| Show Backseat Driving Caddy School Vacation on T Time lne By FRANK K BAKER KER Telegram Sports Editor Bo Boys Get Many lUany Lessons in Preparation for National Amateur The woes of ot school chool days are arc upon the caddies who will mother ambitious players through the national amateur golf col championship at Cincinnati September 11 1116 Caddies of at Kenwood and other clubs arc are going to finishing school to learn what to say what to do no matter what happens and how todo to todo todo do It it and In general acquiring a lot of manners and polish In preparation preparation tion for the weeks week's battle The boys to be considered at all AU must be golfers goUers themselves es Inthe inthe in inthe the first place On top of that they must know the rules of the game about as well as those wh who draft them know the course as well or bet better r than those who laid It out and be as well versed in golf etiquette as the Emily Post Port of St. St Andrews Their reward Is a weeks week's hard work a chance to bask In reflected Cl glory ry and an m opportunity to strut In colored canary swe sweaters sweat rs adorned with a n number and the name Kenwood In startling blue Three lectures a week cek by rs and tournament com corn plus plus lots lot of or home work work work-Is Is on their schedule They are required to fro ro o over the course time and time playing paying holes and others play them They do this so that thc they can tell teU what clu clubs s their wen men need In each instance All MI the while they are drilled to perfection in deportment It nUl nifty may have havo a bearing on who wins the tournament but that means no medals for the caddies The They arc arc assigned to their men by a drawing of or lots Many l Things Can Cnn Take Place in Seven Years jear Avows Old Orl Alex AlexA A big change can take place In seven years 1 No one knows that better than Grover Cleveland Alexander the former big leaguer who will appear here Sunday morning with the House of David club Seven years ago next month Old Alex was a national hero His name was emblazoned acro across the sports pages of papers throughout the theland land to proclaim his pis victorious feats teats in a t world series game ame In fact tact his feat was vas first page news the conversation at the dinner table food for comment in the thc Broadway roo root roof gardens and at the down on the corner Why by not Hadn't the veteran saved a n world series championship for the St. St Louis Cardinals bv by striking out one Push em Up Tony Lauer of the New York Yankees s with the bases loaded Hadn't that saved ed a 3 2 triumph for the Cardinals and wasn't It a dramatic finish for Cor a a. man w who o had already distinguished himself In the series But the years have ha a way of dimming mem mern- memory memory ory Just as they have a 2 way of slowing up the athletes themselves Old Alex realized that in the hour of his greatest triumph Just as he knew that his playing days were coming to a close in the Big Show he philosophized too that all that hl hip hip hurrah stuff over him would soon p pass ss away Forty thousand frenzied St St. Louis fans Ians turned out a day later to pay him h homage mage as the Cards made a triumphant nt homecoming from the Gotham game But a afew afew afew few days later when nearly fifteen thousand other fans turned out in a Nebraska city to see the great Grover leveland leve- leve land perform he was out celebrating on his own hook and didn't show up until long after he was due It would seem like a sad comedown to anyone anone less philosophical than Alexander this Alexander this drop from a hero bero of the majors to a publicized player with a 1 traveling team representing a religious cult Alexander Alexander Alexan Alexan- der takes the turn with good gra grace e though and he is immensely im tin- happy to play the therole role he tie now has He had his heyday r two iwo decades under the thc Big Top with the Phillies the Cubs and the Cardinals During that time he set up a mark of victories that still sun stands as th the record And this same Alexander will be on hand at Community park Sunday morning probably taking a short hort turn on the pitching pitching- hill hIU I VACATION TIME After today's presentation this vehicle will be idle for the next two weeks and a half naif while its It skipper climbs out of the backseat and will win try to do some driving on a vacation through the midwest In the Interim we hope to see those surprising Braves perform against the Cubs at Chicago gain a little hand first mation motion of what is going on in the Big Ten drop in on a few of or th the moguls moguls' from the eastern half of the Rocky Mountain conference and do some plain and fancy loafing So long then until the first day of fall faU |
