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Show SPORTS in" more Player cried." Player" sisted on washing out the same black shirt (black retains his strength, he says) for the next day'a play and insisted on returning to the same motel room for the extra night required by the play-ofGalleries are awed by his concentration before a shot so is Gary. He calls the mind a "weird little gadget" and believes that if his power of concentration was fully developed he could communicate with his family in Johannesburg without the bother of a telephone. Gary is on of the most courteous and generous men in sports today. He lost money, in winning the Open purse of $26,000. His locker at- tendant got $50, his caddy $2,000 and the advice to "spend it wisely" Frank Paget replied that he would buy a motorbike), 15,000 to the cancer fund in memory of Gary's late mother,, and $20,000 to develop junior golf here because, as Player said, "I'm so indebted to this country. Player's courtliness .is evident in the way he gracefully responds to bothersome demands for his autograph. Once, during a dose tournament, he turned down requests but afterward made a public apology. To Americans, Player's formality is sometimes greatly aggravating. One sensitive middle-age- d sports writer still chaffs when recalling how he asked Player to address him by his first name. "I couldn't do thaV Player replied. "My father would never forgive me if I called somebody your age by his first name." Whofs btilnd the) colorful man in black? The showmanship masks a lf quiet husband and father whose conversation centers almost completely upon his family "the most important thing in the world fofmeTthe rthingTdo"this all lor." After major tourneys, he telephones Vivienne and .the children before leaving the clubhouse and frequently flies back to his farm home, where he is less farmer than hunter, fisherman, and horseman. The family, in turn, "holds thumbs" for Daddy (the South African equivalent of crossing one's fingers), while he's on fairways 10,000 miles away. "I've traveled a million miles to get where I am," Player yg, "w I can afford to pick my tournaments, say, 15 a year. The rest of the time I can be at home." . So American golfers need not de- inn The Color Behind Golf s Man in Black He's a show? an who swigs honey and talks ESP but he's also a generous 1 sportsman and devoted father "... f. Mother! StcpPcin liSitntty 4 of row Child's Cuts, Scapee " CamphoPheniqui b best for your child's cuts, scrapes, minor burns its anesthetic action se ' soothes, cools. Camfho-Pheniqu- e penetrates deep to combat infection, to (16-year-o-ld By JACK RYAN Gary Player left the , States last summer for his home in Johannesburg, South Africa, and one of his farewell statements brought a sigh of relief from American golfers: "My wife Vivienne and I would like to have 15 children." Since the Players have only fire, it teemed the pesky little -7, 160 pounds) musdeman would be st borne for some time, leaving golf-dom-'s bif prizes to home-grow- n swingers. But what the golf pros didn't hear was Gary's addendum: "Of course, well have to revise that if I don't make a million dollars to support them all." Gary made only $500,000 last year, so now he's back in the States, g honey on the fairways and tot- Jnf PIK1 off, trying to make up the difference. The Masters Golf Tournament beginning this Thursday will help tell how close he comes to his magic million mark. Win or losehe won't be far off. First, as 1965 U. S. Open champ, he has a built-i- n start with endorsements; second, he's as colorful as his black golfing, garb is not, and color is something that pays off in sports these days. There's not much about Gary that ign't intriguing to any sports fan, from his start as a cricket player doomed by a bad neck to the present whose concentration comes close to extrasensory perception. Take, as a first example, the way Gary overcame small physical stat ure. His father, a paint salesman, gave him a set of golf clubs after he injured his neck at 14 and despaired of ever participating in active sports again. Gary paired the first three holes he played, yet experts .told him: "You'll never be good, even if you master the chip and putt no power to your drive. Youll never break 80." Player went to instructor Jock Verway (who had a pretty daughter Vivienne, later Mrs. Player), who put him on a regimen of swinging a driver, beginning at 6ia.m. daily. "Every stroke," says Player, "I would tell myself: this on is for ths V. S. Open championship." Along with hours on the course, Verway g proprescribed a gram which, with variations, Player still follows. He skips rope, stands two minutes on his head yogalike, -- does e bends and finger and nipolations, sleeps eight to 10 hours a night never on a pillow. His diet is steak, dry fruit, and vegetables. "Ill play until I'm 45 on that diet," Gary once told Arnold Palmer, who replied: "I couldn't livt until 45 on that!" Then there's the "psych" side of Player's personality. One free tip he gives golfers is: "Love the course you play. Don't go out to fight it but to love it" His manager, Mark McConnack, recalls that before the play-oagainst Kel Nagle for the 1965 UTS. Open, Player told him, "Say something to get me mad." McCor-mac- k told him about a writer who claimed Player had blown up on the Crucial Jiole the day before and couldn't win the play-of"More! Tell muscle-buildin- swig--gin- W deep-kne- -- , ' ff f. pain instantly, slop help cuts heal from underneath . . . Nature's wsy. 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