Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-06 | Page 14 | Henry Picard Leads Pro Brigade; Earns $5348 within Six Months

Henry Picard Leads Pro Brigade Earns Within Six Months By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK July 6 This 6 This bureau which thinks nothing of advising the mothers of the nation how fo to properly rear their chilen children chil- chil dren ren en wishes to advise once again that it is unwise to urge an athletic off offspring pring to pursue professional golf as a career That is if it money is any object It If f it happens to be bo a fine sunburn a 8 knowledge of the country's better clubhouses or a A fla flair air t for for wearing slacks lacks you wa want t v f the ae offspring to acquire then pro M golf golfis olf is swell But Buts I as s a 8 money maker i ino r no And n no 0 i e V again gain I have at atland hand land a page of tj M f figu figures es listing the k y leading cading money 1 winners am among 0 n g J Jit it I Ithe th the h c professional onal Ji fr p I g go 0 olf I 1 t f i 1 ing ng brigade f. f J covering the pe- pe f tr nod iod between January Janary Jan- Jan 1 t k uary ary 1 1936 and anduly July uly 1 1936 Picard The rho top guy for tor the six months period is Henry Picard the tho Hershey sharpshooter with Not bad you ou may say for six months of ol work No To it doesn't seem bad until you remember that the dominant figure in n almost any other sport you OU can canname canname name ame would have made at least twice wico that much And without working work- work lag ing ng one third one third as hard as Picard had hado to o bring in the tho five thousand Here Are Arc Figures Here are some other figures Harry larry Cooper Mangrum Horton Smith j Jimmy Hines Hirtes Willie Hunter 3 75 I Gene 2818 2318 Johnny Revolta Revolta Revolts Re- Re volta volts 2912 Jimmy Jimmy Thomson 2698 Byron Nelson NeIson 2676 Vie Vie Vic Ghezzi 2480 Ky Laffoon 2429 2429 Craig Wood 2411 Paul Runyan 2366 Tony Manero 2070 2010 Ralph Guldahl 1782 Witty Cox 1772 1712 Frank Walsh 1723 Orville White 1571 1511 Denny Shute 1537 1531 Bobby Cruickshank Cruickshank Cruick- Cruick shank 1518 Leonard Dodson 1479 1419 Zell Eaton 1300 Walter Valter Hagen Hagen Hagen Ha- Ha gen 1236 1286 Willie Villie Goggin 1122 Harold 1098 MacSmith 1055 Torchy Toda 1028 Among other famed tamed players who earned less than 1000 are Olin Dutra former national open champion champion cham cham- pion Tommy Armour time one-time British and American champion Johnny Farrell Parrell another open open ien winner win win- ner ncr andam Parks 1935 open king Look at Manero's figure figure 2070 2070 And that mind you includes the prize for winning the op opening the hardest golf title in tho the world to win And her heres here's s 's another little item item- most of ot the tho money the pros won in inthe inthe I Ithe the period between January 1 and July 1 was their own The bulk of ot tho prize monies offered in tournaments tournaments tournaments ments comes from the players Inthe in inthe inthe the form of ot entry fees In only a afew afew few lew tournaments do the tho boys play for anything more than their own hard-earned hard cash Continued on Following Page Pare Picard Sets Pace For Pro Brigade V Continued from Preceding Page If It you still arent aren't convinced that professional golf is a long cut to wealth wealth take a look at Horton Smiths Smith's list of winnings Horton was hot as as a firecracker early in inthe inthe the he year ear winning among other things the big Miami open tournament tournament tournament ment the famed masters master's open at Augusta and the Pasadena open one of the high spots of California's winter season Yet his prize money totals but It must have cost cast him ilm two two thirds thirds of that to travel to the tournaments And remember the boys in the theist list above are the best in their Business You can just imagine what lesser known divot-diggers divot made for themselves in the m ments That's right right nothing