Gene Towry, of Richardson, Texas, won the second Amateur Public Links Championship conducted entirely at stroke play with a 72-hole score of 292 over the Tenison Memorial Municipal Golf Course in Dallas.

Towry, an electrical engineer, once had been a professional and was reinstated to amateur status before 1957, when he was runner-up to Don Essig. Robert Unger, of Milwaukee, Wis., was second at 294. Verne Callison, of Sacramento, Calif., and Michael Keck, New Orleans, La., tied for third at 298. Towry was 12 over par for the four rounds with 18 hole scores of 74-71-75-72.