The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-12
LAWSON LITTLE SHOOTING GREAT
 AT CLEVELAND
Flock of Unknowns Move Into Quarter-Finals of
 Amateur Tournament
BY STUART CAMERON Limited Press Sports EdltOPl

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 Cleveland, Sept. 12.-(UP).- Sixteen amateur golfers, half of them stars of varying magnitude and the other half outsiders of as- sorted degree came to grips today in the national championship "bloo1y Thursday'' to determine the semi-finalists in America's greatest links scramble.
 Ranks of the stars, already sad- ly depleted by the sudden-death 1S-hole matches of "black Wed- nesday," were due for further cuts today, a precedent will have been established if the four who have the brsssie and mashie fortitude and accompanying luck to survive today's brace of 1s-hoie tests are of the ace category.
 Only one of the eight stars and eight more or less unknown was rated with g better than even chance of remaining in the lists when the 36-hole semi-finals start on Friday. He, of course, is Law son Little. Little, who already holds a world record of winning the ma. jor (British and U. S.) amateur titles in succession, has played so super!atively during the past two days, that only the most stunning from reversal can keep him out of the championship round.
 Criticism
 Some critics of the present plan of all.match play amateur journeys point out that Little thus far has had, only set-up opponents. But there is ready answer to the argument and 1t is that Little's golf to date would have beaten not only all the amateurs in the world but all of the professionals, too. Yes- terday, for example, he was seven strokes under par for the 2S holes needed to determine his matches.
 Little today plays William Me-. Cullough, Jr., whose name is ia. miliar to golfing men of the Quak- CT City area, but who, in the big time, is a distinct outsider. Assum. ing that Little beats Mccullough in .he fifth round, he vii lmeet either George Voight or Willie Turnesa, both of New York, in the round of eight.
 The Voight-Turnesa match, by the way. is the show piece of the forenoon, as each has a nationally recognized game, and each is rated a possible champion, this year or another.
 One match involves two scantly- known players, Oliver Transue of Cleveland and Joe Lynch of Can ton, Mass.
 Possibilities
 Here, with the theoretically probable winner named first, are the other contests of the mornings fifth round:
 Jack Munger of Dallas vs. Harry Givan of Seattle.
 Walter Emery of Oklahoma City vs. Eddie Held of Jamesburg, N. J.
 Fred Haas of New Orleans vs. John B. Nash of London, Ont.
 Tommy Goodman of New York vs. Charles Kocsis of Detroit.
 -'ascination the amateur holds is based largely on its utter un- predi stability. That makes 1t amus- ing to try to forecast the events of a day. Here, for what it's worth (and that's almost zero) is one possible set-up:
 Munger to beat Givan and lost to Emery; Haas to beat Nash and beat either Transue or Lynch; Goodman to beat Meister and, in the quarter-finaIs, beat Goodwin who should beat Kocsis; Little to spread-agle Mccullough and beat either Voight or Turnesa. That would make semi-hnal of Tmery against Haas, and Goodman against Little. Get odds of at least 60 to # you want to bet on it.