Evening star., 1941-04-11
Lack Of Break Often
Has Denied Links
Idol Big Crown
Ferrier Smushes Par
To Stand Out in PIoy
For British Fund
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Horton Smith the tall Missourian
who happens to be Mr.. American
golf professional in the minds of
good many people, says he isn't a
fatalist. But tall Horton admits
there are fates in golf, and that when
q fellow is destined to win, there
isn't much the others can do about
it.
I'm not exactly fatalistic about
golf,' said Horton, looking out over
the Immediately groomed Chevy
Chase course. But I'm convinced
there is a turn somewhere along the
line that determines whether you are
to win, or be just second. And you
now know how the world feels about
the fellow who is second"
1t all came out of an innocent
question. 1T seems queer" some
one asked Horton, THAT you, with
the shotmaking and temperament
equipment you have, haven't won the
National Open championship.
Not Right at Right Time.
1.-THE answer is that I haven't been
good enough, at the right time, !"
unused Horton. Il have had some
good rounds, but I haven't had
enough of them in the open to win.
Somewhere along the line in every
championship spot has come where
I might have won with a break one
way or another, but so far it hasn't
come. I'm not exactly fataliStic about
111t hnt 10 N
who forces his breaks and is playing
well can win. There was that putt
on the seventeenth at Cleveland last
year, for instance"
That four foot putt broke sharply
at the hole and veered away. Had it
gone in Horton would have tied with
Lawson Little and Gene SaraZen for
the title. He finished one shot away.
"I guess it wasn't my time" grinned
Smith. "Just as it was Jim Terriers
time to play very well today"
Ferrier, drinking his inevitable
milk and sarsaparilla (Jim has an
inveterate taste for milk said, Yes,
Horton, was pretty lucky today.
Wish I could get streak like that
In the National Open. I might do all
right" And we'll he might. for Ferrier
had just played the lengthy Chevy
Chase course in 66 strokes, three
under-par score. Notwithstanding
winter rules in use during the British
war relief matches yesterday, 1t was
quite a score, under any conditions.
The tall Aussie, who has just
taken the pro job at the Elnhurst
Club, near Chicago, after a $3.50
sojourn in the amateur flock, picked
up seven brides and four bogieS in
his round of 35-31-66 for an un-
official winter rules course record.
Followed by a slim gallery, a frac-
tion of the 1900 who saw one of the
finest links exhibitions ever staged
arouno the Capital, tall Jim stormed
his way around the finely groomed
Chevy Chase layout to lick the best
ball of Gene Sarazen and Fred Nc
Leod 5 and 4. Gene had 70,
normally good enough, but no good
sgainst that Sc. Allan Burton,
partner of Ferrier, and Mcleod were
just out for the walk. But it was
fine spring day.
Smith Holes 10-Footer.
In other matches Horton Smith
holed 10-footer on the 18th green
to enable Smith and Bob Barnett
to gain an even break against Al
Houghton and George Dawson, the
latter the famed Chicago amateur,
and slugging Jimmy Thomson and
Cliff Spencer thumped out a 2
and-1 victory over blond Clayton
Heafner and Witty Cox. Smith and
Thompson had lis, Dawson had 70.
Cox had 73, Spencer and Mcleod
had 74s and Houghton, Barnett and
Burton had 76s.
Thomson, the seige gun of golf,
hit a lot of mighty Wallops. Jim
parked his tee shot at the fifth
hole in the bunker under the green.
If you figure that out you'll find it's
around 800 yards from the tee. He
also drove the 9th green, 260 yards
from the back tee, using a spoon,
and canned the putt for a birdie
deuce. The others had trouble get
ting there with their big wooden
clubs.
May Gross $1,000.
Sponsors of the match, the Daugh-
ters of Scotia and Clan McLennan,
C. S. c., hoped for return of more
than $4,000 from the ticket sale.
Mrs. E. D. MacFarlane, chairman OF
the Clan Committee, said many
hundreds of tickets were purchased
by people who couldn't attend the
matches. Lord and Lady Halifax
couldn't come, either. Official buSi-
ness kept them elsewhere. But it
was a fine show, from the Draw
laddie dressed in kits on the first
tee, to the brave golf shot by the
crack pros. George Blanche was the
Scottish chief, wearing Sporran
worn in Flanders in 1914. A spor-
ran? That, to a Scotsman in full
regalia, is a kind of purse. 1t can
also carry chewing gum, if needed,
or anything else.
Here is Terriers par -shattering
card, against par:
Out, par------------444 544 453-3o
Ferrier -535 1886 443-35
In, par 344 344 444-34-69
Eerrier ----243 333 -31-66
Before the match all the players,
and Robert Stead, jr., chairman of
the Chevy Chase Committee, were
presented with cigarette cases from
the Scottish clans. Stead, Maj. J..
3. Patterson, Comdr. c. B. Moore
and all the Chevy Chase committee