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Show Of < I 1 ) ' 1 C ( < : % , PANTL PANTLTHESE 4WZ4y 4tVlZAtYf ) I I : 4WZ4yCE //CE CE RICE / ? / nesI I THESE pHESE sold ers era sailors saUors mar nesairmen nesairmen nes airmen and coast guardsrnei guardsmen guardsmenI guardsmenhave guardsmenhave guardsrneihave I have all the work they can h.ndlebut handlebut Inndle h.ndle hndle handle Inndlebut . but tl U-ey U ey tl-ey tl - - ey still have time enougt enough enoughleft enougtleft 1 1left left lor for argu arguncnts nents vents nentsdebates ventsdebates _ _ _ debates and rebuttals rebuttals rebut rebuttals tals ot of one sort oranother oranother or oranotherHere another anotherHere Here is a campquery camp . 5 , query that thllt coverspr covers " ' " ' s spractically pr practically a c tic a lly everydeta every . dw . < deta 1 I of baseball baseballTo baseballTo baseballTo To help clear upa up upa F Fa a lot of arg mentswe ments meets mentswe rod i is ithe s we the ve had m in th scamp s scamp ? camp would youm you youm Im m nd answering answermg thefollo the i ifoUovng - I x xfobo follo fobo foUovng v ng Who is Grantland GranllandRic(1) GranllandRic1 RICe (1) 1 ( ( ) the fastest p tcher tchor tch tcher er or baseball ever knew ( (2) 2 ( ) ) the hard hardest hardest hardest est h tier tter ( (3) 3 ( ) ) the best natural hit hitter hitter hitter ter (4) 4 ( ) tl t1 U e best base runner (5) 5 (5)the (5)the (5 5 ( ) : the best infleldcr mfielder infielder fielding fieldmg and h t tt tt ttng7 ttng7Here t ng ? " Here lIere Acre are the an answers wers from fromtillS fromthis fromthis tillS this lookout 1 Fastest Fa.stest . ball pItcher-Waiter pItcher Waiter pitcher-Walter Walter pItcherWaiterJohnson pitcherWalterJohnson pitcher - WalterJohnson Johnson with LLfty Llfly Lefty Grove sec second secand second ond and 2 Hardest lIardest hItter-Babe hItter Babe hitter - Babe Ruth 3 Best Natural "latural latural " h tter-Joe tter Joe tterJoeJackson tterJoeJackson tier - JoeJackson Jackson with wItb Nap Lajoic LajoIe close 4 Best base runner-Ty runner Ty runner - Ty Cobb Cobbgomg Cobbgoing Cobbg-oinr Cobbg oinr gomg going - 1wayIa ' ) iway 1way way \Ia Ia ' \ Max Maw , Ctrey Cuey Carey next ne"t net neat " 5 Best wlielder-I1oous wlielder I1oous infielder-Ifonus infielder Ifonus inOcIdcr - Honus Wag Wagner Wagncr Waener ner ncr ereat great , infielder mficlder nSelder and rrcatcr greater Ranking Rankmg GolfersHere Golfers GolfersHere Here s another barracks request requestthIS requestthis requestthis I thIS t me from a group of o ( golfersHow golfers golfersHow ! How " , would ould you rank the golfers golfersfrom golfersfrom golfersfrom from the viewpoint vlewpomt ot of stroke strokemak strokemak strokemak I mak ng all around skill winn ng rig or orlos.ng orlos.ng orlos-ng orlos ng los.ng losng . . - temperaments putting7 putting ' " If Ifv Ifwe Itv.e Itve v . we . e can get th s settled it will shut shutoff shutoft shutoil off oft a lot ot of noise in m this campI camp 1 I The best stroke slroke maker makar I ever eversaw eversaw eversaw saw the straightest player was wasHarry wasHarry wasHarry Harry Vardon 2 The best comb nation of stroke strokemaking strokemaking strokemaking making hard work and putt ng be belonged belonged belonged longed to Bobby Jones 3 The best golfing temperaments temperamentsI I ever ran across were Johnny Me Mc MeDermott McDermott MeDermott Dermott Jerry Travers and Walter WalterHagen WalterHagen WalterHagen Hagen McDermott and Travers Traverswere Traverswere Traverswere were marvels at concentration concentrationHagen concentrationHagen concentrationHagen Hagen bad had less tens on He also alsohad alsohad alsohad had as much golf smartnessThe smartness smartnessThe The two best putters I ever saw sawwere sawwere sawwere were Walter Travis and Jerry JerryTravers JerryTravers JerryTravers Travers In modern play this d s st st st t net nct on goes to Horton Smith Paul PaulRunyan PaulRunyan PaulRunyan Runyan is close closeI I ve ye seen Harry Vardon play playmany playmany many rounds of championship golf golfand golfand golfand and I can t recall ever seeing seemg h m mplay mplay mplay play a shot from the rough or from froma a bunker He was a bad putter putterwIth putterwith putterwith wIth a nervous stab It was nothmg nothing nothmgunusual nothingunusual nothingunusual