Show i angrum Masters Masters asters Course AUGUSTA Ga April 9 UP UP- UP Mangrum a cocky little guy biTt for his dough while he can get showed a 69 Friday in the Masters Mas Mas- Masi i golf tournament and told the rest st of the field to shoot at it Eleven other competitors were my a stroke or two behind him But ut Mangrum riding high as leading lead lead- rig ing ig mon mono money winner of the year ear and looting dr fir r big bonus money from his fabulous boss George Ma May of Chicago had the Indian sign on the he rest Mangrum frankly admitted that tha lay lay ring-master ring of the Tam Tarn OShanter antics has guaranteed hint him inn handsome bonus monc money for winning inning g the Masters the National Open ipen or the P G A. A I Course Coune Record incidentally holds hoMs the nurse course record for one round of the Masters casters having shot a 64 64 a a pair in in in 1940 He finished sec sec- Mid nd nd to Jimmy Demaret that year j Demaret racked up his second Masters title last year but he go got t only a 73 Thursday in opening th the e defense of his title The leading threats to Mangrum's Mangrum's Mangrum's Man Man- grums grum's lead w we were e r rea e a quartet quarte t grouped to 70 They were Herman Herma n Keiser the 1946 Masters winner winne Claude Harmon of N N. N Y Ed Furgol of oC Royal Oak Mich and Ben Hogan the leading money winner of 1946 Seven Sc Hit 71 1 Seven others hit the 71 bracket They were South Africa's Bobby Locke Byron Nelson of Houston Tex National Amateur Champion Skee Riegel of Glendale Cal California Open Champion ArBell Art Ar t Bell Dick Metz of Arkansas City Kan Chick 1 Harbert arbert of Northville Mich and Jim Ferrier Ferner of Chicago Of the 57 players who teed off i ithe in inthe inthe n the first round 40 shot or bet bet- ter Bobb Bobby Jones of Atlanta famed king of the links who helped d design the Au Augusta A u g u s t a National l course was just outside this circle e with a n 76 |