Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-25
Back-Nine Play
Enables Frank
TO Take Match
Horvie's Squirt FniIs;
Randolph, Thornton
Remain in Running
BY the Associated Press

Ding Frank Stranahan or Toledo
won the "pay-off" match of the
third round of the 54th National
Amateur golf champions on the
18th green today, defeating
Harvie Ward of San Francisco,
/ up.
The victory sent Stranahan
into the fourth round this aft
ernoon with a chance of going
all the way through the tourna-
ment.
One down at the turn, Strana-
han won the first three holes
on the back nine to gain the
lead, only to have Ward square
the match again at the 18th
green. Stranahan won the final
hole with a par 4 when Wards
18th hole putt for a half hung
on the lip Of the cup.
The victory put Stranahan
even with Ward in their per-
sonal series. Each has beaten
the other three times in major
match play competition.
Magnificent Comeback Fails,
Stranahan played scrambling
golf. visiting the rough and
traps all around the 6,875-yard
par 35-35-70 Country Club of
Detroit course. But he made up
for his lapses with some fine
recovery shots.
Ward made a magnificent
comeback, just when his game
seemed to be coming apart, to
carry the match to the final
hole.
He was 2 down at the 18th
and again at the 18th, putting
badly and playing some wretched
golf. Then he won the 10th
and 18th holes to square the
match and came close to moving
ahead on the deciding hole.
Wards drive on the 18th was
in the rough and his bold sec
ond shot for the pin hit a mound
at the edge of the green and
fell back INTO a trap. He blasted
Is feet from the cup and went
for a par after conceding Stran-
ahan's shot putt for a par.
Wards ball rolled to the edge
of the cup, where one more turn
would have carried it in, and
stopped there to end the match.
Plays Sheehan Next.
StYanahan's morning victory
put him up against Tom Shee-
han. former Notre Dame player
from Birmingham, Mich, in this
afternoons fourth round. Shee-
han beat Eugene Zuspann Of
Englewood, Colo, 4 and 8.
When the big morning match
finished, Bill Campbell of Hunt
ington, w. Va, rutner-up for
the British and Canadian Anna
teur titles this year. was en-
counteringN lot of trouble
against Pat Schwab of Dayton,
! Ohio. Schwab won the first
three holes and was 3-up at the
turn.
/ Campbell also is in the first
quarter Of the draw, along with
Don Cherry, another interna-
tional star from Wichita Falls,
Tex, who led Claude Wright of
Englewood. Colo, Cup at the
turn.
Billy Joe Patton, the gallery
favorite, played Don Doe of
CRANKY, Canada, in one of the
other top matches.
Meanwhile, a 19-year-old
youngster from Washington,
d. c., Jay Randolph, son of a
former congressman, was max
ing one of the biggest splashes
Of the tournament with his VIC
tories over two players with ma
tional rank, Ray Palmer of
Crosse lie, Mich, and William
Hyndman III of Hyndman. Pa.
Wins in Dramatic Finish.
Palmer was a National ANA
teur Quarter-finalist last year,
while Hyndman has been North
South Amateur semifinalist the
past two years.
Randolph's victory over Hynd-
man yesterday was one of the
most dramatic finishes to date.
They were all even coming to
the 18th and both on the green
in two, Randolph about 20 feet
Iabove the cup and Hyndman II
| feet in the same line.
| Randolph's putt picked UP
speed going down the hill on
the fast green, hit dead center
on the cup, jumped q good six
inches in the air. and stayed in
Hyndman's effort rolled to the
lip and Randolph won, UP
with his birdie. which gave him
a 70.
George Thornton of the Manor
Club near Washington. won
again, this time over Sig Harp
man. jr.. of Oklahoma City,
up. Thornton also had 70.
Thornton Meets Oskin.
Today Thornton met Clyde
Oskin of Bethlehem. Pa, and il
Thornton and Robert Sweeny
the former British champion
win this morning. they meet this
afternoon.
Randolph's opponent in the