The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-19
S0MERV|LLE BEATS
JOHNNY GOODMAN IN
Ding DONG CONTEST
Northern Sharpshooter Is First
Foreigner to Win Title
in Fl Years
is PRAISED BY BOBBY JONES
Omaha Youth, Despite Defeat
Outstanding Non-Profes-
sional in y. S.

Baltimore, Sept. 19.-lP)-The anna
teur golf championship of the United
States passed into Canadian hands
Saturday for the first time in his
tory as Ross SANDY Somerville. slen-
der 29-year-old SHOEMAKER, outclassed
22-year-old Johnny Goodman of
Omaha. Neb., to win the closest bat
tie for this Chassis title in six years.
Somerville conquered the Sensa-
tional young American, 2 and /, in a
championship match that was fea-
tured by spectacular flights of scor-
ing, punctuated with brilliant putting
and packed with enough thrilling mo-
ments to keep a gallery of 1000 fans
roaring right down to the finish on
the 35th green.
1t was easily the most tense and
exciting final since George Won Elm
turned back the great Bobby Jones
by the same margin in 1926 at Bal
tusrol.
Somervilles superior steadiness at
the critical stages, plus his ability to
produce his best shots down the home
stretch of each round over the rolling
Maryland country, clinched the deci-
sion.
The silent Canadian Scot is the
! first invader to win the American
crown since Harold H. Hilton, British
star, was the victor in 1911.
Oddly enough, Somerville is not the
Canadian amateur champion this
year, although he has held this title
four times and is generally rated the
best amateur in the Dominion. He
lifted the United States championship
Saturday in the fourth tournament
in which he has been able to qualify
coming through after week of re-
markably consistent play, including a
record-smashing 60, for a new course
record, in his third round match with
Bill Blaney of Boston.
Unquestionably the two best golfers
in the field came together in the title
fight. Somerville, after wading
through all opposition easily in the
top flight, had much his hardest bat
tie of the week against Goodman, who
whipped two young Walker cup stars
and then dethroned the defending
champion, Francis Ouimet, in the
semi-finals.
The youth from the middle west. ig-
nored in this years Walker cup selec-
tions, put up gallant scrap against
his more experienced rival in all at
tempt to complete his job of con-
founding the dopesters as well as the
officials who had held his previous
match play ability too lightly.
"Somerville's victory strikes a
particularly happy chord in our in
ternational golf relations" said Her.
bert r. Ramsay, president of the
United States Golf association.
Johnny Goodman acquitted himself
splendidly on behalf of our rising
group of younger players, in the fl
nal, but he lost Saturday by close
margin to a golfer with real cham
pionship stuff.
1T was great match, fine VIC
tory for Sommerville and real trib-
ute to Canadian golf.'
Bobby Jones who defeated Somer-
vile in the first round of the Geor-
gians' last championship march at
Merton in 1880, praised the Canadian.
But for a lucky putt got down to
turn things my way at Merton, Son.
erville might have beaten me there,
said Jones. He has all the shots and
he knows how to play them."