Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-03
HOWELL, JACKSON
REIGN SENSATIONS
0uimet Only Player Over 80
Left in Topsy-Turvy
Links Classic.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

ia we 1Ss uAOShAAONAs
~ HICAGO, September 3.-Two
1 kids from widely separated
" sections of the Nation have
blasted the national anna
teur golf championship wide open.
AS the third round in the match
play classic for the simon pure
title of the Nation moved into
its third-round phase today, two
youngsters, one of them barely 10
years of age, and the other past
his majority, were the reigning
sensations.
One of them is from the Middle
Atlantic sector; in fact, he holds
the championship of that section
of the bunkered land. Lots of
folks around Washington know
him as the fresh faced, skinny
youngSter who won the Columbia
Country Club tournament last
year and was runner-up to Harry
Pitt this year.
Billy Howell, 19-year-old Washing
ton and Lee senior of Richmond. the
city OF cigarettes and first families. is
the first sensation. The other lad is
quite as surprising He IS Paul jack
son, a sturdy little youngster Of 81
years from Denver, Colo, who moved
down Johnny Lehman. the much
fancied Chlcagoan yesterday and then
whipped big Fred Wright from Boston
on the eighteenth green in the tenSest
moment of the day. Both are playing
in their first big championship. Billy
Howell was unknown when he came
out here to Chicago, but he is known
plenty now. A few folks pick him to
win the championship after the easy
win he had over John Goodman and
his general fine game. But that is
the big time. Ard an equal number
choose Jackson, the diminUtive lad
from Kansas City, who looks like a
cady and plays golf with the peril
nacity of Hagen and the skill Of Jones.
Howell. met Lester Bolstad today in
the third round, and Jackson met
the veteran Francis Ouimet, the only
old-timer left in this kids golf tourna-
ment. If they should both win today.
you would have a real sensation, but
it is not likely that both will come
through.
4 RTHUR c. YATES, the man noun
n tain from Rochester, who knocked
out Charlie Seaver in the first
round, which Frank Craven. we'll
known actor-golfer, characterized as 2
round of upstairs, meets Jack Westland,
the little man from Chicago, who also
has quite a reputation as giant
killer. Maurice j. Mccarthy, the
former Georgetown star, meets Fay
Coleman of California.
Those first two matches are hard to
dope If Howell and Jackson continue
today at the hot pace they set yes
terday they may both move into the
semi-hnal, but that is not likely.
Yates should beat Westland. and Nc
Carthy should trounce Coleman.
Imagine a final like this: A kid like
Howell, who weighs about 135 pounds
soaking wet. or Jackson, who tips the
scales at 120 pounds as he left the
hail-swept eighteenth green yesterday,
against Ducky Yates. who weighs 1858,
ready to knock a golf ball down any
mans fairway. Funnier things than
that have happened In the game Of
golf.
NEVER IN all the upsetting history
~ of the national amateur have there
been so many upSets as there were
in the first round yesterday. First,
Billy Howell knocked out the fancied
John Goodman. then along came Rich
ard Martin whipping George Voigt.
Then John Lehman played a sloppy
eighteenth hole to lose to the jackson
kid. and to crown the comedy, Charlie
Seaver fell before Ducky Yates. Just
to show you how far this Yates person
can knock a golf ball, he used a mashie
niblick for his third shot to the eight
zenith green from $50 yards away. And
he stuck 1t up within six feet Of the
pin, to close the door on the youngster
from California.
And then, to make 1t worse, Ross
Sommerville, the Canadian champion
whipped Gene Romans, last years run
ner-up After the first round with the
exception OF Ouimet and Yates, 1t was
strictly a juvenile tournament, and II
Is that today, again with those two ex-
ceptions. Ouimet is the Oldest man in
the tournament, at the age of 38 years
Yates is IS and no one else left is past
80. And they call golf an old mans
game.
LOWELL always had the Indian
i i sign on Goodman after the turn.
Billy played great shot around
a stymie to win the ninth and turn l
down, and he quickly squared with a
par 3 on the tenth. He went into the
lead at the fourteenth, where Goodman
played a weak pitch shot. and then
Howell three -putted the fifteenth
green to give the Omaha lad another
chance But Billy got it back at the
sixteenth, where a pushed tee shot was
followed by 10-foot putt for and