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committees hearings yesterday, at which high army and navy officials testified, would be made available to the press as soon as 1t is completed, either today or tomorrow. He esti- mated that about 40 per cent" of the testimony was confidential and would be deleted.
 Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson, Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of naval operations; Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army air corps, and Capt. Sydney M. Kraus, naval expert, assigned to aid the French air mission, appeared ct yesterdays hearing.
 It was learned that the commit tee questioned them about Q joint war-navy department order In Au- gust, 1888, prohibiting foreigners from inspecting planes built under U. s. military specifications.
 Leahy and Johnson were said to have testified that the prohibition remained in effect and that any laxiety in It's enforcement was caused by "orderS rom hiRner up'
 Preach Controversy
 The controversy over the French air mission was precipitated when an experimental bomber of the Douglas Aircraft corporation crashed near Los Angeles last month. A member of the French mission was aboard. This plane, however, had not been built under army specifications, but was one the company planned to of- fer for government bids later.
 Sen. Bennett Champ Clark, D. Mo. one of the members wanting to publicige the committees proceed ings and details of administration foreign policy, said the witnesses "insisted on talking of the record" and that "there was nothing on the record worth Q damn"
 German refiipees are finding
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SHOT HIMSELF IN EYE

Methuen, Mass Feb. 16-(Up)-- Without the aid of c gun, Anthony Dubois. i6-year-old high school sophomore, shot himself in the left eye yesterday. He held Q .22 caliber bullet with c pair of pliers and hit it with Q hammer.
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AAVHt Aaht ~ gas and was forced to abandon the pursuit.
 Not A Shot Fired
 Not Q shot was fired during the robbery or chase. Carlson said he got close enough to obtain the reg istration numbers of tho bandi, machine, which were found to have been stolen from q io33 Dodge sedan at New Haven Feb. 8.
 A state police broadcast described the escape car as black colored Buick and it was believed to have travelled either in the direction of Bridgeport or Danbury.
 FBf agents were called Into the Investigation.
 Police said the deposit being tak- on from the postoffice to the bank was special order" which was to have been ct tho bank before open. Ing time.
 webb and sheehan were ques- fioned for e description of tho men. Webb has been employed at the bank for nearly 10 years and Since. han for less than ono year.
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COURTESY HALTS
 REFERENDUM BILL
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I'D hope that their measure might come up before the committee ad- journs today's hearings.
 Senator Seccor himself expected to be present at the hearings today only for a short time. Senator Gull hane is also Q member of the com mittee.
 Among the Culhane measures to be heard today are several import ant ones. It was noticed that a good -sized delegation of Waterbury residents were on hand to endorse his bill allowing one year instead of l20 days for payment of sewer assessments and also providing foi reduced assessments when govern mental agencies, such as the WPA assist in sewer construction. An- other important Culhane measure gives tenure to Waterbury teachers They are now on year to year con- tract basis.
 Annual audits in towns and cities of the state are also asked in q Culhane bill. There are several charter changes sought, too, as well as Q pension asked for Mrs. Helen OLeary, widow of John J. O'Leary Waterbury fireman whose death oc- cured after Q long illness following serious injury a number of yeari ago on fire truck.
 Invocation of the senatorial cotir- tesy rule also seemed to be pushing into the background, as far as hearing today was concerned, Of tht series of Republican-spon bill' introduced by Senator J. Howart Roberts of Thomaston. These billi are oil aimed at the administration of Mayor Frank Hayes.
 Egan Files Text
 Senator Edward P. Egan todd, filed the text of his bill on licensing of power engineers. It calls fol establishment of 5-man commis' sion to supervise the issuance of H. censes in this profession. Senate Business
 Hartford, Conn, Feb. i6-(UP)- The Senate received Q favorable committee report today on bill re- vising the housing authorities ac concerning the bonding of local au' thorities and tabled the measure.
 It rejected bills which would re' quire tax collectors to file only on, lien on property, authorize the banl commissioner to audit the books O. all municipal treasurers, reduce th' fees for automobile operators li cefises to $i for pleasure, cars ant g for drivers of public service ve' hicles. and prescribe punishment fol disorderly persons.
 The Senate adjourned shortly be- fore noon for lack Of business.
 The Senate today rejected foul labor measure concerning tn, granting of injunetions in labor dis putes with the understanding tht Judiciary was retaining one meas ure which would incorporate thl best features of the disapprovet bills.
 Two other bills, regarding appli cation of the conspiracy law in la Dor troubles, were rejected with tn, same understanding.
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THIRD COLD WAVE
 STRIKES NATION
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ern New York. The Neuse river in North Carolina, already above flood stage, was still rising. Some resi- dents in lowland areas moved to higher ground.
 The temperature at Chicago had dropped to 10 degrees above zero early today and was expected to go to zero.
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NO WORD OF FRANCO

