Evening star., 1937-08-07
FINDS CARD GAME
IS BETTER PAYING
Crack Popper-0ff Refuses
to Be Censored by Firm
He Represented.
BY W. r. McCALLJM.

1ILi1 WILLIAM
n HORN Of the lO-gallon
v v hat, the popping off" pro-
pensities and darned good
golfer, has given up serious golf to
take up serious bridge. Wild William.
who learned golf AS a caddie master
at Chicago club and learned bridge
committing between his home and his
Job. Is one Of Americas better bridge
experts and makes more money out
Of his bridge than out of his golf.
Because Williams golf employers "a
louisville manufacturing OUTFIT OBJ
Iected to his devotion to cards and
likewise suggested that they be per-
mltted to censor his public utterances,
Wild William told EN- to go take
running leap. redoubled in spades and
from henceforth he'll get along che
hopes between his golf and his bridge
without any paid connection.
High Ranking Pepper
WILD BILL has attained a high
ranking nationally as one of our
better poppers-off on golf and allied
subjects. Newspaper men always could
find colorful and verbose copy in Bill
who has original ideas on almost any
subject touching on golf There WAS
the incident in Texas a few years ago
when Bill, sitting in an apple tree,
opined loudly that Bobby Cruckshank
couldn't make a certain putt. Bobby
didn't miss it and it aroused certain
recriminations. with Bill apologizng
He's been in hot water so many times
that he even resembles a Well-boiled
lobster
Now Bill has something when he
turns to contract bridge as means
of earning a livelihood. He did fairly
well with his golf but. if you can be-
lleve his brother golf pros, Wild VIII
liam is better as a bridge player than
as golfer. He never has figured in
any of those wildly expensive bridge
games, such as the one on Long Island
not too many years ago when a Wash
ington man won $4,000, at So point.
but Bill has won as high as SO 800 in
one game. And he didn't get paid
He did win and collect S7OO in one
sitting, which probably is far better
than he would do in a golf tourna-
ment. He is much sought after as
bridge partner and is well known at
the clubs where they play bridge for
fairly high stakes,
Witty Is Friend in Need.
CWEET WILLIAM is not the kind
of man to have his style cramped
IN any way. Neither his bridge play
ing nor his public utterances can
come under the censorship of any man
or group Of men, Bill holds. Which
Is the reason he has cut loose from his
golf connection and will free lance at
both golf and bridge Nor is Bill anv
sweet pea at golf He went to the
semi final of the P. G. A. champion
ship last year equipped with a trick
putter, lot of nerve and some good
shots. He led in the recent county
fair and circus which they dubbed the
Chicago open Cfor one roundD. and
he's played and won money in all the
important tournaments over the land.
1t Is bit unusual for golf pro to
ehrn bridge pro. But then you'd ex-
pect something unusual from Bill.
He's that kind of guy.
Three years ago Bill came to New
York, out of job, and finding the
bridge pickings little lean. He went
TO Witty Cox, who then had the Dvker
Beach concessions. Wifi gave him a
Job and for a season or 20 Bill taught
golf ON the public links Then
wave Of prosperity hit the land. Bill
got golf contract, the bridge pick
ines picked up and all was lake for
Wild william.