Evening star., 1949-08-15
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Palmer Hopes 10 End
Runnerup Role Today
In Tam Golf PIayoff
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Pr6SS
CHICAGO, Aug. 15.-The Tam
O'Shanter golf roulette got an
extra twirl today. sending Johnny
Palmer and Jimmy Demaret. a
pair Of highpowered money play
ers, into a $4,000 championship
playoff.
Seventy-two holes weren't
enough to determine a winner Of
Promoter George s. Mays fabulous
$35 900 world" tourney yester-
day. Palmer and Demaret
charged in among the par
wreckers with 275s-13 strokes
under the Tam regulation.
Today's 18-hole showdown,
starting at pm. washington
time) will pay the winner $4,000.
Second place is worth $1,000.
In yesterdays mad scramble.
over fairways and greens hemmed
in by an estimated 10000 awed
customers, Palmer grooved a pair
of 35s for a respectable 10. two
under par.
Demaret, two hours earlier,
had carved 33-34-67 for his 275.
Then the fashion plate from Ojai.
Calif.-garbed in purple slacks
and a lime-green sports shirt
began sweating 1t out to see what
would happen.
Middlecoff, Penna Tie.
Cary Middlecoff. with 68, and
Toney Penna. with 10, went for
278. Bob Hamilton's II put him
in at 279. Buck White, the 54-
hole leader with 205, ballooned to
a closing IS for 280. Johnny
Bulla, Jim Turnesa, and Jim
Ferrier trudged in at 282.
Things were looking little
better for Demare1.. Then came
Palmer, the Badin, N. c., former
B-29 waist gunner who sprayed
shells over Japan. He played tag
with a couple of traps on the final
nine but always recovered by sink
ing puts of ITO feet.
Palmer finally banged on the
18th, 10 feet from the cup in two.
With $4,000 resting on the putt he
missed. taking his par to tie with
Demaret instead Of winning out
right.
But that wasn't all. There was
still Sam Snead.'
Sambo, out in 35, needed a 33
coming in to win with 274. But
the best he could do was So for a
II. However, he collected third
prize of $1,000.
On the last green. just plain Sam
whipped in IL foot putt for
birdie 3. If he had not dropped
it, he would have tied with Middle
coff and Penna. The putt was
worth $2.50o. the difference be-
tween third round and fourth. to
the leading money winner. boost
ing his golf earnings for the year
to $30,893.
e:g..s.5 Often A Runner-Up.
In his playoff today. the 31-year-
old Palmer will be trying to escape
the bridesmaid" role. He was
, runner up to Snead in the Ma
tional P. G.. A. this year. and also
finished second in the Philadelphia
Enquirer meet. He shared or took
third place in three other Journeys.
This will be Palmers third
championship playof since 1941,
when he defeated Clayton Heaf-
ner for the North Carolina State
Open. In 1948 he finished third
to winner Fred Haas and Ben
Hogan in the Portland Ore.
Open. and in 1916 he downed
Dutch Harrison by one stroke in
the Nashville Open.
The other brackets of Mays
world tournaments ended this
way:
Women's Amateur-Grace Len
czyk, Hartford, Conn. II for 313;
Dot Kielty, Long Beach, Calf,
70 for 314.
Women's ProfeSSional-Babe
Didrickson Zaharias, of Denver.
Colo, 70 for 301 and s1.100: Patty
Berg of Minneapolis, IS for 300
and $100.
Mems Amateur-Bill Campbell.
Huntington, w. Va. with 73 for
29O; John "Pick" Wagner. Chi
cago, with II for 29l; Wilford
Wehrle, French Lick. Ind, with
72 for 1872.
Pro money winners:
}SssP1 for sSSsS Ss$sS or s9s7s
(pisyon for $4,000 or $1,000. ooo,
Toney Penna, 70-70-6s-70-27S S2,-
'Oeessry Midsleeor. es-71-7o-es-27s
Bob Hamilton. 7s-es-7o-71-27e ISL
suck White. 7o-e5-7o-76-2so ISL.
yohnny Bulla. 74-7o-71-67 - @ss
jim Ferrier. ss-72-es-7s-2s2, $4,000.
George Bolesta. 7O-71 7O-72-2S3
Cis4fon Heatner. 66.71-71-75-2sS
Henry Ransom, e7-7o-75-71-2ss
Lloyd Mangrum, 6-65-69-74-2s4
ieddy Rhodes, 1871 -69-71-2S4
Skip Alexander, 74-67-71-72-2sA
Les kennedy, 71-es-75-71-2s5 $500,
Dutch Harrison, 71-7l-71-72-2S6