Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-08
HOWELL, JACKSON
SHINE AT CHICAGO
Richmond Lad Is Given High
Praise by 0uimet, New
Champ, and Jones.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

~ H1CAGO, september o.
Among the most interest
~ ing of the phenomena put
on at the late amateur
championship here, won by Fran
els Ouimet from the land of the
bean and the cod, was the show
ing made by the kid wonders in
the tournament. Between that
and the speculation as to the win
ner along about the middle of the
week of the tournament the Bev-
erly show resolved itself into quite
a circus affair. Those kidS-Paul
Jackson, the 21-year-old mite
from Denver, and the remarkable
Billy Howell-just about stole the
show from the oldtimerS.
Personally, l do not think most OF
the folks around Washington have any
idea how good Billy Howell is, and GER
tainly they haven't seen young Jack
son put on his stuff In a good many
years of trotting around the country
watching golf championships / never
have seen a lad who was better with
the chipping and short pitching clubs
than this same Jackson. He Is a Whlz
and no mistake.
But when the whole thing is sim
mered down, Billy Howell is the real
sensation of lie tournament. Those
faded Washington golf fans who looked
at Harry Pitt beating him in the final
round of the Columbia tournament
last June watched a very tired Billy
Howell play golf. The l9-year-old lad
from Richmond then was playing in
his third big tournament in a row, and
in that final was playing his twenty
fourth round of golf within the space
of 20 days. That takes it out of even
such resilient kid as Billy Howell.
Ouimet Forced to Rally
Certainly out here in the great open
spaces, playing in his first amateur
championship, Billy stole the whole
show. Even the Boston crowd, who
looked upon Ouimet as the finest piece
Of goling machinery in the land had
a lot of anxious moments last Friday
afternoon, when Howell was l up on
Francis, with only five holes left to go.
They agreed that if Ouimet had not
put on such an inspired putting streak
over the last four holes of the match
Bo3 on might be in mourning for
championship nearly won. instead OF
one in the bag. My personal opinion is
that if Billy had got b. Ouimet he
would have Won. He is good enough to
beat Westland, who is nothing more
than an ordinary golfer whom real
big timer can give l up to any time.
Think of that for the first time the
kid has shown in a major golf tourna-
ment. Now il Billy is good enough TO
go that far, giving the new champion
the hardest match along the winning
path, he is certainly the finest prospect
we ever have had for the title in our
own neck of the woods.
Both Bob Jones and Ouimet think
Howell is the real goods. OF course,
Billy has a few things to learn about
big time golf, sueh as not to feel sorry
when he is beating the other fellow.
no matter how good a chap the other
fellow may be, but on the whole he
made an extremely favorable impress
sion out in the West. To show how he
made the grade in his first tourna-
ment Billy was promptly taken in tow
by the United States Golf Association
officials and that is something 1t usually
takes several years to do.
We haven't seen a kid do it in many,
many years. But Billy went to lunch
with the U. S. G. A. on Friday and
they had him in tow on Saturday.
predict it won't be long before Billy
%Hi' tioI4oiio4 Ni-oi4i Eo4L'4-p' -
had taste-and a good one-of the
big stuff and he likes it.
MoreIand Also Is Good.
One of Blly's main rivals in the years
t. come is certain to be young Gus
Moreland, the Texas Cyclone, who won
something like seven tournaments in a
row before coming to Chicago, had the
qualification medal in his hand and
tossed it away and then fell in the first
round before inspired golf on the part
Of John Connolly.
This same Connolly, by the way, who
halls from the Middle West, has an in
feriority complex Against man OF