Rome, Feb. l0-tuP)-A serni- official bulletin of the Informazione Diplomatica, close to the foreign oiiice, said today that Italian vol- unteers will not be withdrawn from Spain until Gen. Francisco Franco himself says their task is finished.
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CONN. ESCAPED

Hartford, Conn, Feb. i0t-(UP)- A survey today showed Connecticut suffered only slight damage from tho high wind and rain which swept
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BANDITS MAKE
 $4O,OOO HAUL
gas and was forced to abandon th' pursuit.

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German refugees are finding homes in Ireland.
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AVIATOR ESCAPES FROM NEAR DEATH

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LAST DAY-ANNE SHIRLEY in
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TAT. James Craig Detty Furness
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were news. The names come
crowding back again-Jim Far
ley, chairman Of the New York
Boxing Commission, the late
John McGraw, with his gnarled
face and bulbous nose, and the
lean. scetic-looking (but tough0
Connie Mack; good-natured
buoyant Helen Hicks, the husky
girl golfer, and the great ball
players of the era, Cobb and
Speaker and Sisler, Walter
Johnson and Lefty Grove and
the famous Dean boys, Dizzy
and Daffy. There were more
fighters than I can think Of
the dark, shuffling, paving Paul
Berlenbach, the hys t erical
Sharkey, Baby-Face Jimmy Nc
Larnin, the brilliant, bounding
Johnny Dundee; weird unortho-
dox Harry Greb, and the brave
Mickey Walker; Tunney, the
enigma; Camera, the misfit cir
Gus freak who became heavy.
weight Nchampion: Schmeling,
the only German who ever
learned how to fight with his
fists; Harry Wills, the perpetual
championship contender. and
Joe Louis, one Of the finest and
deadliest fighting machines ever
DEVELOPED,
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Farewell to Sport = By Calico
DEMP PSEY, RUTH,
JONES, TILDEN,
PASS IN REVIEW

CONTINUED from 1st Sports Page
had a ringside seat where men
and women have, with their
bodies, performed the greatest
prodigieS ever recorded. I saw
the abysmal. unreasoning fury
of Dempsey and Firpo fighting
like animals and sat in a blind
lug cloudburst and watched
Gene Tunney annihilate an un-
loeatable Dempsey. saw Red
Grange weave his twisting pat
terms up and down football
fields and followed in the gal
leries of Bob Jones as he played
his smooth. superb golf shots
that have never since been
matched.
Bill Tilden banged his unre-
turnable cannon-ball service
across the net. and Jim Londos
stood brown and glistening with
oil end sweat under the hot
candelabra of the wrestling pits.
Tex Rickard was a painted
Tipped, Stetson-hatted gambler
and an organizer of prizefightS
on a gigantic scale, and again
Tex Rickard was a painted
corpse on a bier lying in a state
far beyond his worth in the
center of Madison Square Gar.
den, which he built.
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Breathless Rapidity

