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Show , Wild Gallery Puts End to Charity Golf Match ,? il II i: . h Even New York City, with Its claim of doing everything right, muffed this time. After selling 10,000 tickets to the Ruth-Montague charity golf match, the authorities failed to make preparations prep-arations to handle the gallery, which turned out to be one of the wildest in history. The fans overran the course and climbed trees until the golfers gave up in despair at the end of nine holes. rij i mi) kmm ii illriifii mi -. ML& yfcn i in n-n nwt j mZJr v - 1 :"--wvv He flubbed it! The unofficial unveiling- of John Montague as a super-golfer didn't prove much. Part of the unruly mob which finally broke up the match peers out of the woods behind be-hind Montague, whose expression is the best indication of what he thinks of the silustion. Crowd Hinders "Big Foursome" By STUART CAMEROX United Press Sports Editor NEW TORK, Nov. 19 John Montsgue remains the mystery man of golf today. Twelve thousand unruly fans upset up-set his introduction to his future public on 'ths Fresh Mesdow links yesterday and forced him to retire after playing nine boles of a scheduled sched-uled 18-hole exhibition match with Babe Ruth, Babe Didrikson and Mrs. Sylva Annenberg. It was probsbly the biggest crowd in American golfing history and it was the first time a spsrts event had to be abandoned because of the size of the gallery. The fans walKed on the heels of ths players, swarmed through sand traps, snd paraded across greens with utter disregard of anything except a desirs to get a closeup view of the show. So today "Mysterious Montague," friend of Hollywood's golfing celebrities ce-lebrities and central figure of many Bunyanesque links story, remains sn unknown becsuse his public refused re-fused to let him play. Probably nobody saw mors than half a dozen shots by sny one player. The crowd will go down In golfing golf-ing history as one of the most fantastic fan-tastic ever put together. Probably not more than one out of every six in that crowd had ever seen a golf shot made, even from a public pub-lic driving range. Once Ruth was sddresslng his ball for a 13-foot putt A spectator walked straight across the green ths hole. He didn't seem to understand un-derstand the rebukes from ths golf-minded golf-minded spectators. Ruth just grinned. Costumes of the spectators were something to remember. Instead of tweedy clothes usually seen in a links crowd, there were high-heeled pumps, black-veiled hats, mink coats and cocktail frocks. On ths sixth hols Montagus hit a spectator while making a long approach. On his next effort he barked ths shins of snother while sddressing tbs bail. So hs picked up. Best shot of ths day was made by Mrs. Annenberg, a tee shot on the 183-yard, three par fourth. The ball stopped within two inches of ths pin, Ths crowd msds such sn uproar that everybody at the tee thought shs hsd made a hole-in-one. Photographers rushed out and ordered Monty to kiss his partner. He obliged six of them, ons by one. I |