U.S. OPEN GOLF TITLE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24904, 18 June 1946, Page 5

U.S. OPEN GOLF TITLE

MANGRUM WINS WITH PAR 72 SECOND PLAY-OFF NEEDED (Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 16. Lloyd Mangrum, with a par 72, won the American open golf championship after a stirring tussle with Byron Nelson and Vic Ghezzi. The trio had tied with 72 in the first play-off in the morning. In the second play-off this afternoon Nelson and Ghezzi returned 73. The lead in the morning round changed six times. Nelson was four strokes down to Mangrum and three down to Ghezzi at the eleventh but managed to finish equal with them. In the second play-off Mangrum held the lead at the first and fifth holes: then Nelson moved into the lead at the seventh. Mangrum was two strokes behind Nelson and Ghezzi at the ninth. Ghezzi was in front at the eleventh, a stroke ahead of Nelson and two ahead of Mangrum.

Mangrum dropped further behind at the twelfth but a birdie at the thirteenth put him level with Nelson, who took six, and two behind Ghezzi. Mangrum holed a twelve-footer for a birdie three at the fifteenth, gaining one stroke over Nelson, who had a par four. Ghezzi took five.

The last three holes were played in heavy rain and a thunderstorm Mangrum increased his lead to two strokes at the sixteenth hole of 615 yards where he notched another birdie. He took one over par, four, for the seventeenth, and held an advantage of one stroke over Ghezzi and two strokes over Nelson.

Playing the final hole it was so dark that the balls could hardly be seen on the greens. Mangrum scored a five and Nelson took a par four to reduce his deficit to one stroke. Ghezzi also took five, leaving Mangrum the winner. Mangrum, who comes from Los Angeles, is 29, and was decorated with the Purple Heart after being wounded in the Battle of the Bulge,

SIAMESE KING’S DEATH LONDON, June 16. “The servants of the late King Ananda Mahidol’ of Siam have been placed under house arrest,” says the Bangkok correspondent of the "Daily Express.” “The new ruler, King Phumiphon Abdulet, insists on the page who found the body acting as his personal attendant. "The Siamese police are believed to have detained several persons for questioning in connexion with the death of King Ananda Mahidol.” says Reuter’s correspondent in Bangkok. The Siamese Parliament has elected a permanent Regency Council, which, subject to the new King J’humiphon

Abduldet’s approval, will replace the interim regency formed on June 9. The new regency consists of a former ■SEW president nf the National Assembly WmE (Prince Chainat) and the former Speaker (Phya Minavaraj Sevi). SsSg