The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-06-25
BRAWN.STYMIED.
BY SCIENCE IN.
ARM0UR'S WIN
Every Golfer Minus Apollo
like Build Should Warm
Up to New Champ
(BY JIMMY POWERs)

New York, June (NEA)-We
want you to know Tommy Armour.
We want you to know the real
Tommy Amour-the stole, raven
headed Scot with face like sphinx
and a body riddled with shrapnel and
heart as game as any guy who
came out of the roaring furnace of
war to win his best honors on the
battlefield of sport.
Tommy is touring the golf courses
of this fair land of ours cashing in
as BELTS modern professional late
ly crowned champion of the U. S. A.
And Tommy, although he may not
know it, will be the embodiment of
great moral lesson. Fellows who
went about Juggling great moral
lesson were always more or less Of a
pain in the neck to this writer, But
Tommy is different.
Licked Before They Start
Did you ever stand at the first tee
OF the average country club and see
the players drive off? Bankers with
round tummies, thin, anemic doctors,
lawyers, dentists, business men with
d licate constitutions, understood
ehaps-all sorts, all shapes. Ask
any one of them if they ever expect
to be great golfer and you will
get slow, negative reply. Why? Oh
because, they'll say, they have not
the broad shoulders of a Hagen, the
iron wrists of Jim Barnes or Harry
Cooper, the stocky bulk of Bobby
Jones or the game.
That cked-before-you-s start stuff
is all out now.
Here's the champion. And look
at him. Wounded in the face, he
lost sight of one eye. His left arm,
too, was riddled with shrapnel, since
being partially paralyzed at times.
He is far from the physical speci-
mems of perfection that ruled the
U. S. open dynasty in the long years
preceding him.
Remember, also, that it seems only
short time ago that a grim faced
youth of II quit the campus of Edin-
burgh university and went marching
off to war. For four hectic and adven-
turesome years Tommy went through
enough hell to chasten the spirit of
any man and yet today you'll not
find q pluckier or gamer man on the
golf links.
Not Understood
Some experts who failed to pierce
his stolid mask have not understood
him. Many have written that Ar
mour is not a great golfer. OF
course he is not a great golfer. His
score of 3O1 is not so much. But
that's not the way to look at it. He
won it. He had to fight to win it.
And it was thrilling, dramatic
battle. }.
Here is little insight into the
character of the man. He is not
cocky to the point of offensiveness.
Il was memorizing under my breath
a little speech of congratulation to
Harry" he told me in the Oakmont
locker room afterward, land / kept
talking. it over and over. l started
it at the eleventh green. / wanted
to show him ! was good sport. !
kept fighting to win, though. Some
how at the finish l felt honestly
sorry that Harry lost" Beat that
for combination.
Has Scottish Accent,
Tommy has pronounced Scottish
accent. He came to AmerIc6 in 1920
with the Walker cup team. He was
the only invader to qualify for the
u. s. amateur. Francis Ouimet beat
him in the third round. He won the
French amateur, tied for the Canad.
ian open and won the Glen Eagles
amateur the same year. His pal
Bobby Cruickshank, induced him tt
locate here permanently. He hooked
up with the Congressional club al
Washington.
oh, well, the poor guy never hae
a chance. Remember he's pro at thu
Congressional club.