The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-08
YOUNG TEXAN GETS
$500 TOP PRIZE
Mangrum Wins Second Money
With 2S4 Score; Nelson
Cops Third Place
BY BILL BONI

Jimmy Demaret, who takes every
thing with a grin, good or bad, broke
out one of his extra-special, face
wide smiles today when he accepted
a check for $1,000 that represented
victory in the seventh annual Au'
igusta Masters Golf tournament.
Laughing Boy" the man who
was carrying most Of the pressure
on this final day of the four-day
championship, never showed a trace
of strain as he toured the Augusta
National Golf club curse in II, o.-e
under par. This gave him a 72-hole
total of 2S0 that was only one shot
higher than the record set a year
ago by Ralph Guldahl.
While he was playing beautiful
golf all the way around - he had
seventeen pars and M birdie-the
lads who had been with him in the
race up to the 54-hole mark were
folding up all over the lot. Lloyd
Mangrum took a two-over-par IA
that gave him second money of $500
on a 284; Craig Wood and Sam
Snead, who had been tied at PIP, re-
manned that way as they struggled
around in 76 each for 2S8, and Henry
Picard, starting the day four strokes
back of Demaret, also wound up
with 288 on a f~inal-round rs.
This combination of poor rounds
let four strong finishers come in be-
tween Mangrum and the 288 shoot
ers. Open Champion Byron Nelson's
70 gave him 2S5 for third place and
$500, while Harry Cooper fired a 10
and Home Pro Ed Dudley and Will
lie Goggin of San Francisco each
shot us, to bracket all three of
them at 287.
Demaret put on a great finish be.
fore a crowd estimated at 10000, the
biggest in the tournaments history.
He got into trouble only once, on the
tricky third hole, and recovered from
that to save his par. With a few
breaks on puts. he might have won
even more decisively.
Successor to Ralph Guldahl os
Masters champion, Demaret started
his final round, in company with
Henry Picard, before a tremendous
gallery. The Texas Tiger didn't give
them anything particularly spectac-
ular to see, but he did give them
the satisfaction Of having followed
the winner.
On the first hole he missed a five
foot putt for a birdie, and that start
ed him off on a string of fourteen
straight pars. At the third hole,
stymied by a tree on his second shot,
he hauled one out just short of the
green, then Clipped up and sank his
putt to get his 4.
On the fifth hole Jimmy missed a
%10-footer that would have given him
a birdie. There was nothing else Of
note through the rest of the first
nine, and he reached the turn in SO,
even par. There followed three more
regulation pars, and then he lost a
chance at an eagle on the paris
18th. Demaret was home with a n
iron second there, but took three
puts to get down from 60 feet.
Another par at the 14th followed,
and then he again reached the green
in two at the 18th and got down in
two for his only birdie of the round.
He finished off with three more pars
and, as it turned out, had the char
pionship in the bag.
Mangrum, off line more than he'd
been at any time in the tournament,
had putting trouble particularly.
Wood also got some bad shots and,
as the firal blow, took three puts
on the eighteenth green when two
would have given him 287 and
meant a difference of several hun
dred dollars.
Demaret started on the first day
by taking second place with a 81 to
Mangrum's record "a. With a u to
Mangrum's Is on the second round,
he was tied for the lead at SO holes.
Yesterday he shot a two-under-par
70 to the Oak Park (Ill) assistant
pros II, to take a one-stroke mar
gin, and today he came down the
home stretch like a thoroughbred.
Jimmy, the type of player who
makes every shot look easy, won
five tournaments before the touring
pHos moved into North Carolina.
Jimmy missed the North-South at
Pinehurst and the Greensboro Open,
picked up on his last round at Ashe-
vile, where he wasn't doing any
thing, and then came down here de-
termined to take the play away from
Ben Hogan, who had won all three
of the preceding events.
Mangrum, who's only rs and
whose only victory this winter came
tournament, was well satisfied with
being runner-up. Before this start
ed, I hadn't any idea I'd finish up
so high" said Lloyd, 80 I figure
that this really is all gravy"
Guldahl, who had come here with
high hopes of repeating his 1889 tri-
umph, finished ~ shots back at 292
with a final "a. This put him only
one stroke ahead of the low amateur,
Charley Yates of Atlanta, whose 293
in turn put him two shots up on U.
s.. Amateur Champion Bud Ward
and three LID ON linn Eerrier. AUS