Evening star., 1933-06-10

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marked Bobby Jones as we
stood together on the 18th tee, "they
can ask me again how Johnny Good
man beat me at Pebble Beach"
For at this point Johnny Goodman,
the Omaha kid, had 3-foot putt for
a course record-he had a 3-foot putt
to lead the field by strokes-he had
a 3-foot putt to equal the lowest score
ever made in an open championship
A 3-foot putt for a 66-and with big
gallery banked around this 18th green
Johnny Goodman, the Omaha kid,
coolly stepped up and without prelim-
mary waggle tapped the ball into the
cup as the gallery broke into vocalistic
roar.
I have seen any number of dramatic
moments in open golf championships,
but I have never seen anything that
could quite equal all the compressed
drama of Johnny Goodman's amazing
round. He not only played magnificent
golf-he not only remained cool and
collected all the way Throughout he
got the ball rolling for him and he kept
it rolling from start to finish.
Goodman, with rs on Thursday,
was strokes back of the brilliant
Tommy Armour. He was one among
many others. He was back in the mass.
But in this second round he stole
the entire plot. He was the whole show,
including the blue chip seats, the ele-
plants, the freaks and the pink lem
onade.
EOUR years ago Johnny Goodman al
i most wrecked the Delmonte Pen
insula by beating Bobby Jones in
the first round of the amateur cham
pionship. And he won through a
brave, bold finish that only stout heart
and fine swing can carry.
But his second round in the 1888
open is a far greater classic 1t was
full of thrills from start to finish. It
was a show with a great opening act
that got better and better-to wind up
with closing act that had every spec
tator breathing heavily before the clos
ing cheers swept the landscape of North
Shore.
When Johnny Goodman started out
Tommy Armour was leading the field
with 143 strokes. Joe Kirkwood, the
Australian trick shot player. was Sec
ond, with brilliant 10 that left him
with a 144
Olin Dutra and others had played
fine golf to break par and come back
with the front runners. Johnny Good
man. the slight, slender young amateur
and his opening rs, was among the for
gotten men w. the first hole
lnny Goodman holed 30-foot putt
for birdie :.
On the 4eO-yard second hole Johnny
Goodman raped two great shots with
in 10 feet of the cup and got his birdie
4, barely missing an eagle 8. On the
third hole Goodman cracked an iron
just feet from the cup to get his
third birdie in a row.
GOODMAN had started 3--2
" against par of 4-5-3, and when
this news spread, over 1000 spec
tators put across country to see what
it was all about With this start, Good
man was out in 32-4 under par And
by this time every spectator on the
North Shore course was chasing the
young amateur, which didn't make his
Job any softer.
He came whirling along to the Sill
yard fifteenth hole under par 1t was
from this point on that the dramatic
interest began to boil over.
At this point an interesting event
fifteenth green with Maj. Fred Nc
Laughlin and Mrs. Irene Castle Nc
Laughlin as Goodman came up to play
his third shot, so yards from the green.
Mrs. Mclaughlin was watching her first
golf championship, and We had prom
ised her something in the way of COM
petitive excitement
1t was here Johnny Goodman played
a bold pitch to the green. The ball ran
straight for the cup, struck the flag and
remained there, hanging over the lip.
It was a question here as to what
would happen when the flag pole was
removed. As it was taken out the ball
dropped in for an eagle 8, but the cluck
strained thunder of the gallery's roar.
GOODMAN slipped by his next two
" holes in par. AS he stood on the
eighteenth tee he had par 4 for
81, the course record-and stroke
lead on the field.
His tee shot just finished at the edge
of the rough-partly in and partly
out-one of the hardest strokes in
golf. 1t was now question whether
Goodman could reach and hold the
slippery eighteenth green, 16o yards
away. Hhe slashed one out with four
iron. The ball came speeding along,
caught the slope, started for the pin
and missed the cup by less than an
inch as it slipped feet beyond.
Once again the big gallery paid its
vocal tribute. 1t was here that Bobby
Jones smiled BY way of remembrance.
1t was here that Mrs. Irene Castle
Mclaughlin admitted that golf carried
more thrills than she ever had dreamed
was possible.
With this putt for 66, with big
gallery completely tense. Johnny Good
man stepped UP and holed his putt for