Show CREAVY WINS W INS MATCH PLAY SHATTERS PARON PARON PAR PARON ON DIFFICULT MERCED LINKS Thomson Goes Coos Down Before Consistent Short Game Gamo of New Yorker By JAMES OBRIEN O'BRIEN United Press Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO Jan 16 Tom 16 Tom I Creavy deadly accurate putter from Albany N. N Y held the national match play open golf goll c h a m p i o I S Tuesday through I S his triumph in a I S 'S par shat S. S links battle bathe on th the difficult Lake Mer Merged 5 ged cd course here The slight Creavy Crea- Crea e vy a former P. P G A. A titleholder de defeated Jimmy Thomson of Long LongBeach Beach CM in the David and Go- Go battle which marked the final Creavy reavy Monday of t the ii fourth annual a ml n u a I Ir match tournament conducted r here Thomson called the Babe Ruth p of golf goll because of his p powerful driving drive ing was buried literally Under birdies and pars which rolled off ott the methodical methodi cal Cre Creavy's YS l irons on the greens green The scheduled hole match went 34 holes before Creavy sank the de dc putt to score a and 3 victory and to ta tal take the championship medal and the winners winner's share Bhare of Inthe in inthe the tournament Diegel Runyan Tall Fall Creavy finished the da days day's work four lour strokes better than par on a course that proved pro too difficult for such stars tar taras as Leo Diegel Paul Runyan Light horse Harr Harry Cooper Craig Wood and the tho Dutra and Espinosa brothers Thomson turned in n a card that W was one stroke better than par but Creavy's halt half on the thirty fourth hole which both purred was wu sufficient dent to win Creavy's superiority was rev revealed I when he required only 54 putts pulLs for theM the 3 1 greens while the blond giant from Long Beach putted 62 times Thomson little Utile Tom throughout by from 10 to 25 yards but the accuracy of oC ys Crea short hort game showed which shots count Ingolf in iu golf gaIt Yard lard Drive A gallery of gathered around the fifteenth tee tec on the afternoon round saw Thomson drive 32 yard Incidentally Thomson won that hole but h he was dormie 4 and ond had to win it On the next hole the match ended when Cre Creavy vy dropped a foot 12 ot put pull after atter Thomson's b ball ll had found the cup Creavy Y shot a spectacular 32 three under par to lead Thomson 5 up at the turn of ot the morning 18 Thomson cut the lead lend to two holes at the lunch period At the twenty seventh Creavy y was only 1 I up He maintained the advantage and increased it on the inward nine I |