The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-26
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(Reg. U. s. Pat. Off9 BY HARRY FERGUSON UJnited Press Shorts Editor

New Yofk, May 2o. NOF)-1ae nations duifers, of which the author Is Q member in good stand ing, are having Q celebration today After three lean years our man has won another big golf tournament.
 Our man Is Paul Runyan, the tiny professional from White Plains who violates almost every rule or form in golf, even as you and l. 1G was q great triumph for the duffers when Runyan came home in front as he did yesterday at Fresh Meadow to win the Goodall Round Ribin tournament against q field of sweet swingers who kept their left arms straight. their heads down and followed through hawlessly
 Our man has a vast contempt for form. If nc thought he could play golf better using Q baseball bat, Q well-harred poker and a lacrosse stick out of the Metropolitan muse- um he would not hesitate in choos- ing those weapons.
 Yesterday 1t was a curious look ing butter that brought our man home in front. Instead of q rcgula" ton round handle wrapped with leather, Runyan had q outer With square piece of wood for Q handle. Sometimes he held his left hand high on the shaft and his right hand low. Sometimes is ands were togeter Sometimes he stood erect when he putted and sometimes he crouched.
 Between times, on tee and fair. way, he was employing form that made many Q duffer gasp and whis" per; That's just the way my swing looks."
 Runyan wraps a club around his neck. He climbs up on his toes juSt before he starts his downswlng. He appears to give little leap just be. fore he hits the ball. He does almost everything that most professionals consider hercsy.
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 The dutTers were in full attend- ance in the gallery behind our man yesterday when he started his flnal ls-holes. He was playing in a three some with Horton Smith and VIC Ghezzi, who tcWered over him Ike gkygcrapers. RunyAn stands just a little over five feet and weighs about i40 when he has enough silver coins in his pockets.
 Standing around the 200-yard marker, the duffers watched Smith and Ghezzi send drives booming past them. Then they watched our man wind up like an eight-day clock, lunge at the ball and by some miracle connect with 1t. Several times his drives were lon longer than those hit by a 100 shooter, and the duffers loved that. They tried to break through the marshaPs ropes and Pat Runyan on the back. They tried to give him advice. They shud. dered when he went into traps ana they sighed when he sliced. And how they roared when he got on the greens, unseathed that strange. looking butter and curled te ball into the cups from all angles ana distances.
 This was match play tourna- ment. consisting Of seven lS-hole rounds, The odd thing about our man is that although he won 1t, nc didn't have the best score or even inc second. He totaled 6l3 strokes for the l2e holes and three men beat that--Vic Ghezzi with 502, Hor- ton smith with 507, and Gene Sara" zen with 509.
 That meant that our man either was very good or very bad--either he fired a par or birdie or scared to a high score. The duffers think that is okay because that's the way they do it, too.
 It was timely victory for our man, because we were on the verge of losing faith in him and taking up with pros and who think you have to keep the left arm straight, execute perfect pivot and follow through. It was the first big tourna- ment Runyan has won since l93S when he came home first in the Argentine open and the P. G. A.
 But now we duffers can keep on hacking oway, shooting our HOS and when somebody tries to tell us our form is bad we can reply with simple dignity: That's the way Paul Riinvan hits 'efn,"