Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1941 — Page 22

By Henry McLemore

AUGUSTA, Ga., April 3 (U. P.).—They tee off in the Augusta Masters tournament today, and I like the hill-billy. You know, ol’ Samuel Jackson Snead, who hasn't changed a lick since he came down from the mountains of West Virginia, with a five dollar set of clubs and a heaven-sent swing. You read so much about Sammy that you are inclined to think of him as a knowing, travelled man of the world, a celebrity with the touch of airs that is the first symptom of headline fever. Well, 1 played 18 holes with him yesterday, and he is Just the same country boy he was when he was “toting” sticks as a caddy. He must have read ten thousand times that he is the finest hitter of a golf ball in the country, and that he should dominate his profession as completely as Joe Louis does his, but he never has believed it. He frets over his swing, his putting stroke, his explosion shots, just as you and I do.

¥ x =» IN THAT HILL-BILLY dialect of his, he cusses the ball, cusses the clubs, cusses himself. He throws his driver, hurls his putter, and stomps his feet after bad shots, just as does the 14 handicap shooter. But watching him play for 18 holes—watching him closely—you are bound to wonder how he ever loses a tournament. I don't say— and I don't think I should, after only 10 years of watching top flight golf —that he is the greatest hitter of them all. I am willing to admit that there have been other golfers who stroked the ball just as well. Bu no one will ever tell me that anyone ever hit the ball better than Snead does. He must be given a tie. Watching him, vou get the feeling that in Snead golf has finally produced, after years of tinkering, a living mechanical man who goes everything without effort and without flaw. Off the tee he hits with no strain, yet he plays par four holes with a drive and a sand wedge. From the brassie to the putter, his style is right out of the book. This is not just my opinion,

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THEN WHY DOESN'T he win all the time? He wins enough to make him the most feared player in golf, all right, but why doesn’t he win nine of 10 tournaments? I asked him what he thought the answer was, and he didn’t have the answer. He couldn't have the answer, because he honestly doesn't believe he is anything more than a fair country player. “The big reason I don’t win a couple of more tournaments than I do,” Snead told me, “is because I just can't keep on thinking. I'll go along for six or seven holes hitting everything perfect, and then I sort of go to sleep and get a couple of double bogies on holes I can throw the ball on the green in two shots. I don't know why I do this. But I keep on doing it, and it frets me.” Well, sometime he isn’t going to have those lapses into the dream world. Sometime Samuel Jackson Snead is going to play through 2 complete tournament without a lapse. And when he does he is going to win by anywhere from six to 15 shots. Maybe the Masters of 1941 will be the tournament. I'm betting a little on him, anyway. No one who can beat me 18 up, after giving me two strokes a hall, can be too bad.

Harold Lloyd Bowls n ABC jon the defense aviation. There are

ST. PAUL, Minn, April 3 (U. P.).] Two other changes resulted when ~ Three changes among the tourna-| Victor Buckhlltz, Mankato, Minn, | ment leaders and the appearance! a 44-year-old bookkeeper, rolled 720 of Harold Lloyd of the movies| for third place in the singles and highlighted last night's session of 1909 for eighth place in the allthe 41st annual American Bowling| events standings. | Congress. Lloyd appeared with a Los AnNed Day, national match cham- | geles team and rolled a respectable pion who bowled with the Ned Day | series of 518. recreation team, West Allis, Wis.,! After tonight's session the nascored petition for fifth place ago he and his partner, Koch, scored 1307 for top honors in| will go to Shakopee, Minn., for its the doubles race. | annual meeting and tournament,

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“If the Germans can do it, Amer-, Goldberg contraption to repair a ican race drivers can do it twice as |badly smashed hip joint and he will well.” {be in a cast for six weeks, but he That's Joe Copps speaking. Rosy positively will make his first public {from the Florida sun, the public/appearance at the race track May| [relations boss for the Indianapolis|30, Mr. Copps reported. Capt. RickMotor Speedway has just pulled into|enbacker probably will fly here. [town to keep the public informed| The Speedway president was in| about the 500-mile classic that will high spirits, Mr. Copps said, and| [come off here May 30. (grinned when he said “This is really

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Changes Ens’ ‘Big Inning’ Policy at Plate

Manual Boy to Start Today

By EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor BARTOW, Fla, April 3.—By eall{ing for more “bunt-and-run-to-first” [practice today, Manager Wade Kil|lefer of the Indianapolis Tribesters {served notice that his method of attack this year will be “for one run at a time” even in the early innings instead of the “cut and slash” system followed by Jewel Ens, his pre|decessor as pilot of the Hoosier In|dians. Ens played for a “big inning” from the start and passed up the sacrifice except in late innings when the (game was close and when one run looked like it would mean a decision. Then Ens learned too late that thie Indians were not gifted

|“fat innings” on their part were | scarce.

