DETROIT TIMES, JULY 18, 1942 PAGE 9 Haeen Wants Ryder Victory to Show Dad TRAPS ON OAKLAND HILLS NINTH TAKE A BEATING AS PROS PREPARE FOR CUP MATCH
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Sarazen Says Dairying Gasoline Rationing Has ?®W9m® r * '~‘>CJPti?? , KWKTMBfej v / ; Is Fine, But He's Stopped It in East, :/.' "^^. 'VW '_ Fearful for Golf Little Squire Says PRAISE FOR RUSSELL GXAU
Gene Sarazen, the Squire of Valley Ridge Farm In the sing- ing hills near Brookfield Center, Conn., reports the milk business wm mm#**"- X good but is fearful for golf. -V \ Ik &~'¦ - vra*..--¦¦¦£' "Golf is In for tough times,’* the always frank Squire Sarazen explained. **lt la dead in the Kast. Gas rationing did that. Yon may get It out here.*' The squire was aaked about the Ryder Cup matches, in which he is playing at Oakland Hills Country Club today and tomorrow. “The Ryder Cup matches will be played just as long as
Russell Gnan ran raise the money he does,’* declared Sarazen. '• *** v# •** j "H’hat Gnau does here in Detroit couldn't be done any place f else and I doubt If there is another Detroiter, with all due respect to your fine citizens here, who could do the same.** iiiWwß dJ v .y9Br4niHH Sarazen reports that he sold his public course at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and that the milk business and a Detroit defense plant in which he has financial a interest claim most of his attention. . v “Of course I can find time to play in these cup event*,’* Sarazen said. “They are for a great cause. (The receipts of the matches at Oakland Hills this year will go to the Red (Proas. About $15,000 was raised at the first event of the kind at Oakland Hills two years ago, SIB,OOO at Detroit Club last year and Gnau and helpers hope to boost the total to over $20,000 this year.) Sarazen was captain of the Challengers, who lost to the Ryder Cup team at Oakland Hills in 1940. “It was the material,’’ Sarazen explained.• "because our ¦' "v> . a team had a good captain, much smarter, perhaps than the cap- *'¦?- tain of the other team, whose name escapes me.” (Walter Hagen captained the cup team.) The friendly Sarazen-Hagen feud is of long standing and of the interesting sidelights of golf. They were the first to be named to golfs Hall of Fame. C**nerofessionals *A ¦ o r&JfS&iL
•ft, , Gene 1s Pros' Dean in Point of Service > *ms Vm- ' v- Affr*/ fr Sarazen is the dean of America s active golf professionals ft ,?. .%£mik*L in point of service, though at 40 he is a year younger than Craig Wood, the National Open champion, who is captain of the cup team, in which Gene is enrolled this week-end. BI N IIOi.AN BLASTS OIT OF NINTH HOLE TRAP NOW HOGAN WATCHES SAMMY BYRD BLASTING CHICK H VRBERT PRACTICES A CHIP SHOT Aj a stripling of 20, Gene stunned the veterans at Skokie ('Chicago in 1922 when he unleashed a 68 on the last round to nose out Bobby Jones. Kxaotly 10 years later. Sarazen repeated Sick Father Spurs Miss Row Wins Title his National Open triumph at Fresh Meadow. In 1932. the McNair Traded 15,000 Handicap squire also captured the British Open title at Sandwich with a accord-smashing 283. Hagen to Leadership ami Loses 5 Pounds Notwithstanding his brilliant victories at medal golf. Sarazen By M. F. DRUKENBROD Big Field Lost Twelve pounds during Wall, a splendid golfer. has played has been player at He Has always a match heart. thrice won the For Jack Wilson* the Women's in this tournament and the fourth National PGA. During his more than 20 years of Because his* 81-year-old father, the situation immediately and fig- yesterday’s final of tournament golf tournament at Plum time she returned home without Tigers with Billy seriously in Rochester, N. Y., ured it was his son's duty to be By LEWIS H. WALTER State golf, Sarazen has never dodged a match-play challenge. The will stick ill the Her setback as their regular every group of men, no back in Detroit. Hollow. championship. Sarazen yesterday played a round with Corp. Vic Hitchcock short- believes Best Reward, another of those departed pounds this time was especially disap- tune-up stop. today, matter expert they may be. ’’Undoubtedly they’re great Five of those It seemed clear fol- how> horses on the famed Idle to pointing. Her brother Bob, who Ghezzi, Jim Turnesa and Wood, and expressed himself pleased by leader, Walter golfers, son," senior bred belonged Marjorie Row. the tall lowing announcement General should have a said the to was commissioned a lieu- that Erie at today Hagen, "but the greatest men Hour Farm of Col. E. R. Bradley, Red, Run jjirl. the other.seven second with the course. Manager Jack Zeller Hagen was Oakland Hills tenant a few days ago at* Fort McNair, utility infielder, had been to Challengers in the murt have a leader." has run once at the Detroit Mary Afitnes wall of Menominee. “They'll find Oakland Hills plenty tough enough,” Sara- direct his Just complaining Benning, is back in Menominee Washington return for opening their match The didn’t to Miss Row isn't be- predicted. sent to in of two-day senior Hagen have race track. That was just enough champion- for a brief visit with her and their zen pitcher Wilson. the Ryder Cup team. say any more. Walter knew his