Evening star., 1938-11-19
Hson Ace Pass Catcher Big Menace Against Giants
Scottish Pros Kick on Links
Still Strong, Armour's Win
At Pinehurst Proves

ana IN every sense It's refreshing TO
watch these Scotsmen play together.
You won't find many golf pros
these superheated competitive days,
when every putt may mean a few
hundred bucks, pulling for the other
chap. But the Scots do.
pulled" Tommy Over.
1t just about broke Bobby Cruick-
shank's heart when Tommy Armour
stuck his tee shot in bunker at the
18th hole here yesterday and then
missed six-footer for the that
would have won the Mid South
championship by two shots instead
OF the single shot margin he had at
the finish with his 139. Bobby
squeezed and squeezed but the putt
wouldn't drop. He wore himself out
squeezing for Tommy, so much so
that he tossed his own chance to
win. Bobby finished the last five
holes like just another golfer, so
hard did he pull for Tommy.
And 1t proves again that to get
anywhere In golf you must putt. Ar
mour used just Is puts in that final
round Of 50. That's II under the
putting par of &c. But Jimmy Thom-
son forgot one fine Scottish golfer.
Andy Gibson, the Baltimore boy
from Montrose. is one of the finest
players ever to come out of Scot
land. You are going to hear more
from the man with the burr who
won the Maryland open champion
ship out from under Witty Cox s
nose last August. The sad part of
the Scottish angle of golf as it's be-
ing played nowadays in America
is that there aren't any good Scot
tish youngsters coming up. And
there are few In Scotland. You won t
find many Caledonians on the Brit
ish Walker Cup teams. But victories
by men like Tommy Armour must
warm the cookies of the hearts of
the Scots who gradually have seen
the whip hand in golf slipping away
from them. AS 1t is today. the Ameri-
can homebred professional. born
and bred in this country, is the fin
est golfer In the world. You don't
need more than the evidence of
Ryder Cup team victories to know
that.
Woods Round Finest.
Finest round played in the mid
South tourney was the SO yester-
day by Craig Wood, which enabled
the Blond Bomber from Rumson.
N. j., to tie for second place at 14O
with Clayton Heafner, the trans
planted candy-maker from Green's
boro. and John Bulla of Chicago.
Craig took S on the short sixth,
where Jules Huot. the Canadian,
had an ace. But despite the fact
that he played the four short holes
in 4 over par, Craig doomed the ball
around in SO strokes. which is three
under par. He picked up five brides
and an eagle
This Heafner fellow, playing in his
first big tournament, put on quite
show. Playing in his first pair of
spiked shoes, the big boy from Caro-
lima sighed as he walked off the
seth green and said. Thank Heav-
ems. now I can 60 to the next tour.
nament without hitch hiking. I've
wanted to play the tournament cir
cult and now can get little way
He played himself into a flock OF
steaks yesterday, when he put on a
great finish to tie for second, getting
a bird at the 18TH a par out of the
bunker at the 18th and a great 4
at the last hole. You'll hear more
from this lanky Tarheel.
Walper on to Next Tourney.
Leo Walper topped the local en-
tries with 76-7l-147 and started
early today for Columbia. S. c., and
the next tournament Leo had six
brides in his final II, but was too
inconsistent elsewhere to finish we'll
up. George Diffenbaugh picked up
on the l1th hole of the final round
after flock Of three-putt greens.
One Of those rare incidents in
golf happened to the sparse-haired
Harry Cooper, the uncrowned cham
pion of golf. Some one must have
slipped an extra club into Harry's
bag before he started and not no.
ticing the extra weapon, he birdied
the first two holes. He discovered
the extra club. making the 18th, re-
ported 1t to the committee and ac-
cepted disqualification. They don't
fool around with things like that
at Pinehurst.
Benny Loving. the smooth swing
ing youngster, who used to be aide
to Witty Cox at Congressional. took
bad on the par-5 tenth hole and
still finished with his second u for
IA. and a money position A little
better putting. little more exper-
ience and Benny will start winning