Evening star., 1947-05-31

Leads, | Up, al End
OF II Holes After
Being Five Down
BY ths Assseiossd Prsss

S~su SOWH
BY shs Asseeiassd Press
CARNOUSTTE, Scotland, May 81.
Willie nlrnesa of White Plains,
N. r. had o one-up lead over Dick
Chapman OF Pinehurst, N. c., at the
27th hole Of their all-American final
In the British Amateur Coli Champ
ionship today.
Five down at the end OF nine
holes and all even at the 18th after
making tremendous rally. Turnesa
took the lead for the first time in
the match when he won the 9th
hole with a par 4 to Chapmans 5.
Turnesa shot the outgoing nine
in the afternoon in par So to Chap
mans 81, giving the New Yorker a
medal score of TIA stroke under
par-for his last 10 holes. Chap
man lost the 9th by hitting hts
first two shots into the rough.
Bitter Battle Develops.
After Chapman's big Sup lead
at the end of the first 8 and Tur-
nesa's rally to square it the end Of
the Is, the match developed into
a bitter battle. Chapman went one
up on the Goth, after beautiful
second shot, but Turnesa came right
back to win the 21st after q stymie.
They then halved five straight holes.
After the match had been de-
layed for more than an hour by a
torrential downpour that flooded
traps and left water standing inches
deep at points on the fairway, Chap
man started out like bali of fire
against his Walker Cup teammate.
He knocked in q 25-foot putt to
win the first hole with a birdie 8,
sank 35-footer for another bird
on the second, and then suffered
his only lapse of the front nine as
he hit the rough and lost the third.
Turnesa Wins No. 4.
He won the fourth with a par as
Turnesa 3-putted the fifth with
birdie by holing curving 25-foot
putt, and the long sixth with paris
when Turnesa took two shots from
the rough. After the seventh and
eighth had been halved in even pars,
Chapman won the ninth to turn
Sup as Turnesa, still struggling, hit
his second into tall grass. Turnesa's
4o-foot putt for half hit the cup
and bounced out. N
Turnesa. apparently In Tor a bad
beating when they finished the first
nine, ripped of successive scores of
444 24-two brides and three pars-
to win five straight holes from Chap
man and square the match at the
l4th hole as a gallery of about 1000
raised yell.
Turnesa drove into the rough on
the 453-yard 10th, but made a great
recovery with a wood and reached
the green in three. Chapman
planted his second in a bunker and
required two shots to get out and
roll across the green. He conceded
1t to Turnesa.
Barely Misses 30-Footer.
Again Chapman needed three
strokes to reach the green on the
18th, and his six-footer for a half
hung on the lip. Turnesa pulled his
drive into the rough, but put his
second on and barely missed a 30
footer for a birdie.
On the 18th Chapman put his Sec
ond atop hump guarding the green
and chipped short of the carpet with
his third. Willie holed a 30-inch
putt for his winning 4.
Turnesa shot brides on the 168-
yard 18th hole and the 473-yard 14th
to square the match. He curled his
putt around a partial stymie to get
down from six feet for his birdie al
on the 18th after Chapman had
trimmed the cup from seven feet.
On the long 14th Turnesa loftedI |
his third shot 6 feet from the hole
and knocked it down. Chapman,
after driving in the rough, wound
up with another 7-footer for al
half, but again missed it.
Rally by Chapman.
They halved the 457-yard 18th
in par As, Turnesa again getting
down with single putt after clout-
ing his drive into short rough.
Chapman rallied to take thel
shorty 10th with a par 8 when Tur-
mesa missed an 8-foot putt forI
a half. but Willie deadlocked it'll
again with 4 on the 454-yard l7th
when Chapman missed a 5-footer.
Both got down in. par SIS on the
home hole, Chapman failing to sink
from about 9 feet for a win. Tur-
mesa negotiated a partial stymie to
gain his half and go to lunch all
square.
Just as Chapman was hot on the
first nine, which he shot in Pun
der-par 81, Turnesa sizzled on the
way back with his 35.
Morning round:
Cha apman-Out 335 435 434-34
Turnesa-Out -- 454 $50 435-11