Sport: Smith 278; Jones 279

Last year about this time, at Pensacola, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Miami Beach and Pinehurst a young pro named Horton Smith, whom no one had ever heard of before, began to win tournaments. He went abroad with the Ryder Cup Team, and on May 22 — his 21st birthday — won the professional championship of France. People were saying then that within a year or two he would be National Open champion, but Horton Smith, not flustered by the publicity he was getting, kept going from one club to another, playing golf. In the last...

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