Evening star., 1933-01-15
YOUNGSTERSLOOM
AS KINGS OF GAME
Goodman, Fischer, MoreIand
Equipped to Take Lead
Jones Relinquished.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

D1 w. H. McCALLUM.
TINE old order in amateur
golf is passing, giving way
l. to new faces, new players
and new methods. Since
the day when Bob Jones abdi-
Gated the throne he held so long
and so illustriously, there has
been no single outstanding figure
to whom the golfng world could
point and say, There is the sue
cessor to Jones'" But there are
signs that new triumvirate in
amateur golf is in the making to
take the place of the old trio who
dominated the game before the
Jones era Of supremacy.
Back in those days a decade and
more ago, the conquering tr1umvirate
included Chick Evans and Bob Gard
ner OF Chicago and Francis Ouinet of
Boston. Among them they won five
amateur Championships and a brace of
opens. They didn't begin to approach
tne success that marked Jones progress
after he started winning in 1928, but
tney were at the top Of the amateur
game In those DAYS.
NOW II seems q new triumvirate of
youngsters is about ready to take their
places at the crest of the game. to
take up where the oldsters left off and
set up another trio Of outstanding stars.
since the Jones era there have been
TWO champions: The first Jones-less
anateur championship went to Ouimet,
tne OLD master from Boston, making a
gallant stand at Chicago in 1881 to win
nus nrst amateur championship in IL
years. The second went to G. Ross
oonervlIle Of Canada, master stvligt
ana master SHOEMAKER, who Is destined
70 WIN many more titles If he plays an
ne played last year at Five Farms.
But IN the United States the young
sDers TO form the new winning trio in
amateur golf are these: johnny Good
man ma OF Omaha, good-looking 22-year-
oIo ex-caddie, a scrapper from the start
sno the only man to conquer Jones at
johnny Fischer, the tall. loose-i -ioinfed
Iao from Cincinnati, who hits the ban
tremendous distance and PLAYS with
a POKER face: and Gus Moreland tha
texaS Iad, holder OF the Western ana-
Leur championship, admitted by the ex-
perS 70 De one Of the best kid prospects
ever 70 MT ball in major competition.
THESE three youngsters seem In us
- 70 be the nucleus of a new con-
querlng trio IN amateur golf. We
tlougnt Charlie Seaver was to be a bi1
Sa..; S.aoS tMo years ago when he went to the
sSsl-nnal Saal at Merton, but apparentlv
SeaVer's game has not Improved Es
olo not show at Five Farms last wear
the stun he showed at Merton in ioSo
But Goodman, Fischer and More
iano all did their stuff at Five Farms
We nave mad suspicion for months
thae Gus Moreland took his second
iiSouiio iSnIl opponent too lightly and took a
ilSnu!s M, In consequence at the hands of
D1u D1a bianey, the Boston hockey star
We got the impression that Gus
pI5,ought be could romp home with
n,ataLy a. any Time and that when the
Sn hn,SS narrowed down to the last few
nad tiger by the tai and was sSrsid
to let CO. was "1lalo
IA any event Blaney got him on thu
t"enCy-Second hole. But Fischer went
70 the third round, where he gave OS,is
met the warnnest kind of strrrpIa he-
to;, Lne notwithstanding Bostonian beat
11tn on the home green. And Johnny
Goooman S1 went to the final, where he
deu I. only before an inspired burst of
e0H ae 'ne hands Of Ross SomerUue.
FRANCIS oUIMET at the 40. ., "a
= IS nearing the day when biQ-time
competition will impose too no,,ch
physical demand on hts aging nnnscies
1ou can't f1nd many records in modern
gon testify1ng that a man around an
EaS won major Championship. The
race Is too swift for the oldsters nova
uays. But Goodman at %, Fischer at
~ ana Moreland at 81 have MANY wears
oi nr5t-cIasS competition in front of
tnem. They are our first choices To
form the new triumUrate.
Billy Howell Of Richmond looked an
II ne was ready to step out in first-cIass
company and become a big shot a wear
ana s, q nan ago. He licked Goodman in
. .He nrst round OF the 1881 champions
ship and had Ouimet sweating in the
semi -nnal before Francis canned a 40
Iooter TO beat him on the thirty-fifth
hole at Chicago.
But Billy's old fault has come back
on MIN and unless he changes his style
ne cannot be consistent winner in
last competition. He has plenty of time
70 improve, however, for the Richmond
youngster still Is on the sunny side
Two years back, before Billy had
made mark in national golf, Fred Nc
Leod predicted that his hook szyle
would cause Billy many an unpleasant
moment. That is just what happened.
In flrst-class golf nowadays YOU can't
depend too much on a developed hook.
1t may let you down.
The old straight ball is the best. and
The smartest golfers play most of their
long shots with slight fade. The hook
looks good and goes further, but no
golfer can have the control which Ia
possible If the ball is played the other
way.
GOODMAN, Fischer and Moreland all
~ are straight hitters. Fischer told
me at Baltimore that he tries to
hit the ball straight, without a SEM
olance OF hook. Moreland is inclined
10 be hooker, but he has good control.
and Goodman, if anything of the line,
IS inclined to the right side.
Tnese three lads are good enough to
overcome all the opposition they may
ma Tor few years to come, unless
some budding Bobby Jones suddenly
springs into action with the same me-
,hantcaly fawlesS game the Atlanta
marvel shows. And a game like that
Lakes f1ve years or more to develop in
drst-class competition.
1t appears from where we sit that
or the next few years there are going
% be a lot Of words written about
Fischer, Moreland and Goodman In
lmateur golf contests.