Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-01-09 | Page 13 | Texas Star Stays Atop Links Event

Texas Star Stays Atop Links Event By ROBERT MYERS LOB ANGELES, Jan. WV-Ooir C migratory professional headed down th stretch of th fourteenth annual Los Angsles open tournament tourna-ment today, with Jimmy Demaret of Houston, Texas, still In th lead in queat of top money of th MOO ' j purs. Has Flve-Strek Lead Going into th final 11 holes with K a M-hole scor of too, th M-year- J old Texan held a ftve-troke lead I over Harold McSpaden, R. J. (Dutch) Harrison and Jimmy Thomson, th winner of th INI I A. open. History seemed to be repeating Itself It-self In Demaret 'a bid for first prise of 11500. Demmret jumped Into th lead In the firat round with sub par , fallowed It with another . sub par M, and broke even with par 71 ytrday to remain In command. Just as Thomson dominated th tournament a year ago from first to last Whether Demaret oould withstand th pressure as Thomson did remained re-mained to be seen. Seven strokes in th roar waa Mark Fry, th surprise sur-prise package from Oakland, Cat, and eight blow back were Hortoa Smith, Harry Cooper, twice winner of the tournament; Lawaon Little, th only man to break 70 yesterday, and Marvin Stahl of Lansing, Macb. Farmer Ana) Trail Trailing behind them, apparently far out of serious contention, were Sammy Snead, Ben Hogan, Dick Met, Johnny Revolts and Byron Nelson, all of whom at on Mm or another bav supplied local galleries gal-leries with many a thrill. John Geertaen of Salt Lake City, who carded 77 yesterday, was Mill la the race with a 231. Th original alerting field f 1W golfar had seen cut down to odd proa and amateurs, with th latter group led by Phil Finis of . Pasadena with 11a, and Johnny Dawaon of Hollywood at SIT.