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Show t id SI A MILLIONAIRE SFrtsman, who necessarily does a considerable portion of his business with mobsters, mob-sters, predicts that all the present racket masters will be In the breadline bread-line within five years. 8ays that they achieved fame merely because prohibition was such a soft touch and that none of them Is smart enough to make a living the hard way. . . . Scene on the National Open green: A caddy has Just part-ed part-ed from a golfer who has completed complet-ed his second, and final round. "How much?" other caddies call to their mate. They, of course, are asking about the score, but the other oth-er boy Is a materialist more Inter, ested In the payoff, "Ten bucks," he replies, fingering a bill that has Just been transferred to his pocket Pete Renzulli and Doc Doherty, coaches at Flushing High, are two soccer gentlemen who have real reason for feeling proud. Three members of their 1083 team are college col-lege captains, Danny Von Bremen at Navy, Philip Kramer at Colgate ind Edward Grnham at Tale. Nasty mens are calling the New York racing Judges, who have been having so much trouble lately,' the "The Three Blind Mice." . . . Customers Cus-tomers devoured 1,600 pounds of hot dogs during the Memorial day dou-ble-header at Wrlgley field. . . . Two years ago Izzy Bierber, the celebrated horseman, placed the picture of three Jockeys side by side on a corner wall. He had no particular par-ticular reason for grouping Duke Belllzzl, Buddy Hanford and La-verne La-verne Fator. Just happened to grab the three from out of a stack of other Jockey pictures with which he was decorating his place. All three of them are dead now. Bieber calls the corner the "Morgue." Recalling Cuyler's First Day in the Big Leagues In his first major league game as a regular Kiki Cuyler smashed a trhJo rimihlA nnd e Nw Tork Port. WNU Serrlo Manero's Not Quite as 'Dark' a 'Horse' as He First Appears OUTSIDE the sun which had been so bright all day had faded fad-ed to a dull purple. Still little groups of tired, half-clad men sat about the Baltusrol locker room. In one corner Tommy Armour was holding forth like the rare story teller that he Is. Gene Sarazen sat nearby silently cuddling one chubby i knlckered leg beneath another. This was early on the evening before the finals. Most of the top-rauklng top-rauklng stars of golf who had Just completed the second round of the national open tournament were clustered In this group. Nearby other clusters of near stars talked happily about the good breiik of fortune which unexpectedly had enabled en-abled them to qualify with 151s for the tlnal rounds. Occasionally there would be talk of the morrow. Then heads would nod meaningly toward Johnny Re-volta, Re-volta, Paul Runyan, Ky Laffoon and those others listening eagerly In the Hagen-Armour amen corner. A reporter, re-porter, trying to take In all this, and yet more Interested In Granville's Gran-ville's Belmont chances, brushed past a locker where a little dark-haired dark-haired man was changing his shoes. "Going to be some swell golf out there tomorrow," he remarked. Fellow's Tone Is Polite; He's Major Tourney Type "Yes, maybe," said the dark-haired dark-haired little fellow. The tone was polite, perhaps i " M f l, y i fir - r ' v ! Vv single off Vie Al-drldge. Al-drldge. The veteran, veter-an, now finishing his big time career with his third National Na-tional league team, the Cincinnati Reds, still shows brilliant flashes by belting out extra base hits. . . . The governors of a eel- ..V p vS w t A even a little wistful. wist-ful. The reporter looked at the little lit-tle fellow curiously. curious-ly. When you cover cov-er the major golf tournaments you often run across men and women whom you never will meet again. Thev come In so r..v,,. ebrated golf club v ' er will meet soon to consider how much sugar they can offer Tony Manero, new National Open champion, to come back home. . . . Pedro Montanez has a belt to prove that be is lightweight champion cham-pion of Puerto Rico, but has no such evidence from Venezuela, where he also won the title. The very modern boxing commission of that delightful country wanted a deposit of 8,000 something or another an-other before letting him have the belt Very sensibly Pedro decided that he would rather invest the coconuts co-conuts in food and pretty clothes. John Cavanagh, boss of the book-making book-making ring at New York tracks, has been prominent on the turf for fifty years. He has seen less than 500 races In all that time. Too busy with his work. . . . Watty Clark attributes