Evening star., 1938-09-16
ABBOTT, TURNESA
HOLD GOLF LEADS
4
Movie Extra Is Three Up on
Chapman-KingsIey Also
Trails at 18 Holes.
Fy the Associated Pregs.

OAKMONT COUNTRY CLUB,
OAKMONT, Pa, Sept. 16.-Pat Abbott,
the movie extra from Hollywood, one
putted nine Of ls greens today to take
Sup lead half way in his 36-hole
semi-final National Amateur Coli
championship match with Dick Chap
man, Greenwich, Conn.
Willie Turnesa. youngest Of the
famed golfing Turnesas from New
York, also led Edwin Kingsley, ore
sampler from Magma, Utah. up.
Turnesa, like Abbott, won the first
three holes Of the match and held
them to lunch time Is the chunky,
little man from Utah shot five skies.
Turnesa, Chapman Favored.
Turnesa and Chapman were IA
vored, though the galleryites were
ready for anything after week of
shooting that rifled the field of every
favorite.
Abbott won the first three holes
with birdie. par and bogey to 60 3 up
on Chapman. Pat was trapped OF
the tee on the second but recovered
with 7-foot putt as Chapman drove
to = trap and barely missed an g.
footer for = half.
Willie Turnesa also won the first
three, playing straight par. Kingsley
three-putted the first two greens and
took two over par six on the third.
Chapman daringly played the fourth
dogleg home by steering his drive the
shortcut way over the nth fairway
and then canned . l5-foot putt to
win his first hole in birdie four.
Both made par on the NTH. Chapman
cut his deficit to one hole by taking
the sixth in regulation par Is Abbott
hit . trap OF the tee and exploded
over the green.
Kingsley and Turnesa halved the
fourth and NTH in par. Kingsley
holed 15-footer for . birdie deuce
on the sixth, cutting Willie's lead to
two-up.
Chapman missed three puts from
two and four feet to mum brides and
. great chance to overhaul Abbott,
making the turn one down.
Turnesa, caught in . trap and then
. ditch, lost his second straight hole
to Kingsley's steady par on the $685.
yard seventh. Both knocked their
tee shots into traps on the 253-yard
eighth. but Willie exploded six inches
away for . gimme putt. Turnesa went
Sup at the ninth where Kingsley
apaip fOok fuo shot. to mt o,,x 80
trap. taking bogey 6.
Abbott and Chapman halved the
10th in bogey SIS. Abbott, trapped
with his second on the llth, made .
beautiful recovery to within four feet
OF the stick, sinking the putt for 4
half to Chapman's easy par. Over
the green with his third shot, on the
62l-yard 18th, Abbott laid Chapman
a dead stymie to save q half in par
Chapmans fourth was four feet short,
Turnesa Gets Wild.
Abbott and Chapman halved the
short 18th in regulation figures.
Chapman hit trap with his second
on the 18th, falling two down rs
Abbott made par. Abbott was penal
lied by 9 trap with his second shot on
the 18th, but saved 4 half as Chap
man took three puts from 90 feet
Turnesa suddenly developed a wild
streak with his woods, and Kingsley
trimmed his lead to a single hole. On
the 10th Willie drove to . trap, re-
covered four feet short, but missed his
Putt for the half He made 4 great
trap shot within two feet of the 18th
pin to save half in par. Both blew
up on the long 18th. Kingsley winning
it with bogey 6 to Willie's Z.
Abbott sank 10-footer to save 4
half in par on the 18th, one-putted
the 18th from feet to get another
half after hitting . trap and won
the 18th in bogey S.
Turnesa canned q l0-footer for 4
birdie deuce on the 18th to 10 2 up
again. He dropped one from 20 feet
for another birdie on IA, but Kingsley
tied him with 6-footer. Willie went
three up on . Is with . bogey s,
caused by . trap, as Ed Exploded too
strong from . green trap and was
weak with a return pitch. taking G.