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Show Golf-Match-Nets $5016 For Charity By BILL CORUM International News Sports Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (INS) The total receipts of the charity goll match at the Freah Meadow club on Long Island last Sunday were (6020 80. The total expenses. Including Includ-ing taxes, printing end distribution of tickets, signs, salaries of ticket sellers and takers, and expenses of the principals who came from out of town, were $1004.75. Thia leavea a net of SS0144S, which the Misses Annenbrrg and Didrikton and Babe Ruth and John .Montague raiaed for the poor kids of New York City. A check for that amount will be handed to Mayor LaGuardia at city hall tomorrow, to-morrow, to be disbursed aa he aee fit We wish It could have been 10 times as much. But if it brings a glow of health or a happy amile to the faces of even a few youngsters, we are sure that all those who contributed con-tributed to the success of the match will feel that it was not played in vain. I The crowd was larger than 6000. How much larger is a matter of guesswork perhaps somewhere between be-tween 10,000 and 12,000. All we know for sure is that it was much too large to watch one golf match. At a tournament the crowd is scattered all over the course, following the progress of several matches. Knowing that a larger gallery would make playing conditiona impoasihle explains why we had only 4000 printed originally. It alto rxplalnt why we wouldn't raiae the price from $1.14, In apite ef tome pressure to make it at leaat S3. It waa our Idea) that at f 1.10, for charity, nobody eould get badly bad-ly hurt Possibly that explains why not one customer demanded a 64-cent i rebate when the foursome finally wound up playing an 18-hole match in nine holes. |