The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-15
SPECTATORS COP
 GOLF BALL, STOP CHARITY MATCH
Coolest Gallery in Golf History Breaks Up MOn-
 tague-Ruth Duel
BY STUART CAMERON Limited Precs Sports Edit0r)

NOAAhsSNA SS SS DESASS
 New York, Nov. l5-(UP)-John Montague remains the mystery man of golf today.
 Twelve thousand unruly fans up- set his introduction to his future public on the fresh Meadow links yesterday, and forced him to retire after playing nine holes of a sched- uled 18-hole exhibition match with Babe Ruth, Babe Didrickson and Mrs. Sylvia Annenberg, one of the East's finest woman golfers.
 It was probably the biggest crowd in American golfing history and 1t was the first time sports event had to be abandopec because of the size of the gallery.
 The fans literally walked on the heels of the players, swarmed through sand traps, and paraded across greens with utter disregard of anything except 8 desire to get a closeup view of the show.
 So today mysterious Montague '' friend of Hollywood's golfing cele- brities and central figure of many Bunyanesque links story, remains an unknown-because his public re- fused to let him play.
 Montague was paired with Mrs Annenberg against the two Babes in an exhibition in the name of charity at the rate of $l per head Bill Corum and Grantland Rice who ran the show, reported that 10000 tickets were sold. Anybody can guess at the number who jumped the fences of the Fresh Meadow club. The popular estimate was that l2,000 followed the bizarre exhibition.
 Probably nobody saw more thar half dozen shots by any one play CT. Even golf reporters, experienced in finding their way through the mob, were stymied by the oddly assorted gallery.
 Babes Won
 Final decision of Scotty Chisholm the Los Angeles golf writer who flew here to referee the match dressed in brilliant red kilties, was that the Babes won, 2 up. There were no medal scores because Monty and Mrs. Annenberg eacl, picked up on two holes and all picked up on the ninth. Monty was four over par for the holes he holed out. So was Mrs. Annenberg, Babe Ruth was three over and the other Babe, who played the best golf of the day, was two over.
 The exhibition convinced some that Montague is really a golfer. He smacks powerful drives and long second shots. He's deadly with his approaches and puts accurately, That's all any golf star has to do. He might have done more if 1t hadn't been for the crowd.
 The crowd will go down in golfing history as one of the most fantastic ever put. together. Probably not more than one out of every six had ever seen golf shot made, even from public driving range. Once Ruth was addressing his ball for a IS foot putt. A spectator walked straight across the green, and strode between the Babe and the hole. He didn't seem to under stand the rebukes from the golf- minded spectators. Ruth just grim ned.
 Costumes of the spectators were something to remember. Instead of tweedy clothes usually seen in a links crowd, there were high -heeled pumps, black-veiled hats mink coats and cocktail frocks.
 All of the shots were made through narrow lanes of spectators. Sometimes the gallery moved in so close that the players couldn't .ake complete backswings. On the sixth hole Montague hit spectator while making long approach. On his next effort he parked the shins of another while addressing the ball. So he picked up.
 Near Hole In One
 Best shot of the day was made bv Mrs. Annenberg, a tee shot on the l83-yard, three-par fourth. The ball stopped within two inches of the pin. The crowd made such an uproar that everybody at the tee thought she had made hole-in. one. Photographers rushed out and ordered Monty to kiss his partner He obliged six of them, one by one,
 Next best shot was Monty's chin onto the first green, a 20-foot nib lick which was an inch wide of s birdie three.
 Babe Didrikson was the longest driver. She was a good 275 yards out at the first and was consistent ly long. Monty's best drive came at the Sa3-yard third where he cut across two out-of-bound lines marking a dog-leg to lie within a few yards of the green.
 There was something crazy about every hole but the dizzest was the ninth, a lS5 yard one shotter. Miss Didrikson shot first. The ball was sliced into the spectators. One oi them picked 1t up and rolled 1t onto the green. Each of the other three shots was similarly sliced and sim. ilarly "hand-mashied" onto the green. Then the crowd broke loose stole the four balls and the show was over.
 Here. what there is of 1t, is the card of the exhibition:
 Par out 4A4 354 44s--aE Montague out 445 35x 65x--xS Annenberg out 555 355 x5x-xS Ruth out 445 354 55X-XS Didrikson out 535 354 55X-xy x--Denotes A nickiin