Evening star., 1953-08-04
Mangrum Eyes Loot
OF $4,000 at Tam
After Taking Prelude
BY the Assoeiefsd Press

SE14NAAIOS mug S-uOJO
Mangrum. pro golf's top money
winner and newly crowned ALI
American champion. today ap-
peared properly ceased" for the
top loop Of $25, 900 in the World"
pro tournament starting Thurs
day at Tam o'Shanter.
Mangrum. Tam's host pro, yes
terday pocketed $3,420 as he won
the All-American prelude to the
$4,000 world" event with 13-
under-par total of 275, three
strokes ahead of Sammy Snead
and Ted Kroll.
That moved the debonair Pur-
pie Heart veteran of World War
II ahead of Ben Hogan, a not
able Tam absentee. as the years
leading cash collector with $18,-
1856.
Mangrum will be favored to
take the top $4,000 prize in the
big World" purse offered by his
boss, George S. May. That
would more than double his
earnings to date.
He grabbed $13,500 by sweep
ing the All-American and
World" events in 194S, back
when the world" prize was a
paltry $4,000.
Tam Gets Home Pro Treatment.
Yesterday Mangrum treated
Tam just as a home pro should,
banging a f1ve-under-par 81
after rounds of SO, SO and II.
His 275 would have been good
enough to win last years
World" which forced a playoff
at 276 between Julius Boros and
Cary Middlecoff. Boros won the
showdown with a SO against
Middlecoff's 20.
AS a matter Of fact, excepting
Hogan'S winning 273 in 1851,
275 has been the best score since
May introduced the World" as
a 72-hole medal-play chase in
1949.
There was more than a bag
Of luck for Mangrum in the rain
Sunday which forced a days
postponement of the All-Amer-
lean finish until yesterday.
Mangrum was struggling along
three over par through eight
holes when the reprieve came.
KrOlI and Snead End Strong.
Kroll, who like Mangrum fin
ished with 81. and Snead, strok-
ing a final So, collected $2,180
apiece. Fourth spot and $1,700
went to the 1858 PGA champion,
Walter Burkemo, with 279.
In the wake of the Au-Amer-
lean, the Professional Golfers
Association today was expected
to announce the roster of the
1853 United States Ryder Cup
team which meets Britain'S best
at Wentworth, England, Octo-
ber 2-3
Unofficially, the Ryder Cup 10
man array is expected to in
clude Mangrum, Jim Turnesa
and Burkemo, automatic team
members because of their vic
tories in the past two PGA tour
neys; Snead, Kroll, Jack Burke.
Middlecof, Dutch Harrison.
Porky Oliver and Dave Douglas.
Hogan is eligible. but presum-
ably will decline a berth.
The world" meet offers four
fields of competition, also i-"clud-
ing women's pro and amateur
and mems amateur.
Patty Berg Tops Women.
BY virtue of her play in win
ming the All-American Women's
Open, persistent Patty Berg will
be favored in the World wom-
ems pro. Miss Berg won the
All-American in the final round
with rs for a 308 total. stroke
ahead of another capable pro,
Louise Suggs. Top woman anna
teur was Joyce ZiSke of Water
ford, Wis, who wound up 18th in
the All-American with 1856.
Frank Stranahan, of Toledo.
Ohio, who won his sixth straight
All-American amateur crown,
will be seeking his fourth sue
ceSsive World title. Stranahan
beat out John LevinSon, Chicago
lawyer, 288 to 291.
Babe Zaharias, the convalesc-
ing star who has won four of the
five World" women's meets
played, finishing far down the
All-American list. But the hard
swinging Babe, who underwent
a cancer operation in April, said:
IT had seme good practice in the
ll-American and I'm going to
be a threat in the Worlds"
In the women's. pro. Betty
Hicks of Culver City, Calf, went
into the final round with two
stroke lead. But she faltered on
both fairways and green's for a
fourth round "a and 313 total,
good for fourth place.
Final pro scores and prize
money: