Evening star., 1933-08-16

but ne Will nave b IOuSuci lilile oee'
ing Johnny this year, for the Omaha
voIlnester has the confidence won in
the torrid heat of his successful chase
for the open championship and Is
better golfer this year than last year.
Somervine Fortunate.
A1AME one outstanding American
N amateur and you couldn't go
- step further than this stocky
little Goodman chap. Although the
g. S. G. A. overlooked him in the
Walker Cup selections last year he con-
founded them all by trimming three
Walker Cup team members in row at
Baltimore and going to the final round
in the championship, where Somervllle
Silenced him out of the title. The
Canadian, it will be remembered, spoke
about half dozen words during the
final, all of which we're: THANK you
was lucky to win" Then along came
johnny, back in June to win the open
title from one of the finest fields ever
gathered.
Today the little Omaha inSur-
anee salesman has the OppOr-
tunity to engrave his name along
side those of Bobby Jones and
Chick Evans, amateurs who have
won the open and amateur
crowns in the same year.
Genial Chick did it for the first time
back in 1916, winning the open at
Minikhada and then going on to win
the amateur at Merton.
In that Merton tournament kid
named Bobby Jones-then aged IA
broke into big-time golf for the first
time. Bobby subsequently won 13
major championships, but not until 1927
WIS he able to win the American anna
teur and open titles in the same year.
He repeated again in 1930-the year
of the grand slam-when he won the
amateur and open championships Of the
United States and Great Britain.
Moreland Long Overdue.
"A Nd here again this year, Johnny
n Goodman. the lad who first made
the headlines by beating Bobby
Jones, has the same chance. Only two
men have done it before, and Good
man, on the strength of his perform
ances Of the past year, is as good as
they were at the heights of their title
winning stride
They may call the open champion
ship the hardest tournament to win,
but the amateur is no set-up. Put
flock of kids out there in match play,
where every one of 'em is shooting for
the moon (the moon in this case being
Johnny Goodman) and any one may
beat him. Johnny, the giant killer of
four years back, will know how it feels
to pack championship this year and
have every competitor cunning for him.
1t WiH be netU experience for
Johnny, DhoSe role hitherto has
been that of the under dog. But
he still UiH be the outstanding
competitor in field that 1DiH in
clade the man pto licked him
last year.
Johnny Fischer, the long, lean lad
from Cincinnati who won the medal
at Five Farms last year, will be one
of the more prominent choices to win.
So will Gus Moreland, the tall Texan,
who seems to play very well everywhere
except in the amateur championship.
The experts have been predicting a
title for Moreland ever since he broke
10 at Chicago in 1881, but he has yet
b 20 beyond the second round.
Harper Still Untried.
"A ETHOUGH he Is little known ex-
"a cept in this section, Chandler
= Harper, the saturnine 19-year-
oid kid from Norfolk, will be among the
more ebon- -hued of the dark horses.
Harper qualified for the tourney where
Billy Howell, his chief Virginia rival,
failed
The Norfolk had has all the
qualifications of a top-n0tcber,
Int can he stand the gsff Of big
time competition? He has yet to
prove that he can. He qualified
Tor match play in the 1881 tour
ney and lost in the first round
10 George Dunlap, dropping out
to watch Howell 60 to the semi
final.
u IS around Johnny Goodman-the
open champion-that most OF the
drama of the coming tournament will
center Johnny can and should win,
but he Will have to have all his shots
working as they worked in Chicago in
June. The amateur championship is
no set-up, but Johnny will be the sin
ale outstanding competitor. He can
blaze match play trail that few men