The breathless rapidity with
which the scene would shift left
you little or no time for thought
or reflection upon this mad,
whirling planet of play.
It would be a ball game one
day and the Kentucky Derby the
next. You had hardly got the
sound of the galloping hoofs, the
paddock trumpet-call, and the
muffled, unforgettable They're
Off" out of your ears, when you
were standing in gallery on a
hillside. overlooking green, scru-
pulouSly manicured fairways,
pitted with irregular white
patches, listening to the soft
"snick" of the cleanly hit golf
ball.
1 have seen the coming Of the
million-dollar gate, the seventy
thouSand-dollar horse race, the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ball
player. the three-hundred-thou-
sand-dollar football game, the
fifty-thousand-dollar golfer. I
have witnessed an era of spend
ing in sport such as has never
been seen before and which may
not be matched again, when the
box office price for a single ring
side seat for a heavyweight
championship prizefight was
fifty dollars, and fetched as high
as two hundred and fifty dollars
a pair from speculators.
Too, I witnessed the amazing
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itself on the short end of the
odds, and what makes it most un
usual Is the fact that the game
is played on G. WIS home hard
woods.
Little has been written or said
about the invading Roanoke
team, yet it is one of the finest
ball clubs in the nation. With
the same five players who take
the court tonight, the Maroons
cruised to the finals of the Ma
tional intercollegiate Basketball
Tournament staged last year at
Kansas City.
REINHART LAUDS THEM
Last Saturday night in Salem
G. w. was rudely jolted by a 47-41
score. All week Coach Bill Rein
hart has been raving about this
team.
"It's one of the best that I
have ever seen in action. It's a
veteran club that handles the
ball well, shoots only when
there is q chance to score, and
plays brilliant defensive game
that can thwart the most potent
attack. Unless my team plays
an exceptional game this eve
ming. = fear for the worst"
Now that little speech may
sound like a pep rally. But Rein
hart is not given to such prattle.
If the G. w. coach believes he
can win, he'll tell you so.
The Colonial mentor has high
regard for Paul Rice, forward Of
the team. That fellow scored 10
points against us the other night.
We thought he was having hot
hand, but that is where we were
fooled, because Monday night ne
scored another 10 points against
v. M. I. and I have found out
since that he has been staging
these Sharpshooting performances
throughout the season. If we are
able to stop Rice tonight. I be-
lieve We have a chance for a vic
tory. But only on that condition.
OUTSTANDING RECORD
A glance at the record of the
Roanoke team reveals that the
Virginians have won seven of eight
starts, losing to Villanova, 35-29,
in the opening game Of the cam.
paign. According to a publicity re-
lease, Roanoke had but one days
practice before the Villanova de-
bacle.
While G. W. Is entertaining
Roanoke tonight, two other college
basketball games will be taking
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GLOvERS, DINED,
NOW READY FOR
Benefit BOUTS
BY HOWARD JACOBS

WaShington's Golden Glovers,
a bit heavier today from the big
feed" given in their honor by
the Patterson newspapers, are
ready to swing back into training
for worthy cause.
With plans tentatively set for
the local aggregation to engage
Richmond's Golden Glovers for
the Presidents Infantile Paralysis
Fund, 80 youngsters, champions
and runners-up in the sixth an
nual Washington Herald Times
classic, were rewarded for their
efforts in gala fashion at the Hotel
Willard last night.
The famed golden gloves were
awarded to 16 boys, eight in the
senior and the same in the novice
class, while a like number were
given silver belt buckles for run
ming second.
Entertainment from the various
clubs in the District, with music by
Leon Bruisloff and his band.
topped off the evenings festivities
which followed after the dinner
and presentations of the awards.
The youngsters thrilled to the
first annual banquet and inter-
mingled with the laughs were tears
tears that came from the heart
of one Of the classiest little
fighters that ever laced on q glove.
The youngster in reference was
Jackie Ciaggett, sitting with his
father, A. H. Claggett, who just
broke down" after being presented
with the DR.. j. A. Bennett Trophy,
in honor of being selected as the
outstanding senior boxer in the
greatest of all tournaments in the
history of the local tour classic.
But the tears were soon gone,
and Jackie worked his way into
the nights fun with the rest Of
his teammates. who, after the
benefit show with Richmond, will
go on to New York on March 13
and IA to compete in the All-East-
ern championship finals staged
by the New York Daily News.
Stanley Stephenson, the stand
out novice boxer, was awarded the
James A. Sullivan Trophy as the
outstanding newcomer; Jim De
Chard received the Bob Mulhall
award, a $25 order for merchan-
disc, while Leo De Chard, Jim'S
father, accepted the Mickey
Rooney Trophy, emblematic Of the
senior team championship, in be-
half Of the Police Boys Club No. 4.
The elder De Chard is coach and
trainer Of the winning squad.
It was grand night, and the
boys certainly deserved the praises
bestowed among them.
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Entries 10 Close for
Southeast Gaze Loop

Entries in the Southeast Bas-
ketball League. which has a few
franchises still untitled, close TO-
night at 9 with Charley Reynolds,
director of the club.
Meanwhile today and continu-
ing through tomorrow afternoon
five Merrick Boys Club basketball
teams and the Junior Y. M. C. A.
swimming team will be guests and
opponents of the Southeas st
branch. Boys Club of Washington.
The Southeast teams to face Mer-
ricks are the Rens, Vols, Quins,
Cards and Crows.
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JEFFERSON five
WITHOUT FLOOR

