The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-13
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THE AGE OF FINE COLE

In every sport except golf the top form is fixed factor Of the sport. In boxing, baseball, football. the champions attain supremacy in their young teens or between teens ana 50 years. X very few boxers, like Mike Britton, are the excep- tions to the rule.
 One of the peculiarities of golf is that, while it is the most difficult of sports tol master, the masters at tain their best game at an age at or near So years. This would not in- dicate that stars in other sports would reach their best at similar age if they kept everlastingly at it, as the golfer does The real reason it takes the golfer longer. think, is because golf is half dozen games Tn one, all practleed on the basis of
 taking oxygen on the hoof' {. $ the eminent health authority. pr. Will liam Brady expresses it. This de- velops the players entire physical makeup gradually. In other en- deavors in athletics the player de- Velops particular parts of his body to an extraordinary degree. Golf does not over develop any muscle in the body. It gently stimulates the whole muScular system so that in time the golfer Is posse -sed of strong. wiry muscles and great en- during qualities He has to have these to carry on in a sport that requires several miles of "hoofing it' while he plays
 Applies to Pros
 These age figures apply to pro- fessional golfers rather than anna teurs. Our three reigning profess sonals are Hagen. Hutchinson, and Barnes. Day in and day out. no players in America can let loose a better game than these men are capable of Barnes and Hutchison are each about 35 years old. Hagen is just past 30, and undoubtedly his game will improve some in the next four or five years as 1t has im- proved in the past. Only :, few years back Hagen finished fifty fifth, think it was, in the British open championship. This year he won it.
 The amateurs come on with q terrific game at a younger age be- cause the amateur gives most Of his time to playing golf until he is sofae 25 years old Then business life ruts more and more claim upon his time. so that the amateurs berin to fade out of the picture by the tirae they attain 30.
 At this years national open cham pionshlp fin Chicago we had rare picture for one of the pages of sport history. Three superb golfers fousht it out and not until all of them had holed out at the last green was the championship disposed of. On the one hand was John Black of Cali fornia. who is past SC years of age He held the lead the first day and well into the second day. Against his game was the playing of Bobby Jcnes. the star youth from Atlanta, who is now about 20 years old. Geae Sarazen, the Pittsburg boy profess sional, 21 years old won the cham pionship by one stroke from both Jones and Black Bobby pulled one into the woods on the seventeenth fairway. and that one shot, costing him a stroke, was the narrow mar gin by which he missed a champion ship. or at least a tied score which would have given him another chance at the title.
 Blacks Great Game
 But John Black won as much ms the title when he demopstrated that one of his age could be capable of the fine game he brought to the meeting. I have always thought 1t lIIlill1k lO SSt SOtft yOdtii inv oCAtA7 come on with a great game. but Black gave me more of thrill. l think, tran any of the youngsters ever did. This player has introduced an entirely new element into golf. It makes me wonder what Hagen and may be doing when they are 50 years old. since these players will give pract aiy Al their time to the game for lae next Is to 20 years.
 We hear a good deal of { sc1ssien after each open championsl ay to whether 72 holes of medal 2y ce IT. stitute fair test for the tfia ta- the test is fair IT cha are won by one rqsf not unusual. Baseball gamei e TuN by one score. by one hit. Eg1 the man who can make four rrAF4s pr near perfect shooting wins Aa~ tf~ serves to win. The man nf 4as just short of il by one n-a at fails at the time when he should nDs fail The golf champion makes .s0 straight and true golf shots at tirae when they are supposed to be straight and true. If he falters. and another man doesn't. falter. he loses.
 All told. 72 holes of medal play seem fair enough for all. I don't know how it could be improved upon and I certainly have had opportunity 10 study 1t a lot