Evening star., 1937-12-27

IN the game. even though hes been Q
pro only little more than Q years
He has been = top Fighter and he'i
played many . match with the tor
men Of the game. but for him ths
leaders II today are like well-trained
workmen, instead Of the colorful per
formers Of . few years back.
NOU'VE gotta like that Sammy
Snead," says Houghton. up at
Detroit last June sorta felt as If ]
could help Sammy. got one Of those
fatherly yens we all get for youngster
Just coming up and I went to Sammy
ont on the putting green and talked to
him about the open championship
Don't get me wrong on this. I really
felt I could help him Sam told me
without any idea Of Dragging that he
felt he Was in the groove and that he
could win the tournament. Said he
thought he'd finish one-two. Well, he
did Just that.
Matter Of fact. he played the hest
golf in the tournament for his 2s3,
but Guldahl was just too good.
Sammy Is swell boy and . great
golfer. He always was. Remember
down at Hot Springs In 1885 when
he shot SO in the Hot Springs open
that year? But give Sam the color
Of Hagen and he'd be one Of the big
gest drawing cards we've ever seen
Give him a little of that sarasen fire
and dash and he'd pull EN- in at the
gate. The point is these youngsters
don't get In trouble. and you know
that was the fun watching Hagen.
He never was happy playing from
the fairway. He'd rather pound 'em
from the rough. and the tougher the
lie the better he liked it.
\ L CLAIMS there's real amateur
coming along around Washington
in the person Of Billy (Snooks)
Houghtnn. his 22-year-old brother.
who holds the championship of the
Capital Golf and Country Club (for-
merly Bannockburn). II played nine
holes with him the other day" says
AL. "Gave him 2 up and shot ?5
and he licked me even. He holed 50
many long puts he had me dizzy and
he played some shots that opened my
eyes At the seventh he hooked MS
tee shot. leaving him a very tough one
to the green around q corner at the
left.
He hooked that ball right around
the trees to the middle Of the green
and won the hole.
They don't make shots Like that
without knowing what the game is al
about"
Billy started his golf AZ AIS assist.
ant at Kenwood four years ago. Some
time back he applied for reinstate.
ment as an amateur, and now he's q
full fledged Simon pure you Art
going to hear more from that kid ir
the tournaments in future years.
says Brother Al. Going back a few
years, it hasn't been so long ago thai
AL himself. was playing amateur gol1
and winning simon-pure tournaments
around Washington. He's been q pre-
q little less than 10 years.
calvert D1CKEY has started
~ something over at Washington
He usually does. And he can finish
it, too. Try to get balanced
match with him some day.
Dickeys latest wrinkle Is 10 con-
cede himself--and others-all puts
that his conscience tells him he can't
miss. Sometimes they get little
long, those conscience puts, but
Dickey is honest about It, Lefty Har-
rell and Ralph Fowler have q better
scheme. They concede everything
which isn't longer than the leather
on the putter shaft, and they'll keep
on doing 1t until some bright SOU
comes along with leather reaching
down TO the blade OF the club on 4
3s-tnch putteF.