Evening star., 1937-08-29
Comedies Foe a Birdie.

GOODMAN, meanwhile. approached
to within feet of the pin. Bill
lows came out too strong and the
ball rolled IS feet past the cup His
putt, too. was bold, and overran a
couple of feet.
The match ended then. Billows
smiled, walked over to his rival and
shook hands, thus conceding Good
man birdie on the thirty-sixth.
At no time was Billows in front.
Goodman shot the first nine in 36,
one under par. to Billows 81 for a
one-hole margin. He was up at
the eighteenth and up at the twenty
seventh
Goodman won the second with a
par 4, Billows finding trouble in the
rough and having a weak out. They
halved two holes, the 510-yard fourth
In birdie IS and Johnny made it two
UP With par on the next
Billows' second shot banged against
the pin on the eighth and he won
1t by tapping the two-inch putt in
Tor birdie B.
The Omaha boy took the tenth
With par to 60 up again, Billows'
second shot carrying over the green
and hitting a tree to fall in deem
rough.
BilJovs Is Stymie Victim.
WO brides, 2 on the 182-yard
eleventh and 3 on the 44e
YARD twelfth, put Billows on even
terms with his rival The New Yorker
rammed down - and 30 foot puts
respectively.
Billows lost the thirteenth when he
Jailed to jump short stymie. but he
squared the count when Goodman
was unable to get 5-footer down on
she next hole, taking a bogie 4.
A birdie on the 5l0-yard fifteenth
resulting from a 70-yard approach
efx feet over the cup-put Goodman
one up again and he made it two on
the sixteenth. where Billows was
trapped and muffed the out. They
halved the last two holes on the morn
ing round in pars.
O'c S1ilC Oup dlUSI luLlCH 10 WIN
the nineteenth with an eagle 3, putting
his second within a foot of the cup.
But Goodman regained the hole with
par on the twentieth and halved
the next two.
Billows' par won the twenty-
alrd, but Goodman retaliated with a
birdie on the twenty-fourth and a
par 4 on the twenty-flfth to 20 3
up, a lead he held as they moved
through the twenty
A sty1nie cost Billows the TWENTY
eighth and he seemed destined to 20
down to one-sided defeat as Good
man posted fourhol advantage.
RUT the youngster from New York
wasn't through He pitched up
Fom a bank to within feet to win
the tWenty-ninth with a par 8. while
Goodman was messing up the hole to
take 5. The next three were halved
IN pars. Billows kept pounding away
to win the 5l0-yard thirty-third with
a birdie after knocking his third up
w "i1ilIH leeG OF tne cup.
Johnny meanwhile bobbled on an
8-foot try. the ball stopping 6 inches
away. That made the count 2 up in
his favor. Billows won the thirty-fourth
with a standard 3. Goodman con-
ceded after chipping weakly, then
overrunning the pin.
They halved the thirty-ffth in As.
1t was up and to go. Billows made
his one last try. 1t failed. The
crowd gave great ovation to a new
champion
The medal scores were the same
for the day, in reverse order In the
morning Goodman scored 70 to Bill.
lows 73, and in the afternoon it was
Billows with 70 and Goodman, 49,
The total for the day, 145, was over
par.
During the 36 holes, Goodman bag
ged four brides. and was a stroke
over par five times Billows snagged
an eagle and two brides and was
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