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Show (KlIIIl Released by Western Newspaper Union. 'TWERE are certain golf shots that will always live in memory I both of the men who hit them and the spectators who saw them. They are the shots which, more than anything else, helped decide the outcome out-come of many a great tournament. James S. Kearns, well-known Chicago Chi-cago sports writer, recently recounted recount-ed a few of those shots to which he was an eyewitness. Kearns speaking: "There was Harry Cooper, on the 14th tee at Baltusrol In 1936, on his way to what seemed a certain victory vic-tory in the National Open as a proper prop-er reward for 10 long, stout-hearted years of trying. "Coop had the biggest gallery on the course that day, and not a personal per-sonal marshal. He had broken the all-time 54-hole record, and yet the United States Golf association sent him into the final round with nobody to protect him from the crowd . . . Nobody but Estelle Armour, Tom's wife, and Nellie Cruickshank, Bobby's Bob-by's wife, who knew enough of golf to try to give a player the fair chance he deserved. i If mux. ir s s I t ifflYTf "Well, Cooper stood on the 14th tee with the mob milling around him, and the National Open championship champion-ship just at his fingertips. He swung away and asked for order. He swung back again . . , And again the front row of spectators was jammed forward, for-ward, so close he couldn't swing down at the ball. Finally, on the third try, he hit the ball into the bunker beside the par 3 green, and right there was opened the door thrnnvh uhlti Tnrtv liTan.... mA take the title. "There was a Monday morning in Philadelphia in 1939, when it was steamine hot. and jj.;. Sttll-li-llllllllllilllll when players and watchers alike were dead weary from a week of heat and five days of golf. Byron Nelson and Craig Wood, who had come through a playoff with Denny Shute on Sunday with scores of 68 in a desperate battle Byron Nelson 'or the National Open title, were engaged en-gaged in a second playoff. "Off the fourth tee, Wood had belted belt-ed the better drive, maybe 20 yards. Nelson squared off to his second shot on that long and difficult par 4. He must have been 220 yards from the flag when he drew a bead. He fired the shot the way a Garand rifle might be fired . . . Dead on line, low and whistling as it went. The ball struck, bounced twice, rolled, fell Into the hole. There the 1939 Open championship was settled. Masters Crown "There was Nelson at Augusta, playing off with Ben Hogan for the 1942 Masters crown. Three strokes behind at the short sixth, he holed a great deuce to start catching up. Then at par 5 eighth, uphill, he saw Hogan hook his second. The door was open. Byron took a spoon on the uphill lie. He walked to see where the hole was out on the green. He walked back and took aim. Then he knocked Jhe ball five feet from the hole ... A low, drawing shot over the brow of the hill, pulling in through the guarded opening to the green. The shot meant an eagle 3, and a lead that was never lost. "All those . . . But out of memory one more shines bright across seven sev-en years. "It was the September day when John Fischer of Cincinnati stood on the 36th green in the final match for the amateur championship of the United States in 1936. One down to Jock McLean of Scotland, he was, on Garden City's hurricane-swept acres . . . One down, and with the muscles of his left leg torn so he could scarcely stand up to a shot because of a fall in a bunker the previous pre-vious day. One down . . , And his ball 12 fpet frrim the nin nn II.. .i- 3 last hole ... 12 feet of treacherous, treacher-ous, sliding, sloping green. It was hole it or be runner-up. "Johnny Fischer siied it up, took a long and careful aim, took a stance. He swung the putter back, and upon the clubhouse roof, eight motion-picture cameras began to grind.' Johnny jumped, dropped his putter. "He smiled in half-apology, half-request half-request and the cameras stopped. He picked up his putter, never bothered both-ered to sight the putt, and knocked the ball right in the middle of the hole for a 2 that made him even and let him win on No. 37." SPORTS SHORTS C Chalky Wright. Negro featherweight, feather-weight, says he doesn't know his correct cor-rect age. Estimates place it at from 38 to 44. C The American league this season may break the record of 86 extra innings games sei oy Doth major leagues in 1916. C Jack Moesch. 16-year-old Long Is land prep star, now a utility infield er for Baltimore, is the youngesi player in the International league. |