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Show Feminine Linksters Lack Nerve, Says Miss Traung By HENRY MeLEMORE United rres Sports Writer ORMOND BEACH, Fla., Feb. 28 Women golfers have about as little nerv as a pickaninny caught in a gTave-yard at midnight, and until they get more their scores always will be as water unto wine wnen compared to tnose oi men. This isn't my opinion, and even If It were I wouldn't dare express it what with this little town practically prac-tically overrunning with women golfers for ths South Atlantic championship. cham-pionship. The opinion belongs to Dorothy Traung of San Francisco, and was given to ms a few hours after she had trounced that Minneapolis Min-neapolis redhead, Patty Berg, in a quarterfinal round match. Miss Traung said I could quota her on the subject because "maybe when I read it in print It will make me so mad that I'll rty to have a little more nerve myself." All Lack Courage The San Francisco girl said she was just as lacking In courage as th rest of her comrades, but hoped to add a little to her gam before the nationals rolled around. "If I can get bolder, off will com strokes. And what's true of me I true of all th reet," she said. "If you don't think I'm right about women tacking nerve, just watch us putt for a while. Do we try to knock the long one InT Not much! W are perfectly content to lay th long one up dead, and tak our par. Because ws know if we mla we'll have a tough on getting back. "Boiled down, here's the chief difference between the game of th good women players and the good men players; the men go out hunting for birdies. Nothing else satisfies them. Th women are satisfied sat-isfied with pars. Let us get on th green in two, and all we think of Is getting down In two more for our precious little par Nerve Is not all that Miss Traung wants to gain before the national, of which ah was runner-up to Virginia Van Wi In 1634. She wants to gain 25 or 60 pounds. Would Gala Weight X was a bit surprised when Miss Traung told me this, for most of the modern girls are Inclined to think in terms of grapefruit and dry toast and a figure patterned after a graceful fence rait And I was doubly surprised when I learned she already weigh a neat 166. That 166 seemed enough. But no ehe wants to te off In th national at Memphis 164 scale-side. scale-side. "No mors dieting for me." she emphatically declared. "The full life, if you get what I mean, is the on for me. I learned my lesson les-son In 1635. I weighed 194 when I went to the national final In 1634. But Immediately afterward had a girlish yen to be willowy and lithe and graceful as a butterfly. So I started starvation rations. Down, down, down went my weight but up, up, up went my score. I dieted all through 1635 and didn't win a match. Th slender Traung was beaten in the first round of the Canadian, ths first round of the open, and th first round of ths western. "That cured me. X went back to dear eld bread and butter and milk and chocolate bars and sundaes sun-daes and deep dish pies. And now I'm bitting th ball better than I ever did." |