Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28
Father, Son Threats
For Red Run Title
They Win Pair
of.Close Ones,
Enter 'Semis'
BY M. #. DRUKENBRoD

A father-and-son combine, d.
Lyle Fife and Bob Fife, 20-year-
old University of Michigan senior,
have established a real threat for
the championship of the Red Run
Invitational golf tournament
The Flies won pair Of closely
fought matches Saturday TO
qualify for Sunday morning.
semifinals. They will oppose Tim
Griffin of Red Run and Frank
Connolly of Lake Pointe in the
lower half of the draw.
In the other semifinal. Earl
Christensen. Miami detective, and
Arnold Minkley. golf equipment
salesman from Chicago. will clash
with Chuck Kocsis and DIR. w. G.
Coleman.
The Pifes, who belong 10 Oak
land Hills, defeated Eddie Sey-
mour and Art Pony 2 up.
Saturday morning, then eliminated
Dave Ward and Bob Montague.
of Saginaw, i up, in the second
round.
Both times young Bob won the
eighteenth. a 515-yard hole, with
a birdie 4. In the morning. he
was well on the green with a
great second and barely missed
an eagle. All even coming TO this
hole in the afternoon, Bob was
below the green at the right. par
TALLY stymied by big tree. But
he pitched dead TO the pin for
his winning when Montague
on a long put in his bid
r. a birdie. : .
THE father and son combined
perfectly as they played the days
So holes in 5 under par. They
were / down going to the SIX
tenth in the morning and the
father evened the match here with
a par A.
The son birdied the seventeenth
and eighteenth TO give them their
margin.
In the afternoon, they were even
with their Saginaw rivals at the
turn and the next eight holes were
halved in pars before Bob slipped
in his deciding birdie on the
eighteenth.
Christensen. who is nearing the
end of a vacation, recently lost
the Florida state championship.
lie must be given good chance
10 gain a measure Of consolation
for that setback in this tourney.
He and Minklcy were z under
par for the day as they defeated
Blaine Eynofs and Wally Ivers of
Pine Lake, 4 and 3. then beat
Randall Ahcrn and Cliff Rugg OF
Meadowbrook. 3 and 2.
Christensen and Minkley. old
rivals in Florida golf, are power
ful hitters and may be hard to
stop here.
Kocsis, who is playing in his
first amateur Tournament in three
seasons. and Doctor Coleman also
bettered par by z strokes in win
ming Saturdays two matches.
They edged out c. J. Farley and
J. II. Eleveld, ! up on the nine
teenth, in the first round, when
kocsis finished with three straight
brides.
To keep the match alive, Kocsis
holed a 40-foot putt on the
eighteenth. In the afternoon. the
kocsis pair eliminated Drew Egle-
ston and Jay Law, the formidable
Gkarren Valley pair. 2 and /. They
FIRE even at the turn. then halved
' che next fie holes before Doctor
Coleman put them up by win
ming the fifteenth with a par.
kocsis' birdie on the sixteenth
made them 2 up and that's the
way il ended.
Connolly and Griffin were s.
under par in the morning in de-.
feating Roy T. Mitchell and Ed
Flowers, and'6 In the second
round they put out Ed Ervasti and
Carl Daniels of Sylvan Glen. 3 and
2. The winners were under on
this round as they made the turn
2 up. -
They lost only three holes in
the two matches.