Evening star., 1939-07-27
Sun.Baked Baltimore
Course Is Terror
To Meets Best
Grind No Longer Worry
To OIiveri, Loser in
Tough 18-HoIe Tilt
BY WALTER McCALLUM,
Star Stan Correspondent.


BALTIMORE, July 27.-Golf's S
lower crust workmen moved into
the second day of sudden death
18-hole matches over the Mount
Pleasant course here today, but NO
matter who grabs the national
public links title the chiropodists
will win. Where the upper crust
of amateur golfers play their title
tournaments over springy, we'll
watered fairways. the public links
boys play, this year at least, over
q golf course with all the spongy
spring of well-seasoned chunk of
concrete. The gent who wins this
championship next Saturday after
noon will need the services of a
foot doctor even worse than this
course needs rain.
Oliveri Bows Out.
Three or four days ago the fair
ways at Mount Pleasant were in
good shape, following several days
of rain. But since a week ago no
rain has fallen, and the fairways
have been beaten down by fair
sized galleries to the consistency of
the Lincoln highway. A burning
sun has baked them out, and the
ball gets tremendous roll. Putting
green's are well watered but those
fairways are tough, and getting
tougher on the swollen feet of the
boys remaining in the tournament
But Andy Oliveri, the chunky
boy OF Italian descent from WASH
tngton, won't have to worry about
1t any more. Andy can rest his
aching dogs for while, all because
tall, lantern-jawed Ted Gwin, out
of Tulsa, Okla, dumped a 25-foot
putt into the can at the 18th hole
yesterday for winning birdie. Up
to that moment the second round
match between chunky Andy and
gangling Ted had been as close
as grandmas red woolens, even
after Andy dumped his second shot
into a trap at the 18th, with the
match all square, and then Clipped
out two feet from the cup. Care
fully squirting down the line of
his 25-footer, the lanky Oklahoma
boy nudged that ball into the cup
like an Olympic marksman.
Four-Hole Drama.
All the drama of that match was
crammed into the last four holes.
Square at the 18th, Andy dumped
his second shot into a brook to go l
down, halved the 18th, and then
played one of those pulse stirring
spoon shots feet from the pin at the
18th, to win with a birdie and
square. Then came Gwins big putt
and the end. But Andy didn't play
well. He had his worst round of
the tournament, when he needed a
good one.
But that was a tough way to
lose" laughed Andy. Just after
had gotten square and felt I would
win"
First verbal fireworks of the tour
nament came in the Marshall
Springer Molinari match, which
the big Molinari, a traffic cop from
San Francisco, won by 3 and 2.
Springer is a cocky 16-year-old from
Chicago, with what amounts to a
deep distrust of his fellow golfer At
one hole he walked over into the
rough to inspect Molinaris lie. They
INDUCED in few little pleasantries
around the course, but it was all in
fun, so Molinari said. Hes a good
kid, and you shouldn't be too hard
on him." said big Jim, after the
match. But one of the United States
Golf Association committeeman con-
graduated Jim with the remark:
Good work, Jim. That boy needs a
little talking to-"
Armstrong Tough to Crack.
More and more you get the
idea that kinky-haired, 21-year- old
Arthur Armstrong, the shipping
clerk from Hawaii, who travelled
some $500 miles to play in this
tournament, is going to be tough
to nudge out of the title. Frizzle-
haired Armstrong, typical Hawai-
ian, weighing around 130 pounds
has become the darling of the gal
leries. He has ready smile, quick
retort and a good golf game. So fa1
he has played St holes of this tough
course in over par. That wouldn't
be good enough in a pro champion
ship, but it's good enough in this
one.
He isn't the longest hitter in the
tournament by quite a few yards
and he freezes over his puts until
you wonder if he'll ever come out o1