The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-17
SECOND TIME HE HAS ELIMINATED
 AMATEUR CHAMP
Goodman, COnqueror of Jones, Beat Onimet to Bid for Crown Against SOmeryine
BY STUART CAMERON

United Press Sports Editor.) Baltimore Country Club, Md. Sept 17.-UP)-A former Yankee caddy and 0 veteran Canadian
 linksman fought to-day for the United States amateur golf cham | pionship-Johnny Goodman of Omaha and Ross Somerville of London, Ontario.
 Goodman moved into the cham pionship round by beating among others, that ever-popular customer. Francis Ohmet of Brookline, champion in 1914, and who was won just one year ago. made at the expense of Jesse Gull ford of Boston, winner eleven years ago at St Louis. Goodman is 22, and Somervillc I29. Both are fighting golfers. Neither talks much while play ing Q match.
 somerville doesn't talk much any time.
 Talk fin Its Place Johnny is different. Match over, won or lost, he'll talk by the hour. Loser-and he's lost plenty of
 times despite his majority acquired less than two years ago-he'u give the other fellow full credit. But when he wins, as he did yesterday he opens his heart. Bubbling over with the effervescent jubila-
 ton of youth Johnny will admit that
 beating a former champion is no mean shakes.
 "I think I'm playing pretty good golf right now" he told this wri- ter. T didn't take any chances | against Ouimet and, unless I got to, won't against Somerville to- day. Long as I can keep them fairly straight l won't kick. You noticed how was satisfied to come close on the greens against Ouimet. II know l got three long ones | Che had two butts of 30 feet, and one of 25) but what I try to stay | away from is three-putt greens.
 Gle had not even one three-putter playing Ouifmet). Lordy, how l
 hate those thfee-putters." Most of the scores of golfing writers assigned to the tournament | about to be concluded on the in- tricate Five Farms course tried to interview Somerville after hfs blan-
 ket victory.
 Yes, he was glad he won. Yes,
 he did make some good iron shots, didn't he? Yes, he'll have a real match against Goodman. No, he has never reached the finals of the U. s. tournament before. Somerville, whose father. now dead, was once mayor of London, Ontario. means we'll enough. He'll answer your questions. But ito term Somerville loquacious would
 be comparable to deciding that the Mahatma Gandhi is a giant or that Gene Tunney is a flyweight. Wrong Again Not even Herbert H. (Tack)
 Ramsay, president of the U. s. G. A. would admit it, but Goodman's progress to the final of the anna | teur was blow of blows to the National Golf association. Goodman's impressive record
 was studiously overlooked when
 the United States Walker,cu team
 which beat the British squad was
 chosen several weeks back. Even the editorial screams of ali the golf writer's didn't feaze the U. s. l c. A. selection committee which
 blandly decided Goodman didn't
 belong.
 Thus it is no secret that Good
 man is "sore" at the U. s. G. A.
 and it would seem obvious that he
 found a distinct delight to-day in
 realizing that his progress to the
 final was accomplished by vic-
 tories over three Walker cuppers
 and former U. S. champion. Tho
 champion, H. Chandler Egan, of
 Del Monte, Cal, was beaten in the first round.
 | Goodman I Goodman won in the second
 round over the popular Charley
 Seaver of Los Angeles. Next he
 defeated Maurice Mccarthy of
 New York, and, finally, he beat
 the be-spectacled Ouimet. Seaver
 and Mccarthy were Walker cup
 team members; Ouimet was the | captain.
 To-day's final round match of
 36 holes was to start at 10 a. m. EST.