Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-03
BiIlows Seen as
Man for Ward 10
Top in US. Golf
BY HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Service Sports Editor

MAMARONECK. N. Y. Sept. g.
The west course of the Winged Foo
Club Is not terrifying, but with eol
stepped up all the way along tn,
line, Marvin BUD Ward. as fin,
player as he is, tackles a sterl
assignment in defending the Ma.
tional Amateur championship ovel
the historic layout next week.
In eut-thrcat match play. almost
any one OF the $50 starters is ca.
pable of deinroning the Spokane
Slugger or of eliminating any one
OF the other cracks.
The l40 who qualified throughout
tie nation and 10 former title
holders must survive another or
zeal over the 36-hole route during
the first two days before jimmying
into the 81 match play brackets.
From then on it is case of
sudden death. One slip and out
you go. Four l8-hole rounds Of
match play-two each on Sept. IL
and l2--will bring the competition
down TO the 36-hole semi-f finals
Sept. l3, with the 36-hole final
carded the following day.
Winged Foot is situated 20 miles
northeast of New York u min
utes from White Plains.
Jim Ferrier of Australia being
declared ineligible, deprives the 44th
United States Amateur of interna-
tional color, but the well-balanced
field of homegrowns will supply
plenty of pyrotechnics. and Winged
Foot's west setup is a good gallery
course.
WEHRLE AND ART DOERING
HEAD CHICAGO DELEGATION
Willie TuIlesa, 1888 champion,
again a contender. and other COM
petent eastern judges pick Ray
Billows, runner-up in 1889 and 81.
Billows exploded 81 repelling Tur-
mesa, 8 and 6. in bagging the New
York State title for the third time
in Syracuse. The Poughkeepsie par
parer is at home at Winged Foot.
where he captured his first Empire
State crown in '35.
The Chicago district sends COM
petent group of Is, including Will
ford Wehrle. who LED the amateurs
in this years National Open: Ar
thur L. Doering. Jr.. Trans -Mississ-
ippi titlist; George Victor, runner-up
to Ward in the Western Amateur:
Gus Moreland Illinois State cham
pion; George Dawson. the veteran
Johnny Lehman. Fred Schultz,
George Reed. Jack Hoerner and
John Krutilla
Bobby Dunkelberger of North [
Carolina, Jack Shields of Tulsa and .
Albert (Scotty) Campbell. the Sc
attic campaigner. led the TAT players
who attempted to qualify with 14l
for the 36-hole test Bobby jacobson ]
of New Jersey topped the New York {
metropolitan delegation at Baltusrol
with 145 !
Dick Chapman Of Greenwich was 1
only stroke behind in a field in /
which Robert Sweeney, former Brit !
ish Amateur champion. made the I
grade. Frank Strafaci. one of the I
more skillful simon-pures, is play
ing we'll {
PUBLIC LINKS PLAYERS l
APPEAR FOR FIRST TINE I
Charley Yates earned nothing S
more than an alternates berth in S
Atlanta with an aggregate that 1
easily would have put him in else I
but some good sportsman
who made it is expected to step [
aside for the former British amateur /
ruler. {
Public linkers-Robert Clark of
st. Paul. the national champion r
and Ed Furgol of Detroit, whom f
The st. Paul sharpshooter beat for {
the crown-appear for the first 4
time. Clark led the qualifiers in I
G
Bud Ward still is the man to s.
beat, however. and the personable S
young man of the Spokane Round g
Table in taking the Western ANA
beur demonstrated that he still has Il
all the shots. Ward is one of the
few amateurs who fits in well with d