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Show Golfing Titles Not Threatened By HENBT MXEMORE United Pre Sport Writer 8ARSATO, Fla., Jan. 25-As on who ha followed the baseball players' play-ers' national golf tournament, I wish to slat flatly, firmly, loudly, and unequivocally that alchemists will be creating gold from secondhand second-hand canary bird cages before a baseball player wins any ef eur major golf championships. In fact, I want to go even further and sey that alchemist will be creating gold from juat th door af used bird cages before a baseball player lasta long enough In an important im-portant tournament to make It worth hla while to pack more than one pair of socks in hi overnight bar. Change Opinion Until I watched two round In this tournament I really believed many of our famous baaeball player play-er meant it when they threatened to quit th diamond for th fairway I If their salary demanda wera not met New, having eeea them with golf clubs la their hands, I knew the threat were a empty aa a leaky rain barrel la th Sahara. If they ehexild carry out their threat t depend a golf for a livelihood, however, I cava think f a better way t get rich In a hurry thaa have the standing room eneeion la th prhaa. For the boy. will b parked la deeper thaa Brooklyn pitcher la th bull-pea during a double header. Her are thumbnail descriptions of th golf game of some of th noted baseball players now contesting contest-ing for the Powell Croeley cup: Jimmy Foxx Ths beat thing .bout bis gam la th. 25-cent cigar he strokes from te to green. At the finish of hi swing Mr. Foxx looks exsctly as Horatius would bsve looked if, just aa he prepared to defend de-fend the bridge, someone had stuck a brasai in his bands. Always appears ap-pears to be warding off unssen enemies. Hsini Manuah I wouldn't swear as to what his form is list, as ths only times I have aeen him he was deep in th wood and obscured by a network of blackberry bushes, palm fronds, frightened caddies and a cloud of pale, blue air of bis own creation. He's a sportsman, howeverIn how-everIn th rough be only pick on tree hi own sis. Lya Lary rcpular I Lyn Lary Very popular with the gambler because they like to follow fol-low him around and bet even money that cither Lary or th ball will wear out before the green ia reached. I Haa a awing which wrenches him so violently that its the equal of two dosen chiropractic treatment. Lloyd Waner Hits a long ball but doesn't get any distance, is strictly a rightfield, or slice hitter. His screaming braaaie shots are ths j despair of every grasshopper in Bar-1 aaota. Plays in a cap and the mature nineties. BUI CasaeB Haa never ait a ball he persoaally eeuldnt handle) at shortstop, riay all ef hla shot aa If making aerifle bit. Haa had three offer, from the I.'nited Htatee foreatry service because be-cause ef expertaeea at tree busing. bus-ing. Bill Swift Ia often ruled off courses bee a use be la ta atany plaeea that he la frequently mistaken mis-taken for a flee .me, aaa five-some five-some are Illegal, John Cooney Only anad two er-rora er-rora In th Brooklyn outfield last year, and would be a fin golfer if he were only able to get it through his head that just because you get three strikes in baseball you don't have to take that many putt on ech green. Diuy Dean- Still on of baseball's greatest pitchers. Nick Aitrock Nick Altrock. j |