Show New Crop of Has Skill Lacks Color r D By FRANCIS J. J POWERS Special to The Telegram LOS ANGELES Cal Cat Feb 8 Your 8 Your Uncle Samuel has a great new crop of professional golfers coming up the fairways airways and need not worry about the safety of oC his honor on international greens But your Uncle Samuels Samuel's young mashie artists are only golfers and not showmen There is little of oC that intangible something known as color to be found arn among ng the professionals proCessionals now climbing the championship ladder and the game Is he the loser thereby Take Victor Ghezzi the tall young man from irom the Deal N N. J. J sector You could not ask for Cor a finer boy nor nora a better hitter o of the ball But the crowds will never flock lock in Ghezzi's wake unless perchance he is about to win a national championship The same is true of Harold the pale-faced pale fellow from irom Kansas City who vho already this winter has won the Pasadena Fresno and San Francisco tournaments Ky Laffoon the boy who reeled off more than fifty sub- sub seventy rounds last summer has a 1 shade of color but not much and the others arc are very much of the same pattern They play golf gol with a mechanical mechanical me me- deftness but lack the personality per per- personality which attracts galleries Hale lIal- Still Pulls Fulls Walter Waller Hagen HaJen is an oldster in the game ame and will not feel insulted i if itis it its itis is s said that he is slipping Still the Haig can draw twice the galleries of the kids who are winning winnin these winter tournaments Why The old Duke still is a showman He dl dresses ses the he part he amuses amuses his followers and andic he ic still can be dramatic in the tion ion of a shot Up at San Francisco recently Hagen gave cave the galleries a anew anew anew new sartorial display each day On the he third morning mornIn a young youns bud who had lad followed Walters Walter's efforts exclaimed exclaimed ex ex- claimed Hagen the pageant of ot pants One way or another Hagen always was was a crowd getter Sometimes he was vas late and in England once threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened first page attention by announcing announcing ing ng the employment of a detective whose sole task was to get Sir Walter Waltero to o his golfing engagement on time There was a lot of oC Barnum in the Haig laig but he always gave a good show how and earned more than one milion mil rail lion ion dollars from irom the game Armour and Diegel also were showmen showmen show show- men to a lesser degree and always crowd pleasers Th re were many colorful golfers in n th the theold old days das Vardon Ra Ray Braid Herd and Taylor in Great Britain and Meek Aleck Smith Gil Nichols and Nipper Nipper Nipper Nip per Campbell on this side The They played golf gol for money but it always was vas more or less of a game Now its it's a serious business to most of our younger stars and they go about the fairways airways with the grim seriousness ofa of a hangman The new crop hit lilt the ball well from tee to green gleen In many instances perhaps better than the old old- timers imers but Ill I'll wager without nearly early so much fun Little Best Amateur The same condition prevails Inthe inthe in the he amateur ranks With the exception exception exception tion of oC Lawson Little none of our ranking rankin amateur stars could really be e styled colorful Bob Jon Jones Jones' s' s artistry made him colorful and Sweetser Sweet Sweet- ser Von Elm Ouimet and Evans were gallery It was those fellows with Hagen Hutchison Aleck Smith Armour and who built up golf olf olt as a spectators' spectators game came Unless the he generation that is coming along can produce some crowd magnet I Iam Iam Iam am afraid galleries soon will be com corn comprised only of ot those who have an active ac ac- tive ive interest in the game Changed conditions largely are to blame alame for or this falling aIling tide of ot color In n the earlier days of golf gall in America the stars expended their competitive efforts in the national western and metropolitan opens Now a professional can find some sort of a money moncy tournament on tap almost every day in in the year As a result we have developed developed de de- developed de- de a generation of ot players whose objective i. i Is tournaments and prize monies The stars earn their prizes honestly and there can be no blame attached to them But the game has lost much of ot its old color and |