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Show Los Angeles Times Volunteers To Underwrite Golf Tournament LOS ANGELES, Dee. 18 (AP) The Los Angeles open golf tournament threatened with cancellation for want of a backer, will be held next month under sponsorship of the Los Angeles Time. elent number of money player would decline to make th trip to th Pacific coast to Insure their success. The California winter schedule Includes tournaments at San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Oakland. Sacramento, Pasadena Pasa-dena and Del Mar. Th newspaper came forward today to-day with a guarantee for the purse money after th Los Angeles junior chamber of commerce announced It lacked sufficient funds to underwrite under-write the event as it has since its inception. The chamber said it would cooperate coop-erate with the Times, and telegraphed tele-graphed Fred Corcoran, manager f th Professional Golfers' Tournament Tour-nament bureau, that the event would be held on th scheduled date, January T to 10. Aries Make Offer Richard Arlen. motion picture actor and aa enthusiastic amateur golfer, who had offered to furnish - 83000 of the 88000 prise money, said he would be glad to cooperate in anv manner necessary. "My sol Interest In offering to (ooosor th tournament waa In seeing see-ing that this ertnt waa continued.' he said. City officials, asked to provide fh balanc of th money needed, found they war unable to use municipal mu-nicipal fund for th purpose. -Hrlpe Other T earners Backers of ether California golf tournaments, which annually attract at-tract large entry list of professional profes-sional players from over the conn-try. conn-try. heaved a aigh of relief at the announcement that the l4s Angeles open event would be held. Fear had been expressed that without th a tt radio a of th prises tar th local tournament a uffi- |