Jimmy Clark

The intervention of World War II did not cool Jimmy Clark. When the Championship was resumed at the 6,590-yard Welshire Golf Course, Denver, he bettered by a stroke his own qualifying record with 64-70-134, eight under par and again a 36-hole record for a USGA stroke competition.

His play also contributed materially to Long Beach's victory in the team Championship with a record total of 431 for three men playing 18 holes; to Clark's 134 were added Marshall Holt's 143 and Oscar W. Holberg's 154.

Holt eliminated Clark in the first round, Welch went down in the second round and the eventual winner was Smiley L. Quick, 37, of Los Angeles, who defeated Louis Stafford, of Portland, Ore., 3 and 2 in the final. It marked the first time since 1928 that all honors had been won by players from the same metropolitan area.

Quick, who had tied for 26th place in the Open, was invited to play the Amateur Championship of the same year and went all the way to the 37th green of the final before bowing to Ted Bishop. It was the closest approach to a double in the Amateur Public Links and Amateur Championships and the best performance in three Championships on record.

The entry of this Championship was 3,586, the largest ever received for any USGA competition. The record stood until 1969. Of these 1,280 were from the Denver section, and preliminary rounds were required there. A driving contest was held prior to the Championship proper; Leo Roy Gann, of Tulsa, hit one ball 316 yards, and Einar Hanson, of San Francisco, averaged 286 yards with three balls.