Evening star., 1960-03-27
WIN, LOSE OR
GNAV By FRANCIS sTANN
The Golf Doctor in Person

had shot string of 7Oplus the ST. Petersburg
Open and rather sheepShly it seemed accepted the
and last of the pay checks calling for $70 This the man
who leads all touring professionals in official money
in the modern era" of golf nce 194 with $268 62674
through August 1859.
Now Cary was sitting in of the Lakewood
Country Clubs locker and thoughtfuly testing
bowl of chilli I'm going to give tournament golf one more
big fling" he announced I'm resgnng from the Diplomat
and for the next three years bearing down with
strings attached"
The Diplomat is a rich mems club on Miami Beach
of the plushest and many golf pros would
souls to have the job Middleton has for several
years but now he saying it's the parting of the ways
This is something I've got TO do before get too DID,
Cary explained referring his planned alout attack
the tournament trail He is nearing and he puts it,
Right now I've got the urge to compete Later, maybe
won't have it."
THE ONE-TIME DENTIST from Memphis beckoned to
the waiter. THE chiliS cold and the warm
planned mildly. Would you the kitchen to heat the
chill and will you bring ice cubes?" Then
less baanty Cary dumped two hunks of ice into his
glass
Speaking of becoming DID," fellow chilli -burper
asked what is the best age for a golfer?"
s. I'D say between the middle to the late thirties
Mddlecoff replied grated at the arrival his warmed
up meal "Oh know of these youngsters in their
twentes knock the ball from to town But you've
got to remember that golf is game of restraint.
You must restrain your muscles, impulses and tenn
per- At the last Cary couldn't restrain small wry smile
Ten years ago the younger Mddlecof known hot
fathers of golf OCCASION brilliant starto-be with
more temper than muscles.
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AFTER THIS ALL-OUT assault on the tournaments" I"
Cary asked what do plan to do? Would you go
back to dentistry? Or would you back big job
like the you're leaving?"
Well doubt if I'd return to dental practice" Middle
co said possibly remembering the cavities he filled during
the war in the Army Dental Corps. Not that couldn't
do it but, damn it, it six days week your feet
in closed room, bending people.
Nov, if hadn't been playing tournament golf and
been outdoors for the last Is I'd probably be better
suited emperamentaly for dentistry could still change
mind, of course, but I'd imagine it would be club Job
Maybe" it suggested facetiously that Casey
Stengel will retire from the Yankees the you
wind up this frontal attack in play You and
Casey could open offce-Middlecof & Stengep" Ac-
coding to legend and Stengels dugout testimony
he once studied dentistry in Kansas City.
"Ah that stengel" Cary said you know, he must be
wonderful manager but personally don't think he's
doing Mickey Mantle bit of good know Mickey little
bit. -"
J. THE DOC APPARENTLY knows lot of other ball
players pretty good off their
batting readily he reviews his last
round of golf
Mantle is Ensten, know but he's good kid )"
Cary continued HE shouldn't slump from 353 and 1865
to his of the last two seasons-O4 and 205
know it's of my business. but instead of Stengel
blasting the kid he's been doing according the
papers, he ought to give him boost.
HELL there guys who need boot in the tail
end some VINO neeo on the back think Mantle Is
of the greatest natural athletes ever seen He
needs somebody to back him up" The mythical dental
partnership of Middlecof Stenge seemed to have run
into road block.
you mentioned that you wanted final fling before
got too old?" interviewer said What gives out in
golfer? The legs? The refexes? What if big tournament
pros could ride around in electric carts Would old
like Ben Hogan and Jimmy Demaret and maybe even
Byron Nelson, dominate the agan?"
They'd win if they could ride electric carts" Cary
SAID, although don't know about the term dominate
THE BATTERY-RUN golf course rambler, which some
how calls up boyhood memories of "Tom Swift and His
Electric Runabout," is not downgraded by Mddecoff
II ride EN- lot at the Diplomat" he said "I like them
Sure, they'd help older golfers like Hogan.
There's one thing, however that ought to be made
clear lot Of people think that playing 36 holes under
pressure on the final day of golf tournament is torture
1t and it isn't If in contention those final sc
holes are OF no physical Two three days later
you might feel the effects but not when you're in the
top running"
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