The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-06
CLUB NEXT STOP FOR
 STAR GOLFERS
One Day Play of IS Holes May Earn Winning PrO-
 fessiOnaI $5,OOO
By JOE WILLIAMS


 youngster and veteran, meaning Ben Hogan and Gene sarazen, were reading their press clippings and counting their dough, as the winter golf carnival moved on from here today. fF~
 Hogan and sarazen had just won the Miami -Biltmore four ball tour rlanent, one of the better events of the annual Chamber of Commerce tour and they, along with the rest of the tToupers, were headed down the road to compete in one-day pro- amateur affair ct the aristocratic Seminole club.
 This Is the one flag stop the more nercenary pros look to with tingling excitement. Enough money to pay a years expenses rides on the result. It is not Impossible for the winner to get himself $5,O00 for playing IS holes. From the standpoint of quick, immediate financial returns there is nothing in golf that approaches 1t.
 For obvious reasons the Seminole sportsmen would much prefer that the gaudy financial picture be com. pletely ignored. What happens is this: they get together and form a pool. The various competing teams are auctioned of. Say Lawson Lit- tie, the national open champion, is paired with Joe Doakes, Q 12 handi. cap player at his home club. How much will you bid for the pair2 Tn other words how much will you bet they win2
 All the pairs are similarly auc- toned. The result is the afore. mentioned pool. It has reached fan- tastic figures, at least fantastic for golf. Before play started today 1t had reached $65, 5,000. The precise de- tails are not available for public presentation. Ali that is known is that a certain percentage of the total pool goes to the winning pro.
 Hard Luck
 A year ago Little might have won If his amateur partner hadn't care. lessly back .handed @ putt at Q criti- cal moment. It was figured out later that this cost Little S4S00. The amateur, to whom $4,600 was prac- tically hay, didn't realize at the moment what his indifference meant in dollars to the young professional. Later he became very morose about the incident and tried to make Lit. tie except Q check for the same amount. There is no finer sports. man in sports than Little, 50 you can just imagine how he handled the situation.
 Anyway, the gypsies of golf are on their way again but around here they are still talking about Hogan and sarayen and their victory in the four.ball matches. We are sure you must know what four.ball matches are. Pairs play pairs, and the best ball wins the hole. From Sunday to yesterday the Hogan. Sarazen combination knocked of one pair after another. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about their vic. tory was that they weren't down once at any time during the tour- nament.
 There is little we can tell you about Sarazen you don't already know. For years he has been one of the top liners of golf. When you talk of the top liners you must men. ton hinf along with Hagen, Jones and Ouimet. He is a very definite and vibrant part of the tradition of golf.
 But with all due respect to the stocky little squire from Connecti. cut we'd like to tell you something about Hogan. Tn many ways he is the most remarkable man in golf to. day. Soaking wet he won't ever weigh more than l36 pounds. yet he hits one of the longest balls of the tee in the game. And Sarayen said after yesterdays matches he Is the best long iron player he ever saw. On three successive holes he belted long irons to the green that GOV. cred the flag all the way.
 Can't Putt
 And that's the funny thing about this little Texas Irishman who was born, incredibly as 1t may sound, in a place called Dublin, Texas. He doesn't think he can putt. This has become an obsession with him, and is reminiscent of the days of Chick Evans and Bob Macdonald, two great players who started to shiver the moment they got their hands on 8 butter. Hogan isn't that bad but he's bad enough. You'll have to take our word for 1t but he actually sleeps with a butter in his bed. This is his strange way of trying to over. come weakness which he fears will keep him from winning the national open, the goal of course, of all golf- CTS. But for two years he has ale ways been up there or thereabouts. Yesterday he finished in the money for the forty-first consecutive time, an almost unbelievable and certainly an unprecedented record for con.