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Only Tom Bolt Beats Par In U.S. Open First Round; Inman Follows With 70 By HAL WOOD San Francisco (U.R) The tragedy of attempting to beat old man par at the Olympic Club, even under perfect' wea ther conditions, was apparent to day to 161 competitors in the 1955 U.S. National Open golf tournament. But to Texas Tommy Bolt, the thundering thin man, it was a breeze. Bolt teed off in the second round of play today with a three stroke lead on the field after a fine, three-under-par 67. No one else in the group was able to crack par, and only unknown Walker P. Inman of Augusta, Ga., was able to equal the magic figure of 70. But to such stars of past open tournaments as Sara-Snead, By ron Nelson, Dr. Cary Middle coff. Lew Worsham, defending champion Ed Furgol, Julius Boros and Lawson Little, it was a distinct puzzle. They not only didn't crack par they didn't even come close. Hogan. Burlc. Close Only bantam Ben Hogan and Jackie Burke of the big names were within striking distance of Bolt. Burke had a 71; Hogan a 72. From the youthful field came Mike Souchak, Babe Lich ardus and Fred Hawkins, each with 73. From there, the scores skyrocketed to astronomical fig ures. The grinning Bolt was out early in the day and he had the light advantage of smooth greens that had not been tram pled on by the mob. But he play ed fine golf. too. "It was one of my finer ef forts," he said later. "It was a helluva round for such a tough course." He had nines of 35-32 for his score which is just about , as good as one can shoot on this lay-out. Snead for instance, needed 79 blows to get around. Furgol and Boros and young Gene Littler each had 76; Nelson and Wor chara had 77 and Little an 81. - An example of the toughness of the course is shown from the fact that 77 out of the starting field failed to break 80 in the first round. Several withdrew and several others posted scores in the 90s. The hole that had all the pro fessionals complaining was No. 17.-This originally was par five, but the USGA shortened it to 461 yards, uphill, and made it par four. On the hole there were 30 double Dogies 6s; five triple bogies 7s and a single birdie. There vere only seven men who shot 73 or better; and there were five in the 74 bracket; El mer Reed, Atlanta, Ga., Art Bell, San Francisco; amateur Harvie Ward, San Francisco; Calestiuo Tugot of the Philippines, and Doug Ford; playing out of Kiam esha Lake, N.Y. Ford, inci dentally, was a ball of fire after the first hole. He four-putted that one for a double-bogey seven. In the 75 group were Bob Moore, Fairfax, Calif.; Bo Win- inger, Oklahoma City; Skee Rie gel, Tulsa; Freddie Haas, Clare mont, Calif.; Pete Cooper, Birmingham, Mich.; Perry Um- binetti, Seattle, Wash.; Fred Annon, Rye, N.Y., Shelly May field, Westbury, N.Y.', and Ever ett Goulart, San Carlos, Calif. Eugene Blanks Salem Nine 3-0' By UNITED PRBSS George Storti turned in the best pitching chore in Northwest League play last, night spacing six hits as Eugene blanked Sa lem 3-0. The Eugene righthander pick ed up his .sixth victory of the campaign and helped his cause along with a run-producing single in the seventh. Eugene scored once in the fourth on Ron Jackson's triple and a wild pitch and again in the eighth on a one- run single by Ted Hesse. Eddie Lake greeted reliefer Ralph Rose with a 380 - foot double in the eighth to drive home Bill Stahley as Spokane squeezed by Lewiston 7-6. Yakima came on strong in the late innings to take league-leading Wenatchee 6-5. THAT AM SUUV 'TO HEME... 21" Power Mower 4-Cycle Briggs Engine Recoil Starter Heavy Duty Automatic Clutch Roller Bearings . 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Seattle had a tough wrestle and didn't get much pitching but finally made it 7-6 over San Hardtoppers Vie Again on Posse Oval Wayne Lemley heads the point parade as hardtoppers eye another Saturday night of auto lacing at the Jackson County speedway here. But he has Roy Deutschman pushing hard to get out of his dust. The fourth racing program of the season under sponsorship of the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce is set for tomorrow at the posse grounds oval west of Medford. It will be the usual program of heat races, trophy dashes and main and semi-main with time trials at 7 p.m. and the first race at 8 p.m. After three racing cards Lem ley had a total of 85 points. Deutschman has 83. Other lead ers are Elmer Sisemore with 72. Monte Hall with 70 and Bob Wilcox with 65. From there the totals drop down to Lou Done Ian with 53, Cecil James with 51 and Bob Jenkins with 46. Harold McGrath has 44 Bud Hurt 37, Dale Himelwright 37 and Lou Kurz 36. Cameo Paint - M21, driven by Hurt, which was supposed to have a cameo and black paint job for its last appearance but didn't, will have the fancy lacquer attire this time. That's the word from Hawkinson Tire Tread. The car's revolutionary suspension didn't get the complete