Evening star., 1955-07-23
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Lew Meets Pulmer
Over. 36-HoIe Route;
Sneud on SideIines
By MERRELL WHITTLESEY
Star stan Correspondent

dict he'd beat his old buddy,
Johnny Palmer. as the 36-hole
matches start today because you
never know how Lewis going to
play. He came here without
having played In almost five
weeks because Of a bursitis con-
dition in his right shoulder, but
all of a sudden he found the
touch, as he deadened the bur-
sits with shots in his arm.
Lew shot 69-70 in the qualify
ing rounds, holed q wedge shot
from the deep grass of the 18th
green to beat Dick Lundahl of
Pasadena, Calf, 2 and l, in the
first round yesterday, then won
the first four holes of the back
nine Of the Meadowbrook course
to set up a 2-and-1 triumph over
Ray Hill of Hopkins, MINI.
Travelled Together on Tour
Now he plays Palmer, his
travelling companion on the win
ter circuit for years. They met
in Richmond in the third round
in 1949 and Palmer won. 2 and
/. The most serious bid Lew
made for the PGA championship
was in this city in 1947, the week
after he brought the National
Open title to Washington. He
let Vic Ghezzi get away in a
quarter final match that year.
The score board credits Wor-
sham with being four under pal
for four rounds, but actually
he's about even because he hii
two balls out of bounds on the
14th hole, picked up. and some.
how the hole was scored as 8
lpar for Worsham and con-
ceded birdie for Hill.
Lew figures to have a better
record in the PGA than he doe.
in medal play over the years
because he plays golf that is per.
fleet for match play. He makes 6
lot of brides, is a good scram.
bier, and like the year of tht
$685. shot at Tam O'Shantel
in Chicago, and like yeSterda,
against Lundahl, he can hole {
wedge when he's in trouble.
/ Family in ID. c. Area
1 Worsham, whose family ant
in-laws still live in Washington
suburbs, had a good break, in tn,
draw for the two rounds OF
BLACK Friday" but from her,
on he's in the tough half. Eithel
Tommy Bolt or Jack Fleck. Ma
Itional Open champion, will NEE
the WorSham-P Palmer winner
} and Cary Middlecoff is in tn
, lower half of their bracket.
Sam Snead was beaten by Boil
: for the second straight year ant
all five of the former champion
who made the match-pla.
rounds were eliminated in tn
!. biggest casualties of the two IS
2 hole rounds. Two Of the ex
) champions were old-timers. Gen
Sarazen and Vic Ghezzi. TIL
t Others were Snead, Walter Bur
= keno. who lost a tight mattel
tito Middleton. and Chick Har
bert, the defending titlist. VIII
was beaten. / up, by Palmer
A lthree-under par 68. Sarazel
!, beat Clarence Doser, Woodmon
Country Club pro, 6 and 4, il
. the first round.
The big question today is ca
Bolt overcome unfriendly gal
8 leries two days in row. TIL
,, crowd was about 95 per cent TO
). Snead yesterday and it's goin
to be about the same today whel
terrible-tempered Tom meet
Fleck, the new fair-haired bo
of the crowds.
Bolt Snarls at Crowd
At one point yesterday. whel
Snead Tipped the cup with a 40
footer on the seventh green. an
: then Bolt dropped a curling 20
} footer for a birdie, Tom flashe
those big teeth in a villanou
manner and said, "They chez
more for Snead Tipping the Gu
than for me making one"
Hole after hole somebody /
IS the gallery would yell, "Sink
Sam." and Bolt would look
1.-THE persons direction and snar
g Bolt ended the match in dra
j. matte fashion, knocking a san
IS trap shot into the cup from
= trap near the 10th green for
nj 3-apd-2 triumph. Last year h
1t beat Snead, l up in 80 hole
in the quarter-finals in a mate
10 marred ls Bolts fussing wit
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