Show I SPORT LIGHT Two Master Golfers Should Meet By GRANTLAND RICE THERE IS A NATURAL in the IF golf world today It would be a meeting of Ben Hogan of the U.S.A. and Bobby Locke of ml gan has won the I played 1948 and Locke has won the last two British Rice Hogan has been acknowledged as the one to beat in most of the leading tournaments he has before and after his Locke has not only ruled South Africa and Great Britain but he has also left a wider trail of devastation through the United States than any foreigner that ever played including Harry Vardon and Ted It was Bobby Locke who Sammy Snead to South Africa a few years ago and gave Virginia Sammy a steady walloping over this faraway Both Hogan and Locke are great Their styles' are wide apart but each is a master of Both are consistently straight off the but I like Hogan's iron play Locke h a s a shade around the greens where he can turn out near miracles on certain Snead and Mangrum have dominated play in the United States his season and the game over here can stand another face the same being Bobby with his motion-picture work has a busy But the call to contest usually finds Ben more than eager to return to Locke has now made his peace with the American and he can find far richer hunting over here than England offers at the We have had similar duels tn the past Hagen Jones Hagen Barnes and to mention only a The Hagen clash was the most These two had the better right at that time to be called the two top Both Hogan and Locke are fine as well as being consistently fine It would be a new boost for general golfing interest to bring them together in a series of In this connection it might also be mentioned that Lloyd Mangrum lately has been setting a dizzy Red Sox and 1950 Just about mid-July last year the Red Sox were 12 or 13 games off the They were that far back of the They are not quite that bad this but with Ted Williams injured they face a terrific Job if they hope to better their So far under two different managers they have been an ineffective Only their hitting has kept to the high They passed the Fourth of July with a team batting average of This was by all odds the highest mark in both It is high enough to win two with only fair Here's the main trouble with the Red Sox If yon care to There are three departments of baseball at least main These are hitting and The Red Sox are the supreme hitters of the They have second-class They have close to second-class For their infield is a powerhouse at It isn't any too hot In it is second division I've heard too many opponents speak about the number of easy hits that slip through the Red Sox This infield has power offensive power but no defensive It can't cover ground to choke off opposing Once again I get this information from other ball This makes it tough on the They have hits charged against them that a Rizzuto would kill off or another faster-moving would knock The trouble is that too many people look only at batting averages at home runs and runs driven in where the Red Sox They overlook They overlook They overlook They all say they'd rather play for Tom Who The Red Sox have taken four years to discover that power doesn't rule LaMotta and Robinson It remains to be seen whether or not Jake LaMotta can be lured into the ring with Ray But this is the only fight of any importance that could be made this Tiberio Mitri failed to come up to earlier The Italian is a good boxer not a great one but he can't If a fighter hasn't a knockout punch he must at least have enough kick in either his left or right It will be an entirely different matter in facing a better boxer than Mitri and a. far different Jim Norris has worked hard enough to keep the fight game going but at the moment it is stalled as far as any outdoor action is |