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. H..
C. P. Scott, mentor of the JEFF
ferson High School court team of
Falls Church, leaders in the Fair
fax county scholastic league, to-
day announced his schedule for
the 1899 season, all games being
played in opponents gyms, be-
cause of the lack of home floor.
The schedule follows: January
13. Fairfax at Fairfax; IA, Jeffer-
son Junior varsity at Briarley; IT,
Aldie at Aldie; 10, Gordon Junior
H. S. in Washington; 20, National
Training School, away; 26. NC
Lean at Mclean. February 3,
Fairfax at Fairfax; 10, Herndon
at Herndon; IT, Lee-Jackson at
Lee-Jackson, and National Train
ing School, away.
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en-SeCond Knockout
Features Bouts at For1

c Battery and Headquarters
Troop each won three boxing
bouts at Fort Myers intra-post
tournament which opened last
night.
A 10-second Knockout featured
the evening when Brasket, of
Headquarters Troop. stopped Col
Inns, of Headquarters Battery, in
record time.
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years saw the most dazzling ar
ray of women swimming and
diving stars ever assembled, In
cluding Aileen Riggen, Helen
Wainwright, Helene Madison,
10 McKim, Lenore Kight, Doro-
thy Poynton, Kit Rawls, Georgia
Coleman, Sybil Bauer, Agnes
Geraghty and Helen Meany.
Red Grange and Knute
Rockne are the best remem-
bered football names of the
period, but during that fan
tastically prodigious time there
were also Pop Warner, Gil
Dobie, Alonzo Stagg and Field
ing Yost, equally great football
coaches, and among the famous
players. Albie Booth. Chris
eagle, Ernie NeverS, the famous
Four Horsemen of Notre Dame,
Stuhldreher, Layden, Miller and
Crowley, and later Frank Car
ideo and Joe Savoldi Of the
same school, Bronko Nagurski,
Stan Kostka and Benny Fried
man and Harry Newman, the
great Michigan players.
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SCHONFELD 5TH
IN PRO SCORING

Fifth ranking among the Amer
lean Basketball Leagues individual
scorers as the result of last Sun
days 15-point performance against
Philadelphia Sphas. diminutive
Mickey Schonfeld will be out to i'm
prove his standing Sunday after
noon when Washington Heurich
Brewers entertain the Troy IN. "
Haymakers in Heurich gym
Statistics released by the Amer.
lean Basketball League today re.
veal that Schonfeld in IA games
has scored 81 field goals and Is
foul tosses for a grand total OF
1873 points.
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Babe Ruth at Bat

Babe Ruth stood up to bat on
his thin, match-stick ankles, his
head characteristically cooked a
little to one side, slowly waving
his bludgeon, and old Grover
Cleveland Alexander. his over
sized cap comically perched on
top of his weather-beaten head,
prepared to pitch to him. Ger
trude Ederle rode up Broadway
standing in the back Of a car
with her arms outstretched with
Joy and happiness, into a bliz-
zard Of torn ticker tape and
newspaper and telephone-book
confetti. Primo Camera, 278
pounds, fought Tommy Lough-
ran, 1873 pounds, under a Miami
moon, and Giorgetti and Brocco
and Spencer rode their flimsy
bikes eternally around the
wooden saucer of the six-day
races.
Dynasties fell, nations col
lapsed, politics changed. dicta-
tors appeared, countries were
torn apart by revolution, there
were distant wars, but all I saw
were the eighth-oared shells glis-
tening in the late afternoon sun
at Poughkeepsie, prize fighters
lying twitching on the canvas
while their opponents waited for
them to get up, horses stream
ing in gay, changing patterns
around its dirt tracks, with a
million dollars and more riding
on their velvet noses.
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What Makes Them Tick?

That, then, was he marvellous
era that is past, and those a
few Of the people who performed
in it. Some Of them are dead.
Few of them are active any
longer or retain their titles. 1t
seems to me that am quitting
in good time. And yet in all
those long days of endless excite
ment I found myself usually too
busy reporting to do much
evaluating. Why do we love
Dempsey? What was it made
us call Miss Wills, later Mrs.
Moody, "Our Helen? Why did
we spend dollars into the mill
ions to see ham fighters and
very often fake prizefights?
What makes us go to ball games
to the number of ten million
spectators a year? What made
Gene Tunney tick?
SportS-writing has been an
old and good friend and COM
panion to me. One does not, it
seems, barge ruthlessly out Of
such a friendship. Rather one
fingers a little over the good
bye, sometimes even a little
reluctant to leave, and uncer-
tain, turning back as some old,
well-loved incident is remem-
bered, calling up again the
picture of vanished friends, hav-
ing ones last say, lingering as
long as one dares before that
final irrevocable shutting of the
door.
(TomorroD's article covers
the colortul career of Jack
DempSeyD
Copyright, 1899, by Paul Calico.
Distributed by King Features. Inc.
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Names CrOwd Back

