Evening star., 1939-07-14
Picard Leads Metz,
Cup; Nelson 6 Up
On Harrison
Open Champion Fires
His Second IS in
Two Days
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 14-Dick Metz
of Lake Forest, ILL.,, finished his
morning. round with two brides, but
still was 3 down to Henry Picard of
Hershey, Pa, after 18 holes of their
36-hole semi final match in the ma
tional p. G.. A. golf championship
today at the Pomonok Country Club.
Byron Nelson, United States open
champion, fighting for chance to
be the first man since Gene Sarazen
to win the open and pro titles in the
same year, finished the morning
round 6 up on E. j. Dutch) Harri-
son of Oak Park. Ill. For the second
successive day Nelson shot 7-under-
par 65 for the first 18 holes.
Metz, after winning the first hole
with a beautiful birdie She sliced
his drive over the road into the
rough and came back to can q
2-footer-lost the next five holes In
succession.
Picard knocked in 4-footer to
win the second, but it was the one
shot third 235-yards that really put
Dick of his feed. His tee shot was
short in the rough, his second went
over the green and he finally got on
In and wound up with S.
Picard, meanwhile, having gone
over the back off the tee, pitched up
nicely and sank 5-footer for his
par.
Metz Takes 3 Puts.
Metz should have won the par-5
fourth, for Picard was trapped on
his third while Dick was safely on
the green. But Metz took three
puts for 6, missing three and "a
half-footer, while Henry came out of
the trap within a foot Of the pin for
his S.
Dick barely missed taking the
fifth, where his 20-footer bounced
out the back of the cup, but "Pic"
raped in 12-footer for his birdie
3 to go 3 up.
He made it 4 up on No. 6, an
other par 3. where Metz again missed
the green and Clipped poorly and,
after they had halved the seventh
in par, Henry went up by taking
the eighth. Metz, behind a clump
OF trees In sloping rough on his
drive, was short In two and pitched
up handsomely, feet away, but
after Picard, on in 2, had barely
missed a 20-footer, Metz putted
badly to take 5 and lose the
hole. The ninth was halved, Metz
missing 5-footer for a win.
Their cards:
Far, out ut----- 443 SAB 444-35
PICARD, out 433 534 444-34
Metz, out 345 GA 454-39
Nelson put it right up to Harrison,
the lean ex-Arkansan. by chipping
stiff, less than 4 inches from the
cup, to win the first; was pulled back
even on Harrison's fine pitch that
lett him three feet from the CUP at
NO. 2, and went in front to stay at
the fourth.
Pushes Wood Into Rough.
Harrison hit a bad drive here and
pushed his wood second into the
rough. Home in three, he lost the
mole as Nelson, 80 yards short in two,
chlpped up feet away and banged
IN the putt for birdie four. A
pitch to within four feet of the flag
Tor another bird made Nelson 2 up
at the fifth.
Byron missed 5-footer and
halved the sixth, lost the seventh
"here his drive caught the rough
ana ne had to play. his second
through the trees, to Dutch's birdie
s, on 25-foot putt, and then fin
lshed fast to win the last two. The
eighth he won on a great approach
ana o-1oot putt for birdie and the
ninth was his with a par.
Harrlsons hooked tee shot hit a
spectator and landed in the rough
and he was 40 feet from the can with
MS second. Nelson, also in the rough
on the tee, played a neat chin be-
tween two trees and over a short one
TO within 5 feet of the hole. Har-
rlson's first putt went 5 feet past
ana he missed coming back for a
D., while Nelson. who also was wide
With his 5-footer, still took the hole
with regulation 4.
Their cards:
NeiSon, out --- 343 433 434-31
harrison -------- 433 543 345-34
Split Four Holes.
The first four holes of the morn.
ing back nine between Metz and
Plcard were split. Metz taking the
tenth and twelfth and Picard the
eleventh and thirteenth. Dick won
the one-shot tenth when Henrv's
tee shot fell short of the green, but
PIC came right back on the 528-
yard second by hauling a spoon
second out of the rough on to the
green as Metz missed a 5-footer for
his half.
A 10-footer gave Metz a 4 and q
win at No. II, only to- have Picard
come back again with 6-footer for
MS at the thirteenth. They halved
the next three, Metz conceding
Picard an 18-inch putt for his 5 at
the fifteenth, Metz then finished
strong, arching near-perfect iron
shot that stopped feet from the
cup for deuce on the seventeenth.
He rammed home a 15-footer for
his at No. 10, where Picard was
inches wide and went foot and
half beyond from 20 feet.
Their cards:
Plcard-in ---- AS 345 434-36-69
Metz-in - 354 AS 423-34 IA
Picard leads, 3 up.
Nelson, hauled down to 2 up by
bogey on the 10th of the morning
round, didn't lose another hole on
the back nine.
Both Get Birdie As.
Both came out of the trap to get
birdie As on the 11th, Harrison