The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-17

IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

- sun was hanging nigh IN the
sky when Francis Ouimet and
Johnny Goodman walked TO the
sixteenth tee in the seni-finals Of
the national amateur golf cham
pionship at the Five Farms course
Friday afternoon.
A golf course. l have just been
told, that used 10 be the farmlands
OF Francis X. Bushman, the 1915
John Gilbert Of the movies. It seems
that Bushman was local boy who
made good, and when he got his
bank roll he came back to the old
home town and bought up lot of
acreage.
Well. anyway. the sun was sim hang
ing nigh q gotta get that color stuff in.
only three holes 10 go. He was defending
his championship-s chamionship he had
won last year AZ Chicago after 2 lapse Of
yesr-old KID from the vest ''''
There we're conflicting evaluations Of the
kio's ability. Quite few people thought
he was oksy. The United States Golf AS
was an an interna sions YEAR in gom The The
association picked an al-Americs team 10
face the British. Goodman wasn't on the
team.
Mr. and Mrs How-About-It wanted 10
know Whyq Goodmans competitive rec
ord was more impressive than az least
tnree Of the young men who were picked
Tor the team II seemed strange 70
seemed so strange that the critics decided
to analyze the situation.
To begin with Goodman was Just small
town KID, former caddy. who was in
there doing the best he could Al one
time he worked for a store which sold
golf balls. II seems that you can not do
- nd ffHf kr ~t1t1v a.I
est. In order to remain sacred. Goodman
was forced 10 give M this particular lob.
But IL appears that the mere fact that
not altogether desirable character in the
eyes OF the y. s. G.. A. and when time
came to pick team TO face the British he
to be the general sentiment of the in
siders.
WELL, the tournament got
w under way here. Practically
the entire Walker cup team was
on the grounds. Captain Ouimet,
of course, was very much in the
spotlight. So was Jess SweetSer,
Harrison Johnston, Maurice Nc
earthly Jr. and Charley Seaver.
Goodman was there too, but nobody
seemed to know it,
Goodman qualified handiy His hrst
opponent was Chandler Egan. who first
won the title back in 1904 wien the ladies
retired to the psrlor. while the men
Walker cup team, there being statute Of
limitations as 10 age. Goodman won
without m o any trouble, 3 and y.,.. am
man. Seayer, the broad-backed blond from
stanford. l didn't hear. him say. it, but
Goodman is supposed TO have cracked II
7
don't have any thing to worry about"
The records show he polished off Seaver,
Goodman's next opponent was Maurice
Mccarthy, another member of the Walker
cup team. This turned out to be a tough |
tight, but when the boys lined up in
front OF the mutual windows they paid off
on the brash young man from Omaha, who !
IS supposed 10 have. said Sure Mccarthy
was tough. but ! like EN- tough"
Thus Goodman advanced to the semi |
finals-the farthet he had ever gone in
the national amateur. BY knocking Oft
two members Of the Walker cup team he
had pretty well demonstrated that the
process OF selection was at least open to
Ouimet was his next opponent. Ouimet
had been 10 repeat. Captain Of the
Walker cup team. What II he kept on
going and knocked of ouiniet, too? BY
now Of course, everybody knows that is
precisely what he did.
THE 39-year-old Ouimet and
Il the 22year-old Goodman put
up me hgnt. They eacn won
three hoieS over the hrst nine in the
morning, which means that at the
turn they were all square. Good
man took the lead at the 388-yard
twelfth, when Ouimet bapied his APP
proach putt. At the next hole
Goodman played one of the greatest
Shoos IN the history of golf.
The thirteenth here is 1871 yards in
length the shortest on the course ana
srrong of the tee and his ball sosreo over
the green. llutlering TO rest III the Jungle
" eny-nve yaros BACK OF the pin--ana
There is no need Tor suspense. Good
tul second saol but how he ever man
most Jealous technician can tell YOU
difficulties the voungster faced.
Buried in the blackberry bushes by some
miraculous manner he blasted the ball
out. 1t was five minutes before he founo
the ball. 1t was another fve minutes
what with trees, bramble bushes and what
not tanning in on him from all sides.
laid It within putting distance. of the
pin. Ouinet was trapped of the tee but
the hole was is his Nobody can sni' saw whst
his emotions were when he saw Good
mans ball come flying through that fierce
thcket to land safely on the putting
CARPET. the very least they must have
been feyeriSh.
l am inclined to think this was the
shot that won for Goodman and con
verselv the shot that put the defending
champion out Of the tournament. In
stead OF winning the hole. ouimet had TO
b. content with half. On top of that
he won the only other hole that was de
cded before the eighteenth was reached
the A25 fifteenth with par four.
Young Goodman goes into the finals to-
dav against c. Ross Somerville of Canada
and the experts are reluctant to pick 4
winner II is the first time Canadian
has been IN the hnalS-since 1905. when
Ceorg@ s. LYONS was beten bv Eben Bev-
ers Of Pittsburrh II somerville wins =
since 1911 when Harold Hilton of Eng