Sport: Scoreboard, Apr. 13, 1959

¶ Suddenly finding his putting touch and scoring five birdies on the last six holes, Art Wall Jr., saturnine, 35-year-old golf pro from Pocono Manor, Pa. who has been the hottest golfer on the early spring circuit, came from nowhere in the final round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. He overhauled the leaders with a six-under-par final round of 66. Arnold Palmer, last year's Masters champion, who tied for the lead with Canada's Stan Leonard at the end of the third round, triple-bogied the treacherous twelfth hole, narrowly missed two short putts, ended up with a two-over-par 74 and third place, behind steady Gary Middlecoff.

¶ In Grosse Pointe, Mich., Judy Devlin, 23-year-old Baltimore schoolteacher and daughter of Former World Champion J. Frank Devlin, drubbed all opponents to win the U.S. open badminton singles for the fourth straight year, in the final allowed her opponent only a single point.

¶ In the fastest automobile race ever run, Miami's Jim Rathmann drove his Simoniz Special around the steep-banked, 2½-mile track of the new Daytona International Speedway at an average speed of 170.261 m.p.h. to win the 100-mile U.S. Automobile Club championship race, breaking his own closed-course record, which he set by winning the Monza, Italy 500-mile race last year. The speed of the race brought death to Wisconsin's George Amick, 34, No. 2 in last year's Indianapolis race. On the last lap, his Bowes Seal Fast Special went out of control, hit the outer guardrail, killed Amick instantly.