San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
ARIZONA GOLF CHAMP
LEARNED GOLF SWING.
HANDLING A PlCKAXE
Started Game After Work.
ing Hours in Mine;
Spurns Knickers.

Tucson. Ariz., April 12.-1f along
about 10 o'clock some balmy morning
next May a college golfer should tee
off in the Intercollegiate and one of
the gallery should say to his neighbor,
why, this cove Curry swings driver
rs if it were pick" this will be
your cue to reply, We'll, he came by
1t honestly; he used to work in cop
pei mine !"
For that is the status of Louis Car
los Curry of Bisbee, Ariz.. a junior
at his states university, and winner
OF ArizOna's first amateur golf cham
pionship.
Curry is determined now to try his
skill against the elite of the East and,
judging By the amazing improvement
in his game. the muffled smokers when
he tees off are more than likely to
grow TO cheers before the tournament
is over. Every day finds improvement
in his game. Only the other day he
set a new amateur record for the Tue
son course. He went out in 81 and
came back in 81. His 6S for the
course lowered by two strokes the
amateur record made by Hi Corbett
against Sarazen and Hutchison a year
ago.
All this indicates that Curry's best
golf is still ahead of him. for he has
been on the march forward ever since
as kid of he used to caddy in, Bis
bee and practice golf down the mar
row mining streets on his way to the
company store.
Last December he entered Arizona's
first state tournament, held on the
greenless. level. desert Tucson course
Golfers from thirteen clubs in the
state competed. Curry finally emerged
Arizona's first amateur champion by
defeated Ray j.. Hayes. a. rehabilitat-
ed soldier from Pinehurst. \. c.. and
former Penn ball player. 6 and ;. He
had pars or better in "a out of the
81 holes played up to the time the
match ended on the thirteenth green.
Currys rise has been slow, pro-
sale and steady. The only real trim
ming he has got since he started NOV
ing forward was last spring at FL
Paso in the southwestern. He lost
to DIR. James Vance in the semi-finals.
And right here Curry showed his
streak of temperament. He blamed
his defeat to Knockers, He had never
worn them before. He never has
since. He sticks to corduroys. the
kind he wears vacations when muck
ing in the Bisbee copper mines. the
kind he used to trudge four miles in
from the mine shaft after eight hard
hours swinging a pick to the skinned
nine-hole golf course Mt Warren. Ariz.
Try putting out fourteen tons nj
rock day in an Irish buggy. 1900
feet below the level of the town you
live in. and see IL you can think oi
anything but slumber at quitting time
| There was where the ambitious Mr.
Curry is different from most Of us. He
hurried off TO his funny little golf
course and practiced all the funny lit
re things that 60 into the making OF
champions.
OF course. that nick swinging made
IT little more difficult To get the
hang Of perfect golf swing. His
follow through wasn't quite ms grace
| tul, for instance. as Hutchison's. But
he was getting on. His scores showed
that.
| What chance will he have against
Bobby Jones and Dexter Cummings
and babies of that speed? Curry
shrugs his shoulders to such a query
and wipes his hands on his kingly
corduroys.
"Fm not meeting them tomorrow
III answer that when I meet them
| First i got to strike some paw dirt
to get some bucks to carry me east