cause she has the state Jack with to establish him as the probable show her pound- father. With the tees pushed back, the challengers will be shooting McNair started the season at Noting an improvement in his father wanted him to return here ship to for lost 3-year-old age. Wall. 5 and over a course that measures close to 7,000 yards. shortstop for the Tigers but fathers condition, Walter, who for the big match. An d the son re- favorite over 17 rivals She defeated Miss BRILLIANT RECOVERIES reg- a few ago, his in $5,000 Sport of Han- 4. in their 36-hole final in the Hitchcock has been playing was called east days solved then and there he’d do the Although Miss Row won the aft- Fans Go for the Lonq Drivers ularly than two months. yesterday to leave best just what his blistering heat. for more prepared take to prove himself dicap at the Fair Grounds this Upper ernoon second to become three up, The wTiter traveled nine holes behind a threesome that McNair was hitting .164. He came return match figured he only The case of the Peninsula and here for this father was—not a afternoon. harrowing. that lead could easily have been included Jimmy Thomson, Ben Hogan Sam Byrd, and along to th® Tigers from the Chicago which involves the greatest array leader hut a capable one. In other a of Brad- miss was more She and Best Reward is son more than those seven pounds. wiped out on the next few holes White Sox at the dose of Ihe 1940 of professional golfers in the coun- words, Hagen wants to win this ley's Balladier. present owmer. lost with William A. Ryan and Judge Bartlett, who were also in the His taxing heat but for two brilliant recoveries she season but he s|>ent mosl of last try. one for his father as well as him- Max Wexler of Cleveland, and The deprived her of gallery, marveled at Thomson's thunderous tec shots. game in the after- made. She holed a chip on the year at Buffalo, where he had a self. trainer Henri Torriente went East, her short skill If you fans, FATHER’S ADVICE noon and that was had. While this third to win a hole that seemed don’t think golf fans, like baseball appreciate big year, hitting .357. i looked Best Reward over and pur- BAC K YESTERDAY necessarily beat her, it did lost. And she gained a half on the old sockeroo. you should have heard the enthusiastic comments Wilson sjicnt seven seasons with The Haig began by informing chased him several weeks ago. didn't hasten her defeat. fifth by blasting from a trap to of Ryan and Bartlett, both long follow’ers of golf. the Red Sox before being traded the father of the match, and said The Challengers’ captain arrived They started him first July 10 in to Washington last winter. His that he was directing a dif- at within nine feet of the cup and of nearly 300 yards on the first hole. Thom- while Oakland Hills late yesterday the Godolphin Handicap and Best 36 HOLES UNUSUAL sinking the putt. She lost the With a drive lifetime major league record is 68 team this time, his players afternoon, time to watch some home. ferent in Reward cantered He of times, through son waste any time giving Ryan and the Judge, and th** and defeat*. A with a good coming This is one the few If fourth a shot out of didn't victories 72 right were fine golfers of his players down the showed enough to stamp himself bounds. well, \euth a good fa«*t hall, he to The father practice not the only time, that there has rest of us as a thrill. Jimmy had an easy No. 6 to the hander chance wm. sensed stretch in «heir final as one of the best 3-year-olds in Five down at the twenty-sev- will r>*» its<*d as a relief pitcher. rounds and to select his lineup training been a 36-hole final in this tour- green. He pulled his tee shot into the rough on the second hole for here. Racing Secretary opposed to enth, Miss Wall passed up good Zeller said. today's has assigned nament. and those the a but again reached the green with a No. 6. On the short third—- best hall matches. Charles Henry him for will use chance to win the twenty-eighth, McNair will probably become a Today's feature engagement pits pounds. longer matches women TO NATS top weight of 119 next. got -200 yards, if our memory' isn't faulty, all three used a No. 3. regular wiih the la'-t place Sena- GOES Lawson Little and Harry Cooper the experiences of yesterday’s then lost the She only LARGE FIELD arguments that there one of them before the Thomson w as hole high to the left of the pin. Hogan ran over tors. who have rookies all over of the Challengers against those finalists as bark r should he a law against them. match ended on the thirty-second, green. On this hole Byrd missed a deuce when 40-foot the infield McNair is 32 years old two terrific Texans. Jimmy Dema- This run of six furlongs may hi* and Wilson 30. Miss Row. who is 20 years old A fine birdie three gave her the putt curled around the hole. ret of Plum Hollow and Ben draw the largest field in the his- Michigan State, thirty-first. Technically, the transaction was tory and a junior at Hogan. This match will draw of the track inasmuch as 18 championships. Miss Row had On the fourth hole. Thomson uncorked another fine drive, not a trade, since trading is pro- major today's Largest this now holds two She an 82