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CITY OP HOPE Public Relations Dept. 626-4611 (Hank Brown) (Suggested Column Material) LLOYD MANGRUM Lloyd Mangrum, who turned golf professional in 1929, at the age of fifteen, will be among the all-time greats of sports to be honored at the Sportsmen's World Awards Presentations June 28, at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. The presentation banquet and awards ceremony, at which outstanding competitors of the past will be presented with the "Victor" ?╟÷ Trophy of the Immortals ?╟÷,is sponsored by the Sportsmen's Club for the City of Hope Medical Center. The sports heroes of an earlier era were chosen by a National Selections Committee of ranking sportswriters and sportscasters across the country. Mangrum belongs on the list of golfdom's history makers if only for his long and distinguished links career. As a giant in an age of giants, he won the National Open in 1946 in a three-way playoff with Vic Ghezzl and Byron Nelson. In a later three-way tie, Mangrum outplayed George Fazio, but bowed, for the title to Ben Hogan. All told, Mangrum competed, in an even dozen National Open tourneys, winning one, placing second, once, third twice, and fourth and fifth once each. He also qualified to play in the prestigious Masters tournament fourteen times, and though he never captured that elusive title, Mangrum finished second, twice and third three times. That coveted Masters was one of the few golf prizes Mangrum did not garner, for during his career he took the Western Open championship twice, was a two-time winner of the Vardon Trophy, captured the Los Angeles Open title four times, and in his world travels picked up championships in the Argentine Open, Philippine World Open, Pan-American Open and AMPOL Tournament in Australia. During a two-week period in 1948, Mangrum won the All-Americaro and World Tournaments, establishing a Tam O'Shanter (Chicago) course record in the process. He was a member of four Ryder Cup teams, including one as team captain, and. also accompanied the team as non-playing honorary captain in 1955. Mangrum was golf's leading money winner in 1951. Proceeds from the Sportsmen's World Awards Presentations will go to further the battle against catastrophic disease by the free, nonsectartan City of Hope. # # #