Evening star., 1932-05-17
LITTLE ARGENTINE
BRILLIANT PLAYER
Twice Near British Crown.
Hagen Set Upon Winning
Major Title.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

@HICAGO, May 17.-Jose
Jurado, Argentina's great
" est golfer, is expected to
make his often-deferred
visit to the United States this
Summer. He will come to play in
the national open championship
at Winged Foot, and then. one
hears, will go a-journeying on
an exhibition tour with Walter
Hagen.
Jurado, in the national open, will
give that field the famboyant touch it
lacked last year with the Emperor Jones
in the galleries. Short, slender, smiling.
the Argentinian is the best golfer that
ever came from south of the equator
and one of the best playing the game
today. A fine shot maker and capable
of unsurpassed rounds, Jose has enough
Iberian volatility to make his play un-
certain and fraught with interest.
With little heraldry, Jose made his
international debut in the British open
at Sandwich four years ago. Over that
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mendous blind holes, where fine golfers
often score in the sos, the unknown
little Argentine turned in qualifying
round of So and at the end of the first
SO holes of the championship led the
field with las. Then he faded.
LIE appeared again at Carnoustie.
i / where the British open was played
last year. There his play was ssill
more commanding and he was leading
the field with only few holes to go
when the many misfortunes OF golf
overwhelmed him and hef finished one
stroke behind Tommy Armour, the
winner.
Jurado, so the story goes, learned his
golf from Mungo Park, who was British
open champion in 1874. After his
championship, Park decided to go ad-
venturRTIg and his trail led to per-
manA1lt residence in the Argentine.
Like a true Scot his golf clubs always
accompanied him and he introduced
the game to the Pampas. Jurado was
one Of his caddies and wheli the boy
showed keen interest and aptitude for
the game, Park undertook to become
his teacher.
Jurado. at Winged Foot, would afford
the United States Golf Association op-
portunity for fine bit Of Barnum- like
shoWmanship A threesome composed
of Jurado, Tom Miaymoto, the jap
anese champion, and Walter Hagen.
who has won SO championships, large
and small, would be an unexcelled gal
lery attraction.
CTRANGE, indeed, If the U. S. G. A.
- could conveniently pull the names
of those three players from the hat
when the qualifying pairings are being
made.
Miaymoto. who will compete in the
British open at Princes and then re-
turn to the United States, is playing
under the aegis of the imperial gov
ernment of Japan, that is nightly in
terested in golf So much interested
that it several times invited Bobby
jones to Nippon and even offered him
battleship for transport. The presence
CT Jurado, Miaymoto and perhaps a
Briton or two at Winged Foot will give
the national open its greatest interna-
tional fair.
YYyALTER HAGEN's decision to play
wv in the British open was a bit late
in coming. but was not unexpected
The old Haig wants to rehabilitate him
self as a golf attraction and needs a
major championship or two as tonic.
He will reach England in time to whet
his game, that needs only little serious
application of hard work, for the British
champic cnship and then make a quick
dash back to winged foot. Hagen seri-
ously hopes to capture one of the ma
tional opens this Summer. But, win or
lose, he will again offer himself as the
premier attraction Of the game to the
f@irways Of the United States.