trial de sired since M21's throttle stuck in the main. The auto hit the fence and didn't finish. i Bob Jenkins reportedly will have a new engine in his flivver for Saturday night while Lou Kurz has gone over his buggy thoroughly to perk it up for the evening. Cecil James will aim to be as successful on the home track as he was at Crescent City, Calif., last Sunday. He herded the Vic Surroz Nash to first in the town. Sisemore drives the Nash on the Medford track. Pat Berg Should Increase Margin , Grossinger, N. Y. (U.R) De fending champion Patty Berg, already boasting a bulging 18 point lead, had an excellent op portunity to increase her margin at the expense of a couple of "pigeons" today in the fourth round of the Triangle Round Robin golf tournament. Miss Berg, who shot a wom en's par 72 in Thursday's third round to give her a three-round total of 219 and a plus 47 score 18 points better than the plus 19 total of runnerup Louise Suggs was paired today in a foursome with Alice; Bauer Hagge of Sarasota, Fla., Mary Lena Faulk of Carrollton, Ga., and Pat 0"Sullivan of Orange, Conn. Under Round Robin scoring rules, wherein each player can pick up points by beating the other three in her foursome, Miss Berg was expected to profit handsomely against Mrs. Hagge, who is next to last in the total scoring with a minus 29, and against Miss Faulk, 12th in the field of 16, with minus 21. Wes Santee Chalks Up Three Marine Records Camp Pendleton, Calif. 0J.R) Kansas miler Wes Santee, American mile record holder and a Marine reservist, came away from the All-Marine Corps track and field championships today with three new meet rec ords. Santee set a new meet record of 1:51.5 yesterday in the 880 yard run as meet records fell in seven of nine events at the con elusion of the two day meet. Wednesday the Kansasn ran the Francisco. Adams' job was made easier by home runs from the bats of Joe Taylor and Dick Whitman, but he was never in much trouble as he recorded Portland's second straight shutout of the Stars. Bob Garber was the loser as he and reliever Cholly Naranjo gave the visitors 14 solid hits. Better Pitching Elston pitched even better than the venerable Adams. He gave up only three singles, fan ned nine and walked but one. In addition he drove in one of the runs he needed to win with a single. Steve Bilko doubled home the other two as the An gels ' clawed three Sacramento pitchers tor an even dozen hits. Brown was also splendid as he ran his record to six wins without a loss. He made two bad pitches that he never got back, however, and had to wait for the bottom of the ninth for his mates to give him the tie-breaking run. LIXESCORES: San Diego 000 001 0102 4 0 Oakland 000 010 1013 11 0 Dickey. Thomason (9) and Aylward. Bailey (8r. Brown and Neal. Los Angeles ... 200 100 0003 12 0 Sacramento ... 000 000 000 0 3 2 Elston and Fanning; Daley, Johnson (7) and Sheely. Portland 010 201 0037 14 0 Hollywood 000 000 000 0 5 1 Adams and Robertson; Garber, Na ranjo (9) and Hall. San Francisco 000 013 020 6 12 2 Seattle 030 001 21x 7 9 1 Nagy. Fracchia (7), Bearden (7) and Ritchev. Tor nay 7i: Blackwell, Fletcher (8). Kennedy (8) and Orteig, Ginsberg (3). Friday, June 17, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN DEVOE OPPOSES KABLER IN JUNIOR GOLF FINALE; TOM HAMLIN OUSTED Portland (U.R) Gary Hval of Portland meets Ron Weber of Prineville and Carole Jo Kabler of Sutherlin plays Sue DeVoe of Medford today in the champion ships of the annual Oregon Golf Association Junion Champion ships here. In the boys' division, Biff Lov ett of Portland, meets David Munro, also of Portland. Hval downed Gordon Marlatt of Eugene on the 19th hole yes terday while WeBer defeated an of her Eugene boy, Gary Geert son, 2 and 1. Sue Beats Susan Miss Kabler, the- defending girls' champ, breezed by Shir ley Siegmund of Eugene, 6 and 5. And Miss DeVoe won over Susan Small of Corvallis, who .had a hole-in-one Wednesday, by the same margin. It is Sue's fourth year as a finalist. Lovett downed Bill Aubry of Corvallis, 3 and 1, and Munro edged Tom Hamlin of Medford, 2 and 1.' day, in the semi-finals of the n the OGA junior tourney at fourth flight pf the boys division Portland.; Tom Alley, Medford, lost to Barry Rubenstein, Eugene in the 15th flight. There was no report on the outcome of the match between Don Peek, Medford, and Bill Van Valin, Corvallis, in the sixth flight. L Gary Harrington, Medford lost to Larry Bick, Coos Bay, yester- Sunday Scuffles In Rogue Circuit Camp White Camp White, struggling to hang on to unbeat en leadership in the Rogue Val ley Baseball League will oppose on Sunday a club it has tipped in pre-league warm-up rivalry. Eagle Point provides the oppo sition and the Whiters will be hosts for the 2 p.m. scrap. Glendale, the leader until bowled aside by Camp White last week end, will meet Grants Pass this week end. Butte Falls will go to Ashland. . 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