Sport: Musical Golf

One of Sport's most hallowed traditions is graveyard quiet when golfers are shooting. Gene Sarazen thinks it is nonsense.

To prove that noise no more hampers a golfer than it does a baseballer or prize fighter, the onetime U. S. & British Open golf champion got three other golfers—Fellow Professional Jimmy Demaret, Amateurs Gene Tunney and Babe Ruth—to join him last week in an exhibition match (for charity) at the Shorehaven Golf Club near Norwalk, Conn.

With Fred Waring's noisiest musicians tooting & trumpeting at tee & green, with 5,000 spectators chattering, cheering and rattling the putter, Demaret & Ruth defeated Sarazen &...

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