Evening star., 1940-07-04
Long-Hitting Picard, Peacock
Favored in War Relief Golf
On Wet Indian Spring Links

tllClC 1ldS DCCIl q CUilSlucEdUIc up"
swing in the golf of some of the
boys who were not chosen on the
Ryder Cup outfit I think we are
good enough to win. But it will
be close Gene has a good team
there"
On the Ryder Cup team will be
Walter Hagen, who probably won t
play, acting as captain; Byron
Nelson, Ralph Guldahl, Sam Snead,
Vic Ghezzi, Jimmy Hines, Dick
Metz, Horton Smith, Picard and
Harold (Jug) McSpaden. Sarazen
has chosen Lawson Little, the reign
ing National Open champ; "Porky''
Oliver, the guy who hot footed him
self out chance to win the open by
starting too early; Ben Hogan,
Jimmy Demaret, John Revolta,
Dutch Harrison, KY Laffoon, and
Gene himself. Between them these
two squads make up just about the
best there Is in American profess
sional golf. And pic" insists the
Ryder Cup squad will win.
Sdrazcn Bets S5OO.
But Sarazen, who thinks in terms
Of cows and milk trucks nowadays
he's lord of a manor in Connecti-
cut and spends his spare time raising
blooded cattle) has bet $500 of his
own dough that his hand picked
team can lick the P. G. A.-chosen
outfit. And Gene doesn't wager
that kind of money unless he has
a reasonable chance to get it back.
Ten of the top pros of the land
were in that Red Cross affair at In
dian Spring today, where consider
able chunk of change was due to
come to war relief from the willing
service of these boys to give their
time to charity without payment.
July, in case you don't know, has
been designated by P. G. A. Presi-
dent Tom Walsh as Red Cross
month, and all P. G. A. members
have been asked to play in as many
Red Cross matches as possible.
Indian Spring Paying Bill.
Indian Spring is doing more than
its share. The club is picking up the
check for transportation and hotel
expenses for all the out-of- town en-
trants in the affair which drew IS
pairs to the Four Corners club to-
day. And where, with good weather,
Washington's biggest golf gallery of
all time might stalk around that
nine-hole course at the heels of some
Of the worlds top professional stars.
The parade was to start around
o'clock and end late this afternoon.
Here are the out-of-town stars
billed to appear: Lawson Little, Ma
tional Open champion; Gene Sara
zen, runner-up to Little: Horton
Smith, third in the Open; Ed Oliver,
who scored 287, which would have
tied, and was disqualified for beat
ing the starting gun; Henry G..
Picard, P. G. A. king; Paul Runyan,
the Little Poison" of a few years
back; Jim Barnes, former Open and
P. G.. A. champion; Tony Penna,
runner-up for the 1910 Western
open championship; Bobby Cruick-
shank, twice runner-up for the Ma
tional Open, and Jimmy Thomson,
the siege-gun of golf, who parks a
golf ball further out there than any
living man. Jimmy's wallops will
carry more than the usual punch to-
day. for the Indian Spring course,
soft as it is. takes q ball with a lot
Of carry.
Some of the boys attended re-
ception at the club last night follow
ing dinner downtown, spoke a few
words into the microphone and told
the world how happy they are to be
in Washington. It's sure to be a
great show and with good weather
overhead, as the weatherman prom
ises, the crowd should bust all gal
lery records around this golf-mad
town.
'Why Indian Spring." Answered.
"why Indian SPRING." a good
many folks have asked. "Why
shouldn't this tournament have been
staged on an 18-hole course?" The
questions obviously are unfair to a
club which is putting on the biggest
golf show of the year.. But here is
just what happened:
Indian Spring invited some of the
pros and the golf writer's to lunch
con at the club early in June, where
Earl Clary, chairman of the club
Board of Governors, outlined plan
for a $500 pro-amateur tourney. Bob
Barnett and Witty Cox suggested a
change to a Red Cross benefit affair,
inviting some of the outstanding
pros OF the land. Out of that sug-
gestion has come the big show which
is on today. Indian Spring has done
q good job. And that's exactly the
way it happened. It might have
gone to another club but Indian
Spring had the idea first and has put
1t over.