Evening star., 1940-08-30
.5drdzen Goes 7 Up
On Snead al End
OF First Round
MeSpoden and Nelson
Toke Long Leeds Over
Runyon and Kirk

~ the Associated Press.
= HERSHEY, Pa, Aug. 30.-Gene
$arazen was 2 up on Sam Sneao
1t the end of Is holes in their 36-
Dole quarter final match in the Pro-
tessional Golfers Association cham
bionship today. Sarazen shot a So
I've under par, to Snead's 10.
Harold (Jug) McSpaden was 4
fp over Paul Runyan when they
went to lunch. gaining all his lead
on the second nine, where he won
four Of the last five holes. Nc
Spaden had a deuce on the short
14th, where he sank an explosion
shot out of trap from so feet. Nc
Spaden's medal score was 70, Run
yan's rs.
Byron Nelson also was 4 up on
Eddie Kirk of Framington, Mich.
The former Open champion shot a
pair of steady 35s for a round of TO-
three under par, while Kirk scared
TO IA and won only one hole, the
eighth. where he holed a 25-foot
putt.
Ralph Guldahl shot SO to stand
2 up on Ben Hogan at half way,
coming back with a brilliant SO on
the back nine to take three holes
from the leading money winner.
Starting at the eleventh, Guldahl
shot four brides in five consecutive
holes, sinking a 15-foot putt on the
thirteenth. Hogan had II. Hogan
turned the first nine l up, shooting
a IS to Guldahl's 36.
A 2-foot putt for birdie on the
first hole got Sarazen away to a
mead start over Snead.
I, Snead evened the match with a
25-foot putt for two at the fifth,
but Squire Gene came back with
his second birdie at the next, four,
to go ahead again.
f. Sarszen raped in 14-footer for
another birdie, a three on the sew
enth hole, and rounded the turn IN
80 strokes, two holes up on Snead
who had a one under par 35.
SaraZen OUT 345 434 343-33
Snead -Z-- 445 425 443-35
Snead reduced Sarazens lead to
one up by sinking a 20-foot putt
on the 18th but then blew an op-
portunity to win the 18th. His putt
for a birdie from 2 feet hung on
the lip of the cup, and he waited
several minutes to see if it would
drop. On the 18th he missed even
a shorter putt, not more than 18
inches.
All Even at Ninth.
Runyan and McSpaden reached
the ninth hole all even, though
Little Paul had a one-stroke ad-
vantage on the card. Runyan
holed an 8-footer on the 6rst hole
and a 5-foot putt on the seventh
for brides. McSpaden kept pitch
ing, though, and tied it on the
ninth with an iron that halted only
6 inches from the cup for a one
under-par two.
McSpaden got hot starting back
and shot three brides on the first
five holes to Jump into a quick 4-up
lead over Runyan, who was foun-
dering an ever the course. Nc
Spaden climaxed his squirt with a
birdie 2 on > the fourteenth, where
he holed out an explosion shot from
about so feet.
Nelson Increases Lead. ~
A under par 35 gave Nelson a
two-hole advantage over Kirk on
the first leg of their match. Nelson
pitched feet from the hole for a
birdie on the first and then equalled
par the rest of the way. Kirk won
only one hole, the eight, with 25-
footer for subpar 3.
Nelson scored brides on the
eleventh and twelfth to increase his
lead over Kirk to four holes and
from there on in they battled along
evenly In par figures. He holed out
from 7 feet on the eleventh and
reached the green on the 521-yard
twelfth with his second.