Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-08 | Page 11 | Club Limit Fails to Worry Aces in Los Angeles Open

r J This Threesome Tough to Top for Variety I 1 Y 4 t 1 I 4 f i z 4 f t y r j 7 w 1 Ii w. w A o A m J Li Y Left to right light C. C Pardee Erdman a college professor Babe Didrikson Olympic ex-Olympic star and Cry Baby aby Zaharias wrestler This trio highlighted the first days day's play in the annual annual annual an an- nual Los Angeles open golf tournament by attracting a large gallery Club Limit Fails to Worry Aces in Los Angeles Open i By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES Jan 8 UP Remember UP-Remember Remember how the professionals wailed and moaned when the United States Golf association announced announced an an- flounced its ruling limiting the number of clubs a player might carry to 14 They sounded not unlike a covey of banshees with their feet caught in traps Well yesterday just before the start of round first-round play in the Los Angeles open the edict went into effect So this observer f made it a point to Buttonhole t the h e f leading players as left the they home It green and a ask s k r them hem if the new II law had in anyway anyway any J way handicapped their play All the answers were the same same- i an emphatic No Revolta Cooper III Smith D Dutra u t r a Snead P Pic Picard i c a r d I. I Goggin Runyan v. v and all the others Thomson said that the reduction in the number number num- num ber of weapons had not bothered them in the least In fact the consensus consensus consensus con con- was that it had helped by eliminating the worry of choosing between several clubs for a shot and by speeding up play First Scores Good Even if the players had said the ruling had bothered them the first- first round scores would have offered contradictory evidence because they were good Jimmy Thomson and Willie Goggin swept around the Griffith park layout in seven under par Henry Pic Picard rd Bruce McCormick McCormick Mc- Mc Cormick Lloyd Mangrum Jug Mc- Mc Zell Eaton Ben Coltrin Bud Oakley and Abe Espinosa had had I I and there were no end of only slightly less brilliant scores Thomson would have had a 64 and sole possession of the first day lead had he not missed an inch 18 putt on the final green The two favorites favorites- Harry Cooper defending champion and Sammy Snead the hit em a amile amile amile mile boy had boy had their work cut out Utahn and anti former fared fairly well in the first round of the Los Angeles open golf tournament Friday George Von Elm led the group with a 36 35 71 36 71 John Geertsen Geertsen Geertsen Geert- Geert I sen pro at Bonne Bonneville Bonnelle lle last season shot 37 35 72 37 72 George Schneiter of the Ogden Golf and Country club carded a 38 33 73 38 73 73 and C. C E. E Foley former Bonneville pro but now at Reno shot 38 37 38 37 75 for them when the second 18 holes started today Cooper who scorched the course in practice could do no better than even par 72 Harry was peeved with the committee in charge of starting times for sendIng sending sending send send- ing him out early in the morning when the course was heavy and wet Forbidden to clean his ball on the greens Harry said the mud his pitches picked up cost him several strokes Snead was off his game game- and had hada a 73 The West Virginian was not as as long off the tee as Thomson with whom he played and he lacked lacke accuracy Steadiest Golf Goggins Goggin's 65 was the result of th the steadiest golf of the day He di did nothing spectacular spectacular just just hit ever evershot every shot perfectly The time one-time run nun up ner-up in the P. P G A. A championship champion champion- I ship is a man to watch The field will be reduced to th thelow the thelow low and ties after today's round and after tomorrows tomorrow's round on only the low 50 and ties will be eligible for the final 18 holes Monday The Th boys played over both courses o othe of the Griffith park layout yesterday and today those who toured th the Harding course will take a shot a athe at atthe atthe the Wilson course and vice versa vers There is little difference in the tw two setups