The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-26
/ ALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

BY JOE WILLIAMS
AIEW YORK, April 26.-Young
IN Horton Smith, the golfer, was
packing his steamer trunk when
/ called. He was jamming pair
OF brick red silk pajamas into
protesting crevice between other
sea0oing necessities. Il used TO
wear cotton night gowns down on
the farm" he laughed, "out
guess I've changed since I started
batting around the world with
Walter Hagen"
Young Mr. smith bAsn't hinged nuen,
n At ALI For all his s.ceess be IL SIN
a vide eyed. eager unaffected youngstet
Who won't be TWENTY-FIVE until next month
ne has just completed another remark
able season In the winter tournaments
during which he led all his brother pro-
fessIonaIs, thereby duplicating his success
Of = year ago when he first became
nationally prominent figure on the links
TIE sailed Friday night on the
L Il Europa, newest Of the ocean
Queens. and is headed for England
and his second whirl at the British
spen. Il can hardly wait TO get
On that boat TO see what 1t looks
IKE" he said with boyish enthusl-
asn. They tell me it's sweller
than any hotel in New York.
- h. all
trouhv embIematio Of the championship
Hagen won It a year ago and failing 70
defend handed IL 10 the Joplin youth
40 carry back. walter told me that
oould get so attached TO IL going over
that I wouldn't want to give it up and
that I Just naturally would have to win
it But / suspect he said that Just to
give me confidence"
CMITH fondled the stately looking
- urn with some tenderness. He |
ran his long, brOnzed fingers over
the engraved names-Willie Parks, !
Harry Vardon, Taylor, Braid, Ball,
Hutchinson, Hagen, Barnes and
Jones, names which trace practical |
" the whole history Of the game. |
wonder what chance an old 'coun- |
try boy like me has TO break into |
that company" he murmured.
Lad wear smith didn't do so veil. He |
finished far back with 3I3. Under the |
British rules he wasn't permitted to use |
hts steel shaft clubs. This year the rules |
have been changed and the metal sticks |
are acceptable. He thinks this may make |
= difference. II can't tell you why steel |
is better than wood in golf clubs. I'm not |
certain that IL Is but 1 always seem to |
plav better with my favorite clubs. Maybe |
It's what you fellows call psychology"
INCIDENTALLY he is taking over
i thirty steel shafts. His golf bag
Is q tremendous thing. 1t has the |
appearance of a cylindrical trunk. |
Fully packed it weighs sixty pounds. |
an probably have to get Camera
to csddy for me-" he remarked.
LOOKS like he's out of job any
way
smith agrees that Bobby Jones Is the
man the field has to shoot against in |
England. "You can't get an argument out |
Of me on Jones-He Just happens to be
the best golfer in the world and the only |
way anybody is ever going 10 beat him |
Is 10 catch him off his game"
Smith faced Jones twice in the south |
during the winter. finishing In front once /
and trailing the second time by thirteen |
strokes.
i've only mad about four years |
of real golf. while Jones has had |
much greater tournament expert
ence. 1 think this makes a differ |
ence. AS I see it, am still going |
to school and Jones is a post-grad- |
uate. My game can be improved all |
down the line, but his is perfect
You can be assured that II a flaming /
interest and applied energy will bring
about this Improvement. smith in due time |
win be a master golfer himself though |
Il would appear that. winning. fifteen
fairly important tournaments In as many |
months is not exactly mark of in
feziorlty
~OLF is about the only thing
NJ Smith is interested i'll. He
left the amateur ranks to join the |
professionals in order that he might |
nlingle with better players and i'm
prove his game. In the beginning /
don't believe the commercial pros
poets of professionalism carried any |
immediate lure for him. He played |
well among the amateurs; he con-
Guided he could play better among !
the professionals, SO with something I
OF the same spirit that moves a
chemist, an engineer or surgeon to |
1oftier fields of endeavor he made |
the change.
I'm not sorry I turned professional at
all" Smith tells you. I'm having more 1
fun out Of the game than I ever thought |