Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-03 | Page 9 | Olin Dutra Sets Hot Pace in Pro Tourney

Olin Dutra Sets Hot Pace in Pro Tourney Castilian Shoots Golf Throughout Tournament ment Being 12 Strokes Under for Holes as H He Meets leets Dudley ST ST. PAUL Minn Sept 3 ff W- W Staggering par aga again agahi D with a brilliant bril bril- 67 Dutra of California took tooka a four up up lead over Ed Dudley Dud Dud- ley icy Wilmington Del today at I. I half time hi ui their hole 36 semifinal semifinal semi semi- final national professional goUch golf goU ch championship struggle Spectacular iron shots carried Dutra over with his great round his second 67 of vf f the tournament He rushed out with a 32 32 four under under under un un- un- un der par to gain a one-hole one lead as Dudley fired ired back with a 33 Coming back he drew away with regular par golf until the final green where he speared a birdie four tour The surprising Frank Walsh of Chicago caught the defending titleholder ti ti- Tom Creavy of Albany N N. Y s his iron play and gained a commanding lead of four up through nine holes Walsh broke par by one shot and didn't give Creavy y a hole By S. S THOM GROUSE United Press Staff Stat Correspondent ST. ST PAUL Sept 3 A 3 A towering Castilian Olin Dutra Santa Monica Cal today should coast through h a hole 36 m mat match a t c h 1 with Ed Dudley Pa and a n d tomorrow win the 1932 P. P G G. A. A A championship t Besides Dudley however L. L h he e Wi will 11 x f X have bave to beat one ws of o two other b golf golfers ers rs Tom Creavy y d Albany N. N Y defending de de- fending champion f. f or Frank Walsh w Chicago who are matched In today's semifinal round also will be in the way Dutra on the Olin OUn Dutra previous rounds should have no difficulty difficulty difficulty dif- dif with an any one of the three The Californian has bas not been over par since the t tournament started while the others have mixed up good golf with indifferent work This region has never seen such consistently super golf goll as Dutra is displaying His qualifying score o of was four strokes below the field and pa par Day by day he has added new rounds to make a record record record rec rec- ord that today found him 12 strokes under par for holes DUDLEY FACES TASK Dudley has played sensational golf colf over short stretches when his putter is clicking but over today's 36 holes he must bear down all the way Dutra is a deadly putter Yesterday for the first time he began to drop long ones 15 20 and 25 foot 25 foot balls straight into the thc cup Previously he had been getting his low scores despite long putts pulls that died right at the cup but refused to go down Dudley yesterday exhibited the greatest fighting spirit yet seen in a tournament which has bas been replete with thrilling hole extra-hole matches When the Penns Pennsylvanian Pennsylvania came to the thirty-fourth thirty hole in his match with Al Collins Kansas Cit City he was 2 down He had to win the next two to stall off ff elimination Collins three- three putted on the thirty-fifth thirty but Dudley Dudley Dudley Dud Dud- ley still had to win another RALLY WINS Collins was on the green of the thirty fifth a par 5 hole in two Dudley Dudley Dudley Dud Dud- ley nearly yards back on the fairway fairway fair lair way needed an eagle 3 His long iron struck ten feet from the pin and his putt was good Dudley and Collins halved the thirty-seventh thirty and Dudley won on the thirty-eighth thirty when the Kansas was unable to negotiate around a partial stymie Tom Creavy the defending champion champion cham charn- pion was was paired with Frank Walsh Chicago whose deliberate play against Bob Cruickshank yesterday caused the veteran to blow up Creavy has not found any of his opponents easy thus far and Walsh's aggravating style of hesitation and deliberation ma may also get under the New Yorkers Yorker's skin Creavy like Cruickshank likes to play them as fast as the thc pair ahead will let him