Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-05 | Page 17 | Pro Golfers Await Huge Prize Tourneys in Southern California

AO- AO APRO A- A PRO GOLFERS AWAIT HUGE PRIZE TOURNEYS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 25 GRAND TO TOBE TOBE TOBE BE AT STAKE AT CALIENTE Pools Amount to Huge Sum Expected Expect- Expect ed to Change Hands By William Braucher I LOS S A ANGELES GELES Jan 4 Tommy Armour once said that theres there's no prize too small for a professIonal professional pro pro- golfer sulfer n By fly the same token of course no prize Is too great grent What Tommy rommy was talking about however howver was the habit of pro golfers golfers golf- golf ers In passing up tournaments where prizes prIces were too small t to td bother bothel with If H you will take lalie Tommy's Tommys wor word for It it It there hever never was wag that kind of oC prize fhe The pros among themselves es will admit seriously to ono another the they are arc not gong going to pia play pay In lit the tile 1000 South Libertyville chamber of or commerce tournament But BUl when the bout hout begins there the they are eYer every last man of or them waiting to tee UI up be off Its It's just a way they the havn hava among amons th themselves I Tho The tribe Is in the west now alread already al- al read ready eady participating in the Long Lone LongBeach LongBeach Beach open which carries a plum Ilum with it ft The Tho Los Angeles An An- geles open is S the n next nest big bg joUst to tobo tobo toso bo so followed followell by the tha Agua Asua four day 2000 tournament Jannary January Jan Jan- nary uary 14 to 17 7 and they will all be bethere bethere bethere there and they the know it The rhe first prize e at Agua gu is and ind a professional golfer will go So to toa toa toa a lot of or bother for that much change chanse IN PRIZES IS ISNOW ISNOW ISNOW NOW AVAILABLE used to pia play all winter through tho the west and south for tor purses that totaled about and ind that hasn't been so long ago o. o either The rhe 1930 1929 season prizes now aro 1 better than that There ou ought ht to be bo enough to go around and if it one of or the boys doesn't do 10 a Horton Smith all will a and nd be able to bu buy new lants and sweaters In the the- theold old da days s occasionally one of ot the checks received by tho the winners winners winners win win- ners would woul prove to be bo too resilient for Ol cashing shins purposes s. s The check that Joe Kirkwood got sot at Kansas City ity some years rears ago was one ono of the most notable of or these But today the mone money is fairly certain People are aro rea really II willing JIlin to pa pay for publicity publicity pub pub- nowadays the nowadays the sort that a n abig abig big golfing goWnS attraction brings Already Itea some ome of or the emigrants of ot golf r have had figures placed in their theil ban bank books Craig Wood Horton Smith Leo DIegel Tony Manero an and a couple of or others have I won oIl their thelt events c Walter alter Ha Hagen en still has his first big prize to pocket I and the test o of the tho boys are wondering wondering won won- dering if it he ho is 15 going to wait until lie he gets ets to A Agua ua to do It lt Its It's s just possible he ho will vIlI for the thc Is a great t player when lie Jie has Jas some largo large financial matter mattel on his In mind I nd POOLS AMOUNT TO GREAT SUM OF MONEY B Besides the In prizes California California Cali- Cali fornia is spend spending In within the next couple of or weeks probably something some sonic thing like mure will change chane hands in the pools on the three events The These o pools al are sol sold in III much the he same samo as horses alO aro pooled on OR the grand circuit Besides es the tho pools bool bookmakers quote od odds t on oti the tho Thus In tho tim Professional Golfers Golfers' a association tournament recently Leo Diegel Diesel th the winner was as 5 3 to tu 1 to win b being ln rated equa equally with Walter ratter Tho pool 1001 for this event o amounted to about with Diegel bringing a price Irice o of S OO At l a IL dinner at the Elks club In Los Angeles January 9 i tho the pool on tho the Los Angeles open will HI be formed formell This m may rim run as high as if fC one ono is to gauge by hy the Interest shown In the event enL O Of course that is a lot of or moneyS money after aCler stocks toCks have acted the wn way they have IUne One Ono oC of the greatest pools ever sold was waR last fall all at Pebble Beach when was a put together on the golfers The price on Bobby Bobb TolI Tones S in that pool was OO ll well II