Evening star., 1932-03-02
NEW STARS SHINE
IN WINTER MEETS
Tourney Results Indicate
Reign of Old Guard on Links
Is Near End.
BY w. r.. McCALLUM.

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L Winter by a group Of young
stars rapidly ascending the
stairs to the throne long occupied
by the stars of other years-the
HagenS, SaraZenS and Armours.
With the Florida season almost
over and only one important tour
nament remaining to be played
in the land of sunshine, the old
guard will have to do tall lot OF
winning to overcome the lead
piled up by Fred Morrison, Ralph
Guldahl and Paul Runyan, the
latter the winner of the Tampa
open, a match play event similar
to the P. G. A. championship.
Sarazan won the New Orleans open,
Willie MacFarlane one of the other big
tournaments and Billy Burke has Just
won the West Coast open on his home
course at Bellair, but in the main the
winning of the bigger events in Cali
fornia, Texas and Florida has gone to
the younger men, less well known than
the so-called big shots of the game.
Tommy Armour won a tourney at
Miami early in the season, but did not
play in the recent tournaments on the
West Coast, nor did he go on the Cali
fornia-Texas tour.
Morrison Big Winner.
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money winners of the Winter tour with
the big lump of $4,000, which he won
at Aqua Caliente, and the few dollars
he picked up in other Journeys on the
Pacific Coast Sarazen Is not far back,
for he won the New Orleans event. But
Clarence Clark of New Jersey won the
Texas open and Runyan won at Tampa,
while SaraZen, Hagen and the other
accepted stars trailed. There remains
on the Florida schedule only the Miami
Biltmore tourney with total prize money
of $4,000 to be played week hence,
and it is quite likely that one OF the
fast-stepping youngsters Will move up
to the top in that event.
The pros have a saying that golI
games tempered on the Winter tour are
more than likely to figure extensively in
the larger events held in the North
during the Summer 1t Is true that
nearly all the winning pros started
winning in the South before they came
North to win major championships.
Sarazen started winning Southern
Journeys back in 1921, before he won
the national open in 1882. Tommy
Armour turned pro in 1924 and was
the second money winner on the South
ern jaunt that Winter, following up
with victory in the national open OF
Nn Hinopct
sation of the Winter season OF 1929
1880. has not yet won a national crown
but his success in the South forecasts
for him a national Open not so far
away.
Johnny Farrell won a lot OF South
ern tournaments before he won the
open in 1sz8s&e Essit not possible that
the success OF Morrison, Guldahl, Run
yam and Clark forecasts FOR them con-
tinued success In the larger events IN
the North this. year just as it did Tor
Sarazen, Smith, Armour and Farrell?
Creavy Capable Golfer.
Tom Creavy, the young Albany lad
who won the P. G.. A. championship
last Fall, has not gone far on the
Winter jaunt, but he Is capable OF
putting on a burst of speed that may
win him another national title this
year.
Of the older crowd Armour, Sarazen,
Farrell and Horton Smith still go along
winning, but the younger men are
close on their heels. Smith, OF course,
has been out Of competitive go1 since
he sustained an accident to his hand IN
San Francisco back in December. he
will win the open some day soon.
The present Winter has produceo
the winning list IN
professional golf than any other sea
son, which makes it certain that the
coming Summer will see better COM
petition among the pros. than ever De-
fore.
Hagen, the old master, is just as
good as ever before from tee TO green,
but his putting touch has not come
back.
THE public courses will not be closed
i this year for repairs and rehabili-
tation. So open has been the VIM
ter that the courses have been in capital
shape all during the past three months
and so those in charge of the layouts
at East Potomac Park and Rock Greek
Park have decided not to close the
courses for repairs. For many Winters
the two public courses have been closed
during most of February and early
March to permit Workrpen TO resoo tees,
reface the bunkers and generally DO
the cleaning-up work that Is necessary
on layouts which have such heavy play
and suffer from Winter Of ordinary
severity.
But this year there has been no snow,
and virtually no freezing weather and
the courses in consequence have not
suffered at all. The necessary repairs
can be made while the courses are
open and the golfers will not be de-
prived of their chance for play. For
many Winters, while the larger courses
were closed the only layout available
for play was the short course in West
Potomac Park.
The persistent Jack McCarron who
probably plays golf as often as any
amateur around the Capital, has at last
arrived at his go,fng dream. Just a
few days ago McCarron played the Con-
gressional Country Club course in rs
strokes-his lowest score to date and
a score only 2 above par-and now he
hopes the improvement in his game
will remain through the year. Sandy
Armour, the club pro at Congressional
was playing with him on the day he
NJ the rs and saw McCarron COM
plctely upset the apple cart by going far
better than his handicap rates him.