Show S WHEN YOU HEAR someone cryIng crying cry cry- V V ing or complaining about his bad luck or the tough breaks that have followed him you dont don't have to pay the slightest attention to the sombre squawk All you have to todo todo todo do Is think about Al Snyder His dream that of ot every jockey jokey was vas to ride a Kentucky Derby win win- ner ncr Beyond that to be the winnIng winning win win- ning rider of ot the Triple Crown Snyder after alter 10 tough riding years was set to make his triple move in the Derby the Preakness and the Belmont on a year three known known as Citation rated today as the surest Triple Crown winner in racing history Unfortunately Snyder went fishing fishing fish fish- ing jag in a small boat two friends They were in the famous Florida Keys A gale came along without warning and someone else will ride Citation in the three rich races A Awhirl Awhirl Awhirl whirl of ot wind at twilight twilight and and the small boat had vanished As the late Mr Henley so well wrote Into the night go one and all Snyder would have drawn 10 per percent percent percent cent in each of ot these tests As far as o one c can peer into the fogs and mists of the future here was plus plus other big races to come comeI I as as aswell well as the the fame of ot riding a standout champion I Citation Is still here and ready So pre ire Ben and Jimmy Jones But jus just what happened to Snyder is anybody's guess Sport is always packed full fun of soul scaring breaks breaks of of sudden turns turn's that mean the difference between be be- tween victory and defeat nut But this Is a di different ferent case This sudden sudden sudden sud sud- den squall meant the difference between life with fame and anti gold and the sudden sadden blotting out of a Do career that wa fa just jast beginning to unfold On the verge of moving moving- into the greatest fame tame a jockey a-jockey jockey could know Snyder suddenly came to the enc end endot of ot the road in the roaring boiling water of the Keys Fate FOlte never never bothers where the aces or the deuces deuce fall fait S 'S S S Golf Winners in 1948 Who will win the Masters Who will win the Open Who will win the Apparently it doesn't matter Herman Kelser KeIser won the Masters in 1946 and has won little since Lew Worsham won the Open at StLouis St St. Louis last year and hasn't won a tournament since Jim Ferrier from Australia won the but has se seno set sel no blazing woodlands on fire ire since Why is it that we have no golfers golfers golf golf- ers who can win more than one tournament on a mile junket Horton or on Smith won six around 1928 1923 Jimmy Demaret won six or seven a few years back MacDonald Smith won eight big ones in n a year Bobby Jones Tones mopped up In 1930 Jones and agen won 21 national and international l championships championships championships cham cham- between them Now you cant can't nn find l a n golfer goUer who can win as many as as Ben as Ben Hogan never has won aa an i Open Jimmy Demaret never has won an In Open or a Sammy Snead never has won a n U. U S. S Open although although al though the brilliant but erratic Snead has won the and the British Open Hogan Nelson Snead and Demaret Demaret Dema ret are arc too good to stand on their records in the U U. U S. S Open the British Brit ish Open and the the three top titles of ot gol golf Where is another Bobby Jones Another Walter Hagen another Gene I might Ight add another another an other Tommy Armour and another J Jim m Barnes who won these three major events The modern charge Is made that Jones Hagen and played in only few tournaments that that all three would have been nervous wrecks if it th thy they y had followed the rough trail that Hogan ogan Demaret Snead and the othe others s have taken This can be true I am not going to deny it for tor J I cant can't prove these charges are wrong All AU I know is there are arc too many tournaments today today- for the good o othe of the player Especially the better pla player er Big Die money golf gol is much rougher on the nerves than world word series baseball or any form of football The mental side is far more Important Im important in golf gol than it i is in n baseball football or boxing C C Be Bera the the Arm An ArmA AnA Yogi ll A year ago at not the St. St P Petersburg dog track I bought Yogi Berra a 2 ticket on a greyhound th that t paid Lately I have given Berra several tips that finished last or I close to last Much to my astonish astonIsh- ment Berra Berm still remembered the first and only good deed Who cares he would say as my tip finished far out of the money This made me realize that Berra Berm was an exceptional human being He remembers only the good that i is buried with mankind not not th the evil that lives after them Berra Berm the Yankee catcher has a 1 friendly heart and a deadly batting eye The pride of Dago Hill StLouis St St. Louis likes everybody and everybody everybody every every- body likes likes' likes hIm I T i ij r At A- A t tf- tf J f y i r y |