Moments Of beauty are re-
membered nseparably with ath-
letes performing in the arenas.
There were Herb Pennock'S
pitching motion, and the gleam
in the eyes of Helen Wills look
ing up at a tennis ball in the
air during her service. and her
lovely neck line, and the smooth
Swiveling of Dempsey's shoul-
ders as he punched a rataplan
on the light bag.
They we're queer fascinating
folk who peopled this weird
world and who became my tenn
porary companions as the sea-
sons brought them round, each
in turn, almost as though they
were papier-mache fig Tres
pasted on a slowly revolving
cyclorama. It seems as though
I never knew days, weeks,
months, winter, spring, sum-
mer and autumn, but only
sports seasons.
All the things they did and
said over that exciting period
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Dramatic
Meade Rides Three
HiGLeah Winners

MIAMI, Jan. 12.-Don Meade,
once the kingpin Of American
jockeys, celebrated three years
of exile from the American turf
by coming through with a triple
header at the Hialeah opening,
duplicating q feat he performed
here the last day he rode pre-
viOuS to his suspension March 3,
1886. That day he was charged
with betting on . mount other
than the one he rode.
Meade's victories today were
dramatic. He won on No. 13 in
the first race, took the featured
fifth on Early Delivery in the
Inaugural Handicap at 1871, and
rounded out the day in the
eighth race on a horse named
JinX.
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In Court
POffenberger, Tigers.
Sued for Divorce

WILLIAMSPORT, Md, Jan.
IL. - CletuS Boots" POffen-
berger, 22-year-Old pitcher of the
Detroit Tigers, has not only been
a thorn in the side Of the De.
trOit Club, but in the Poffen.
berger household as well, accord.
ing to a suit for divorce filed by
his wife at nearby HagerStOwn.
Mrs. POffenberger charges her
husband with unfaithfuIneSS
and added that he has been a
continual source of worry ever
since their marriage in Detroit
in 1887.
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Age of Speed

An age that was first dazzled
by the speed and showmanship
of Charlie Paddock at 100 yards
also knew Ralph Metcalfe, Ed
die Tolan, Ralph Locke. Frank
Wycoff, and finally, the greatest
Sprinter, of them all, Jesse
Owens. The era is remembered
chiefly by the running Of Paavo
Nurmi, but it also had Willie
Ritola, Glenn Cunningham, Bill
Bonthron, Jack Lovelock, Joie
Ray, Gene VenZke, Eric Ny,
Luigi Beccali, and a lot of other
boys who could step that mile.
Ederle's feat in swimming the
English Channel made her the
outstanding girl swimmer Of the
postwar era, but those same
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CroWded Into One Era

Somehow or other, all of
these things managed to happen
in those years between 1923 and
1886, years which saw not only
the greatest champions that our
games have ever known, but an
astounding plethora of men and
women challengerS and runners
up who we're nearly as good as
the champions.
At one time, for instance,
fighting for the tennis Suprem-
acy held so long by Tilden as
an amateur, there were such
players as Little Bill Johnston,
Dick Williams, Frank Hunter,
Winnie Richards, Manuel Alfonso,
Borotra, Cochet and Lacoste.
Contemporary with Helen Wills
Moody was the late Suzanne
Lenglen, perhaps the greatest of
all the women players at the
peak of her form, as well as
Molla Mallory, Mary K. Browne,
Helen Jacobs, Betty Nuthall,
Dorothy Round and Kay STAN
merS.
Bob Jones was such a stand
out in the golfing world that he
made people forget the greatest
troop of professional and anna
teur golfers that ever lived and
played at one time, headed by
Walter Hagen and including
such players as Gene Sarazen,
Mac Smith, Tommy Armour,
Chick Evans, Frances Ouimet,
Johnny Goodman, Billy Burke,
George Won Elm, Leo Diegel,
Bobby Cruickshank, Olin Dutra,
Horton Smith and dozens Of
others.
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Lions Win Two
At Alex. AIIeys

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. IL.
The Lions Club bowling team won
three games from the Executives
in the opening matches Of the
second half Of the service club
loop last night.
In the other matches Kiwanis
tripped Rotary in two out of three
games.
Frank Davis, Of the LonA had
the high set Of $40, and Abe Mar
tin the high game Of 130.
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Bunk About Oldtiners
Doesn't Worry Snedd

OAKLAND, Cal, Jan. IL
u.N.S0. Gene Sarazen may
have been right when he said
modern golfers don't know how
to make the shot the ancients
took in stride, but it isn't worry
ing Sam Snead, the current
glamour boy of tournament golf
and holder of the all-time money
winning record.
Sam, who is at Sequoyah
Country Club for the third an
nuaI $4,000 Oakland Open, said: