Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 36, Number 49, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 September 1941 — Page 7

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A NEW GOLF ANGLE PROFESSIONAL golf needs a new angle in a ranking or scoring way. It needs badly something like the “Standing of the Clubs” in base-

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ball There are too many different winners in too many tournaments for the public to know who is ahead and who isn’t This could be arranged by picking out a number of the leading tournaments | in which most of the stars play, and from these a record ( of the- total strokes

could be tabulated. Also, a point system of first, second, third, fourth and fifth places might be kept so that followers of the ancient game could get a clearer idea of what the leading stars are doing. The. first method was tried out a few years ago on the West coast and it scored a clean hit. Four big tournaments were picked for the test. The total scores of the leaders were printed after each tournament with the result that by the third tournament there was keen interest in trying to pick the winner. On the final day, as I recall, Ed Dudley and Harry Cooper were neck and neck, with several pursuers not far away. Follow-Up Value The trouble today is that different golf tournaments have no follow-up value. Hogan wins—Snead Wins —Wood wins—someone else ' wjns. The public soon becomes confused. It has no combined record of comparison to follow in the way of total strokes, or for first, second, third, etc., points. Freddie Corcoran would be an ideal man to handle this new “Standing of Golfers” and so link one tournament with another. In this way, each added tournament would become more and more important as general interest began to build up. To make this new ranking method more effective there should be suitable rewards for the top men—especially the winner. Some enterprising advertiser could afford to put up SIO,OOO for the top five, opening with $3,500 at least for the big winner. The advertiser would get the benefit of many tournaments through a long campaign. There could be a winter’s standing, leading up to the U. S. Open. And there could be a summer’s ranking for the "remainder of the tournament year. There is no doubting the interest value this would have for toui-na ment golf. In place of each big tournament being a somewhat isolated case, there would be a new national following. A Simple Record For example, we would come to the fourth tournament in the list. The record might be something like this—Hogan. 850 strokes; Snead. 841; Craig Wood. 841; Sarazen, 842; Nelson, 843. By the start of the seventh tournament the count might be—Hogan, 1.440; Snead. 1.442: Wood. 1.443; etc. Perhaps there is a better way for this to be worked out. But 1 know the above method get by with a rush the first and only time it was tried. There is now no follow-up in the present system of tournament play. The leading money winner and the Vardon trophy winner might easily be two different players. What general, interest would there be in baseball if there were no standing of the clubs, no comparative i record of each team’s ranking? Golf has a great chance in the ■ way to add tremendously to a na- , tional public following from one tournament to another if the P.G.A. will get baek of the idea and put it through. • * ♦ The National Open— Golf s Danger Spot The excitement of the recent National Amateur championship at Omaha will long be remembered by the galleryites who watched the campaigners battle it out for top honors. Many weird things can happen in these double 18-hole tests. Few estimate the danger of these 18-hole matches. 1 wonder how many recall the fact that for four years so fine a golfer as George Von Elm was beaten in his first round. . When he finally managed to scramble through at Baltusrol—and he might easily have lost his first match'again, being one down and one to^glay —he went along to beat Bobby Jones in the final rush. Also few recall the fact that Bobby Jonep barely escaped with his scalp and his shirt more than once. Dick Jones almost nailed him at Baltusrol, one down, where Bobby holed a 15footer and Dick blew a two-footer on the same hole in the stretch. Maurice McCarthy had Bobby two down and four to play. Others of no'rarjking caliber carried him to the eighteenth or nineteenth holes, including Ray . Gorton at Brookline. Johnny Goodman finally caught him at Pebble Beach. The 18-hole tests were Waterloos to men who could go longer matches. I

