Show Sneads Snead's Smart Doesn't Try To Find Secret By Darsie L. L e Darsi-e LOS ANGELES April 13 INS INS- INS You can tear up the dope sheets touting Lloyd Mangrum Jimmy Demaret Dr Cary Gary and andall andall andall all the rest as prospective favorites in the U. U S. S national open golf championship at MedInah June 12 10 if Sam Snead keeps the secret which after many years tr trying ing gave him first place In the Masters tournament at Augusta a couple of ot days ago Snead himself a apparently p p par a r e en n t I 1 y doesn't realize the significance of his secret But he showed rare presence of mind when asked about it by the golf reporters who were covering the great tournament tournament tournament ment which was played over Bobby Jones' Jones Augusta national course Sam had played the last two 1 rounds in 67 67 an unprecedented unprecedented dented record over this supposedly ideal test of championship golf olf He had only 30 putts in his final eighteen holes and when hen the golf scribes asked him his secret he answered Come out here on the putting green and Ill I'll show you ou That was all he would say say and and in his silence there is perhaps the secret which this thi year may give him i his first United States open title an honor which has always alwa's eluded Sam Snead in the past When Sam Snead or any other great tournament golfer starts analyzing his own swing and his own golf game the chances are arc ten to one that he will thereupon lose his ability to score Gene found that out After Alter winning the United States open championship at Skokie back in 1922 he wrote articles and books bookson on the golf swing swing and and it took him ten years to get back to the form that made him champion |