Evening star., 1950-06-23
George Fozio Meets
Frank Stuszowki
In Opening Round
(L1ter Story on Page ALL
By MerreIl WhittIesey
Stor Sioff Correspondent

COLUMBUS. Ohio, June 23.-
Match play got underway today
in the $4,000 National PGA
Championship at the Scioto Club
and the draw has the top three
contenders-Sam Snead, Lloyd
Mangrum and Jimmy Demaret-
all in the lower bracket. This
means it will be possible for only
one of those three to reach the
finals next Tuesday.
They're in the same half of the
draw with George Fazio, Wash
ington's Woodmont Club pro, who
is opposing Frank Staszowki in
his f1rst-round match. Fazio
qualified easily with lat, three
over par for SO holes, while his
opponent had ISL, two shots in
side the maximum.
If Fazio gets by Staszowski, his
afternoon opponent will be either
Al Smith, the little Carolinian
who led the Washington Star
Open in the first round last year,
or Bob Toski. another midget of
the pro ranks who is highly re-
spected despite his slight stature
Only 16 Will Survive.
Two rounds today were to elm
mate 48 of the 81 qualifiers, and
starting tomorrow all matches
will be at 36 holes.
Charley Bassler, District Open
champion, who tied Lloyd Man
grum at IA for third low quail
flying score. met George Shafer
of Greenville, Ohio, who had 149
The winner of that one gets either
Leland Gibson, tournament vet
eran. or Jackson Bradley, one of
the youngsters who has the high
regard of the touring pros.
Lew Worsham. after further
hospital treatment for bothersome
boils. started out against Jerry
Gianferante of bingham, Mass,
who qualified with 149. Either
Worsham or his opponent will
meet heavily-favored Johnny
Palmer or Joe Taylor in the Sec
ond' round. Palmer beat Wor-
sham in the third round last year
in Richmond with miracle puts
on two of the last three holes.
Chandler Harper. three-time
Virginia amateur and four time
Virginia Open champion from
Portsmouth, met Fred Annon of
Old Greenwich, Conn, in the first
round. Annon qualified in a play
off of those with 153. The win
ner of that match gets either Vic
Ghezzi, the 1941 champion, or
Dick Metz, another tournament
veteran.
Snead, medalist and defending
champion, met Sam Byrd, one
time outfielder for the New York
Yankees, in the feature first-round
There was another first
round headliner between Mangrum
and Pete Cooper. Two ex-PGA
champs were opponents in the Bob
Hamilton Henry Picard match.
Fellow Pros Criticize Snead.
Snead, an automatic qualifler in
his role of defending champion,
was criticized by some of his jeal-
GUS brethren for winning the
medal. Sam was playing merely
to familiarize himself with the
course and to take crack at the
$3.50 (mainly) and the Alex Smith
Memorial Trophy Incidentally
Sam won both with his 72-68-
140, but some of the pros felt he
should not have played for the
medal. He had that So, tying the
record set by Bill Mehlhorn and
Mac Smith in the 1926 National
Open here, thanks to Is puts.
which is II less than two-putts per
green.
Al Brosch's runnerup 142 total
did not strike fear to the others.
Last year in the National Open he
was the halfway mark leader but
finally finished 18th. and in the
National Open two weeks ago he
had 81 in the first round-84 in
the second and didn't qualify for
the final 36 holes.
Mangrum was taking it easy
with his 144 total lin, Fe,.rier
best OF the ex-champs except for
Snead, was at 145 with Chick
Harbert. f1rst-dayf co-leader;
Denny Shute, twice champion, and
Worsham, among others. Fifty
two-year -old AL Watrous and Bob
Hamilton, former playing pro at
Prince Georges, we're among the
146 shooters and FaZio, at lat,
had company in Skip Alexander
Palmer. runnerup last year: Paul