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Show Gene Sarazen Gives Tip to British Golf Stars While eminent American professional profes-sional golfers were lu England In quest of the open championship which, as ull know, Walter Hagrn won some of the most serious critics of golf on the other side went to school; that Is to say. they went to the shore hotel at Sandwich where the Americans were staying and sat at the feet of the musters of the gan;3. One of these American masters stated that he does not know how much the English learned, but that certainly they got a lot of Informs tlon. Gone Sarazen made a tremendous bit with a very sage remark, which spread throughout England In the short tinie that elapsed between the close of the open and the sailing of the Yankee mercennrl-.-s for home. -The difference between English nnd American golf." sniJ Sarazen, "is this: When a player comes to the front In your country the first question ques-tion you ask Is "How far can he drive?' The first thing we want to know about a new American star Is What kind of a putter Is he?'" That was nil Gene said, but evidently evi-dently he had said all that was necessary. neces-sary. The English decided, by Jove, that he had hit the nail on the head, and it would not be ot all surprising If the long game as a compelling subject sub-ject of conversation and practical demonstration dem-onstration in England pave way to the delicate art of putting. |