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Show THE most colorful show hi golf is scheduled for mid-June when America's greatest club swingers will gather in Chicago for the Hale America war tournament. The best of the pack will be seeking seek-ing the title Ben Hog an, Byron Nelson, Nel-son, Craig Wood, Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen, Jimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl, Bobby Jones, Water Hagen a.od many others. The Hale America Amer-ica tournament, which will provide financial assistance to the Navy Relief Re-lief aoclety and the United Service organizations, won't carry a National Nation-al Open championship title, but it deserves just as high ranking as any scramble In the history of golf. It will be as classy a Held as ever entered the National Open. The presence of Hogan, Nelson and Snead is ample assurance that the tournament will have class. The winner will have earned a title against the toughest competition the country can produce. Every player Is more anxious to win the Hale America title than any other championship cham-pionship extant Eternal Search I Hogan, although he has kept the I fairways on Are for the past two I years, has yet to win a major title. The National Open and the PGA crowns have eluded him. Snead, like Hogan, Ho-gan, haa managed man-aged to miss his chances for a major ma-jor championship. champion-ship. Never to be forgotten are his Ben Hogan two eights on final holes at Philadelphia and Los Angeles. But, again like Hogan, he Is one of the most dangerous competitors In golf. His lapses in concentration have proved excessively costly, but his enthusiastic followers continue to have faith In his effortless swing and the strength of hia drlvea. Nelson has a long list of successes to his credit, including the USGA Open, the PGA title and the Masters. Mas-ters. He also is a member of the Ryder Cup team. Many golf experts ex-perts rate him the best player in the world today. The Hale America will bring Bobby Bob-by Jones back to Chicago as a competitor com-petitor for the first time since 1928, the year he tied Johnny Farrell for the National Open title at Olympia Fields and then lost the playoff by one shot. The Emperor Jones finished fin-ished his competitive career two years later. His appearance in the field 12 years after his famed grand slam will add a tremendous gallery appeal. Always a Threat Bobby hasn't been a great threat in his annual starts In the Masters at Augusta, but he still can post excellent scores. And he might be a Hale America surprise. Of the Hagen-Jones-Sarazen trio, Hagen was the first to get under way. He was a strong competitor ; In the National i Open of 1913 at Brookline. Fran- cis Ouimet won N that tournament from Harry Var-don Var-don and Ed Ray. A year later, he ' did win that par- ' ticular title, with Chick Evans Walter Hagen close on his heels. Sarasen, the ex-caddie, started earning his place in the golfing aun back in 1930, when be was 18 years old. Two years later he won the National Na-tional Open In Chicago with a final round of 68. Jones and Hagen threatened, threat-ened, but couldn't quite make if. Since that victory when he was only 20 Gene has won the U. S. Open, the British Open and several PGA crowns. The amazing angle of the Hale America tournament is that the champs of 10, 20 and almost 30 years ago are competing with today's topnotchers and with no quarter asked. In that respect golf is unlike un-like any other sport It treats its champions gently. SPORT SHORTS C George ("Potsy") Clark, old time University of Illinois football player, is a lieutenant commander in the navy physical education program. C. The strikeout record tor a single season was set by Rube Waddell in 1904 with 343. C. A recent survey of Notre Dame student athletic managers shows that nine of their ranks already have Joined the armed services. C. Bowling holds a strong lead as the favorite sport of soldiers at Camp Grant Rockford. I1L C In 40 years the Detroit Tiger., have won six pennants. The championship cham-pionship years were 1907. '08. '09, '34. '35 and '40. C MaJ. Bernie Bierman, former director di-rector of Minnesota's football forces at present is director of the physical phys-ical training program at the new naval aviation pre-flight school at Iowa City. C Grover Alexander of the Philadelphia Philadel-phia Phils pitched tour one-hit games in 1915. |