Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-18

Mcleod should know whereof he speaks. Now II
DID, Freddie the very smallest Of all National Open
champions Probably smallest any golfer who
top prize When Mcleod the 1908 Open he
weighed exactly 108 pounds
"THE TOURNAMENT WAS held at Myopia, outside Of
Boston, Freddie remembers 81 weighed pounds the day
reported to play When weighed after over-there
playof between and Willie Smith, had lost 10
pounds didn't weigh much as 125 pounds until
so years old"
sze Mcleod comedies helps the and when there
is demand for long second shot But the difference
isn't much" he qualities The main thing clubhead speed
That and the ability to concentrate big fellow may
drive little one but it around the green's. my
opinion little is apt to have sensitive touch
when it comes to pitching and putting"
TosK1. is NO better than fifth smallest among the
tewnning golfers that Mcleod remembers cyril Walker
who the Open in 1924 only weighed 100 pounds" he
reminds He wsp of feet inches tall,
Cyril frst-cass golfer. When he the Open he
belonged top"
Paul Runyan Mcleod thinks smaller than Toski too
Runyan another good player" Freddie says "Good
enough to win the PGA title twice. Once he beat Craig
for the championship and he murdered Sam Snead
and T. And know, both Wood and Snead big
and big hitters"
Then there was Johnny McDermott 125-pounder
Johnny tied for the National Open championship in
and won in 1911-12
Small athletes rooters probably because
always to the public that they giving
this doesn't necessarily follow ago Bobby shantz
of the Athletics the best southpaw baseball although
he weighed only 1877 pounds When his good Bobby
didn't how big the hitters Dicke the
White sox was approximately the SIZE but he 40
games in 1920-1
NoTRE DAME HAS PRODUCED many well-remembered
neman but except Knue Rockne and few Others who
remains vivid memory than Metzger? The watch
charm guard they called Metzge who scaled about $50
pounds And who Maryand's first AAmerica? Another
little guard Bobby Ward.
Years before the Chicago became known as the
Monsters Midway was the
sized joey Dutch Sternaman who than held his
with the beefy arlyday Yale's celebrated
Hnckey and the famous brothers of
Princeton inclined to smallness &c. too were Abie
Booth of Yale and Davey Oien of Christian
Philadelphia Eagles.
One athlete small size hurt him was Little Bill
Johnston who nevertheless great tennis player 1t
his misfortune to along at the time of Bill lden
who not only ideally built for tennis
to with 1t. If there Tden IS no
telling how titles would have fallen Johnston
MOST OF THE PROS and qualified observers came away
from Tam OShanter this week convinced that Tos
top to stay for WHILE Notwithstanding the vagares golf
They not holding his lack of against him. 1t
overwhelmed by his shotmaking and determination.
the story Toski still hasn't cashed the
received for finishing among the also-rans in the
year He saved it to remind himself that he do
better, explained II think, however he will the
$4,000 check"
The little in golf durable lot Mcleod proves
occasions when he still matches par Columbia years
after winning the Open Indeed often than these
days he scores better than he did Myopa his 2hoe
score was 322 for average of 80 per round.
cit wasn't much Of Freddie laughs although
played in high winds and shooting ball called the Glory
Dmple It hoater it into the water and it would
hoat that's how light And when you hit into the wind
the ball just hung. Those were the days"