Show Wood Paired In Same Bracket of Masters Golf Tourney By BILL BONI AUGUSTA Ga April 4 AP Perhaps AP-Perhaps Perhaps by accident but butmore butmore butmore more probably by well conceived well design they sent Craig Wood and Gene into today's opening round of the Masters golf tournament in the same twosome To start with it was one of the most colorful pairings in the entire list Wood the handsome blond bomber from Mamaroneck N. N Y at 38 is playing the game as' as well as ever and the squat outspoken little gentleman farmer also 38 38 is is' playing almost as well as he ever did Recalls Drama But there was more behind it than that It revived one of the best Merriwell finishes in the history history history his his- tory of ot this or any oth other r golf tournament tour tour- double eagle on the fifteenth hole of the last round In the 1935 tournament which enabled enabled enabled en en- him to tie tie t Wood for first place and go on to beat him In a play-off play the next day shot ranks as one of the epic ones of the game game game-a a yard No 4 wood that cleared the deep ditch in front of the green and popped into the hole Behind today's pairings th though ugh stood something else else else-a a long line of similar finishes to tournaments in which Wood has looked like a winner winner winner win win- ner only to be beaten out either at atthe atthe atthe the last moment or in a play The last time was in the U. U S. S open at Philadelphia in June when it took two extra rounds for Byron Nelson to do it Wood has been playing some of his best golf since then We thought this was rather odd that a defeat defeat defeat de de- de- de feat suffered that way might Instead in instead instead In- In stead have preyed on his mind and hurt his concentration If If you think I lay awake nights after that worrying over putts I might have sunk to win youre you're all wrong said Craig I I knew that I played some of my best golf and andI I knew too that Byron played just a bit better Knowing that there wasn't any reason why I should feel badly |