his .250 batting average to a bat he recently swiped from Joe Ccscarat of the Bees. . . .Oscar .Os-car Mellilo and George Davis, both of them capable of going more than a round or two In fast company, are the two most enthusiastic fight fans among big time ball players. Although he refused right then to consider offers of advertising men Tony Manero hop'ful,y ""V.' part so But at least this little fellow's clothes still hung in his locker arrd so he was not out of the tournament entirely. The reporter decided that a chance kind word might not hurt Most people like to talk when they have been going through events such as these. He glanced at the group of stars. "Do any good yourself?" your-self?" he asked. "Yes." The dark little man had finished dressing now and was turning turn-ing away. "Pretty good," he added as he gently closed the locker door. The reporter followed him out "Who's that guy?" he asked a golf writer.. The writer did not know. Neither did a second or a third. "Oh," said a fourth. "Him. He's Oh I remember his name now. It's Tony Manero." Now that the former Westchester Westches-ter caddy, whom few people knew, la national open golf champion, I have been wondering about this game in which he performs. Even In a year when Italians have been achieving sports distinction far out of the ordinary, or-dinary, his smashing of both the British and American record Is rated rat-ed a real dark-horse triumph. Yet-Somehow Yet-Somehow I doubt whether It Is entirely that True enough, 8am Parks, who stunned the experts by winning a year ago, was elimlnat-ed elimlnat-ed recently. Yet golf Is bound by far more rigid standards of probability prob-ability than most other games, and there is a steadily Increasing num. ber of men who can come close to par on every round. So it seems that even though a Runyan or a Laffoon might well be ahead of a hundred others on total scores for a year's play It becomes close to Impossible now to do any expert picking on a lone event. Glance at the records. You will discover that the thirty.0ne-year-old Tony has been playing excellent golf for the last seven seasons. Save that the sport Is so teeming with stars his record might have placed him up with the leaders from the start of any expert prediction. Somehow I suspect that there will be numerous Maneros and Parkses In seasons to come. NOT IN THE BOX SCORE: While triumphing by a scant nose n what should be the best of Amer. lean stakes, the Belmont Granwlit. definitely did not seem to have h i , vyh,d heart ,n th Proceedings, Or rather - unlike the defeated Mr Bones, who Is a money horse the son of Gallant Fox seemed to bl possessed too much of th, ,mateur Idea. who besieged him immediately after aft-er he won the National Open, Tony Manero was Interested in sugar. Ills first words after reaching the clubhouse club-house were, "Give me a cup of coffee cof-fee with three or four lumps lots of sugar in it" . . . The wise boys say that Al Ettore will repeat his triumphs and definitely prove that Roy Haynes cannot take a punch when they meet again In Philadelphia this month. ... A voter vot-er suggests that Instead of spending spend-ing so much taxpayers' money In press releases ballyhooing races the New York commission might make a stab at remedying a few of the worst conditions around the tracks. For instance, they might persuade Belmont to try a public address system which occasionally could be heard distinctly. Artie Nehf, the once great Giant pitcher, who has recovered from a long Illness, now prefers golf to all other sports. . . . Johnny Harvey, the old Harlem lightweight who kay. oed Mexican Joe Rivers and Matty Baldwin, now Is a process server. . . . Although he handled several hundred C's worth of checks In ex-change ex-change for Louis . Schmeling fight ducats, Mike Jacobs proudly reports re-ports that not one of the pretty lit-tie lit-tie pieces of paper has bounced yet The Giants believe that Joe Young, who has Joined them direct from Fordham, la the hard-hitting intielder they need. ... A club-bouse club-bouse bookmaker seldom does less than $25,000 worth of business on a big race, such as the Belmont . . . The more Important stands in the main ring handle $5,000 each at such times while the little fellows get $2,000 on a slate. Having experimented with the money-maklng possibilities of a soft course the U. S. G. A. will revert to the old custom of making the National Open Golf tournament a really tough event There will be plenty of distance, rough and hazards haz-ards at the Oakland Hills Country club In Michigan according to the plans for next year. . |