Show HEN YOU HEAR someone cry W WHEN ing or complaining about his bad luck or the tough breaks that have followed him you dont don t have to pay the slightest attention to the sombre squawk all you have to do is think about al snyder his dream that of every lokey jokey was to ride a kentucky derby win ner beyond that to be the win rung rider of the triple crown snyder after 10 tough riding years was set to make bis his triple move in the derby the preakness Pre akness and the belmont on a three year old known as citation rated today as the surest triple crown winner in racing history unfortunately snyder went fish ing in a small boat with two friends they were in the famous florida keys A gale came along without warning and someone else will ride citation in the three rich races A whirl ct of wind at twilight and the small boat had va vanished rushed As the late mr henley so well wrote into the night go one and all snyder would have drawn 10 per cent in each of these tests As far as one can peer into the fogs and mists of the future here was 30 plus other big races to come as wen well as the fame of riding a standout champion citation is still bere here and ready so are ben and jimmy jones but just what happened to snyder is anybody s guess sport Is always packed full of soul searing breaks of sudden turns that mean the difference be tween victory and defeat bat IS this is a different case this sud den squall meant the difference between life with fame and gold and the sudden blotting out of a career that was just beginning to unfold on the verge of moving into the greatest fame a jockey could know snyder suddenly denly came to the end of the road in the roaring boiling water of the keys fate never bothers where the aces or the deuces fall coif golf winners in 1948 who will win the masters who will win the open who will win the P G A apparently it doesn doean t matter herman keiser won the masters in 1946 and has won little since lew worsham won the open at st louis last year and hasa t won a tournament since jim ferner ferrier from australia won the P G A but has set no blazing woodlands on fire since why is it that we have no golf ers who can win more than one tournament on a 3 mile junket horon horion smith won six around 1928 jimmy demaret won six or seven a few years back macdonald smith won eight big ones in a year bobby jones mopped up tn in 1930 jones and hagen won 21 24 national and international cham pion ships between them now you can t find a golfer who can win as many as two ben hogan never has won an open jimmy demaret never has won an open or a P G A sammy snead never has won a U S open al though the brilliant but erratic snead has won the P G A and the british open hogan nelson snead and dema ret are too good to stand on the r records in the U S open the brit ish open and the P G A the three top titles of golf where is another bobby jones another walter hagen another gene I 1 might add an other tommy armour and another jim barnes B arnes who won these three thre major events the modern charge is made that jones hagen and played in only few tournaments that all three would have been nervous wrecks if they had followed the rough trail that hogan demaret snead and the others have taken this can be true I 1 am not going to deny it tor for I 1 can t prove these charges are wrong all I 1 know is there are too many tournaments today for the good of the player especially the better player B g money golf is much rougher on the nerves than world series baseball or any form of football the mental side is far more im fm in golf than it is in baseball football or boxing yogi berra the arm A year ago at the st petersburg dog track I 1 bought yogi berra a 2 t ceet on a greyhound that paid lately I 1 have given berra several tips that finished last or close close to to last last much to my astonish ment berra still remembered the first and only good deed who cares he would say as my tip finished far out of the money this made me realize that berra was an exceptional human being he remembers only the good that is buried with mankind not the evil that lives after them berra the yankee catcher has a friendly heart and a deadly batting eye the pride of dago I 1 il st louis likes everybody and every body likes him |