Show Craig Wood Clips Four Strokes Off Par to Take Lead in Rich Agua Caliente Golf Goff Tournament Paul Runyan Defending ling Champion Stays Slays in Race by Shooting 69 John Geertsen of Utah Finishes W We Well cn Up With 73 Card By GEOR GEORGE E H H. BEALE United Press Sports Writer AGUA AQUA CALIENTE Mexico Feb 1 A 1 A sizzling 67 7 placed Craig Wood out Dut in front of ot the golf gal parade today as it entered the second round of the Agua Caliente tournament The big blond professional from Deal eal N. N J. J blasted his way into the leadership in yesterdays yesterday's opening round by carving four strokes from fromar par ar to set a new course course record and better etter by one stroke the brilliant performance of Bobby Cruikshank Richmond Va pro The pace Wood and Cruikshank setin setin set in n inaugurating the hole 72 annual classic lassie was too hot for the defending champion champi n Paul Runyan who nevertheless never never- th less kept in the running by stroke ing ng a 69 to land in third place The performance of ot the White Plains N. N f. f Y pro who next to MacDonald Smith has earned more money in the cost ost tournament season this year than any ny other player was still a pair of strokes better than par Makes 1 Five Birdies Wood was all but invincible The margin that separated him from that honor lonor comprised a pair of three foot putts that he missed on the seventeenth seventeenth seven- seven and eighteenth holes prevent ing ng him from garnering birdies As Asit Ast Asit it t was he collected five birdies be be- fore ore calling it a day Woods Wood's showing marked a sharp return return re- re turn urn to the form that he displayed a acar when he ranked the seasons season's seasons season's year ear car ago as seaon's sea- sea sons son's greatest money player and won the he Los Angeles Pasadena and San Francisco tournaments But a Calente Cal ente he broke under the strain To day however he W was boosted to the position of outstanding favorite Previously Pre he has encountered only nominal nom- nom mat nal success in this tills seasons season's play Cruikshank equaled the performances perform ances o of Gene and Fred Morrison Morrison Mor Mor- rison when the two won the tournament tournament tournament ment in 1930 and 1932 respectively Sarnen's 68 on one round provIded him the necessary margin to walk walkaway walkaway walkaway away with prize money the richest purse in tournament history is not present this year Guldahl Below Delow Par Another performer in yesterdays yesterdays yes erday's play was Ralph Guldahl of St. St Louis who clipped a 70 to take fourth place Tied with par in fifth nUh position were George Von Van Elm of Los Angeles Horton Smith of Oak OakPark OakPark OakPark I Park Ill Leo DIegel Phil Philadelphia Densmore Shute British open champion cham chain plan sion of Miami Fla Mark Fry of San Francisco Willie Hunter of Los Angeles An An- geles gales and Stan Kertes of f Los Angeles Leading the amateur field was Dr Cliff Baker Portland Ore who garnered garnered garnered gar gar- a 72 Equaling that score among the he professionals were Joe Kirkwood of Miami Abe Espinosa of Chicago Willie Goggin of San Francisco Bill Bil Schwartz of St. St Louis and Jim Johnson John son of Tacoma Wash Other first round results 13 13 MacDonald 3 Smith Nashville as A Al Es Es- Akron 0 O. 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