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Show Golf Aces Vie for Extra Cash PHOENIX. Ariz., .Jan. 29 UP Hoping to pick up a little small change while adjusting their sights for the $5000 western open tourna-. tourna-. ment starting two days hence, golf-dom's golf-dom's louring ace opened an assault as-sault on par today In a special 18-hoIe best ball pro-amateur event at the Phoenix Country club. Upwards of 80 professionals and some 60 or more amateurs took to the tees. The four low scorers among the pros will divide about $300 made up of western open entry en-try fee posted by amateurs. - Par Threatened Indications were that the nurse's par, 71, would take a bad beating. Top-flight pros, and a few et the leading amateurs, have experienced little difficulty In solving hazards of the layout In practice rounds and many were confident they could wind up with substandard figures. The two amateurs In each foursome four-some held handicaps of 12 strokes, r less, just to make it less of a rout for the pros. Marvin (Bud) Ward of Spokane, Spo-kane, W ash., former national amateur ama-teur king and rated the No. 1 simon-pure In the meet, was lined up with Tony Penna, Dayton, Ohio, pro who toured the course in five strokes less than par yes-terdsy, yes-terdsy, in taking on Clayton Heaf-ner. Heaf-ner. blond pro belter from Linville, N. C, and John Barn urn, Chicago amateur. Henry Plcard. Hershey, Pa., pro ho carded a 66 a few days ago here, and Gray Madison, former. Phoenix pro recently reinstated as an amateur, were bracketed, against Jack Grout, PlUston, Pa., pro, and Hank Leiber, who takes a hand at golf when he's not out-fielding out-fielding for the Chicago Cubs. Sam Snead, Hot Springs, Va., . pro, and Barry Goldwater, local amateur, took on Johnny Bulla, Chicago ace, and a local outsider, Dr. E. Payne Palmer. McLemere Entered Dick Metz, Chicago, and Ms amateur partner, Clarence Bud-Ington Bud-Ington Kelland, the novelist, competed com-peted against Sam Byrd, Ardmore, Pa., ami Henry McLemore. The defending western open titleholder, Jimmy Demaret of Houston, Texas, and Kim Bannister Bannis-ter Jr, Phoenix, former southwestern south-western champion, were billed against Ed Dudley, powerful pro, and C B. Webster, 3d. Ralph Guldahl, former - national open king and three times winner of the western, and Jack Trimble, current cur-rent Arizona amateur titleholder, took on the veteran Scot, Mac-do Mac-do aald Smith, and George Shaw. Among the pros who have toured the layout in subpar figures fig-ures are Penna. Picard, Craig Wood of Mamaroneck, N. Y.; Eduardo Blasi of Buenos Aires; Byron Nelson of Toledo, Ohio; Smith and Harold (Jug) McSpa-den, McSpa-den, Winchester, Mass. |