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Show Oakland Open Title Won by Texas Golfer By BUSS NEWLAND OAKLAND, CaU Jan. 15 (At Texas Jimmy Demaret with 11200 In Ms pocket and a new title added to his professional golfing feats, was the tout of the Oakland open tournament today, but the man that more people were talking about was the one who not only tried to climb a tree, but missed a four-Inch putt. Without taking a speck of credit from Demaret, who finished In par equaling figures for the Soquoya course, a 35-3570 test, the final round of the 72-hoie medal play open was mainly written around the amazing exploits of bulky Clayton Clay-ton Heafner of Linvtlle, N. C. For 36 holes Heafner had paced the field two strokes ahead of his nearest rival, which happened to be Demaret On the last nine things began to happen. Heafner and - Demaret ' were playing In the threesome. On the 147-yard twelfth the man from North Carolina lofted his ball into the branches of a big tree. When It didn't drop down its boss started to climb up after it His Faee Was Red The pellet plopped to the ground. Heafner whacked It over the green. He stuck a chip shot up to within a worm's length of the cup, then casually gave the ball a one-handed swipe. To his utter astonishment it missed the hole. The five, against Demaret's par three, put the pair on exactly even terms-sharing terms-sharing the lead with six holes to go. Heafner went to the front again when Demaret took a bogey four on the fourteenth, but they reversed re-versed positions on the sixteenth. Heafner hit a ball into the lake for a final seven, whereas Demaret played the layout correctly for a par five. The top contenders halved the last two holes, which left Demaret holding a check for 11200 and Heafner one for $583.33 as the result re-sult of a three-way tie for second place. During Heafner's twelfth hole tree shinning snd putt-missing Incidents Inci-dents a small boy became bo n. cited he fell into a ditch and broke his arm. During ths third round Heafner scored a hole in one on the 191-yard 191-yard second. Aside from his Oakland Oak-land appearance he will be remembered re-membered as hsvlng led the Los Angeles open for three rounds last week before succumbing to and taking second place to Lawson Little. Demaret by winning the Oakland Oak-land open, built up some kind of a new record for California tournaments tourna-ments of the winter swing. Last year he won the Los Angeles open and in 1938 bagged the San Francisco Fran-cisco match" play open. Hews Close to Par The Houston crack shot .moved through his four rounds, not In spectacular fashion, but merely by hewing close to par. He opened with a 68 and carded successive eighteens of 70, 73 and 70 for a total to-tal of 281, one over par. He was tied for the lead at the half way mark with Craig Wood of Mama-roneck, Mama-roneck, N. Y., who bled up along with plenty of others. The leaders: Jim Demaret, Houston, Texas, 211- 70281. Clayton Heafner, Llnville, N. C, 209-73282. Horton Smith, Oak Park, 111.. 212- 70282. Ben Hogan, White Plains, N. Y, 213- 69282. Dick Metz, Oak Park, 111, 215-68283. 215-68283. Paul Runyan, White Plains, 214-70-284. Bruce Colt art, Haddonfleld, N. J, 215-70285. Jimmy Hines, Great Neck, Long Island, 215-70285. Ky Laffoon, Chicago, 211-74 285. Wllford Wehrle, Chicago (ama-teur), (ama-teur), 214-72286. Denny Shute, Huntington, W. Va., 220-67287. Lloyd Mangrum, Chicago, 212-75 287. Craig Wood, Marmoneck, N. Y, 216-72288. Lawson Little, Bretton Woods, N. H., 217-71288. Jimmy Thomson, Chlcopee, Mass., 218-71289. Sara Byrd, Philadelphia, 220-70 290. FLYING START Tom Liston Jr., captain-elect of Notrs Dame's B football team, is ths youngest member of the Chi-cago Chi-cago board of trade. |