The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-07

Al ESpinosa
Is Winner of
Rich Tourney
Score of 288 Takes V. F. w.
Open; Runyan Lowers
Course Record.

Open; Runyan Lowers
Course Record.
It's the stretch drive that takes
the payof. Omaha had it in the
Kentucky Derby this year, the Cubs
had it in the National League pen
nant race and Al Espinosa, popular
Akron 90 pro, had it yesterday at
Highland Golf and Country Club to
capture the first annual Indianap-
oils $4,000 Open golf championship
with a total of 289 for the 72-hole
test sponsored by the Veterans of
Foreign Wars for charity. First
place meant a winning of $1,000 for
ESpinosa.
Trailing the leader by two strokes
at the end Of the first Sc holes Sat
urday night, ESpinoSa battled his
way up into tie for the leadership
with a rs in the round of 10 holes
yesterday morning and then came
home tWo-Stroke winner with
brilliant even par 70 in the after
noon. ESpinoSa's opening round
Friday was 70 and he had a 70 Sat-
urday.
Paul Tallies IS
Another stretch finisher was Paul
Runyan Of White Plains, N. Y, who,
after being we'll down the list in
18th position at the end of SO holes
with a 152-total, came back yester-
day to slash IA strokes from that
total and scored 1873 for the final Sc
holes to finish just two strokes be-
hind the winner. To accomplish
this Runyan had to shoot a daz-
cling sub-par new course rec
ord Of 65, five strokes under
course par that gave him a place in
a three-Way tie for second place
honors with 200. Others who had
the same count were KY Lafoon of
Ravina, Ill, who was leader at the
end of So holes with III, and Ray
Mangrum Of Pittsburgh.
NoSed out of tie for second by
one stroke was Ralph Stonehouse,
former indianapolis pro and former
Miami Open champion, now of
Noblesville. Ind, who missed a short
putt on the last green that would
have given him 200 instead of 291.
Reed High Amateur
Bill Reed Jr., Indianapolis Dis
trict champion, headed the list of
10 amateurs who were permitted to
play the final So holes of the To-
hole test. Bill had a total of 80,
representing rounds of 75-77, 1880
for his total which was three
strokes better than Mike Pollak of
indianapolis, who had 313. Mike
nosed out by one stroke Phil Talbot,
of Bloomington, and Fritz Cox, of
Terre Haute, who tied with 314
each.
Indianapolis links fans finally
awakened yesterday to the show
that was on at the north side course
and large crowds followed the stars
during the final day of play. News
that Runyan was burning up the
course brought crowds scurrying
across the fairways to watch him
put on dazzling finish of 1873 on
the final three holes, each birdie
He had six of them on his card.
Others followed Light Horse Har-
ry Cooper who, with Walter Hagen,
held the former course record I'M
til yesterdays performance by Run
yam. Cooper and Hagen each scored
a IS while, playing in the Western
Open at Highland in 1926.
One Under at Turn
Runyan, the national P. G. A.
champion, almost slipped in with
his great round unnoticed by the
galleryites. He Clipped in from off
the edge on the second hole and
dropped in a 15-foot putt for a
birdie on No. 6. Six pars on the
other holes left him two under
when he walked to the ninth tee.
He pushed his second into the
bunker and lost a shot coming out.
but a five still left him one under
with "a at the turn.
From there on Paul clicked off
Wa ~ pas EC4OAC QIQppIllS III d H.
foot putt for birdie on No. Is and
he got his par on No. IS, Pars lin"
mean IS. the same count that
Lafoon fired Saturday afternoon for
the best round of the tournament
to that point and no one matched
1t yesterday morning.
Makes 25-Foot Putt
But Runyan was after a record
and he felt it coming when he sent
in screaming one from Is feet on
NO. Is, He made puts of Is feet
look easy on Nos II and 18 and
with them came the new record.
hdnyan's card matched against par
follows:
Par Out -. 445 444S 4-S5
Runyan 49,. 1 3 4 4 ) 8 4 8 5-34
Par In ..,... 4 3 5 4 3 4 t-35-35-.0
Runyan 4 3 : 4 g 3 3 3-S1-34-s5
Sam Parks, Pittsburgh, National
Open champion, finished with 3O6.
while Alfred Perry, British Open
champion, found the going too tough
to get by the 36-hoie mark and did
not play yesterday.
Al Espinosa, the winner, turned
III the following card:
PAR OUT ... 5 "a 4-35