unusual to see h m take three putts puttsfrom puttsfrom puttsfrom from 10 or 12 feetAbout feet . . About Bobby JonesCapt Jones JonesCapt Capt Bobby Jones taking takmg hIs hIstralJlDg histraining histraining tral/JlDg tral JlDg training / at \ BIitchel l\htehel l htehel Mitchel Field before beforebemg beforebeing beforebeing bemg being stationed in m a southern sector sectorbeheves sectorbelieves sectorbelieves beheves believes he worked harder barder around arounda aroundII II a . course in lD chimpionsh ch\mplonsh ch mplonsh ch'tmpionsh chtmpionsh ' \ ' p play than thanan thananyone thanan an anyone } ) one else He lIe was supposed to tobe tobe tobe be The \ Machine l\1acbme l 1acbme MachineI I was tar far from th s he sa d re recently reGently recently cently Gently Mach nes don t take sev sevens sevens sevens ens Gene Sarazen Sarazenused Sarazenr Sarazenused r " " used to say you youcan yout youL t\ t tcan \ can t take a sevenon sevenon seven on any aoy hole andWID andl and and"J l * "J J " " Wi i iwin wm WID win I ! bad had threesevens threeI three ? a lasta I sevens in ill my lastround lastI lastround last - , | S I round at WmgedFoot WingedS WingedFoot Winged Wmged ' \ < S < Foot TT-- TT TTl ' - - . * In . , - the * l , NatIOnal NatIOnalOpen Nationala XT * . 1 1f a ' f Open ol of 1929 I vehad yec ve ye vehad c- c chad ; - ' had a flock of sevens sevhad sev ' " ens which whIeh c meantc meanty meanthead meant I Ihad Ij workmeant had to work myhead my myhead y head off on the oth othGene othGene othGene Gene Sarazen er holes holesThe The oddest sev seven seven seven en I ever took was at Hoylake Hoylakein in the 1930 Brit Bnt sh Open I v . was wasonly wasonly as asonly only 20 yards oft off the green m in t tvogot vo vogot vogot got into mto no trouble actually d dn do t tmIss tmiss tmiss mIss a shot and yet took five fivestrokes fivestrokes fivestrokes strokes to get down do\\n do n \ for my seven sevenhere sevenhere sevenhere here How could this happen7 happen ? ' The Thecup Thecup Thecup cup was on a mound My first chip chipshot chipshot chipshot shot ran up fa riy rly close stopped stoppedand stoppedand stoppedand and then rolled back My second secondone secondone secondone one sl pped by the cup caught a adeep adeep adeep deep slant and trickled tnckled 30 feet on onbeyond onbeyond onbeyond beyond Then I took three puttsThe putts puttsThe The Wont Worst W Wor or , t Temptation TemptationChampionship TemptationChampionship Championship golf Bobby sa.ld sald said sa.ldIS saidis saidis . IS largely resist ng n ; the temptation temptationto ( cinpt ( ionto to quit after one or two bad holes holesYou holesYou holesYou You beein begrn begin to ( o feel you can t"in tin t " nin win so sowhy sowhy sowhy why keep on punishmr pUDlshmg punishing ) ourself ourseU'The ourseUThe " " ' The winner winncr has to work for U It all alltbe allthe allthe tbe the way take his beating here aod and aodthere andthere andthere there and then theo continue to work workl1arder workharder woritharder l1arder harder than everI ever everI I believe the hardest working workinggoiter workinggolfer workinggolfer goiter golfer I ever saw is Ben Hogan HoganBen HoganBen HoganBen Ben works over every type of shot shoteven , , even the ones that look simple He Hetakes Hetakes Hetakes takes noth ng for grantedHogan grantedHogan granted grantedHogan Hogan has made no attempt to tomaster tomaster tomaster master any variety of shots He Hest HeSt Hest st cks eks to a lew few simple ones concen concentrates concentrates concentrates trates on these and never gets dls dins dlscouraged dinscouraged discouraged couraged Byron Nelson is another anotherI I ard and worker although Byron ean can eanplay canplay canplay play more shots But no one works worksquite worksquite worksquite quite as hard round after round roundmonth roundmonth roundmonth month after month as Hogan worksI works 1 I had IS 18 pears ; ) ers cars * of ot tournament tournamentgolf tournamentgolf tournamcutCoif golf from 12 to 30 and I know the thenerve thenerve thenerve nerve and mental beatinr beating one has hasto hasto hasto to take if you are out to win Just Justone Justone Justone one lapse is enough to cost two twostrokes twostrokes twostrokes strokes Tl Tt TI ere never was a golf golfshot golfshot golfshot shot that pia placed pla1bd ) cd itself |