Show SPORT LIGHT irish stealing scots thunder I 1 by GRANTLAND RICE HEN YOU look back over past W WHEN records in the british golf championships it seems odd to see a brace of irishmen acting a as I 1 the last two defenders of the british amateur in past years englishmen an and d scots from john balland freddie tait through hilton on to the tolleys colleys and Wethe reds have been bean the main hopes across t the h e stormy water hazard bazard but it was james bruen of ireland who led the pack in 1948 1040 and now theres sam mcgrant grantland laud n R rice ce cready a 10 0 of ireland wearing the coronet of 1949 it is something tor for lafirst a first starter in a british amateur to roll back two such pen men as frank stranahan and Wlllie down the stretch especially over what might be the toughest course in the world at least we know of 0 no other course or links mitat ip yards ards long pay T if w anere ere the ho normal cris driving rains and battering gales yet mccready in his bis rooming morning round against shot himself a 70 just about thi the equal of a 62 on most other tests it would have been pleasant to have had mccready as a parlay against stran ahan and turresa Tun resa it should have been a nice 10 to I 1 to 1 payoff in the opening betting the final winner was around 40 to 1 first carters lIt arters rarely ever win one of these big tournaments where i experience pe peri r fence ence to is almost as important as skill to stand 4 up at the midway dway po point I 1 n t to become 1 down late in inthe the stretch and then recover again is tribute enough to mccready McCrea dyt e c competitive 0 m peti tive side it was a good thing for international ter golf that an irish man inan won it will steam up the walker cup matches at winged foot in august where interested galleries would like to get a look at the swing that decapitated tat edour our two best amateurs in the meanwhile what has happened to scottish golf what has become of the descendants of that ancient shepherd who began knocking round stones into holes thereby starting a game that in the US alone has led to some courses and some three million club swingers it is time the land of the thistle and nd the bluebell came bounding back A champ moves up some weeks ago a few noncom basanta were kidding BIU bill dickey about ted williams bill always has contended that ted williams was as fine hitter as he ever saw ted was under at the time the prince regent of arkansas merely grinned 1 I have an idea BIU bill said that he will be back up there around the first of june nothing can keep back that eye and that pair of working wrists williams can wait until the ball is almost in the catchers glove before he swings and it if its a half inch wide of the plate he wont tool fool with it t it seems that in the race for batting honors ted is back where he belongs he has moved from to around the mark he also has his full share of home runs and runs batted in he to la the best bet of the year to become a triple crowner in the department of the ash at this spot we wa cant see any one leading williams to the batting wire milre in september |