| Show LIGHT THE SPORT SPORT- LIGHT I 7 1 RICE Copyright lH New Yew York lac Inc Trademark V S 5 II Of- Of Of eo nOW Row MUCH GOLF INTEREST A A slightly peevish reader seems to b be a trifle because he thinks this column carries too much rolf golf a a game rame ho he h writes that Is only of ot Interest to an en ex- ex exclusive x few In the th first place this thie column should carry more mor jolt olt olf com corn comment comment ment merit than It do docs doc's s In the second place piece since sine When did the th exclusive te fw tew of a country reach something between and men women and children There Ther are arc ar now Just about golf clubs In the tho th United States and Just about double the th num num- number num- num number number ber of ot actual players player any other game rame can show baseball bow baseball tennis or what you will There Ther are not so many spectator tor tons ton sine since th the spectator to tom fol follow fol- fol follow low a thirty six hole hoi match match- Is called upon to taco face fac ten or eleven cleven miles ot of cross country running which Includes ditch jumping fence climbing and a series of ot short hort sharp harp sprints print Yet galleries of o from rom to see the th final rounds ot of many championships And when the U S 3 G A comes to eight hol hole eon matches matche for the th amateur title the allery side ild will be b In in- in inCreased creased In-creased crele Creased Golf no longer loner makes make any claim to being an nn exclusive sport There Is no exclusiveness that runs Into the th millions where hu- hu human human hu human man beings not dollars are con con- concerned concerned con concerned There are arc 20 golf courses within an hours hour's motor ride rid of New Yorks York's outskirts and over playing goiters There Ther are seventy One on golf Kolf courses around Los A Angeles and andover andover andover over playing golfers goiters There are ar over one on hundred golf courses located In Kansas In towns you never heard hurd many of-many of of them from to In population There were forty five new courses built In Texas last year ear are clove close clos to a million playing on the municipal golf cours courses s of the th country country It It Is the one on game cam ame for tor all all- all from ten years year to male ninety ninety or female I Every athlete has h his own game and and I colt goit In this list are ar Gene Tunney Jack Dempsey Jack Do De laney De-laney laney Mickey Walker alker Dave Shade Tn Trl Speaker Stuffy Mc- Mc McInnIs Me-Innis Me InnIs Babe Ruth Pep Pcp Young and moet moct of the tho other big bir leaguers le c Vincent Richards Miss rowne Norman Brookes etc Bill Roper Tad Jones Pop War War-ner War War- Warner Warnet net ner Gil Doble Dobie Lou Young and most of ot tho the coaches and football YOU OU CANT CAN'T TELLA TELL TELLA A A few cw days ago aco turning a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York street corner there ther were gathered Just ahead four young oung fellows who might have hav been listed Ilsted as a perfect gunmen type types They were collarless and capped the caps slanting over one on or the theother theother theother other eye One man was talking earnestly Here seemed to be b the tho chance for Inside knowledge on the th next up up hold when the following words word were heard Im 2 up at the th fourteenth and ready to put on the th hoof when this bimbo sinks a chip shot at the th fifteenth and cans a forty forty- forty footer footer at the next I g get iet t around In 76 7 and ond he h nicks nick me m by a hole IS THERE ANY AXY GOLF DRAMA A few day days ago aro I played a around around around round or two with Dutch Leon Leon- Leonard Lon ard and ard the th famous Boston and De- De Detroit De Detroit troit left hander This game cam takes taku more mor ra raw cold nerve nerv control than any I game cameI ome I over oyer tackled ho he b said laid And SAnd I 1 n never Ver knew before betor I started playing two years ago i o It had any excitement about aboul It It At that Los Angeles AnKeles open when hen Cooper and Von Elm were running neck and neck sixteen neck birdies In eighteen holes between them them-I I never saw anything like It at a a football game came Yelling cheering hills hats hat In the tho th air pound pound- poundIng pounding ing InS people on the th back and back and then thena a sudden before betor some som shot ahot hot that was wa-s more mor exciting than loll all the noise nohe noli In the world I 1 Iwas Iw was a wreck when the th day was nver and I 1 wasn't playing hole with 00 at On one on 1600 stake Cooper from a terrible place yards y rd away put his approach a few tew Inches from front the cup I thought a volcano was as exploding ex- ex Five Fhe seconds later from the top of ot a mound Von Elm holes his hi pitch shot el eighty yards ards away for an eagle 2 against a birdie 3 9 Then two volcanoes ex cx ex- ex exploded Which recalls the th fact tact that Leonard took up golf gol two years year ago o g-o and operating as a a hand lett-hand cr er worked his hi score down to a 78 7 avenge But In California he only plays play once one a day for tor twelve twelvemonths twelvemonths months A number ot of o things thing may hap hap- happen happen pen In this seasons season's baseball but nothing more remarkable than the fact tact that the th Yankees won the majority of their sixteen straight games gams with Ith tour four our young Infielders three of them serving their first year This Is some thine some come thing that happens about once one In four lifetimes will have hav the greatest college rowing festival ever known where the th main part of the th argument gets down to this one query Who can beat that navy eight The Th coach Is an Important fac fcc factor tor ton In rowing football or track But It Is Just as well ell to remember bet ber that a certain Item known as material still has ha it Its place piece In the th pastime at large e On 00 |
