Evening star., 1932-09-18
Canadian Is First in Fl Years
to Take Amateur Title Out
of US.
Ex.CADDIE Defeated
IN SPECTACULAR ROUND
Match Ends on 35th Green After
Nebraska Youngster Plays
Too Safe.
BY w. r. McCALLUM,

FIVE FARMS COURSE. Baltimore,
September l7.-An imperturbable, poker
faced 29-year-old Canadian, who has q
habit Of punching rifle-like IRON shots
at distant pins, is the new amateur golf
champion Of the United States.
c. Ross Somerville OF London, On
tario. known to his friends as Sandy" T"
won the title on the 35th green of
this > course today. beating Johnny
Goodman. the scrapping ex-caddie from
Omaha, by 2 and / In a titanic battle
Of spectacular shots and intermingled
mediocrity to become the first Canadian
to annex United States golf crown.
Somerville won the final from Good
man by playing eight of the last nine
holes in exactly par, striding back from
the fringe Of defeat with an exhibition
Of shot-making and cool nerve unsur-
passed even by Jones in the days when
the Georgian was crushing the opposi-
ton by his machine-like play.
Somerville entered the last nine Of
the final round today 2 down to the
up-and-coming Goodman, 22-year-old
insurance man from Omaha. He left
the seventeenth or thirty-fifth green
amateur golf champion of the United
States. When the crucial test came
over the last nine holes of that head-to-
head, ripping, tearing struggle, it was
the scrappy, blond Goodman who faded
as he went over par on four consecutive
holes, and the nerveless, taciturn
Canuck who Gained those naggtng
nerves and settled down to pace par
with unrelenting cadence.
Goodman Leading at Turn.
Through the first nine Of the final
round, which Somerville started l up
by holing a 25-footer on the eighteenth
hole in the morning, Goodman came
with a rush as Somerville unleashed
series of wild shots. The little
Nebraskan loomed as the winner at the
turn in the afternoon, for in the space
of four holes he converted l down
deficit into 2 up surplus
As he strobe down the tenth fairway
on the heels of booming tee shot 1t
looked as If Johnny Goodman was to
carry out his threat Of beating the
Walker Cup big-wigs and then winning
the championship.
But that was not to be against the
iron-nerved Canadian. Somerville, who
had appeared a fading golfer over that
first nine, suddenly gathered himself
together and rif1ed those second shots
within putting range Of the pin on
every hole Of the last nine. Goodman,
who had been splitting the pin on the
first nine, turned around and hit four
bad iron shots in row, dropping three
of the holes, and only getting half on
another because the coming champion
blew a 3-foot putt on a sloping green.
That putt was the only slip from
grace made by the new champion as he
traversed those last eight holes in level
par. He redeemed it by holing
l2-footer for birdie to win the thirty
fourth hole and go dormie 2 up. And
he redeemed it far more by laying a
tricky 40-foot approach putt so close to
the hole at the thirty-fifth that not
even the most mediocre putter could
have missed it. That putt was so near
the hole that Goodman barely looked at
it before he picked up both balls and
shook hands with his conqueror. 1t lay
exactly 3 inches away, a wonderfully
fine putt under the circumstances and a
tough one to lay dead.
Somerville is worthy champion but
not a great one. He waded through
the strongest field that has gathered
for the championship since Jones won
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