Show 8 lj FRANK K BAKER BAKER- I r r Tony the fellow who won the nations national pen open championship after being t told ld he wasn't good enough to o play in m the Masters Master's tournament will probably be an enduring during figure in golf even if the links world is right 1 its suspicion that his victory like that of Sam Parks Park year ago was a fluke ti Li In all probability Manero's name ame will till be perpetuated brough golf history for a long time because of his record-break- record jg g g at Baltusrol this year The old record of t by Chick Evans survived for 20 years being set in 1916 d id d equaled 16 years later by Gene If Jf Manero is as lucky the boys wi will l still be shooting a at score iscore in 1950 And there is a good a-good good chance that it will be a aig ang ig ng time too before anybody matches that 67 Manero fired in inbe ini he be i final round to overtake Harry Cooper who had retired to room with what appeared a certain vi victory tory at U From the customers' customers viewpoint the low scoring is is' isI I y 1 always a delight Those in charge of this years year's tournament 4 apparently had a fine appreciation of that fact from the first because they shortened the course as much as they could l by placing the markers as close up as the length of the thc tees would I would permit ft t Four players emerged with aggregates Fort Fortyl Forty Forty- l It four broke whereas Parks was the only one to lo crack t that total last year and he beat it it by only a stroke z All told in approximately rounds played during the three-day three hole 72 medal test par was equaled or broken 62 times There were 24 rounds at par 15 at 71 15 at 70 7 at 69 and Manero's lanero's great 67 one 67 one stroke short of s st Spectacular t ular finishing 66 at Fresh Meadow l four years go ago i Without trying to discredit Manero's well deserved all these figures tend to indicate that his record- record I breaking at Baltusrol may not have been any better I golf J lf than the that won for Parks last year at It Oak- Oak onto lont t s So while the golf world may be well aware lof of f the fact that golf records like everything else are relative there is the added item item that this years year's tournament ment nent with its flock of rounds proved the best drawing card since the Bob Jones era Umpire Brin Barber enjoys a good joke even when its it's on urn That's why he told me this one 1 Ray Hays lives next door to the umpire and loves to tease Jut m about his eyesight judgment and general knowledge of ol rules He once coaxed Brins Brin's three ye year three old r-old daughter nto- nto to calling her daddy a Blind Tom but Barber usually has a good re retort ort One day a broom salesman stopped at the Hayes household Hayes layes answered the door and said they didn't need a broom ut iut added Theres a a. a blind blind- blindman man next door who ure will willy tuy uy y one The salesman took the cue and went next door Barber was vas sitting on the porch How do you do he greeted the tranger What can I do for you the salesman Im selling brooms and ande Well sir sir sir- began he e man next door said saidI I could sell one to to the blind man who ved ived here Far For once Barber was speechless Yes Hayes was laughing him thim through the windoW v. |