Evening star., 1934-08-14

mentors AlOhA
the Quaker City. When 1T will come
off, if it does, is up to the boys them
selves, but we suspect that Al has an
ulterior motive. The young man IS
good and he knows it, so he wants
another crack at Denny Shute, the
tall Philadelphia who bumped him
off in the P. G. A. just when Al was
getting up a good head OF steam ana
moving into high gear for the last lap
Kenwood IndecisiOn Unreasonable.
VT MAY be pulled off just prior to
the National Capital open tour
ney at Kenwood, which, by the
way, is Just about to have date set
tied on it after some weeks OF inoe-
cision. Kenwood has a quaint way
of waiting for Pinehurst to set the
dates for its mid-South tourney, on
the premise that the field at the local
club will not be so good unless the
bows have the added spur Of the
Pinehust affair to bring them toward
this section.
Into the situation pops the rotund
figure of Bob Harlow, tournament
director for the Professional Golfers
Association, who wants Kenwood to
hold its tourney either late In Octo-
Der or early in November, following
a $4,000 affair at Louisville in Octo-
Der. So the whole matter of the date
is I'D in the air. It probably will SIM
mer down to the point where Ken
wood has the same old dates OF about
November 10 and IL, time OF year
when the weather m4n usually turns
loose his first blast of Winter. Why
Kenwood doesn't 60 on and hold its
golf tournament without waiting on
Pinehurst always has been puzzle
to us. The tournament is big enough
and good enough to stand on its own
feet, but year after year they wait
for Pinehurjt. They would get the
same good field a week earlier or a
week later, for the boys who play
tournament golf are not doing much
late in October or early or late in No
venber, but play golf anyhow.
Runyan Nurses Eyesight.
TAI COMES back brimming with
~ notions about the grimness and
seriousness of tournament play.
His latest wrinkle, contributed to him
by Paul Runyan, is that you must
have exceptionally good eyes to hole
those tricky 8-foot puts on which
the winning of a tournament often
depends. Runyan had AL out on the
putting green for a half hour at
Rochester and told him that he fire.
quently consults an oculist to see
that his eyes are in good working con-
dition. He told Houghton that the
man with ordinary eyes cannot see
rolls or unusual grass conditions on
fairly short putt and that the man
with good eyes is the man who holes
more than his share of the tricky
ones. So AL has something else to
worry him now.
Personally we never have found
anything wrong with the Houghton
eyesight. He can see the pin from
far enough away. The Runyan plan
is another evidence of the lengths to
which the top tournament players go
to win. 1t used to be that they
eschewed the gentle and sometimes
ribald art Of drinking. That was back
in the olden, golden days when many
a tournament competitor stepped out
on the first tee with brain buzzing
with purple elephants and dizzy pin
wheels. The slick young athletes OF
the modern school stopped all that
when they passed up drinking be-
cause it slowed them up ard now we
have our professional athletes with
rubbers, trainers and wonder of won
ders oculists. Take heed. you buffers
When you miss putt it may be your
eyes.