Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-20
GOODMAN PLAYING
WELL IN PRACTICE
Youngster Who Upset Bobby
Last Year Hoping for
Second Meeting.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

~ PHILADELPHIA, September
- 20.-No one is attracting
i more attention at the Mer-
ion Cricket Club, where the
national amateur golf champion
ship tournament begins Monday,
than Johnny Goodman, the tiny
sharpshooter from Omaha. Good
man won undying fame a year
ago when he defeated Bobby
Jones in the first round Of the
amateur, when the Georgian was
the outstanding favorite to win
and make it three victories in a
row.
To this writer it seems that Good
man not only is a better golfer than
last year, but also a more modest one.
Asked if he would like to meet Bob
Jones again, he said: Bobby Jones !
Gee, I only hope meet him again!
You see, Bobby is so much a greater
golfer than I am that I would like to
meet him again. It's one of the great
est honors and pleasures for which a
contestant may hope"
Johnny admits he never even dreamed
of beating Bobby at Pebble Beach, and
that the greatest day of his life was
when he conquered the Georgian.
Goodman still is under the voting age,
but has been playing golf for seven or
eight years.
Started as Caddy.
Johnny tells Of how one day his gang
was taking q hike in the country and
passed golf course.
IT thought caddying would be pretty
good way to earn some money" ne
said, 80 stopped off and got myself
a Job. / caddied two years, and thought
1 was rather good swinging a club. SO
in 1928, when the Omaha City cham
pionship came along, borrowed set
of clubs and entered. The borrowed
clubs must have had lot Of sympathy
for me, since won the championship.
Then I kept on. I won the State cham
pionship. qualified for the national and
finally beat Bobby Jones"
Johnny says that after he beat Jones
last Summer he was so nervous for Two
hours he could do nothing, and Lawson
Little of San Francisco beat him IN
the second-round match. But Johnny
believes he will be able to overcome that
nervousness If he meets Jones again.
Goodman is playing keen golf IN ms
practice rounds here and should qualify
easily for the championship.
Harrison Johnston OF ST. Paul, the
defending amateur champion, oeneves
the spade mashie will be one OF the
most valuable clubs in the forthcoming
championship.
cot course, it is dificult to general
lie on things like this" he said, be
cause there is such a wide difference
in the types of game played by the
various contestants here. But on
hand I would say the championship
will 60 to the player who can best
handle a spade mashie, since several
holes at Merton demand that cluo 1or
the proper approach"
he will remain along the sidelines to
root for Bob Jones and that seems TO
be the opinion of every one entered In
the championship. IF I cannot win, /
want Bobby to-" is the remark OF every
entrant.
May Bar Sand Wedge.
The writer was told today that the
U. s. G. A. Implements Committee
would take up the legality Of the sand
wedge" during the amateur champion
ship. Some of the committee members
believe the club is quite proper, but
others do not.
you 60 into a golf shop and pur-
chase a shot when you. buy a sand
wedge" was what one member OF the
committee said There have been
other concave clubs in the past, but
none developed so nicely as this and
it's almost impossible to miss q trap
shot with one"
So the sand wedge" may possibly
ha barred from IT 6 C. A. COmDeti-
lions, although Bob Jones and several
other amateur stars use the club.
One of the most interesting figures
in the championship is Brig. Gen.
Cecil Critchley of London and st.
Andrews. Critchley at q was the
youngest general in the British Army,
making the jump from lieutenant TO
general in four years. He seems to be
entered in the championship to root
for Bob Jones, but he is not alone, for
every one else seems to have the same