lead
Over Mcclure
Bloomington Ace Fires Sc
on First Nine Holes of
Quarter inaI.
BY DICK MILLER
Times STAFF Writer

up leaQ over JOnn MCCLURE, IN
| dianapolis, at the end of 18 holes in
their quarter final match of the
! state amateur tournament. Leon
Pettigrew, Pendleton, was five up on
Earl Thomas. Richmond, at the
/ halfway mark.
Mark Porter, Richmond, had
Johnny Simpson, Washington, two
down. Billy Reed Jr., Indianapolis,
and Dick Taylor, Lafayette, were
even.
RICHMOND. Ind. Aug Is. -
Phil Talbot, Bloomington, the SEN
/ sation of the first half of the thir-
/ ty-flfth annual Indiana amateur
| golf tournament, held a one up lead
over Johnny Mcclure, Indianapo-
lis. the defending champion, at the
end of nine holes in their 36-hole
! quarter final match today.
Mcguire lost the fourth, sixth
and seventh holes by hitting into
the rough and going one over par.
Talbot had a medal score of 80,
only three over par, at the end
of nine holes. He missed a two
foot putt for a four, one over, on
the fifth hole and took a five, two
over, on the ninth.
Pettigrew Leads Thomas
Leon (Bud Pettigrew, Pendle-
ton, the state Junior champion, held
a two-up lead over Earl Thomas,
Richmond, at the turn of the morn-s
ing round. Bad putting caused
Thomas to lose the second and
fourth holes to pars and Pettigrew
conceded his opponent a birdie two
on the ninth after the Pendleton
youth overshot and had taken two
strokes to get down near the cup.
Jimmy SimpSn, Washington, three
/ time winner of the amateur title,
was one down to Mark Porter, Rich
mond, at the end of nine holes.
Simpson had been in a ditch On
the third hole and out of bounds on
the fourth to card a medal score of
&c. Porter had a 3S, although he
was in the ditch from the tee on the
first hole and took three puts on
the ninth.
Taylor's Par Tops Reed
Dick Taylor, Lafayette, carded a
perfect par SO for the first nine
holes to hold a one-up lead over
Billy Reed Jr., indianapolis dis
trict champion.
The participants today were the
survivors Of the field of 1875 which
last Monday set out in quest of the
1885 title over the fairwayS of For
est Hills Country Club. The finale
will be played Saturday IN 36-hole
match. Todays tits also were for
Sc holes, as will tomorroW's semi
finals.
The third-round encounters yes
terday were devoid of real excite
ment in all except a pair of
matches. Johnny Mcclure easily
defeated another Capital City play
err, John Conner, 9 and 8, while Phil
Talbot trounced Max Buell. of In
dianapolis, Is and IL. Mark Por-
ter eliminated an ex-three-t time
champion, Bobby Resener of Ko-
komo, 8 and 6, while Pettigrew was
never pressed to defeat Jack Bixler
of Lafayette, 6 and 4, and Bill Reed
Jr. breezed in an and 7 winner
over Jack Poland of Gary.
! But with Earl Thomas it was a
case of outlasting John Crawford of
indianapolis through mediocre eX-
hibition in which each had 82S for
the morning Is holes and the same
count in the afternoon, Thomas
winning and /.
The two interesting scraps were
dished out by Johnny Simpson and
Marion Coulter of Richmond and
between Dick Taylor and r. l..
Kimbrough of Muncie, both matches
ending and /.
It remained for the veteran Simp-
son to dish out the real golf Of
the day.
Coulter Good in Defeat
The veteran went out in 80 in
the morning to be two up at the
nine-hole turn, but he lost the adj
vantage on the back nine when
Coulter tossed a beautiful sub-par So
at him to square the issue. Both
had 75s for the morning round.
This was Coulter'S first state
tournament. but he never folded up.
Instead he tossed a birdie at Simp-
son on No. % to cut the lead to 2
up and he halved all the other holes
on the back nine until they reached
No. 80 green and here Simpson
knocked Coulter's ball into the cup
trying to evade a stymie and the
local player won the hole and cut
the lead to one hole. The next two
we're halved but Simpson won No 35
with a par when Coulter missed the
green with his approach and that
ended it. Simpson, who was even
par to that point for the afternoon
round. played the last hole and
birdied it to complete the round in
sub par II.
The victory Of Dick Taylor over
Kimbrough is story of constant
uphill DIGGING" by a player VINO
was never up for 81 holes, but who
had the courage and the golf to
battle to victory when the opening
was presented him.
Taylor went one up for the first
time in the match with a four-foot
putt for a birdie on No. 80 and he
held the lead as they halved the
next hole in par IS. Taylor went
two up with par that won No. "a
ard he ended the match by being
up to par on No. IS and halved the
hole.
The brand e golf played this
week by Talbot makes him a favor
tie to defeat MCGUIRE today al
though it might be that Talbot, who
had brides and pars galore yeSter-
day, got all of them out of his sys-
tenn. The two have never met in
tournament match play before. al
though both are veteran campaign
erS.
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