Evening star., 1952-08-03
Mistake Over Ball
On Sixth Green Is
Costly TO S|ammer
By the Assoeioted Press

take over Cne leaQ alCer 54 QOleS
in the $4,000 All-American gol1
tournament at Tam o. Shanter
Bolt was II under par with 205
one stroke under Snead.
The race settled down to a two.
man battle in tomorrow's f1nal
round between Bolt, 33-year-old
pro from Durham, N. c., ano
Snead who entered the third
round with a f1ve-stroke lead and
ended with a 206.
Their nearest pursuers were
Johnny Bulla, Verona. Pa, Henry
Ransom Of Chicago, the 1850
world" winner at Tam, and Cary
Middlecoff of Memphis, the lead
ing money winner and defending
All-American champion.
Three Tied At 21O.
These three were grouped at
210, five strokes off the pace-a
big bulge to try to overcome in a
final 18 holes. Bulla shot a 81
over Tam's 36-36-72 par despite
a bag full of IS puts; Ransom
moved up with a steady 68 and
Middlecof slipped to 73.
Snead. who tapped the wrong
ball on the sixth green, found his
usually brilliant iron shots cratic
and had to settle for pair Of
BIS after a start of 67-65-132
for the first two rounds.
The sixth-green session seemed
to set Snead faltering. Skee Rie-
gels ball was just ahead of Snead's
on the carpet. Riegel marked
it and moved the ball back not
far from Snead's. but out of his
line. Sam. who at the time was
talking to Middlecoff, the other
player in the threesome, did not
notice Riegels action.
Taps His Own Ball.
Snead stepped up and inno-
Gently tapped his own ball out of
the way. thinking it was Riegel's,
and began lining up his putt.
"Hey, you're lining up my ball."
Riegel said.
mo. that's mine, I just tapped
yours aside after you marked it,"
replied the dazed Snead.
Officials looked over both balls
and found that Snead actually
had mistaken them. Thus, Sans
tap counted as one putt and he
finally took two more to get in
for one-over S.
Bolt. the 1852 Los Angeles Open
titlist and 18th on the PGA
money-winning list, held his tenn
per today and avoided a blow-up
on the seventh hole. Tommy, a
club-breaker whenever he gets up
set, hit three tee shots on the
seventh and still took par 4.
His first drive looked as If it
scared out of bounds. He hit a
provisional ball and it went out.
He hit again and the ball again
wandered out.
Bolt said that was enough, but
In the meantime his first drive
had been located barely inside so
he played it out in regulation
figures.
Two 34s For Bolt.
Two brides with a 20-foot putt
and a stiff approach gave him a
"a on the first nine He dupli-
Gated this on the back side.
Snead missed all chance of bag
eing tying 205 on the 18th when
his approach shot left him par
TALLY behind a tree. He Clipped
Oh but needed three puts for a S.
Bunched at 211 were AL BroschI
of Garden City, N. Y, Wally Ul-
rich, former NCAA champion
from Austin. Mimi, Doug Ford
and Jack Burke, Jr.
A stroke away at 212 were Eric
Brown of Geneva, the Switzer-
land Open winner; Henry Cas-
tillo of Alexandria, La, and four
better-known pros, Dick Mayr,
Shelly Mayfield, Jim Turnesa and
Regal.
The original field of 1913 was
trimmed to IS for the final day,
but it included 80 leading money
winners and all the foreign dele
cation, headed by Brown.
Suggs. Stranahan Lead.
Louise Suggs of Atlanta, the
1852 Women's National Open
champion, took charge of the
feminine All-American division
with a third-round 70 for a total
of 900. six under par. Betty jane
son of San Antonio and Betty
Bush of Hammond, Ind, were
next at 230.
The All-American amateur was
a four-way tie at 224 among Gene
Coulter of Richmond, Ind; John
Guenther, Reading, Pa; Nello
Campagni. Chicago, and Frank
Stranahan of Toledo, who came
back with a II today after a Sec
ond round 83.