The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-09
Pettigrew Has
Early Edge in
Junior Finals
PendIeton Ace One Up on
Dale at Nine Holes in
Title Play.
BY DICK MILLER
Times stan Writer

ANDERSON, IND, Aug. 9.-Leon
BUD Pettigrew, Pendleton, took
one-up lead at the end of nine holes
in his 36-hole championship match
with Bobby Dale, Indianapolis, in
the state junior golf tournament
here today. The players got away
TO a late start.
Pettigrew shot a 80, one under
par for the Grandview Municipal
course, while Dale. state junior
champion in 1888, equaled par.
The Pendleton youth went one
up on the second hole, when Dales
second shot went wide of the green
and it took him three strokes 10
hole out.
Dale evened the match at the
eighth hole when he shot a par 3,
while Pettigrew was taking a 4. The
latter regained his margin at the
ninth hole, however, when his chip
shot landed close to the cup and
Dale conceded.
Paul Gentry. indianapolis. set a
new record of 81 on the par 81 back
nine at the course while playing in
the first flight consolation.
Dale pushed his way in to the
final match yesterday afternoon
with a semi-final victory over
Walter Knoll, South Bend, in a
match that went to the eighteenth
green before Dale, by masterful
explosion shot from a trap to with
in inches of the cup, got his par
for a win as Knoll hit a tree and
went. one over.
Pettigrew thrilled his followers
with a snappy 4 and victory over
Freddy Gronauer, Indianapolis, in
the semi-finals yesterday.
Dale Young Veteran"
Dale, a mite of golfer who is
forced to spot almost all of his
competitors so to IS yards off the
tee but who more than makes up the
difference with sparkling chip shots
and puts, has been a star at the
Coffin and Riverside courses in In
dianapolis for years, He was a
member of the indianapolis Ma
tional Public Links team this year
and in past years and threat in
any tournament in which he enters.
Pettigrew was Indiana High
School champion in 1888. For the
last two years he has been the low
amateur in the state open cham
pionship and on this particular
Anderson course he is hard to beat
In the 36-hole qualification test
last Monday and Tuesday he fired a
SO and par 10 to be tournament
medalist, and in the matches that
have followed he had been even
par or under in every skirmish.
In his quarter final match yester-
day morning. Pettigrew was too good
for Frank Schram of Muncie and
won, and 2, unleashing a string of
pars at his opponents on the back
nine.
OFF TO Fast Start
In the afternoon he battled Fred
dy Gronauer off his feet in. the first
few holes and piled up a command
ing lead. Gronauer had been doped
to give the Pendleton star a closer
battle. In his quarter final victory
Freddy busted off Jack Taulman,
Columbus star, 2 and l, playing sub
par golf
Against Pettigrew, Gronauer was
wild with his tee shots and cratic
with his irons, particularly long
pokes to the greens.
Dale won his way into the semi
finals with a 3 and 2 win over Bob
Hamilton, Evansville star
Knoll set the course on fire as he
eliminated Clayton Nichols, Indian
apolis, in the quarter finals. Mich
OILS was cratic with his irons while
Knoll was powerful from the tee.
Knoll played the same fine golf in
the afternoon while losing to Bobby
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