Show N National Open Champ Figures ii Many Golf Pros Can Beat HimI Him S I By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Sports Writer v ter ft PINEHURST N. N C. C March 27 27 This This is IS a story about S Sam Sn m mP 1 P Parks Jr of Pittsburgh and of the fine courage high good nature and ici tolerance e he has shown since that afternoon at Oakmont last J June l ne e when y thc they handed him the big cup for winning whining the national pen open I n golf gol I The he treatment Sam Parks has ha re received rc- rc c ived from the press and public ji af ce winning that title tiU is enough t to embitter r most men The antagonism against h him m star started ed even before be be- fore for he he won the title While he was still out put on tho the course playing the theat thela 1 la at t pine ine holes the press tent clubhouse club- club house U locker room and galleries were thick with people saying what a pity it would be if that unknown Parks won t the e title from a field which i included the greatest golfing n a b in th the country and during the cup presentation one could feel feelth th the unfriendliness if not the actual h hostility of f th the crowd that aur- aur lo rounded Him Hia His exhibition tours thura bordered on the tb-e. dismal Two Z days daya ago in the second le-cond round of f tho the north and 80 south ti open I followed him around his Bis Is gallery aUtry even C counting his his' partners part part- ners neri and nd the e three caddies never L 1 1 numbering more t than an 10 during the entire 18 holes Yesterday when the rain fell ell in torrents torrent and P play was wu postponed I went looking for Zor Sam Parks I wanted to ask k him how bow he f felt lt about the things that had bad been said of his game how hosy it felt to bo be U the rf national champion and trudge along tho the fairways fairways fairways fair fair- ways alone and look across the course and see hundreds of spectators spectators spectators tors scurrying along in the wake of players without a title I found him in the lounge lounge atone alone and and ready to answer any ques ques- Dont mind what you ask me be he said ald with a grin I wont won't be em em- In fact Ill I'll ask the first question for you Dont Don't you want to know just how I feel about all the things that have happened to me since I won the open at Oakmont last year |