Evening star., 1935-06-30

)LIMAx1NG a record-breaking
squirt of golf with a subpar
performance that left his op-
ponent f1oundering far in the
rear, 2l-year-old Ed White of Texas
University licked 19-year-old Freddie
Haas Of Louisiana State by and 4
yesterday to win the national inter-
collegiate golf championship.
White played 80 holes of the final
match In level par to wind up four
days Of match play with a par-shat-
tering performance which never has
been equaled in the 37-year history of
the intercollegiate Golf Association.
The narrow fairways and heavy rough
of the Congressional Country Club
course, where the tourney ended yes
terday after six days of par busting,
from Bonham, Tex, who wound up
three years of college golf competition
by winning the title.
Haas, the tall, lanky runner-up, Is
sophomore at Louisiana State and
has two more years of college golf in
front of him. A cool and collected
SHOEMAKER and a perfect Swinger, he
likely will win the championship, but
yesterday he was up against a COM
petitor far too hot for him or any
one else.
Sets Killing Pace.
WHITE halls from a little town
wv which has only 5000 inhabi-
tants. Haas is the son of New Or
leans professional. White played 129
holes of match play in the college
tourney against five opponents in three
better than par over a course where
the best medal score in the qualifying
round was p, which gives some small
indication of how hot the Texas boy
became once he got into the match
play rounds.
He whipped, successfully, John
Boyd of Bowdoin by 2 and /, with a
one-over-par score; Charlie Kocsis of
Michigan by and 4, ending the
match four under par; G. A. Menard,
Jr., Of Penn State by and 3, with a
card one over par; defending cham
pion, Charlie Yates, in the semi-flnal
by and 8, with score one under
perfect figures, and he shot 80 holes
of the final round in level par to out
club the imperturbable Haas boy.
A slim sprinkling of spectators, far
below the expected galleries, watched
golf as perfect as that ever seen in
any national tournament. White quail
if1ed with a 36-hole score Of 155, but
once he got into the match play
rounds he became rampaging robot
OF the links, a man whose sole aim
and ambition was to beat par He
did 1t and In the doing he won the
intercollegiate championship.
Takes Penalty Stroke.
ONE down to the lean Haas boy at
the start of the final 18 holes
OF the scheduled 36-hole final, White
early gave an indication Of what was
to come. He had finished the first
ID holes shakily, calling a penalty
stroke on himself at the thirteenth
hole of the morning round, and
missing a couple of puts which the
White Of the previous matches
wouldn't have blown. At lunch time
he announced that he wasn't going to
miss any more short puts.
He opened the afternoon campaign
by cracking two booming wooden club
shots to the fringe of the green at
the nineteenth, and chipped dead for
a winning birdie to square the
match. He missed 4-footer to win
the twentieth, but he went into the
lead with par 8 at the twenty first,
when Haas tee shot found a bunker
and White holed a 6-footer for his 3
after overrunning the hole with his
approach putt. They split the
twenty-second in par, and Haas blew
3-footer to win the tWenty-third,
only to hole a 5-footer to square at
the twenty-fourth
White went into the lead he never
was to relinquish at the twenty-f1fth,
the seventh of the card, where he
played a great iron shot from the
rough at the right and won with
par when Haas chip was weak.
White also won the twenty-sixth with
bird to go 2 up, when Haas
second shot found a bunker and he
missed the shot out.