Evening star., 1953-09-17
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In u. 5. Amateur
Ward Defeats Coe,
Then Is Eliminated;
Westlund Ousted
BY the AssoeIo,ed Press

lahoma City Golf and Country
Club.
The former champions-with
one exception-the Walker Cup
stars and the rich mems sons
joined the galleries as the field
was reduced to 16 players for the
second double round that will
bring the tournament down to
the semifinal stage tonight.
Those still competing included:
Two public links players-the
champion and rInner-up.
Three college boys.
A Coast Guardsman and a
Navy airman whose main duty is
directing recreation.
A steel plant worker.
A covey of statesmen.
And an unemployed politician
who doesn't have to worry about
the shortage of votes.
Urzetta Survives.
The bracket of Is wasn't en-
tirely devoid of name players
or golfers financially able to hold
up their end in the country club
set. But it definitely was a
tournament for the working men
at this stage.
Among the survivors were Sam
Urzetta of Rochester, N. Y, 1850
champion; three other members
of the 1858 United States Walker
Cup team; John L. Morgan, the
most successful of the British
Walker Cuppers. and the West
ern Open champion. Dale Morey
of Indianapolis.
In addition to Urzetta-a but
ton saleSman-are Walker Cup
pers Bill Campbell. the former
West Virginia legislator; Gene
Littler. who has an airman's rat
ing but concentrates on golf at
the San Diego Navy station, and
Jim Jackson of st. Louis, who
oC4AS Jul zap UdSS.
These four managed to sur
vive the weird third day of the
tournament which saw Con-
gresham Jack Westland, de-
Tending champion, ex-champions
Charley Coe, Ted Bishop and
Harvie Ward, former British
amateur champion, who out
lasted Coe in a 23-hole, third
round thriller, knocked out of the
running.
Randolph Beaten.
Jennings (Jay) Randolph, jr.,
at 18, the youngest contestant to
last past the second round,
bowed to Morgan, who played
some Of the finest golf of the
third round.
Randolph, from the Bethesda
(Md0 Country Club, lost, and
4, as Morgan was out in 33 and
ended the match with a birdie
on the l4th. Randolph played
in the tournament on very short
notice, having made the grade
as an alternate from the Balti-
more qualifying rounds. He
won his first two matches by 1-up
margins, one in extra holes.
In the afternoon Morgan de-
feated Harry Easterly, jr., of
Richmond, Va, 3 and 2. Easterly
was a member of the Virginia
team that defeated Washington
in the annual team match be-
tween that sections top anna
teurs.
The duel between Coe and
Ward was the big event yester-
day, and when Coe lost on the
fifth extra hole. after a mem
orable comeback from a three
down deficit with five to go, the
prospects for diversified galleries
during the rest of the tourna-
ment began to fade. When the
winner lost out to Bobby Kuntz,
former Yale University captain
from Larchmont. N. Y, the last
OF the glamor boys disappeared.
Ward Shows Fatigue.
Showing fatigue from his Bit
ter four-and-a-half-hour battle
with Coe in the morning, the So
called "preview match for the
championship" Ward succumbed
when Kuntz made a spectacular
recovery shot on the final green.
The blond Albanian, who held
only one brief lead at the 10TH
had to sink a 1O-foot putt to
stay alive at the 17th. When it
appeared he might even the con-
test on the final hole, Kuntz.
after overdriving the green, laid
the ball less than a foot from
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