Show aa G T ephe HE ancient and honorable game gam of f golf Is looking for a stat standout Wout one who can be labeled the champ so far no such person has propped himself against the skyline of fame sta starting arting with the los angeles angel es open the winners of this years tournaments have bwy el i been ben hogan v j ii i i t L n I 1 0 y d mangrum I 1 ill bobby B 0 b b y locke L 0 c k e f D dutch u t c h harrlson harrison 4 jimmy demaret and sammy snead close up and threatening we have had skip alexander dick metz johnny palmer and several others who sam snead have ripped the hide ol off 01 par to no avail with winners beating the old man by 15 or 10 5 strakes one of the thrills was nas to 0 o find snead locating a long lost putt ing touch which brought him the texas open title in for the 72 holes just 20 under par wherever he finishes snead still carries a big gallery it having av the type of swing big galleries 00 love oo to watch full and free with complete lack of effort snead hogan demaret and locke are re the gallery favorites being possessed to a large degree degree 0 of f that hat indefinable ingredient known know n as color color is something the galleries or the crowds like something with a definite human appeal there must be better definitions but well let you think them up ruth and dempsey had it to a greater degree than anyone else locke is playing as well as he did last year but so far he been able to leave the pack behind the pros will all be in florida at an early date and from florida the trek will be into the carolinas Car ounas and then to augusta ga for the masters which should be a nectarine full of juice this season with so many possible winners playing over a championship course keep Sivi nging recently we visited here and there with a number of leading professional fess ional golfers the idea was to milk them of any helpful advice that might remove a few strokes from the scores of any readers here was the consensus the idea Is to keep swinging to swing every eiery club many golfers seem to think the game Is divided into three elements wooden club play iron play and putting this true every golf stroke should be and mu must st be a swinging motion you certainly swing your wooden clubs many figure the iron shot is a hit it any iron you use must be a swing this Is also true of putting you must swing the putter not use it to stab or jab watch horton smith or locke putt the trouble most bad putters have Is that they dont swing the putting blade you can get twice as much power from a swing as you can with a hit or a punch this advice came from such golfers as locke hogan demaret and snead snead has been swinging every club except his putter he was jabbing and stabbing with this moneymaking blade until he hit san antonio where he started a smooth swing in motion when you get the p putten miseries you are a lost soul snead told me on a yard hole he had just driven more than yards over a baked out terrain his approach with a wedge had stopped eight feet from the cup his first pu putt t ran three feet past and he blew the next one a five in place lace I 1 of a probable shat three what sammy meant by the putt Sn miseries the toughest part of a big golf tournament one veteran said Is still trying to concentrate through 72 holes there are times when it Is hard enough to concentrate on one hole ethics in m boxing there Is one ring division that should have set any number of records in place of cracking up tip this is the middleweight bunch it was discovered that rocky graziano Graz tano acting af as a soldier had deserted the army serving 8 or 10 months for this escapade it also was charged that he had boasted of breaking out of service and earning ma many ny dollars which he did As tar far as graliano Gr ariano is concerned the main argument has been along two lines no 1 I granted he was guilty which he was he has served his sentence and has paid the laws penalty that enough why punish him further no 2 A war ft deserter should not be allowed to make a ma COO killing by running away ill illis penalty should have been death before a firing squad or at least 10 years in stir A weak minded court let him off too easily it many young men find in time of war you can desert and come bark back for a clean up p why king hine around |