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Show Released bjr Western Newspaper Union. THE coming Ail-American golf tournament at Tarn O'Shanter in Chicago promises to be one of the greatest sports spectacles of the year. The world's top-flight golfers will hoot for a tournament purse amounting to $42,587.50 in war bonds and stamps. That is sufficient In centlve to draw the best of the field. Some of the top-ranking pros will be unable to leave their posts In the services, but as many as possible will be on hand for Mr. George S. May's extravagant. Slated for August 21-27, the annual classic Open, Amateur and Women's Wom-en's Open will be played in accord with United States Golf association rules. The top prize for amateurs i "of both sexes will be $100 in war stamps. May would be more than pleased to increase that latter figure fig-ure for the slmon pures, but the powers pow-ers that be of the association frown upon such a procedure. So May de cided to accept the edict World Champion The winner of the AU-Amerlcan Open will be (somewhat gloriously) acclaimed world champion golfer of 1944. He will receive $6,800 In war bonds as first prize In the Ail-American Open plus $6,662.50 in war bonds IsjHfjtjh eitiiiii JUG McSPADEN as world champion a total of $13, 462.50, maturity value. That comfortable com-fortable little nest egg is the all-time all-time record first prize. "The world champion golfer of 1944" will have won that title in the equivalent of a playoff, Inasmuch as the contestants In the AU-Amerlcan Open, last big tournament of 1944, will Include all winners of the year's major meets. Other prizes in the Open will range downward from $5,000 in war bonds for second place to $1,000 for tenth place and $331.25 for twentieth place. Prizes in the Women's Open will include in-clude awards of $500, $400, $300 and $200 in war bonds and many smaller small-er prizes in war stamps. 1943 Winners Last year's All-Amcrlcan tournaments tourna-ments drew entrants from 37 states and set an all-time record for golf-meet golf-meet attendance with a thundering herd of 67,000 spectators. Sales of war bonds and stamps at the tournament tourna-ment totaled nearly a million dollars. dol-lars. Winners were Jug McSpaden In the Open, Dale Morey In the Amateur Ama-teur and Patty Berg In the Women's Open. McSpaden, after tying with Buck White at 282 for the Open lead, won the playoff, ousting the defending defend-ing double champion, Byron Nelson, Nel-son, who won the tournament In 1941 and repeated In 1942, after a play-off with Clayton Heafner. It's going to be a tough tournament. tourna-ment. The winner will have earned his victory. The prizes awarded so lavishly by May, president of Tam O'Shanter, are an ample guarantee of a rugged field. All three tournaments will be 72-holes 72-holes medal play. Fields will be reduced to 24 in the Amateur, 24 in the Women's Open and 80 in the men's open (plus ties) after 18-hole qualifying rounds to be played the first three days of the tournament. SPORTS SHORTS ft Bill McKechnie says he never has bet a penny on a baseball game, ft The Sacramento ball club is owned by 210 stockholders, including includ-ing laborers and street car conductors, conduc-tors, who bought shares in the club for $50. ft Only 13 of the 72 players In the 1943 opening day lineups answered the call in the Southern association's associ-ation's 1944 opening games. 43, Pitchers Hal Newhouser, Dizzy Trout and Walter Beck of the Detroit Tigers are three of the best pool players in the major leagues, ft The sad state of the heavyweight bflxing situation is evidenced by the headlines given Lou Nova in some of the bigger cities. 43. Post favorites in racing win about 30 per cent of the time, ft Manufacturers say that the ball used by the major leagues this year is from 8 to 10 feet "longer" than the 1943 product ft Adam Walsh, new assistant football foot-ball coach at Notre Dame, won four Maine championships and tied for three others in eight years as head coach at Bowdoin. ft The football game between Pennsylvania and Duke next September 30 will be the first meeting meet-ing In the history of the two universities. |