Evening star., 1936-06-07
SETS WORLD MARK
WITH A 282 SCORE
Travels BaItusroI Course in
67 in Last Round to
Beat Out Cooper.
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around in 81 to shave five strokes
from Baltusrols par of 72 and finish |
the 70 holes six under the total par |
of 288.
In all he picked up six brides over
his final round, went over par once
and raped for brides on twelve other |
holes. Cooper dropped two shots to
par at the fourteenth and flfteenth
holes this afternoon to cost him a
tie with the new champion. He
three -putted the fourteenth and
missed the green at the snort
fifteenth, or he would have tied
Manero.
Maneros chief claim to fame be-
fore winning the open championship
today is a record of 276 set 2 years
ago in winning the Glens Falls open
tourney. He never has figured as a
victor in important title tournaments,
although he placed third N last
years Canadian open and won the
Catalina open in 1929. Tony played
the Summer and Winter pro golf
circuit last year and collected Sl.985
in prize money. Today he won a
thousand bucks for his four rounds
and he figures to make much more
this year in exhibition matches.
Cooper Gets Gallery.
In tie for fifth place at the end
of the third round with a 54
among the immense gallery which
thronged Baltusrol's voluminous acres
this afternoon to watch the final
round of the championship. Cooper
drew most of the gallery and a
laundering herd of 1000 persons
watched the jittery fellow from
Chicago go to the fourteenth two
under par, blow two shots at the
fourteenth and fifteenth, another at
the eighteenth and wind up with
70 for 284.
Meanwhile reports had come trio
king in that Manero, pockeyed by
Sarazen. was burning up the track
on the first nine which he did in 33,
to pick up two shots on Cooper, the 54-
hole leader with 211, for Cooper was
out in 35 over the last round. In
that 33 he bagged three brides and
never once went over par. He caught
Cooper at the fourteenth, where
Lighthouse Harry had -putted,
forged a stroke in front with an g.
foot putt for a birdie at the sixteenth
and slapped in a par 4 on the
eighteenth to finish with a two-shot
margin.
With that 282 in no one else had a
chance Picard, the tall pine from
Hershey, still was out. So were sew
eral others, including Clarence Clark,
the handsome blond from Jersey, but
the championship was in.
I'm glad ] won, and I hope / can
win again Thanks for my kind treat
ment here at Baltusr ol It's been a
great championship" Manero suffered
into the mike they handed him as he
strode off the eighteenth green.
Displays Real Skill.
MO MAN who saw that final stretch
run of Ct can doubt that your
new open champion is fine golfer.
Compact in style, chunky in build,
fattening little with advancing years,
Tony is all a real golfer should be in
the matter of shot making. For years
his Brother pros have told each other
what a fine golfer the little Italian
American is. He weighs around 1855
pounds, and it is all man behind that
ball, and not highballs, either.
Once with his Roman nose out in
front at the sixteenth, there was no
stopping the new champion. On the
seventeenth, where Cooper had bagged
a jittery par 5, Tony stuck an iron
third feet from the pin and barely
missed the putt for birdie.
He played the final hole in the
championship to the queens taste.
A hooked tee shot left him a long iron
over bunker to the green. He knocked
the ball 30 feet from the cup, ran al
approach putt up 8 feet away and
walloped it in with definite finality.
No gent with jitters is this new cham
pion. He doesn't baby the ball. He
hits it.
Not Case of Cracking.
COOPER didn't crack. Seventy three
in the final round of the open
championship is good enough for any
front runner. But when a guy gets
as hot as Manero did today no one
can do anything about it. And Cooper
was four holes in front of Tony, where
the new champ knew exactly what he
had to do. They don't toss in Cts in
the final round very often.
Witty Cox of Kenwood wound uo
the championship with a final day
of 141, for total of 289, in tie with
KY Laffoon and Henry Picard for fifth
place.
He won $3.50 for his four rounds.
Witty tied the old course record with
a round Of So this morning, but slipped
back to mere par round of 72 this
afternoon. Par didn't get far in this
championship. Mac Smith, the old
Carnoustie Scot, did it with 288 and
finished fourth, where in many other
years he would have won with strokes
to spare.
The front runners of the first two
days hardly figured at all. Runyan
finished with 290, Picard with 289,
Mangrum faded back to 292 and the
best Shute could do was 291. It all
proves again that red-hot round in
the right spot will win any champion