Show AN T ephe HE tou toughest hest job in sport isn t sinking a six foot putt in a pinch or emerging from a heel print in the sand it isn t throwing a 40 yard pass or pitching to a clutch hitter bitter with the bases full it isn t umpiring a baseball game if you care to hear the correct answer it is working as a football official the base ball umpire has a setup in compall son hurry up yost of michigan told me once that he doubt ed that any play was ever run off in football that was completely minus some form of pen alty off side start ing too quickly Grantland Grantlan HIce dRice holding illegal in ter ference pass in ter ference illegal use of hands or other infractions here you have 22 keen active overeager young men scattered over a good part of the field in a game that Is packed with penalties no four sets of eyes can follow every infraction tion especially on the part of those who know how when and where to slide by a rule I 1 d like to say here that no set of officials work harder train harder or try harder than 90 per cent of all football officials they are honest intelligent well selected and they usually take a deep pride in their work but they are up against an imps sible job having worked five years as a football official in the south before groping later for the older age of hazy reason I 1 have found it somewhat difficult to ride officials who have impossible jobs to handle there Is holding of one sort or an other on almost every play ask some of the players in the line who have been jerked off balance by a quick hand a movement that took less than a split second or this matter of pass interference in the rush and jump for the ball or the split second start of the backs or the smart ones who know how to time and beat off side by half halt a stride it isn t too easy to say which pen allies affect a play and which don t but this is where the smarter officials come in where in other years ed and tom thorpe were su preme two of the best football ever has known certainly too much whistle and horn blowing can wreck any game coming from too many over conscientious callers who now and then have the idea they are the afternoon afternoons s main attractions but this diesu doesn t happen often an official with sound sane judg ment in handling a game where one close decision can make or break either team is football footballs s major asset but don t let anyone tell you it t a tough assignment the toughest one I 1 know in sport the horn is certainly no inspru ment of merriment or melody all bowled over old king cole now has more bowls than he ever dreamed about as he called tor for his fiddlers three and proceeded to get pie eyed but the two big money bowls are the rose and the sugar where the two capacities are 93 and 73 at 4 a crack not a bad financial goal for those lucky enough to crowd into the final picture although this cash is scat seat around as tar far as the rose bowl is concerned here no one makes any big killing which is the way it should be college football still has a long way to go in getting away from too much finance new golf champion more than a few followers of the ancient and well trapped green want to know more about skee riegel the new amateur golf champion of the U S skee is much better known in the far west than be he is throughout the rest of our bunkered domain the impression seems to b that some rank outsider has taken over ever the amateur throne of colt golf this idea is strictly in correct only a fine golfer could have won over the pebble beach test one of the toughest in golf what sort of a golfer and what brand of a fellow is the new cham chain pion meaning mr biegel riegel we took this problem to al cluce one of the best golf instructors in the country now in charge at lake ville long island I 1 can tell you fads ahls ciuca told me A worthy champion and a fine fellow now wears the crown craig wood and I 1 worked with skee in 1941 when he had been playing golf only three years he was then in the high he had come along in a hurry because he wanted to learn and he was willing to practice all day here s an odd angle on skee they call frank stranahan muscle stranahan or mr muscle I 1 but in my opinion biegel riegel Is much stronger than ban han they ought to call skee double muscle I 1 I 1 ve never seen anyone close to his weight pounds with such powerful upper and forearms skee Is what I 1 d call a power bitter or a smash bitter lutter |