Evening star., 1950-08-06
Only Douglas, Keiser Beat Par
With 7Os as Tam Scores Soar
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-Two plug
ging veterans, Herman Keiser and
skinny Dave Douglas, scored tidy
two-under-par 70's to deadlock
today for the f1rst-round lead in
the $4,000 All-American pro
tourney today.
The starting field of 80 in the
72-hole scramble for top money of
$4,000 found Tam O'Shanter's
pins placed so trickily that Keiser.
36. 1946 Masters champion from
Lima, Ohio, and Douglas, 80. from
Wilmington, Del, were the only
sub-par shooters. Stuck on cor
ners of greens, the pins required
hard-pressed two puts to get
down on most holes.
Co-favored Lloyd Mangrum, de-
Tending champion from the host
club, and British Open Champion
Bobby Locke. making his first
American appearance in more
than a year. tied with four others
for the runner-up spot at 72.
The other 70 pro scorers as the
Tam merry-go-round also reached
the third women's and second
amateur rounds were: Ed Furgol
of Royal Oak, Mich. with 32-40;
Johnny Palmer of Badin, N. c.:
Aussie Pickworth of Melbourne,
Australia; and Fred Hawkins of
Ell Paso, Tex.
Sam Snead Has 73.
Pickworth, playing in a two
some with 1850 leading money
winner Sammy Snead, was, max
ing his first United States start
after winning three straight
Australia Open titles. Snead shot
a 73. rapping Is fours, four of
which came on par three holes,
and tWo-over-par six.
Along with Snead, eight other
players were tied at 73, three
strokes off the pace.
The players moaned that over
grown grass on the fairways also
contributed with the cleverly-
placed pins to the lack of a single
sub-70 score.
Among those bracketed at 70
were Jimmy Demaret, Pete
Cooper, Jack Burke, jr.. Ed Oliver,
Skip Alexander and Skee Riegel.
Bunched at IA were such shoot
ers as National PGA Champion
Chandler Harper, Johnny Bulla.
Jimmy Clark, the qualifying
leader with 66; Jimmy Hines,
Dick Mayer and Claude Harmon.
Keiser, a Navy veteran of three
years, bagged four brides but
had two one-over-pars. HeI
matched par through the first six
holes then bagged a birdie on the
415-yard seventh when a No. 81
iron shot dropped 212 feet from
the pin. On the 250-yard eighth,
however, he was trapped and took
a one-over-par four.
Approaches Aid Keiser.
The tenth also gave Keiser a !
birdie when he pitched to within
five feet and dropped the putt. A
bad drive cost him a stroke to
par on the 445-yard par four 14th.
On the 18th and 18th, however,
he approached beautifully for
brides.
Douglas, 17th among the ma
tons money winners, sailed easily
to his 70. His first of three brides
came on the par flve-second where
he dropped a shot six feet from
the pin and sank the putt. His
only bogey was on the 445-yard
fourth where he needed five.
Douglas birdied the 515-yard
18th by plunking chip shot eight
feet away and tapping home the
putt for a four. He got a birdie
three on the 410-yard 18th by
ramming in a 12-footer.
In the concurrent All-American
Amateur tourney. British Amateur
Frank Stranahan of
Toledo, fashioned a second round
73 for a halfway total Of even
par IA.
The third round of the ALL
American Women's tourney found
Babe Zaharias skyrocketing ahead
With a 54-hole total of 220, nine
strokes ahead of runner-up, Louise
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