Mexico Pledges Co-operation W “YALI f ... 3 '—Bi m * xf ■ ■Sb W jB Jb »WK; s igw«MsMßa;aßa WWißßg'-?• .. . JI -JE ■?' lift it* ir w1. top p.iGio Avila Camacho, president of Mexico, delivers his first annual message to congress. He stressed the attitude of the Mexican government as favoring democracy, and pointed out .the Mexican intention of co-operating in the defense of America. In lower photo labor union adherents to the O.T.M. stage demonstration as e\idchce of their support of the president’s announced principles. To Whom It Mav Concern < a.,a Jf ’4HH* IIBwW . , JbL . The iS-iiicii rffiis c . the No. 3 turret, aft, of ihe 3f,UOC-.c.i U.S.S. North Carolina cut loose with a rear as they hurl shells about 26 miles to sea in the greatest broadside of history. This soundphoto was made from the stern of the navy’s superdreadraught during recent firing tests. The North Carolina is under the command of Capt. Olaf M. Hustvedt. : s__ _____ . ; Live Animals Set Off Fur Coat Fashions • a? < - r I ■MM M r' i Iffwl IWBk WBf w W* ; 'W ; - z r r w : ; ■ «k“ ’ / / f J. • ’ New styles in furs for IS4£ were displayed iu a novel live animal fur review held on the million dollar pier in Atlantic City. These girls are shown wearing the coats and leading by leash some of the animals from which milady’s coats are made. Just in case you are wondering, the skunk shown at left has been deodorized. Aircraft Police Instructed in Gas Mask Use WHi wjlOh ■ >1 ■ iteJv <cj 'SAS J SaS'''" , X, Above, Lieut. Watts Clark of the U. S. army chemical warfare <«,»ps is pictured at San Diego, Calif., as he instructed members of the Consolidated Aircraft corporation police force in the use of gas masks. Lieutenant Clark said the information of how to use a gas mask will be passed on to the workers. In background a “Liberator” bomber nears completion.

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Curtain Falls .< ? A It J ••• Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the President, who died in her heme on the Hudson river, at Hyde Park, N. ¥., at the age of 86. Mrs. Roosevelt, famed for her beauty in youth, was from an era of grand dames and dowager duchesses and she ruled her household in a regal manner. She was buried beside her husband, James, wh' died in 1960. Miss America I \ IB The crown of Miss America of IS4 was placed on the blonde locks c Miss California, Rosemary La Planche, at Atlantic City, N. J. The 19-year-old, hazel-eyed beauty, resides in Los Angeles, and was a runnerup in last year’s beauty pageant. Investigator WK £ Z J | BrC ~ I Owen D. Young, who has been ap pointed special representative of the national defense mediation board, to investigate issues in the dispute between the United States Gypsum company and the gas products, coke and chemical workers union, C. 1.0., who ended a two months’ strike at request of the board. Into Indo-China g dy flit . <' 1 * IJ A Japanese supply convoy enters an undisclosed Indo-China city following an agreement between Tokyo and Vichy allowing Japan to station troops at points in Indo-China.

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Billion More of Lend-Lease For Agricultural Products But It's Some Job to Decide What Should Be Ordered Curtailed and What on Farms.

By BAUKHAGE National Farm and Home Hour Commentator.

WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N-W, Washington, D. C. By the time this is in print another billion . dollars will probably be allocated from the lend-lease fund to buy farm products. -" When word of this was impending the well-prepared legions of the department of agriculture pushed the button and started one of the biggest campaigns in the history of farmdom to turn the product of field and pasture, sty and coop and creamery toward thefir most effective-goals. These goals are the expansion of production of those products which are needed for shipment to England, for commercial export and for home use. And it takes a nice eye and a sharp pencil to figure out in advance just What production to what products to curtail so the’farmer will come out right with enough to sell and yet without a glut on ‘ his hands. Os course, milk and poultry products are high on the list of British needs. There are pork products, too. And all edible fats. And meat. We have to have enough meat for home consumption, of course, and that has to be figured in, and when it comes to fats we face a possible shortage at home because imports are cut off. Take coconut oil. Normally, use tons of that and we are not getting it now. A series of meetings of members of the department of agriculture and other employees of state agriculture organizations and others started with the September 1 gathering in Salt Lake City. .Then they moved eastward—September 18 in Chicago, on the twenty-second in New York and one in Memphis on the twentyeighth. These meetings are designed to instruct those who will go out and contact the. farmers with regard to the need for expansion of production in certain lines, and the curtailment in certain others. It has taken a long time to find out just what Great Britain needs from us. But Undersecretary of Agriculture Paul Appleby and - Triple A Administrator R. M. Evans have been in England for some time and they have managed to get together with the British food ministry and iron things out. Meanwhile, the experts here have been figuring out just what we need for ourselves and for commercial export and as well as the farm capacity to fill the need. * * A Quick Glimpse At New Super-Beard Wno are the seven super-men who make up the new super-board in charge of the defense program? Their composite name is SPAS, which stands, as you probably know by this time, f&r supply, priorities and allocation board. Henry Wallace, chairman: Intelligent, unpopular with extreme New Dealers and conservatives, therefore presumably middle-of-the-road-er A man who can listen to' two sides of a question and who has made the Triple A (whether you like it or not) work. Donald Nelsen, executive director: Successful business man, believer in defense, can get on with New Dealers.' . Members: William Knudsen, successful, efficient master automobile producer. Not so good at planning but he won’t have to. Sidney Hillman, successful labor leader, shorn of many of his powers but free to do the administrative work he is capable of doing. The secretaries of war and navy (Stimson and Knox) both Republicans, both with competent, co-opera-tive staff men under them. Harry Hopkins, close friend of the President, hampered by ill health, able to say “no” to the President. Leon Henderson: Here is probably the most controversial subject on the board. However, I have heard many who disagreed with him thoroughly speak of his abilities with respect. He is a forceful figure. Eight men with the greatest task of production ever put on any group of men in America. Upon their success or failure may depend the shape of the world to come. The Business of Government Never Ceases In the news room of the National Broadcasting company in Washington there is a bulletin board. About