“I intend to alternate the Tribe] 2

offense between the sacrifice game,

THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1931

Plans ‘One Run At A Time’ Attack

| hit and run and plain cut and] Islash,” said Killefer today, “but as| lout team shapes up at present the| one run at a time scheme will be! number one in the book. “It is more or less old school stuff | in this era of the rabbit ball and| {swing from the heels vogue, but I | still elaim it has its merits when al

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FRENCH LICK, Ind. April 3 (U.

P.) .—Early arrivals engaged in| is . . i We are going to have more base practice rounds today in prepara-|.itering, as well: at least we are tion for the 10th annual Midwest going to try. I know it's no cinch Amateur Golf tournament opening to steal, buf until opposing clubs] tomorrow. jean ra sop Wo ; in e ibe's | A powerful field, headed by four|y,,neyyvers after the American As-| former champions, is to tee off Fri-|sociation championship race gets]

More Base Stealing

| Joe is referring to the way the{the No. 1 rap I beat.” (Nazis secretly developed the Messer- It's probably a secret, but with! scmitf, airplane motor. He claims |things the way they are, Mr. Copps| the Germans put the experimentaljlet it be known that most of the] motors into racing autos and used (officials of the 1941 race will be European tracks for proving grounds |aviation officials, intimating that he! instead of the skies. had already spilled the reason, If you don't think American aviation officials have a weather eye

turned toward the Indianapolis oval Let Us Hope

right now, you're crazy. At least Norman Perry Sr. returned

Joe says you are. Drivers in Defense from the Indianapolis Indians training camp in Bartow, Fla., yesterday bringing tidings of the Tribe as a pennant contender. Full of confidence about his team, the owner said that games lost in the grapefruit league were the result of trying out rookies and added that ex- || cept for one or two positions about which they are dickering the squad was in a good spot to take the flag.

To bear out his contention, he

points to the race drivers working

Joe Thorne and Art Sparks working on the West Coast for Lockheed. Wilbur Shaw is a Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. employee. Right here at home, IL. L. (Slim) Corum, Harry Hartz, Mauri Rose, Bob McDonogh, Frank Del Roy, | Billy DeVore, Randall Bienke, Benny Benefiel, Gene Nardi and Bob Jackson are employee of Allison Division, General Motors. |

And there's no danger that they |

have to do their practicing during { 1

Take Ring Honors

night off just before the race, the gentleman from Florida says.

Incidentally, Joe adds that there g | will be “at least 50” entries in this| BOSTON. April 3 (U. P.).—Three|

year's race. Also, he says that a ‘een-age Massachusetts tyros today number of the cars that didn't ful- | wore ring crowns emblematic of {fill expectations last year are sea-| their success in the 34th National

| y soned and the bugs have been taken | , oteur boxing championships. The triumphant threesome—

out for the race. middleweight James Mulligan and os Jom like pleasure | welterweight. Dave Andrews of Loautomobiles. The only ground for 9 race cars is the racetrack, Mr. Copps | ¥* 11 Mass, and featherweight said, and it usually takes a couple of years to get them into checkered |—earned team honors for the New flag condition. It's still “who's Shaw,” but watch out for Rex Mays |

who has his eyes on the pole so

Proven on the Track

going to beat|

No other state landed more than

tion, Joe warns. one title. Eight new champions

Just before he arrived here, Mr. Copps saw Capt. Eddie Ricken-| backer, president of the Speedway, who is recuperating in an Atlanta,

Ga., hospital after his nearly fatal | c1asses were heavyweight Ragan crash. gs is : . | Kinney of Hartman, Ark. light __"Rick™ is all rigged out in a Rube| heavyweight Shelton Bell of Wil- - w—— | herforce, O., lightweight Tommy {Moyer of Portland, Ore., bantam- | weight Raymond Brown of Chicago, (111, and flyweight Lawrence Torpey lof Philadelphia, Pa.

sylvania, Oregon, Ohio and Arkansas the other states acquiring titles. New rulers in the other five

Francis Leonard of Taunton, Mass.,| School's Kats virtually was assured {today with word from President | ‘England ‘A. A. U. before a crowd Roosevelt that a request for WPA |

