The Washington times., 1929-09-09

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about. They are always replaced
supposedly by ethics, but mostly by
the greensKeeper. 1t has been
found that he is more reliable
about things like that, but the idea
that was so unusual, so unique as
to lay even this gentleman's art a
fun stymie concerned itself with the
notion that Harrison Johnston and
DR.. o. F. Willing having earned
places in the final round hadn't
really belonged there and that In
effect it was a class double A event
and that Johnston in consequence
was a minor league champion.
IL was perhaps the most un-
usual championship Of all anna
teur golf. Bobby Jones and
George von Elm went cut the
first day Of match play. DIR.
Willing, q thorough sportsman
whose only fault d that he is
quite unOstentatiOus about IT,
was harrassed by q gallery
which became hostile because IL
didn't like his necIxtie or some
thing.
It produced two remarkable juve-
niles in Johnny Goodman, alleged to
ride to his tournaments on freight
trains, and William Lawson Little,
jr., who six months ago couldn't hit
| the fairway with his hat, and 1t was
held in a setting that defied the art
| of a stage designer, but the most
| ~ all nf 80 y0es
and Is the notion that Johnston and
Willing were couple Of joke final
lists. / will not speak of their pre-
vious records, which speak for them
selves. They could have been final
what the headline writer's call q
probe" I merely win exhume their
record OF the past week and rest
the case. OF the original field of
140, Jones, Won Elm, Chick Evans,
Jesse Sweetser, Cyril Tolley. Chand-
ler Egan, Eustacs Storey, Francis
Oulmet, Johnny McHugh, Jack
Neville, Don Mae, Frank Dolp, Fin
lay Homans, Willing and Johnston
were the outstanding men.
Evans, Dolp and Neville didn't
qualify. Moe and McIIugh went
out in the early rounds. Jones,
greatest of them all, was beaten
in the first round by Goodman.
What does that make JohnstOn-it
makes him the greatest man in the
field. which after all is the object
Of this tournament.
It makes him the greatest
man because Goodman, who de-
Al Hat EmA hv
Little, who was defeated by
Ouimet, who was defeated by
the ultimate champion. So
much for one side Of the ledger.
On the other side there is the
cases of Won Elm and Sweetser who
were ranked" only by Jones when
the tournament started. Won Elm
was beaten by Egan, who was
beaten by Willing, which makes the
Doctors status quite clear. In case
it doesn't we will draw a line to
him through Sweetser, who also
was beaten by Egan. Therefore,
why this hysteria about synthetic
| finalists and fluke champions?
Johnston beat the man who either
in person or by proxy beat Tolley,
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holder Of both titles, and Won Elm,
the last man to take the title from
Jones since 1924. On his own behalf
he either won from Jones, Goodman,
Little, Finlay and Ouimet, or sur.
vived them through his line of sue.
cession.
The trouble with this tournament
and its finalists was that they, mean
ing both the turnament and the
finalists, were too sensational. They
killed off all Of the good ones toe
soon. II Jones or Won Elm or. both
had been semi-finalists there would
he no question about eligibility to
day, Instead Johnston faced Ouimet
and willing played Egan in thS
seml.finais and immediately tha