Public Linksters

For $1, a golf clubmember can either: buy a ball, pay his caddy, have two beers in his club house. For $1, a golf non-clubmember can: borrow a set of clubs, play golf all day long on public links, have a good time. Last week the best of the public linksters had even a better time, played in the annual National Public Links championship at Forest Park Golf Club. St. Louis. Railway clerks, postal employes, butlers, competed against bank-runners, shoe salesmen, bellboys. There were some low scores. In the qualifying round, Brooklyn's Henry Fabrizio took a 70, three others had 75 or better. Many were the 78's, low 80's.

There were also some petty jealousies. One John Boyd of Philadelphia sighed, accused two-time champion Carl G. Kaufmann, poker-faced Pittsburgh clerk, of getting all the "breaks." "I'm not a whale of a golfer myself," said Linkster Boyd, "but if I ever get a crack at Kaufmann I'll prove they grow better golfers on Pittsburgh's links." His "crack" came in the semifinals. Champion Kaufmann won, 3 & 2. In the 36-hole final round Champion-Kaufmann kept his championship, beat solemn Milton Concrant, Toledo mailman, 4 & 2.

Four New Yorkers defeated four Louisvillians for the Warren G. Harding team championship trophy.