Show 1 4 IT phe HE toughest job in sport sinking a six toot foot putt in a pinch or emerging emer gine from a heel print in the sand band it throwing a 40 yard pass or pitching to a clutch hitter with the bases full it umpiring a baseball game if you care to hear the correct answer it to is working as a football official the base ball umpire has a setup in com comparison parl hurry up yost yosl of michigan told me ma once that he doubt ed d that th t any play was ever iun run off in football that was completely minus some form of penalty off side starting too quickly grantland itice holding illegal interference ter ference pass interference ter ference illegal use of hands or other infractions here you have 22 keen active overeager young m men en scattered over abood a good part of the field in a game that is packed with penalties no tour sets of eyes can follow every infraction especially on the part of those who know how when and where to slide by a rule id like ilko to say here that hat no set of officials ls work harder train harder barder or try harder than 90 per cent of all football officials they are arc honest intelligent well selected and they usually take a deep pride in their work but they are up against an impossible job having worked five years as a football official in the south before groping later for the old older e r 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 another on almost every 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 bailor the split second start of the backs or the smart ones who know how to time and beat off side by half a stride it too easy to say which penalties affect a play pla yand and which dont but this is where the smarter officials come in hi where in other years ed and tom thorpe preme two of the best football ever hael has known mown certainly too much whistle and horn born blowing can wreck any game coming from too many conscientious over callers who now MW and then have the idea they are the afternoons main attractions but this happen often an official with sound sane judgment in handling a game where one close decision can make or break either team is footballs major asset but dont let anyone tell you it a tough assignment the toughest one I 1 know in sport the horn is certainly no instrument of merriment or melody all bowled over old king cole now has more mor bowls than he ever dreamed about as he called tor for his fiddlers Fidd lers three and proceeded to get pie eyed but the two big money bowls are the rose and the sugar where the two capacities are and at 4 a crack not a bad financial goal for those lucky enough to crowd into the final picture although this cash Is ia scattered around as 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 goll golf Cham champion champia pio t more than a few followers of the ancient and well trapped green want to know more about skee riegel flegel the new amateur golf champion of the U S skee is much better known in the far west than he is throughout the rest of our bunkered domain the impression seems to b 1 that some rank outsider has taken over the amateur throne of 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 lellow fellow is the new cham pion meaning mr 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 1 I can tell you his ciuci 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 0 hurry because he wanted to learn and he was willing to practice all day heros heres an odd angla ancle on slice skee they cau call frank stranahan Mus clo or mr air muscle 1 but in my opinion Is much stronger et ronger than stranahan they ought to call skee S kee double muscle 0 ive never seen anyone close to his weight pounds with such powerful up per and forearms skee is what id call a power hitter or a hitter |