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Show Demaret Sets Golfers' Pace By RUSS NEWLAND SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22 NPV-Professional NPV-Professional golfers hiking along the winter tournament, and they're a hard shelled, uncompromising lot. made their salaams to a new leader today Jimmy Demaret, from Houston. When the Texas tornado, and no other appellation more fitly describes de-scribes the way he blew through the tournament, defeated Willie Goggin, local crack shot, yesterday to win the $3000 San Francisco match play open championship, he wrote three new headlines for golf thus far In 1940. The 2 and 1 victory In the 36-hole finals put Demaret In the forefront of the current year's money getters In the art of battling par. He captured his second major tournament in as many weeks the other being the Oakland medal play open. At the peak of his game, steady as clockwork and pacing th field, he'll be the on to beat from now until the boys bang out their shots In the U. S. open and the P. G. A. championships. Along with J2375 earnings $75 In the Los Angeles open, $1200 in the Oakland and $1100 in the San Francisco event Demaret became the first player In th 10-year history his-tory of th local tournament to win It twice. He was top man here in 1938. Demaret's drive to leadership of the parade was accomplished In sensational fashion. After finishing finish-ing in a tie for 10th at Los Angeles, An-geles, he won the Oakland tournament tourna-ment by coming from behind in th last nine of th 72-hol event |