Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-07
HONOR. IS CL|NCHED
BY TITLE TRIUMPH
Howell One of Youngsters to
Earn Consideration for
International Play.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.


0HICAGO, September T.
q Francis Ouimet, as a re-
~ suit Of his great come
back to recapture the ma
tional amateur golf championship,
has clinched the honor of being
captain Of the United States
Walker Cup team for the matches
with Great Britain in 1882 in this
country.
Probably he would have been
asked to undertake the assign
ment, anyway, but his brilliant
triumph at Beverly over field of
youngsters makes it doubly fitting
for the popular Bostonian to oc-
cupy another role relinquished by
Bobby Jones.
Oumet has been member of every
American Walker Cup team since the
international matches first were begun
in 1922. He is the only player enjoy
ing this distinction. Jones did not
compete at st. Andrews in 1928.
At the age Of 38 Ouimet has accom-
plished one of the greatest come backs
in American sport. When he downed
the Chicago district champion, Jack
Westland, on Saturday by and in
the final round of the national amateur
championship, it was the seventeenth
anniversary to the day and hour Of
his conquest over Jerome D. Travers
for the title at Manchester, VT, in
1914.
Triumph Stands Out.
Ouimets triumph stands out like a
beacon on the rock-bound coast for two
big reasons. He was the only survivor
of the "Old Guard" to carry on the
fight for age and experience. He
topped qualifying field of 80 players
damned with new and rapidly rising
generation of golf stars. Like a college
professor, Ouimet took on five young
sters in succession, averaging about "a
years in age, and gave them lessons.
Ouimet and George Voigt of New
York were the only members of the
1890 Walker Cup team to qualify and
George passed out of the picture in
the first round at the hands Of q col
lege star, Dick Martin.
Two Others Bobby Jones and George
Won Elm, were not contenders, anyway,
but Don Moe failed to get past the
sectional qualifying barrier; while Ro-
land Mackenzie, DR.. oscar F. Willing
and Harrison (Jimmy) Johnston failed
to negotiate the 36-hole qualifying
hurdle at Beverly.
AS a result. Ouimet probably will be
called on to shepherd the golflng youth
| for 1882 and the next Walker Cup con-
test. He will give first consideration
to 19-year-old Billy Howell of Rich
mond, Va.
Sensation Of Beverly.
| This blond youngster was the sensa-
ton of Beverly and the only player to
| give Ouimet a close call. Billy carried
the new champion to the thirty-fifth
! green before yielding to sub-par golf
| in the semi-finals. In his first national
| tournament, Howell senior at Wash
| ington and Lee University, stamped
himself as a potential champion.
Howell and Paul Jackson, diminutive
21-year-old Kansas City star, shot into
the spotlight where other more highly
touted youngsters failed. Charley KocN,
the Detroit youngster, did not qualify
Charley Seaver of Los Angeles failed to
get past the redoubtable "Ducky" Yates
of Rochester. N. Y, in the first round.
Westland. through his brilliant march
to the finals, as we'll as Maurice Nc
earthly, jr., of New York, and Fay Cole
man Of Los Angeles, other youthful
stars, also will be considered when the
Walker Cup forces are picked. So will
the veteran Yates, who came within a
putt or two Of moving his 268 pounds
Of Drawn into the semi-finals, losing on
the thirty-sixth hole to Westland.