{of 9601 in last night's final at Bos- | funds for the gymnasium has been

ton Garden. | granted. | The Federal grant of $106,758 is were crowped with Illinois, Penn-| to be used for TROP, i nt Roe

day in the 54-hole medal tourney./under way. Rounds continue through Saturday| “Fans like to see a lot of ‘run’ on and Sunday. la ball club and J think any man- | Defending champion is Gus No-|ager who has a squad of speed | votny of Memphis, who won the merchants under his wing has half |

title last year as a Cincinnati entry. |the battle won. Speed is always| played from New York to California, are Chick |a threat that keeps rival batteries selected Creighton as the best a]l-| Allen and Claude Dixon 1 . |around team faced during the seaThe Indians are not blessed with [son just closed. It named A. D. Rob-

champion in 1937 and 1939, and | An overabundance of fast boys but!erts of Oklahoma as the finest in|dividual opponent.

Other former titlists - ! Evans, Chicago, winner in 1932 and | and infields on the anxious seat. 1936; Gus Moreland, Peoria, Ill!

Jack Horner, Chicago, 1938 winner. | (Continued on Page 23)

Creighton Best

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Glen Stidd championship.

PEORIA, April 3

The Thomas D. Taggart trophy is| awarded the king of amateur linksmen of the Middle Western states. Besides Evais and Horner, Chicago has a strong list of candidates in Johnny Lehman, Russell Martin, Earle Wilde and John David, who, as an Indianapolis entry, tied for second spot last year with John Hobart of Moline, Ill. St. Louis is sending the veteran Jimmy Manion; Detroit is backing Thomas E. Sheehan Jr., former cap- | tain of the University of Notre Dame go!f team; Terre Haute will be represented by P. L. Byrard, and Decatur, Ill, by city champion Curtis Busher. Other favorites include Jim Frisina, Taylorville, Ill.,, and Henry Timbrook, Columbus, Ind., former Indiana University golfer who finished well up in the running last Vea,

Kokomo Gets Gym Grant |

Times Special KOKOMO, Ind. April 3.—~A new basketball home for Kokomo High

komo school city will furnish the Imaterials. Details of construction will be worked -out at a meeting lof Kokomo school board and WPA |officials Friday night. | The new hall will be Kokomo's largest assembly hall, and plans {reall for a one-story structure with bleacher seats along the sides. {Rooms will be built under the | bleacher stands.

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NEW YORK, April 3 (U, P).— ‘Fourth round play in the men's |singles division of the eleventh na[tional table tennis championship [tournament today will bring to{gether Louis Pagliaro, New York, 'defanding champion, and Stan Fields, Washington, D. C., with the winner qualifying for the evening's |quarter-finals.

seeded Charles Schmidt, New York, will face Ray Pearson, Pacific Coast champion from Seattle.

‘Sol Schiff, New York vs. Jimmy Jacobson, New Rochelle, N. Y.; Bill Holzritcher, Chicago, vs.Sy Sussman, |New York; Tibor Hazi, Hungary, vs. |Bernard Grimes, New York; Gar-

Hungary; Ed Pinner, New York, vs. Bob Anderson, Chicago; and Jimmy vs. Leslie

McClure, Indianapolis, WALKOVER | Lowry, Newton Centre, Mass. In the quarter-finals of the J Oo D H P u R $7.50 women’s division, Sally Green, In|dianapolis music student and deWorn |fending champion, will clash with ‘Maye Rolph, Portland, Ore. Second|seeded Leah Thall, Columbus, Ohio, |will face Mrs. Magda Hazi, Hungary, third seeded entry, Mrs. Reba

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Seventeen Champs Will Be Crowned

Seventeen boxing champions will { be crowned tonight in the finals of | the city and WPA recreational tour(nament at Tomlinson Hall | Eleven semi-final bouts will be | held first to ascertain the final contenders. Interest is shown in the “special divisions,” 90 and 100-pound

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{mixing it up better than the older fighters. Winners and runners-up in all classes will receive prizes, and there also will be a special sportsmanship trophy designed by George Phillips of the WPA craft departement. Tonight's referees will he LeRoy Rogers, Happy Atherton and Heze Clark, with Sam Murbarger, state athletic commissioner, and Ted Sullivan acting as judges for the championships. | All contenders are scheduled to | report for physical examination at 6:30 o'clock tonight and action will start at 7:45 o'clock.

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