Show THE TH CopyrIght 1926 New York Tribune Inc Trademark U. U tJ S. S Patent Office By GRANTLAND RICE U UNCOVERING COVERING A DIABOLICAL L Sir The news i item m about th tha national open won by Tommy Armour escaped everybody but me and I tm am still so IndIgnant over oyer the matter matur that my blood boils There seems to b nothing that can be done about It it and Mr Armour Is Isnow isnow now the champion but as a CalifornIan Ian I reveal tIle the and hellish details ot of as rank a on as ever I 11 iJ not wish to t take from Tomm As- As Almour's mours mour's triumphant playing pl but I 1 mu must t show the cause of lI harry rry Cu p- p pers per's ers er's defeat t You will VIlli recall e. e slight alight and Inno- Inno Innocent cent IncIdent that occurred on one green just as Mr Cooper was about to putt I saw It plainly I Inot not feet teet away Seven thousand others SAW It You saw liaw It yourself l I and put It down dO to a a. harmless m of It was this A small t eld mouse ran out ot 01 green een just as harry Cooper was about to putt Like you OU and everyone 1 thought at the time that the mouse was th there re by accident Not at t all I have ha the facts from a named Wilver n. a George e d e Pasadena Fla This Wl Wilver is ni I ned to a a. sister ot of a a. maj Boley cho lives somewhere III hi bt ida and they have had ome trouble over a 8 woman so the facts tame eme ic Bole Bolei runs a etore In one tuf If thoe thoc ida Fbi towns named at e some other Dol Boly y I Ia no trier I ot of California but he is 15 a trainer ot of bIrth bIrd small 1 krals end flab and I that Innocent looking field mouse mousa was not a a. ot of at all That field t mo came from Florida FlorId and was trained for tor the job The Chamber of Commerce o of Fla or whatever town It was 25 paid Doleys Doley's expenses north and also the expenses of the mouse I. I in- in we simple They we-e we Dont let California win this op n. n Stop Slop Harry Coop r at nil all costs So foley Boley takes his trained field mouse and follows In the gallery while Cooper battles with Armour and h when 1 they arrive at the twelfth gre grean n tle crisIs Is reached d Cooper Is lh ad He gets ready t to putt end and BoI y JC it- leases the field moue which SiC ae been carrying around In a collar bu boc The mouse moue scampers across acro s the apparently pp for tOI to 1 to eat t. though any one could there was nothing for tor r field mouse to eat eaton eaton on any of the greens Coop Coop- Cooper er started to putt end and the mouse b be- be began gan and just ns as Boley Cooper did not kill the field rouse ouse with the putter No Californian would do such a thing He chased the field mouse as you ou saw He pIcked It up his right hand his putting hand as knew he would and the field t bit him That inspired bite won on the cham- cham for tor Tommy rommy Armour Every Everyone Everyone one knows that the bite ot of a field mouse a persons person's mental calm brings on an attack of n OUS I and sometimes leads to death I It if the hs been drInking hard for tor a year ear Prom From the instant Int ot of that bite Harry Cooper vaa a change man lie He didn't get another florida had struck CalifornIa another hard blow and a national lp was taken from us Doley Boley took a a. night train back to Cincinnati a a. a or wherever he comes from and was given OO bonus by the happy citi- citi zens conspiracy t to defraud ud a 0 hard workIng state of its rightful honors ought to be spread before the people of America Tommy Armour Is n. n grand goiter and will wear his honors modestly but let him remember that California would now have bO both 1 the national opan and th tha national ama ama- amateur amateur ch champion except for the Machla- Machla Machiavellian hand of oC Florida Cooper had hada a birdie but Armour had a birdie and a mouse and you ou cant can't beat it IC The Los Angeles Board Boud of Trade Trad has already sent a protest p to President President dent CoolIdge but what good wm will that do Yours truly mANS FRANK It might In 15 stated In this cornice cornice- connection lion tion that by some strange freak ot of Cc unc Mr also happens to tobe tobe be Do a Los Angeles golfer Of course this would In no way color his feel teel- feelIngs Ings in the report he makes over the Oakmont incident TIlE C U- U LINEUP EUP Jut at present Call California Cornia ha has the tho amateur golf golt champion and the tha run run- up ncr in the op open n. n Also the cham- cham champion pion crac and team from tat tat- tOld lord Also Helen Wills WilL At the same time California I flOd I hrs D what nat amp lUp Y D y bring bIng to IS another guess Boston has interposed d a stymIe known as Jack h r ey who Is oun cr las r and a better boxer Od J It taIls fails New York villi croad In barrier known as Utne y There are many mas r mInds who dont don't b believe that wi wi over cuter get bet by Sharkey are arc others Jno b believe tile the wallop will von again agam It celt certainly Co does s. s But ho- ho much ot of the wallop D Dempsey carries nut be when lie wades into 1110 action again however cr I rang ral announces that he wm be pres present nt to see haL jat no d mouse b ba cast Into the ring when Dempsey enters In It was supposed ts tJ be y mosquito that did rot rou ot of the dIma At least this gs es one c t the reports sent out from tle tc Demp ey camp altar the fight It If a mosquito could coul do all this thInk what wreckage a mouse leave USING A MOUSE TRAP TItAr In referring to the Fr Far Western situation there Is also California and to reckon with In the regatta The East Is still bank banking In on the Navy And It if th the Navy sUps slips there will be Colum- Colum bla bIa Cornell Penn and nut But It is Mr Condon will take takeno takeno no chances He will make a per per- personal personal inspectIon ot of the California Callon a shell just before beCore the race to 10 see that no mouse Is hidden away lie He may even en s so far r t c to pl pI r is mouse trap at either end of the boat |