Evening star., 1932-09-17
S0MERV|LLE PICK
OF MOST EXPERTS
Both American and Canadian
In Final Round to Title
Chase First Time.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.


r. MORE, September 1.-Two
young men who never have gone
anywhere in the national ANA
teur golf championship before were
saying it with high iron shots and
puts today over this golf course in
the final round of one Of the most
unusual Of the SO titular Journeys staged
for the nationals simon pure title by
the United States Golf Association,
With an international flavor for the
first time in 81 years, since Harold
Hilton bounced an approach shot OF
a rock at Apawamis to win In 1911, the
final round today found Ross somerville
OF London, Ontario, 29-year-old in
surance man, and 22-year-old Johnny
Goodman Of Omaha, Nebr., matching
shots for the title that skidded from
Francis Ouimet's Head yesterday as the
Bostonian missed a 1o-foot putt on the
thirty-fourth green.
Goodman uncrowned Ouimet with
one OF the gamest exhibitions of shot
making witnessed in the championship
since Jones first started crushing his
opponents with par. The stocky Estle
Omaha lad, who stung the United
States Golf Association by whipping
the reigning title holder after being
refused a place on the Walker Cup
team, beat Ouimet by 4 and 2. Somer-
vile gave phlegmatic Jess Guilford one
OF the worst beatings the farmer boy
from vermont ever has taken, winning
from the old seige gun by Z and 6.
THE professionals and close students
L OF the game favor Somerville be-
cause of the crispness of his iron
shots and his putting ability. but you
can't laugh of the stocky little Good
man, who clings like a leech as the
going gets tougher and rolls 'em In
from any and all angles. Johnny also
Is an insurance man.
For both SomerWlle and Goodman
this Is the first final. Somerville has
been known for many years as one Of
the finest hitters of all shots Of any
amateur in the country. He never be-
fore has gone past the second round
in the championship. He grabs the
Canadian amateur crown whenever he
wants it, but never before has he been
able. to go anywhere in this tourna-
ment-
Johnny Goodman used to be known
as the lad who beat Bobby Jones at
Pebble Beach in 1929 Whether he
wins or loses today, he has gone far
past that stage of notoriety, and he
may be the champion. He has cer-
tainly made the Walker Cup team Sc
lectorS look bad, for at no time was he
given a place on that American outfit.
He is feet inches of fighting, rug
ged American manhood, a stocky.
sturdy blond lad who packs plenty Of
heart and ton of that quality vul-
carly and expressively called CUTS. One
hundred and fifty pounds of scrapping
kid, this Johnny Goodman. Every
match he has played has been a tough
one, even that one yesterday. where he
whipped the fading veteran Ouimet on
the thirty-fourth hole On Thursday
he went to the home green to beat
Maurice Mccarthy, and he won from
Charlie Seaver in the second round only
en- the seventeenth.
COMERVILLE is quiet Canuck He
- seldom speaks more than a few
words in a golf match. His face,
like that of Johnny Fischer. is mask.
Never the ghost of smile or the
shadow of eXultation crosses that poker
mask. For sheer tenacious concentra-
ton and ability to bear down in the
pincheS Somerville and Goodman are
the best of the tournament starters.
But Somerville, unlike Goodman. hasn't
yet had hard match. So far as sheer
scrapping ability in the tight spots is
concerned, he is an unknown quantity.
For sheer shot-making ability he is
better than Goodman.
DIT ol,a hi rN1f arff
larly final round is unlike any other
spot in sport No other game holds the
same tense moments, nor the same
spots where a nerve quiver may cost a
championship. So Somerville, who has
had such easy going, may lack that
power in the pinch that Goodman has
demonstrated in this tournament. And
then again, perhaps, Johnny is burned
out by the strain of those Scrapplng
battles with Mccarthy and Ouimet.
The final is wide open, and it may go
to the last hole.
John GOODMAN has qualified four
times for the championship. So
has Somerville Never before has
either gone past the first day. Good
man is the sole support of family Of
12 most of them younger than this %
year-old lad. He didn't start playing
golf until 1925, after he had caddied
around Omaha for two years. and in
his first year he won the city title He
has done plenty since. Today he can
win a national title As a fighting
fool he has no superior.
Ross Somervil1e would rather play
cricket than hit golf ball. He said
that cricket is his first love.
But he plays golf fairly we'll, too. He
g. 10 y,I
good all-around athlete. He hits an
iron with that close crispness OF
Tommy Armour Until yesterday he
had displayed great putting ability, but
along the route he found
the touch to output Guilford, himself
one of the putting masters.
THERE wasn't much to that Somer-
i ville-Guilford match The Ca
madam was too good for the Bos-
ton boy. Although Jesse was booming
the ball mile from the tee, he couldn't
get his puts down. Somerville him
self was not playing any too well, but
whenever he needed putt he poled it.
Six up at the turn, he quickly laid
Guilford away, winning on the twelfth
green by Z and 6.
The story of the downfall of Ouimet
as he strobe across the green to shake
the hand of the gritty little Nebraskan.
Johnny was just that. All even with
Ouimet over the morning round after
a soul-Stirring exchange Of shots In
which both shot 72, Goodman played
the first nine in the afternoon in SO to
turn up. Such margin with nine
holes to go is all Goodman needs.
Francis whipped out two brides over
the next six holes. but he couldn't stem
the charge of the sturdy Goodman,
Francis left his crown over in the woods
on the Five Farms hillside. where the
gallery had cheered on the previous
day when he bunkered his ball against
Johnny Fischer.
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