The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-08
Thick Fog Ends Play With
Six Top Golfers On
The Course
Bv GENE FRIEDMAN y

BY GENE FRlEDMAN
United Press Staff Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Jan. u
UP)-Consistent Byron Nell
son and Sgt. Dutch Harrison
held a temporary lead after
the third round of the $13,-
3333 Los Angeles open golf
tournament tonight after a
thick fog ended play with six
of the Journeys hottest play
ers still out on the course.
Nelson, golfdom's top money
winner of 1914 who halls from
Toledo, O., and the veteran Har-
rison, stationed at Wright Field.
c, turned in 54-hole total score
of 213-even, par for the three
rounds-to lead the field.
They had just finished when the
fog rolled in over the Riviera
Country club course only two miles
from the Pacific and put down
blanket so thick it was almost inn
possible to see the cup while put
ting.
The committee on rules decided
that the players could try to finish
today if they wanted to or could
play out the round tomorrow. The
six decided to wait.
Harold jug McSpaden, long
: hitter from Philadelphia, Pa, and
Sanford, Me; Johnny Revolta.
Evanston, H.; Sammy Byrd,
former major baseball star from
Detroit; Ray Mangrum of Los
Angeles; George Schneiter of Salt
Lake City and Leland Gibson OF
Randolph Field were still technl-
cally in threatening positions.
Byrd, Mangrum and Gibson had
played II holes when they knocked
off for the day and knitted their
way through the fog back to the
clubhouse. Schneiter, McSpaden
and Revolta had just seen their
tee shots on the 18th hole disap-
pear in the mist when they de-
cided they wouldn't finish until
they got foglights or it cleared up.
These six will complete their
rounds tomorrow, then turn around
and ioin the go best finishers OF to-
DAYS round in the final jaunt over
the course fog permitting. 1t took
3 score of 235 or better to stay in
the tournament.
Harrison had a two-under-par %
today to add to his previous rounds
- of Y and u to get his 2l3, while
Nelson had 70, one under, for a
card of 71-72-70.
n McSpaden and Mangrum were
" the leaders at the end Of the Sec
ond round with 140's each, Nc
" Spaden showing 1910 and Man
#, grum 71-69 McSpaden went out
today in SO, one over par, and was
Mt three strokes over par when ne
lb quit. Mangrum, going out In 80,
I'd needed only a par four on the 18th
to tie Harrison and Nelson for the
Re lead.
lg Had Byrd got par on the 18TH
r he would have added a 10 to his
- previous 1912 and topped both te-
clinical leaders. A par would have
earned Gibson a 54-hole total OF
2l4, we'll up with the leaders.
Revolta, carrying scores OF II
/ and 70 in his pocket from the first
two rounds, went out in "a today
but was one over par when ne
quit, thanks to some lost-in-the-
is fog shots on the back nine. Schnei-
h ter, with a second round score OF
,e 142, went out in 81 and had upped
ts this to three over par when ne
called 1t enough.
- In the lineup Of completed
~ ~ rounds, Sammy Snead, White Sui
~. phur Springs, Va, just back to
w the golf wars after two years In
Ns the Navy, was right behind the
IS two top men with card Of It'll
~ 72-214
ne Sgt. jim Ferrier, preside, San
'ls Francisco, ard George Frazio.
3 Pine Valley, N, Y, were next with
on 2l6's, followed by Leonard Dod-
Xxi son of Kansas City with 218.
he Bunched at 219 were Gene
ed Kunez, Hollywood, Fla; Mike
al Turnesa White Plains, N. ";
by Chick Rutan, Birmingham, Mich;
ed Denny Schultz, Akron, O.; Willie
Groggin, White Plains, N. Y, and
Ellsworth Vines, Denver.
Tied for the next spot with 220s
. were Bob Hamilton, Evansville,
IN Ind, PGA champ; Claude Har-
e, mon, Gross Point Woods, Mich;
y, Oliver Sloppy, Los Angeles anna
I'd teur; Ed Furgol, Birmingham.
ly Mich; ard Herman Barron, White
O. Plains, NJ Y.
Craig Wood, duration open
champ from Great Neck, N. r.,
was far down the line with 224.
The k;-eest name casualty OF
the day was Mll.'-.-l Babe" Did
rickson Zaharias Of Bev.-..y Hllls,
=, the lone woman entrant, whose u
81-79-236 left her nv tho uavcida