Show I I SMiTH G f S GOLF HONORS San Francisco Prof Profession Professional al Picked as Dangerous Player This Year YearBy By 13 D RAY nAY M 1 n c Copyright Consolidated 1924 by The Tho Consoli Consoli- dated Press Association As MacDonald Donald MIAMI Fla March 8 Mac Donald Smith will be a II hard man to manto beat In the th United States open golf golt championship at Oakland Hills nett iet summer Or rathel the tho Mac Mac- Donald MacDonald Mac Smith Smiths will bo hard rd to beat Ten Tn years ago aRO Smith isas wa rp- rp re as ond on of th the most promis promis- ing promising youngsters playing th the tho game gamo But Dut i he h was oung and human and Instead of oC I plug ing g assay ay at It he h found It hard to resist the lure lur of ot convis convivial lal ial souls an h he ha s slowly lowly but surely our oser the crest cre t of ot the tho hill bill that to been his In the valley Talley valle ot 01 Might II Fifteen months month ago go MacDonald marrIed a n pacific coast gIrl cirl an no- no un unusually usually fine in lo loyaL a woman Sh She had known Mac when he ho was an Intel national figure and sh she hc l las isas as wa determined to resurrect the golf genius that hail had once amazed the country Slowly I but steadily gOltl her encouragement began to tell Mac I e his best shots and with them cam camp restored confidence His and triumph triumph and came hers h rs Thursday afternoon 11 then ithon hen Smith and Bill of oC St at Louis and Phi emerged ed victorious ls In Ina ina Ina a tournament against 14 of ot the thebe be best t professionals In th the country countr Well ell mother we toads made mad It sal said Mac happily when hen he found his wire ont omit the outskirts of o the crowd I I knew vou von would dear deir she ehe replied taking none of ot the tho credIt to herself As a n result ot of o their victory In Inthis inthis Inthis this Smith and MI Mel Mel- Mol horn horn may well ascii ell liv tv claim to being belne the Ih champion professional team of the United States State In three I suc- suc suc successive ce he days they defeated One Gene and anti Johnny Parrel Wal- Wal Wil-ter Wil Hagen anti Joe Joi Jo Kh and nd finally Jock Hutchison on and anti Mike Bled BInd To triumph against three 1 such contenders requires something more than luck and the breaks break Smith and won through the thc combination of ot skill kill courage and the th breaks break but they made their own breaks break by their very sery er ag- ag ag Cre I en es esIn In their match e ln-it ln II flagon llen and KIrkwood they trolled trailed from the tho fifth filth to the thirty fifth hole holo and finally emerged victorious hen ashen holed a II foot 20 putt P on the last green gren bv by th the way wiy will pro prose proe e I another contender this summer He played brilliantly hero here I and apparently had bad found his hi true fOr fOrt form But t It wa was MacDonald Smith I beating back over the tho difficult trail who ho caught the th Imagination of oC the crowd and there wa was not noton on one who did dl not give full credit to Mrs MacDonald Smith |