Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-03-26

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ners beating the Old Man by is or
16 strokes.
One of the thrills was to find
Snead locating a long-lost putt
ing touch, which brought him
the Texas open title in 264 for
the IL holes, just 20 under par.
Wherever he finishes, Snead
still carries a big gallery, hav-
ing the type of swing big gal
leries love to watch II full and
free with complete lack Of
effort.
Snead, Hogan, Demaret and
Locke are the gallery favorites, be-
ing possessed to large degree of
that indefinable ingredient known
as Color"
Color is something the galleries
or the crowds like, something with
a definite human appeal. There
must be better definitions, but we'll
let you think them up. Ruth and
Dempsey had it to greater degree
than anyone else.
Locke is playing as well as he did
last year, but so far he hasn't been
able to leave the pack behind. The
pros will all be in Florida at an
early date and from Florida the
trek will be into the Carolinas and
then to Augusta, Ga, for the Mas
tiers, which should be a nectarine
full of juice this season with so
many possible winners playing over
a championship course.
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Keep Swinging
Recently we visited here and
there with number of leading pro-
fessional golfers. The idea was to
milk them of any helpful advice
that might remove a few strokes
from the scores of any readers.
Here was the consensus:
"The idea is to keep swinging
to swing every club. Many golf
ers seem to think the game is
divided into three elements -
wooden club play-iron play
and putting. This isn't true. Ev-
cry golf stroke should be and
must be swinging motion.
"You certainly swing your wood
en- clubs. Many figure the iron shot
is hit. 1t isn't. Any iron you use
must be swing. This is also true of
putting. You must swing the putter
not use it to stab or jab. Watch
Horton Smith or Locke putt. The
trouble most bad putters have is
that they don't swing the putting
blade. You can get twice as much
power from a swing as you can with
hit or a punch"
This advice came from such golf
ers as Locke, Hogan, Demaret and
Snead.
Snead has been swinging every
club except his putter. He was jab-
bling and stabbing with this money
making blade until he hit San An
tonic, where he started a smooth
swing in motion.
when you get the putin miser-
les you are lost SOUL" Snead told
me. On a 420-yard hole he had just
driven more than 800 yards over a
baked-out terrain. His approach
with wedge had stopped eight feet
from the cup. His first putt ran
three feet past and he blew the next
one-a five in place of a probable
three. That's what Sammy meant
by the putin miseries."
1.-THE toughest part of a big
golf tournament" one veteran
said, "is still trying to cOncen-
trate through ~ holes. There
are times when it is hard
enough to concentrate on one
hole"
Ethics in Boxing
There is one ring division that
should have set any number of rec
ords-in place of cracking up. This
is the middleweight bunch.
1t was discovered that Rocky
Graziano, acting as a soldier, had
deserted the army, serving or 10
months for this escapade It also
was charged that he had boosted of
breaking out of service and earning
many dollars. Which he did.
AS far as Graziano is concerned,
the main argument has been along
two lines:
No. l. Granted he was guilty,
which he was, he has served
his sentence and has paid the
laws penalty. Isn't that enough?
Why punish him further?
| No. 2. A war deserter should
not be allowed to make $780,
600 killing by running away. His
penalty should have been death
before a firing squad or at least
10 years in stir. A weak-minded
court let him of too easily. II
many young men find in time Of
war you can desert and come
back for clean up, why hang
around?