Evening star., 1951-09-15
Raschs LaeSeason Comeback Pumps Life and Hope Into Yan
Joe Gag|iardi One Up
On Maxwell at 11th
In Amateur Golf Finale
BY the Assoeioted Press

BY the Assoeioied Press
BETHLEHEM, Pa, Sept. 49,
Joe Gagliardi of Mamaroneck,
N. Y, was / up on Billy Maxwell,
the Odessa. Tex, college boy, after
the first IL holes of their 36-hole
final match for the United States
Amateur golf championship today.
They halved the first two holes
as the 39-year-old Gagliardi, an
Experienced match-play golfer.
got his pars without hitting either
fairway.
The course still was very Soggy
after heavy rains yesterday after
noon and last night. A crowd OF
about 1000 was on hand.
Maxwell Goes Up.
Maxwell went l up at the third,
where he got a birdie 3 to Gagli-
ardi's S. He hit the green in 2 on
the 385-yard hole and rolled in a
difficult 12-foot sidehill putt. Gag
liardi's second shot went into the
muddy creek in front of the green
and he had to take a one-stroke
penalty to lift out. Then he
Clipped within 4 feet of the pin
and his putt was conceded after
Billy holed out.
They halved the 175-yard fourth
in par IS as their tee shots were
90 to SO feet from the cup.
Gagliardi squared the match
with a birdie 4 on the 586-yard
sixth after they had halved the
437-yard fifth in par As.
Gagliardi Strengthened out his
drive on five and hit wood shot
to the green 40 feet from the pin.
Maxwell drove into the rough but
came out nicely 70 feet from the
flag and got his half with an
eight-foot putt.
Gagliardi Gets Birdie.
Both were down the middle on
six, where a yawning trap over
100-yards long guards the bend
of the dogleg, and reached the
green in 8. Gagliardi canned a
20-foot putt for his birdie while
Maxwell missed a 12-footer.
Both had long puts on the 446-
yard seventh after reaching the
green in 2 and Gagliardi's 30-foot-
er hung on the.lip of the cup. They
halved the hole in par is.
The also got regulation As on the
eighth after failing to reach the
green with their second shots.
Billy's tee shot on the 193-yard
ninth hit a trap in front OF the
green and he needed 2 puts to get
down after coming out within 6
feet of the cup. Gagliari got his
par with 2 puts from II feet out.
The cards (morning round).
Par-Out 544 345 443-36
Maxwell-Out SAB 345 444-36
Gagliardi-Out 545 344 443-36
Maxwell drew even on the 403-
yard 10th hole with a par 4 to
Joe's 5.
Joe squared accounts and re-
gained his l-up lead with deuce
on the 187-yard turtle" 18th
when he canned a 34-foot putt,
Maxwell's tee shot was just over
the green and he clipped back and
gave up after Joe putted.
Gagliardi, the tournaments
giant killer on the strength of his
victories over Sam Urzetta, de-
Tending champion, and the 1949
amateur king. Charley Coe. also
breezed into the final yesterday.
He cut down 16-year-old Tommy
Jacobs. Montebello, Calf, and 5.
Jacobs, National Junior cham
pion and youngest player in At
years to reach the tournaments
Semifinal. was just no match fer
the experienced Gagliardi. The
Westchester County. N. Y, anna
teur, playing in front of the oldest
of his five children, 14-year- -old
Joe, jr.. outsteadied the public
links kid from California.
Maxwell reminds you of an
other famous Texan. Ben Hogan.
The 22-year-old college golf cap
tain doesn't seem to be bothered
by anything. He walks the course
with his head down. looking
neither to right nor left. His
concentration-the thing Hogan Is
world famed for-is never broken
He admitted that he never nearS
the gallery.
He had to shoot a four-under,
par 80 over the front nine in order
to whip Harvie Ward, North and
South champion from Fayette-
vile, N. C. went 19 holes before
toppling Laur Crannell of Dallas
and needed 20 holes to dispose of
Arnold Blum, Macon, Ga, South
prn amateur chamniOn