Evening star., 1952-08-19
Gruber, Hiskey Finish
GameIy in Eliminating
Former Champions
BY the Associofed Press

DEAL LIE, Aug. lS.-Ine Ma.
tional Amateur golf champion.
ship, the ranks stripped Of it's last
two champions, swung into the
second round of match play today
with the remaining challengers
crowding into the spotlight.
Belted to the sidelines in the
days two most startling upset.
were the defending champion
Billy Maxwell, from Odessa. Tex.
and the 1850 winner. Sam Ur.
zetta of Rochester. N. Y.
Dusk was settling over thu
Seattle Country Club when the
familiar unknown" Ira D. Cru.
ber, a fine hitting. calm young
man from Pottstown, Pa, dis.
posed of Maxwell on the 2lst hole
Urzetta Knocked Out.
Earlier in the day Urzetta
whose 39-hole victory over Frank
Stranahan at Minneapolis in 1880
was the longest overtime match
in the tournaments history fell
before Marion (Sonny) Hiskey,
|21-year-old player from Twin
Falls, Idaho.
Gruber, a mere 18 years of age
and a sophomore at Duke, sank
an 8-foot putt for a birdie 3 on
the 21st to win. Maxwell had
missed his putt from Is feet out.
Hiskey, a. member of North
Texas State Colleges national
collegiate team champions this
year, and Idaho and Utah cham
pion. ended Urzetta's hopes with
a chip shot dead to the pin for
q birdie on the 18th.
Maxwell's defeat carried on a
jinx for the champions dating
back to 1885. No champion has
retained his title since California S
Lawson Little made it two in a
row that year.
64 Matches Today.
Today. in contrast to yester-
days organized confusion, 64
matches were on the schedule. In
cluded in the field were the sur
vivors Of u matches yesterday,
plus 56 who drew first round byes.
Still on hand for today's play
were some of the best amateurs in
the world. Included were:
Harvie Ward, jr., the current
British Amateur champion from
Tarboro, N. c.
Stranahan, twice British cham
pion and once runnerup for the
United States title.
Charlie Coe Of Oklahoma City,
the 1949 champion.
Joe Gagliardi of Mamaroneck,
N. Y, 1851 runnerup.
And Chick Evans, the gallery
idol for all the years since he first
won this championship in 1916.
when most of this field were yet
to be born.
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The Maxwell -Gruber and Ur-
zetta- Hiskey duels were the high
lights of the first round, but an
other captured its portion of gall
lery attention.
It was the hard-won victory by
Arnold Blum, Georgia champion
from Macon. over 21-year-old Ken
Ventura, California's champion
from San Francisco. Blum won,
l up.
Ward. shooting splendidly, dust
ed off Danny Dell, Cincinnati. 6
and 5, and another challenger,
Gene Littler, La Jolla, Calf, de-
feated Clarence Smith, Seattle, 4
and 3.
Sixteen-year- John Berry,
Tallahassee, lost out to Don Hoe
mig, West Boyleston, Mass, / up.
Berry was the youngest in the
tournament.
Two of the Middle Atlantic
areas representatives remain in
the running, but William M. Cole
of Baltimore was eliminated by
Benjamin Marshall of Dallas, Pa,
l up. Henry Parr of Green Spring
Valley. Md, drew a first round bye,
while Edward A. Johnston of the
Country Club of Maryland de-
feated Albert (Scotty) Campbell,
former Walker Cup player, on the
10th hole. Johnston was four over
par.
Stranahan Plays Kocsis.
Today's feature match figured
to be between Stranahan and
Chuck Kocsis, Royal Oaks, Mich.
Kocsis, who has, lost twice to the
Toledo sharpshooter in two major
tournaments, won from Bud Nc
Kinney, Los Angeles. 3 and 2.
Other prominent matches:
Coe against Russell Brown, also
of Oklahoma City.
Omer Began, 1852 National pub
lie links champion from Monte
bello, Calf. against Harry Givan,
Seattle. Began won yesterday
from Richard Collord, New Or
leans, 2 and !.
Evans against Dick Hanen, Coos
Bay, Greg.
Walker Cupper Jimmy McHale,
Mamaroneck, against Percy Clogg,
Vancouver, British Columbia.
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