Evening star., 1941-07-10
Sizzling Gu|dah|.
Burns Up Links
In P. G. A. Play
Favored Over Nelson,
Title Defender; Wood
Is Among Losers
BY LOUDON KELLY,
Associated Press SportS Writer

DENVER, July 10.-TeXas' Ralph
Guldahl Of the sloplng shoulders and
intense concentration is the man
that hunch players in the galleries
are talking about at the oath P. G..
A. tournament.
Guldahl opened today's 36-hole
third round against Defending
Champion Byron Nelson. another
Texan. and the 1910 winner from
Toledo, Ohio, is up against vet
eran whose golf has been as siz-
Zling as the mountain sunshine that
has preceded afternoon wind and
showers in the first three days of
the tourney.
So far Guldahl is under par for
65 holes. counting the qualifying
trials. He alone equaled Cherry
Hills par II i'll winning his sec
ond straight United States Open
crown here in 1893, when the water
laced course was much tougher
than now.
He eXudes confidence, asserting
that MY game has been improving
every day
Nelson, Snead Pressed.
Nelson. Of course, can't be count
ed out Of his second straight title,
but he hasn't set anv fairways afire
vet. He had TO go the full 18-hole
distance in winning both his matches
yesterday.
1t was a day of 48 man-to-man
skirmishes vivid with drama, heart
aches. electric finishes and the high
tension tingle of four extra-hole bat
ties. one for % holes involving
Medalist Sam Snead OF Hot Springs,
Va.
Snead was two holes behind Earl
Martin. Inglewood, Calf, unknown,
when he collared him on the 18th
and 18th despite shaky golf. Snead
finally pinched Martin off on the
fifth overtime green.
Another red-hot performer is
Mark Fry, dark-haired California
open champion from Oakland who
ruined Open Champion Craig
Woods dreams of grand slam in
the second round and was four under
par for his two trays.
Picard, Runyan Out.
Two former P. G.. A. champions
Henry Picard of Oklahoma City and
Paul Runyan of White Plains, N. Y.
didn't go even as far as Wood.
Phil Greerwald, a stranger to West
ern galleries from Menominee Falls.
Wis, outpointed Picard 4 and 3, and
the handsome veteran. Horton
Smith, distilled a 1-up antidote for
Little Poison Runyan.
Other prominent victims in yes
terdays carnage were Jimmy DEM
aret. Dick Metz. Jimmy Thomson,
Ed Dudley and E. J. (Dutch) Har-
riSon, runnerup to Snead for the
medal.
Only two eX-winners are left on
the, mountain -bordered premises,
Denny Shute and Gene Sarazen,
playing in his 21st P. G. A. tourna-
ment.
Shute's third Foe is Leonard OFT
of Denver, who advanced when Jack
Ryan of Louisville. KY. developed
a lame wrist at the 10th hole and
had to call it day. Sarazen drew
Bruce Coltart of Absecon, N. J.
Hogan Battling Smith.
Smith, one of the best putterS in
pro ranks, went out against Ben
Hogan, money-Winning leader of the
year from Hershey, Pa. Snead,
aiming at his first P. G. A. crown
and the accompanying $1,000 heads
the lower bracket with Mike Tur-
mesa of Elmsford, N. Y, one of a
family of golfing brothers.
Fry faced Lloyd Mangrum. Mon
terey Park, Calf, campaigner who
fired an eagle yesterday, and Jack
Grout of West Pittston, Pa, opposed
Husky Vic Ghezzi of Deal, N. j.
Harold Jug McSpaden, the
Kansan transplanted to Winchester,
Mass, who beat Jimmy Thomson
in 21 holes, hoped to make Jimmy
Hines of Great Neck, Long Island,
third on his list.