Evening star., 1952-06-18
Discord Liingers
AS Qualifying
Begins for PEA
Boros Is Resented:
Many Upsets Likely
Due to Easy Course
BY MerreII WhittIesey
Sfar SfuH Corresnendanf

way today over the Big Spring.
course, an easy layout where tn,
pros say the lambs will bite tn,
butchers" before the week is out
There still was considerable dis.
sension in the ranks because thu
PGA's executive committee hast.
lily amended its bylaws to permit
julius Boros, the National Oper
champion, to compete.
Many of the pros were of thu
opinion that Boros should decline
the invitation to compete because
he falls more than two year.
short of the PGA requirement O.
flVe years in the pro ranks.
Tongue in Cheek.
Horton Smith, the PGA presi.
dent, and his committee member:
Wer talking with tongue in cheek
when they claimed Boros' pres.
ence here is popular with the pros
The public, long tired of the rule
applauded the move, but the grea,
majority of the pros competing
here We're firmly opposed to Bo.
ros' participation. However, tn,
most outspoken ones did not wan1
to be quoted.
Most Of the pros based thei,
opposition on the fact that it wa.
unfair to Lawson Little and CARY
Middlecoff, former Open champ.
ions who were not PGA member.
when they won the Open title
and that it also was unfair to pro.
such as Tommy Bolt, Doug Fore
and Skee Reigel, who have better
records than Boros, but who have
not won the Open championship
Bolt, Ford, Reigel, AL Besselinl
and others are not here because
like Boros, they have not beer
pros for five years.
"Black Friday" to Dust 4S.
A field of IA faced the starter
today and at the end of tomor.
rows second 18-hole qualifying
round Sam Snead, the defendine
champion, and the low 63 quail
| tfiers will start match play. Thu.
more than half the field will be
eliminated in two days, and or
BLACK Friday" the field will be
reduced from 81 to Is after two
rounds of match play.
Snead. twice winner of the $3.50
and the Alex Smith Memoria,
trophy that goes to the medalist
was under doctors orders not tt
compete in the qualifying round
ooth-swinging Sam has 9
pulled muscle in his right side
and has been visiting the doctor
twice daily and taking heat treat.
ments.
But nobody is taking Snead'.
muscle-ache too seriously. Sneac
lpracticed wedge shots and puttinf
for more than an hour yesterday
but said he had been advised MOI
to take full swing for a couple o1
days.
Snead still blames his Nationa,
Open failure on putting alone. 81
counted up," he said, land there
were 38 birdie puts I missed thai
could have been made. The long
est putt made in Dallas was 1:
feet" He finds no fault with the
rest Of his shots.
Course Ridiculously Easy.
One point of mutual agreement
among. the pros here is that thi.
course Is ridiculously easy. They
believe it will take a score Of two.
over par for SO holes-146-te
qualify for match play. And thu
Iopinion is that the medal recore
of Jim Ferrier and Skip Alexander
1-134-will be broken.
That's where the lambs-bite.
the-butchers theme comes in. It.!
a course where club pros have {
great chance to knock off the
stars.
With Boros possibly disturbed
over the undercurrent of gossip
and Snead temporarily out o.
play, Lloyd Mangrum looms a.
one of the solid favorites.
/ Mangrum never has been past
the semifinals of this match pla!
tournament but he already ha.
won more than $4,000 in officia
and unofficial money on the sum.
mer tour and hasn't been worse
than fourth in any tournament
except the Open. He breezec
around in 8-under-par ga yester.
day. just to show what he coulc
| do.
Area Players Listed.
Nine present or former player!
from the Middle Atlantic area art
entered. Their starting time.
washington time) and pairing.
| if paired with prominent players
are, for today and tomorrow re.
spectively:
r,,s:'. s;ss, and and Johnny Musser' All View
iys ii:5o and a:52-Andy Gibson. &C o
1900 and 3:06-otto. Greiner. former
" OF Baltimore. now Of Mamoroneck o
1s:ii and and -S:1s-rred Bolton. Wood
is:4e and s:44-Jack Isaacs. Lansle'
an 1:oS eS''s and aaiti i6i:S5-Buck worsham. for
meriy Of Chevy Chase and Congressional
S:ss ana ii 1:3S6aSchandler Harper. 1876,
CHAMPION from Portmouth. Va. with Chicl
a:Sa and 11:5o-Lew worsham. for
WITH .nd aa 9SnDs
| 2:59 and I1:57-Charley Bassler. semi
flnalist last year, from Rolling Road
lCatonspille. Nd. with Skip Alexander an
Bolton won $3.50 in the driv'
ing contest yesterday by tying fol
third with Cary Middlecoff with
a 324-yard clout in the long-bal
contest. Harold williams won with
329 yards and Ed Oliver was mex
with 326. Max Evans of Detroi
won the accuracy contest, with .
I312 average for three balls in the
i fo i,.xuov to ant for .au,Soy T,itf1t