| Show fellows tone Is polite hes major tourney type yes maybe said the dark haired little fellow the tone was polite per haps even a little wistful the reporter FA looked at the little fellow curiously i when you cover the major golf tournaments you often run across men and women whom you never will meet again they come in to so hopefully and depart so out but at least this little fel tony Manero lows low clothes clothe 8 still t I 1 I 1 I 1 hung in his locker and so 0 o he was not out of the tournament entirely the reporter decided that a chance kind word might not hurt burl most people like to talk when they have been going through events such as these he glanced at the group ot of stars do any good yourself he be asked yes oyes 11 the dark little man had finished dressing now and was turning away pretty good he added as he be gently closed the locker door the reporter followed him out ehos that guy guya he asked a golf writer the writer did not know neither did a second or a third oh said a fourth him hes oh hell bell I 1 remember his name now its tony manero now that the former westchester caddy whom few people knew Is national open golf champion I 1 have bare been wondering about this game in which he performs even la in a year when italians have been achieving sports distinction far out of the ordinary his smashing of both tile the british and amerlean american records Is rated a real dark horse triumph yet somehow I 1 doubt whether it Is entirely that true enough sam parks who stunned the experts by winning a year ago was eliminated recently yet golf Is bound by far more rigid standards of probability than most other games so it seems that even though a runyan or a laffoon might well be ahead of a hundred others on total scores for a years play it becomes close to impossible now to do any expert picking on a lone event glance at the records you will discover that the thirty one year old tony has been playing excellent golf for the last seven seasons save that the sport Is so teeming with stars his record might have placed him up with the leaders from the start of ony ny expert prediction |
