The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-05
TODAY'S SPORT
 PARADE
(Reg. U. S. Pat. OR) By HENRY McLEMORE

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 August, Ga, April 5.-tUP)-The money 1t makes for you isn't hard to take, and neither is the prestige 1t brings you, but the best thing about the U. s. Open golf title is the improvement it works in your golf game.
 That isn't my opinion, because l never have won the Open cham pionship, although I have equal claim with some 100000, 0,000 other Americans to the 1917 and 1918 championships, which were not con- tested because of the World War.
 It is the opinion of the present titleholder, brill-shouldere0 William Lawson Little, the man who won ct Cleveland last year after a play of with Gene Sarazen. Over g. double nut sundae in the clubhouse Of the Augusta national course here yesterday, Lawson, whose two rounds of 71-70 have him right in the running for the eighth annual masters tournament, said ownership of the Open title had made a tremendous difference in his game.
 Can't Be Careless
 "If a man has any pride at all, Lawson told me as he played a fine spoon shot for & big pecan in his sundae, "the Open title is going to make him @ much better player When you walk on the starting fec of a tournament and you are announced as the Open champion you feel as if you just must live up to the title. You can't be care. less about your shots. You doni want to let down the people who are nice enough to watch you play and you don't want to let yourself down and have the folks go of thinking you won the Open on Q 3 fiuke. Since won at Cleveland ] have played every shot as care fully as if 1t were the last putt in the Open. Naturally, this has made me a better player. Concen- tration is half this game. Quit thinking on one shot and you are liable to wind up with a six or seven and competition is so hot these days one had hole can knock you out of the running. Another thing possession of the Open title does for you Is to make you keep fighting. Champions aren't sup posed to quit in this country, SC when you gre lucky enough to get to be a champion you keep plugging
 "Take my game yesterday. l wa out in 37 and when I started bac-. with 8 five on the 10th hole I seen, . ed all ready to shoot in the higii 7Os. But I stayed in there and pitched and finally came back in 3a for a TO-"
 Reversed Score
 Lawson was just one of the boys who stayed in there and pitched when things were black. Harold (Jug) .McSpaden, the smiling slam. nler from New England, proved there Is no telling what will happen in 6 golf tournament. Jug shot a 76 the first day but went out yes terday and whipped around in 61 to keep himself in the fight for the title that ranks second only to the National Open in importance. This was quite @ form reversal but moi quite up to the record turnabout of Craig Wood in this same touriia. ment several years ago. Craig hac differs 88 one day and then fol- lowed this dismal round with a 67
 In case you want to pick up ( few shillings for new Easter bon. net you might do worse than make little wager on Byron Nelson tt win the Masters tilds year. The hard d-bitten Texan has fired 7O-6s and is getting better. Bob Jones, { fair country judge of golf, wont come right out and say so. but Mel son is the fellow he thinks is hit. ting the ball better than any mar in the field.