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Yes, it is, and when I met him last year at Portland that
was the realization of alife-long ambition. I had a talk

with him one aftermoon and I think he gave me a hint as to

what really made him great--and that was his power of con-
centration. Grantland Rice said this of him: “after

Bobby Jones had won the @rand Slam in 195® which was winning
the four major tournaments in the world in one year, that
Jones had the most perfect power of concentration of any
human he had known. When Jones came up to the last hole

in the National Amateur in 1930 and was putting out in
front of a gallery of ten thousand people, a train passed
by about 50 years from the green. A shrill blast of the
engineer's whistle fairly shocked Jones! cohorts, think-

ing that the noise would unnerve him during his putting. |
But on the other hand, when Grantland Rice queried him about
it later, Jones said, "I never even heard the train."

I think that is certainly perfect concentration, don't you?

Marvelous’ Only a fellow buried so deeply in his desire

for achievement could inhibit such distractions as these.
But it seems to me that I recall some incident similar to
this, Glenn, when you were playing Ted Adams, the present
Canadian golf champion, at St. Joseph. Everyond: tabtght

you were defeated at one point of your match.

Well, perhaps the incident that you refer to was when I
missed the put that everyone thought would upset me so
severely that Adams would defeat me. But on the other

hand, queer as it may scem, I came back and managed to shoot
sub-par holes and win the title anyhow.

Well, that would have meant defeat for a great many fellows,
but apparently you had your fighting heart keyed to the
point where this old adage "A fellow who won't be beaten
cantt be beaton" rang true in your case. In other words,
you just hed to win that golf tournament, didn't you, fellow’

Well, fortune smiled on me thet day, Doc. I did seem to
keep my faculty of concentration, and I guess Old Lady luck
was kind to me on that occasion because I really wanted
that tournament.

Well, you certainly delighted your many friends and follow-
ers, and you had a lot of them, all of them pulling for you
to win. Since we are speaking of golf, Glenn, I an, of
course, interested in golf for the students here at the
University of Kansas. We have a nice sporty six~hole

golf course on the University campus, and you have been
mighty fine in helping us lay out our course and in giv-
ing your advice on the upkeep of the fairways and greens.
In addition, you have served as coach of the University of
Kansas golf team. Considering golf as one of the features
of the student athletic program, I would like you to point
out the golf program you would like to see employed here

at the University of Kansas.

Well, of course your own Department of Physieal Education
recognizes golf and gives credit for elementary and ad-