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The cans of vegetables which the army eats would make a pile nearly 9,000 miles high, according to the department of agriculture. • • • Secretary of State Cordell Hull has received an apology from the Japanese ambassador,. Kichisaburo* Nomura, who took Mr. Hull’s hat by mistake.

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24 hours before one of those red dates on the calendar come along, the boss’ secretary puts a notice on the board. It reads: “Monday, September 1 (or Thursday, December 25, or whatever the red-letter day is) will be a holiday. Broadcasting will continue as usual.” The last sentence is a reminder to announcers, entertainers, commentators and engineers that while the of the-world will be fishing or loafing or motoring, “the show, must go on.” The news tickers will keep up their monotonous chatter, the, endless lengths of yellow paper with their multifold chronicle of the human comedy—and tragedy—will unroll jerkily from tho tireless machines, for those who care to listen the story will go out over the air. Shortly after the last time one of those "broadcasting as usual” messages was pxit on the bulletin board a message came over the news tickers. It read: UPR Washington—Representative Cartwright, of Oklahoma. Says 12 Congressmen Died During the Last Six Months From Worry and Overwork, Therefore, Reasons Cartwright, Congress Needs a Rest . The day before I had received a letter from one of my listeners complaining about the President going off fishing and spending so many week-ends in Hyde Park. Well. Mr. Cartwright may be wrong when he says that all those congressmen died .of overwork. Some of them, J happen to know, did wear themselves out at their jobs. And for more than one government 'official, regardless of holidays, government goes on as usual. As for the President, his job goes on at Hyde Park with very little interlude. For instance; It is Friday in Washington, about 4:45 in the afternoon. The White House news conference is over and 200 reporters are slowly filing out of the oval of- " fice which their combined bodily heat has warmed beyond the best efforts of the cooling system to com- . bat. A Few on Platform. Long before it is time for the special train to pull out of Union station a few favored citizens are on the platform. The secret service has been busy. A special police detail is waving cars away from the south "entrance to the waiting room reeserved parties. A whole 'crew of railroad-men, detectives and others whose functions are mysterious to the layman are hurrying about. ; The newsmen who are to accompany the President on the trip arrive and take their places in the dining car. This car is the busiest on the train. The genial Clarence Queen, dusky chef, has a wellstocked larder. The President won’t use the diner tonight. It is nearly 11 and a secret service man comes up and whispers in the ear of Williatn Hassett, the secretary Who usually accompanies the President to Hyde Park while Secretary Early holds the fort in Washington. Hassett hurries off. In a few moments a limousine drives right up to the private car. It stops opposite the ramp which has been set up from the floor to the platform of the car. The President, without ceremony of any kind, makes his way up the ramp alone. There will be a last word with Hassett, perhaps a lemonade, and the presidential valet will be called to the compartment. The secret service men will take up their vigiL The train pulls out. Easiness Goes On. The lights in the diner and in the club car will burn long. There are some early morning stories to be written by the reporters. But in the President’s car where the secretaries and other staff workers have their compartments, there will be silence. Next morning the President will breakfast at his home in Hyde Park" and out will come the brief case again. There will be trips around the estate, perhaps a picnic in which the newsmen and the neighborhood joins as they always do on Labor day. But between times there will be phone calls to Washington and frequently official visitors. Government goes on.

In Washington, the Institute for World Organization is meeting at the American university. Many persons connected with the League of Nations are attending. They are trying, Jo find out why and wherein the League failed, in the hope of making practical suggestions for a new world organization after the war that will work.

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