The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
By Joe Williams
Runyan Has New Invention
POrcupine' Shoes for Golf
Now Little Pro Can Press

P%INEHURST. y c. April More than $4,000 shots all
told were II 4 in the North and South Open golf cham
pionship. Some were titanic drives that went $50 yards.
Others long whizzing irons that travelled $50 yards. Not to
mention countless in-between shots to the green. But the
one thin roment Of drama the champi onship produced hinged
on a mee< iaofTensive twO-fOOt putt.
Whether this simple t~wo-footer dropped or skidded past
The hole decided whether Paul Runyan, the fryingsizer from
the Metropolitan district, set a new record for the champion
ship. lie needed the putt for a five, a round OF 90 and a
finishing total for y holes of 276, and, golf being what 1t IS,
a gallery Of 5000 stood in funeral silence while ne made 1t.
The old record I'll was set a couple Of years ago by Joe Kirkwood
over which Rnya an became the winner Of the 33d annual renewal OF
fault that there was 50 little drama in the tournament. There was no
body n the field who could give him a workout
THE hn ex-caddie from the Ozark. who looks no bigger than Earl
Il sande did when he was booting en- home a the rae track made a
one-man SHOW Of n championships, ne ~e aTt mo T. Nv eTact1v n sane
reoord-brakins @ IN the IIt Folnq a I'm sn1sme n Il hoy 10 third and walked
Ie-urey homo. eight strokes to the good in the fourth and final round d.
yam and It served notice that the -mnt as ne IS ea1eo y "a sn III gs
noe gnddr the course CURSE psr In p hole he had 20 threes, one duece and
solitary SIX
ID UNYAN introduced a new note N golhng armor in the tournament
N which may or may not have played an important part IN MS scoring
III @ 1Ie~go oS M mo- N n O gIes of II the Shoes but on the sides IS we'll. The
ocular effect was that of twin porcupnes denoing extreme mIIancy
everything this little giant Of the links does. He has a tendency to throw
the spikes dig INTO the ground. form a anchorage, and enable him to
press for greater distances without topping
NroBoDY has ever called Runysn a stylst of the vardOn-Jones type.
Iabocr- some OF the fellows refer TO him as the Al Simmons of the
game. meaning that he hits the ball with one foot in the Watero ucKet
But such criticism il. or should be all praEeworthy.
Lacking power, Runyan was forced to develop his formula TO get
distance and it was inevitable that this formula would at times outrage
the accented canons Of smooth flowing rhythm. Naturally, control under
these circumstances is more difficult, a problem that now seems TO 81 SIM
pifed by the expedient Of spikes that fasten him more securely to
the turf.
THERE are three spikes on the inside rim Of the sole, two on the out
Il side and M on the toe The shoes were made to order at Runyans
suggestion. Rmyan tells me the spikes are most helpful on the down.
swine. at the moment Of impact where control obviously is a.. important
During the first round. a IS. he was not of the line once, and in scoring
a So to finish he missed the fairway only twice.
Up 10 now there has been no formal protest against the use OF eX-
posed spikes in golf shoes. but it does not require much imagination to
vision further adventures in the field The spiked golf ball would Ger
tainly stick on the sipperi@t of green's; it would also serve IS a effective
slencer of the gabby spectator