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Show Illness Makes Little Doubtful Contender LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1 (INS) The sixteenth annual Los Angeles open golf tournament, carrying a purse of (10,000, will tart Friday over Riviera Country club and will get under way with the natural favorite, last year's winner and the national Jcpen champion, Lawson Little, a doubtful starter because of Illness. " Little, after -spending; a few days In Los Angeles, went north to i Iend Thanksgiving with his father on the Monterey I peninsula. H e : was taken ill and up to this morning morn-ing was still being be-ing listed as a doubtful starter. In view of his condition It seemed probable that the Vardon trophy winner, j Benny Hogan of White Plains. N. Y, and straight-shooting straight-shooting Lloyd Mangrum of Chicago would pointing his game toward a win at' Riviera. The course is particularly particu-larly well suited to his game and he cannot be reckoned any but a major threat. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1 ( Pi-Leonard Pi-Leonard Dodson of Kansas City, with a 69-72141, set the qualifying qualify-ing pare for the $10,000 Los Angeles An-geles open yesterday as 220 golfers contested on two courses for HQ vacnnt places. Forty-four of the more prominent professional troupers troup-ers were exempt. Close behind Dodson. at 142, were F.d Oliver, Hornell, N. Y Chick Harbert, Battle Creek, , Mich.; Charles Farlow Burlington, N. C and Earl Martin, Inglewood, Cal. Other notables making the grade included John Bulla, Chicago; Sam Byrd, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Bill Jel-liffe, Jel-liffe, Denver; Horace Lacey, Little Rock, Ark.; John Geertsen, Salt Lake City; Chick Rutan, White Plains, N. Y.; Al and Emery Zimmerman, Zim-merman, Portland, Ore.; Jim Mc-Hale. Mc-Hale. Philadelphia; Ky Laffoon, Chicago; Dave Martin, Fresno, I Cal., and Ellsworth Vines, the Pasa-I Pasa-I dena tennis professional, w ho is an I amateur at golf. "ttla probably be In-t'alled In-t'alled tournament favorites, Hogan Ho-gan is the big money winner for the past year, is right on his stick, Is straighter and longer from the W than ever before and Is very anxious to score his first Los Angeles An-geles oprn win. Mangrum, in the forefront of every tournament In which he has started in the past car, has been s |