The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-07-20
Thursday, July 20, 1889
Sport
Ways
By Chuck Rattle

oy MUCK fSaLne
Gullible CoIumnist Taken
In BY Sports Release
Finds Experts Are Oggle-eyed-
Mocassin Flower to Shave
Chewin Gum and 10000 Lakes
Franta Pygmied BY Fulton
Experts Stymied; Sunfish
Are Biting-A Little
COlumnist Finds Golfers
Are Charitable Lot
I get bang out of these public
ity releases that are barraged at
the weekly press each come-every-
seven-days. Because obviously
the publicity man at the other end
IS having a severe headache that
day and since it is waste of paper
to leave it only half-filled, the en-
tire sheet is filled with the great
est vacuum that ever fluttered into
the waste basket of a grass roots
press editor. These releases,
especially in the sports world, bring
out many interesting things, some
Of them perfectly amazing.
You may rightly inquire then
latter you have read this) why
use 1t? And i might stumble
around for an answer II I were
not honest. But even a column
list can have his of days, can't
he? So I'm lazy. But that's
a hOrrid word. Rather let us
say I'm not afraid of work. I
can lie right down along side
Of 1t. But to get on. ..
This release I have before me is
for the st. Paul open golf tourna-
ment July 27-30. It starts out with
the startling announcement that
Slamming Sammy Snead and John
ny Bulla, two of the most-talked-
of golfers of the season, may an
swer the questions every golf fan
Is asking when they play in the
s. p. 0. T. at Keller course. :.
The startling part Of the whole
thing is the announcement that the
two will play. AS the only reason
for such statement, they say both
have sent in their entry blanks this
week, indicating they will be on
hand when the nations great golf
ers rip off pars and brides in the
S. P. o. T. later this month" :.
These same boys are to replace
divots so ripped off as well, it's
rumored.
But the climax Is reached
with this: Here's the riddle
the experts ad golf fans alike
want Snead to answer: Will
Snead's blOw-up on an easy
hole-which cost him the Ma
tional Open championship rec
ently-make him a tougher
tournament player than ever be-
fore, or will 1t wreck his tour
nament career? -.
Now that's all very well for a
publicity release. But I'll bet the
last doughnut in my mothers cook
lie jar (we're funny that way. we
keep doughnuts, in the cookie jar)
that Slammin' Sammy would be
awfully angry if I waltzed up to
him on the 18th green and blandly
asked if he were going to blow-up
on that easy putt. Well, he
might not be sore but he wouldn't
like it. Funny, every time
see that word Snead I wanta.
Obviously the experts and the golf
fans will have to wait for Sammy
to answer that question.
Another thing, experts have
been cycling Snead's game close
ly since his famous muff, when
he took eight strokes on an
easy hole where five WOULD
have brought him the national
title" Who are these Og-
gle-eyed experts? Has anyone
ever determined. In sports an
expect Is a guy who Is SO cock
sure that the man he backs
will win that he bets every sin
gle bit of someone else'S space
and printers ink he Is allowed
(for which he is literally paid.
And Is further so sure of 1t that
two days before the great event
he will write his abb. =.
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I don't want to sound the cynic.
I'm really quite an easy-going chap,
guillible as a child and easily taken
in on the old come along. My faith