Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-31
BemanNever Behindin Triumph;
Yanks Rip Griffs Twice 11-2, 40
Deune Beats
Hyndmun in
British Final

SANDWICH, England, May
80 (AP) .-Deane Beman, a boy
ish-looking. crewcut collegian
from Silver Spring, Nd. be-
came the 11th-and youngest
American winner of the British
Amateur golf championship to-
day. He beat grazing Bill Hynd-
man, 3 and 2, in the 36-hole
finals over the Royal st.
Georges course.
Beman. 21-year-old junior at
the University of Maryland. in
terrupted his studies to come to
Britain with the American
Walker Cup team. He never has
won a major tournament in the
United States, although he
reached the quarter-finals Of
the 1858 United States Amateur
championship.
Hyndman, 40, is a Philadel-
phia insurance agency owner
who never had time to play
much big-time tournament golf
until he was nearly 40. He was
runnerup to Harvie Ward in the
1855 United States Amateur. a
Walker Cup player and repre-
sented the United States in the
World Amateur Team Cham
pionship in Scotland last year.
Wins on First Try
Like the last previous Ameri-
can winner, Joe Conrad, Beman
walked off with the ancient
British title the first time he
tried for it. Unaffected by the
pressure of one of the worlds
great tournaments, the slightly
built Marylander took the lead
on the first two holes today and
never let Hyndman catch him.
He was 2 up after nine holes.
going out in 33, two under par.
He was still 2 up after Is holes
and had a 3-up margin at the
27-hole turn. Hyndman made
a belated bid when he won
| the 3lst and 32d, but the
college kid clinched the match
when he executed a fine chip
shot to win the 33d.
Beman's perfect putting
and a dozen delicately hit chip
shots were the decisive factors.
But the rolling, pitching fair
ways of the 6;728-yard st.
Georges links also took their
toll on the older Philadelphia,
who had to go 38 holes to beat
1t. Bob Magee of Newton,
Mass, yesterday.
Youngest American Victor
Beman is the youngest and
probably the least famous of
the IL Americans who have won
the British amateur. The only
tournaments he ever won pre-
viously were junior events and
a couple of sectional champion
ships.
Before the Walker Cup
matches 10 days ago, Beman
was playing the poorest golf of
anyone on the nine-man team.
But he improved his game
steadily by hitting 300 practice
shots a day.
He won his Walker Cup
singles match, after he was
passed up in the foursome play,
and then brought his game to
peak form today.
Beman needed only IA puts
on the front nine of st.
Georges this morning. Hynd-
man could win only one hole
in that stretch, canning a As
foot putt at the third.
Goes 4 Up on No. 20
I After clinging to his 2-hole
margin through the back nine,
Beman began the afternoon
round by winning the 10th
and goth. This time he used
only IS puts on the front
nine and posted a par 35.
Il probably reached the
green in two more often"
Hyndman said, but Deane
must have holed a dozen or
more puts from five or six
feet. 1t was just not my day
for putting"
4 Beman threatened to turn
the match into rout as early
as the 18th hole, where he
went up by winning three
holes in a row. But Hyndman
took the 10th and 18th. After
Beman had made it 4 up again
at the goth, Hyndman came
back again. 1t was give-and-
take through the 32d. Beman
rolled in a 24-foot putt at the
18th, halved the next two and
was 4 UP with six holes to
play.
I Then Beman battled the
rough and took a 5 at the 31st.
He missed a 5-footer at the
32d, and it was 2 up with four
to go. Then he Clipped from
back of the green and sank
a 5-foot putt at the 33d for a
winning 4. The match ended on
the short Gath, which was halved
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