Evening star., 1948-11-03
Second Day Of Play
In North-South Open
Postponed by Rain
BY the Assoeioted Press


PrNEHURST, N. c., Nov. 3.-Rain
today forced postponement of Sec
ond-round play in the North and
South Open golf tournament here.
Play will be resumed tomorrow,
with the finals scheduled for Friday.
Three players are tied for the lead
with scores of SO each. They are
Chick Harbert of Worthwhile, Mich,
Glenn Teal of Charlotte and anna
teur Julius Boros of Bridgeport,
Conn.
When q top-line performer in
golf, or any sport. turns in one of
the top performances, it's just some
thing you'd expect. When an OUT
slider does it, that's news.
For that reason, there's lot more
talk here about the chances of
Boros and Teal in Che 46th North
and South Open tournament that
there is about Harbert, Clayton
Haefner or Sammy Snead.
Boros, a Bridgeport, Conn, anna
teur, whose most notable achieve
ment so far has been leading the
Nation in the 1948 sectional qualify
ing tests for the amateur champion
ship, shot his way into three-way
tie with Harbert and Teal in yester-
GRcf ah A.
under-par So. Haefner. tourna-
ment veteran. was one stroke back
and Snead had a 10 to trail by two
strokes.
Teal, who recently quit a job as
assistant pro. at the Charlotte
IN. c. Country Club after serving
there about six months, is another
stranger to big-time tournament
golf. He led the qualifiers here last
year with a 68 and recently finished
fourth in the Carolinas Open.
Otherwise he hasn't done much in
the tournament line.
On the other hand, Harbert,
Heafner and Snead have made most
of the major tournaments and have
won their share. They have several
things in common that make them
the players who are most feared by
the field. They're all long hitters,
and the 6,952-yard, par 70 cham
pionship course at the Pinehurst
Country Club requires long and ac-
curate hitting. They have exper-
ience, and they've been resting re-
Gently while rival pros have been
playing at frequent intervals.
Sneads contract at White Sulphur
Springs. w. Va, allowed him to
play in only few tournaments each
year and he hasn't appeared in a
major event in several months. He
expects to resume regular competi-
ton this winter. Harbert and
Heafner both dropped out Of the
autumn tour before the rest of the
crowd moved on recently to Cali
fornia and Hawaii.
Close behind these leaders after
Yesterdays opening round of the 70
hole medal play, tournament were
more than a dozen good players.
Tied at II, one under par. were
Defending Champion Jim Turnesa
of Elmsford, N. Y: Jackie Burke. a
promising young player from White
Plains. N. Y: Harry T. Nettlebladt OF
Avon, Conn: Claude Harmon, husky,
wisecracking pro from Mamaroneck,
N. Y, and Palm Beach, Fla, and Joe
zarhardt Of Greensboro, N. c.
Dick Chapman of Pinehurst,
former Walker Cup player and still
one of the Nations ranking am
atures, shared the. u bracket with
Toney Penna of Cincinnati, Joe
Tylor of Bristol. Tenn, and Dave
Douglas of Wilmington, Del:
Among the popular favorites who
didn't do quite well enough were
Frank Stranahan and Lew Worsham
with 75s. Dick Mayer, Mamaroneck,
N. Y, amateur, who topped the
qualifying round with 81, was 10
strokes higher yesterday and Johnny
Palmer of Badin, N. c., had 10.
Scores of Middle Atlantic rep
resentatives and former Washing
tonians:
Otto Greiner. Baltimore --- r3
Buck Worsham. Southern Pines - -
John ODonnell, Norfolk "a