The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-10
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 Sports Parade
py HENRY MeLEMoRE

By HENRY MeLEMoRE HUnlteA Press Stan CoFrespondent)
 Miami, Tia, Feb. io-(UP)-Tour gears ago come June, Herman Berg, \ araiFs merchant of Minneapolis, maW0d the handles of several of his old golf clubs and handed them 10 hls iS year old daughter, Patty, with the fatheriy advice that per- haps golf was c better game Tor c growing girl than football and base' bail.
 Real Progress
 Patty. Tod.haired, freekled, and anub.Fosed, took the rusty old clubs and. with on "Okay, Pop" went to york, In three months she waS c montender in the Minneapolis ehafns pionsh!p. Tn three years August, aD9D) she carried Mrs. dienn& Col: iet Ware to 34 holes in the final Eound of the womel's national championship. Tn the past two Ynajor Fiorida championships, des weeks Patty, ct i7, has won the two foating Mrs. Maureen oreutt Crews an one, and Marion Miley in the pther.
 The top-fiight men professionals who have seen her (johnny Revolta and dene eaFagen are tWo) swear sic has the s0undegt game Of any woman player in the country, and with a year or SO more of experience viii dominate her field with on iron hand.
 But this is not c story about Pat- ey, or her pfowess as . halfbaek, ehortstop and speed skater, before ehe took Up golf. This is 6 story Of MT, Herman Berg and . little toy ecx-teFrier dog named Tuxedo, and the misery MT. Berg brought to the tW oof them when he sawed 0R the handles of those golf clubs and handed them to c freckle-faced kid of i3.
 Since Patty became Q champion player. Mir. Berg cannot bear to fol- low in the gallery that watches her every match. Neither can no bear to stay away. So he has worked out . compromise that works tor- lures on both him and Tuxedo. with Tuxedo held tightly under his arm, Mir. Berg watches Patty from two or three fairways away. On one hole he will wacth from 6 bridge, hundreds of yards distant. On an- other hell chamber up the side Of . bunker and endeavor to interpret the shouts which come from two or three Sairways away. Unable to ap- nFoximate the score of the match, MT. Berg gallops about asking any and everybody how it is coming along.
 He never gives . hint as to his andentity, but clothes t behind such questions as:
 How is the little girl doing?" and rrs Miss Berg playing well todayS"
 Happy
 The answers he gets always re- suit in hardship for Tuxedo. For if Alr. Berg is told that Miss Berg" dust won the last hole and is two Tp. he gives Tuxedo c squeeze that brings yelps from the tiny black and white fellow. If he ist old that Patty just three-putted and is one down, Tuxedo gets 6 jerk that all but cracks his ribs. Tn Q close 18-hole match Mir. Berg runs the entire gamut of human emotions. And at the finish is weak with exhaustion. Almost as weak, in fact, as poor Tuxedo, who, at the en dof Patty's eemi-finai round match in the Miami Biltmore tournament which saw her carried to the final green by Mrs. Opal Hill, collapsed completely when MT. Berg sat him down. He had been squeezed to pulp by his nervous master.
 MT. Berg, who has summoned up enough courage to follow her daughters play from the gallery, is frank to admit that she doesn't know whether her husband will stave off nervous breakdown until Patty wins Q nationa little.
 "He was pretty nervous the night Patty was born," she said, "but evi- dently he was just precticing up for the time when she became Q golfer" fcopyright, 1886, by United press)