Evening star., 1936-09-22
HAS ALL It TAKES
BUT KILLER IDEA
Young Scot Could Use Some
Jones PhiIosophy-Here
for Long Visit.
BY w. z. McCALLUM.

wv CELL lOOh loi iioAC AouDAe
" In golf from 25-year-old Jock
Mclean, the Scottish whisky
i salesman who came within an
inch of winning the American anna
teur championship at Garden City,
Long Island, last Saturday.
Jock of the immaculate swing and
the clean clipped iron shots is going
to remain in this country for quite a
while, and there is chance he may
stick around for long time. He has
no intention Of turning golf profess
sional, but he will be thorn in the
side of any amateurs who run up
against him. The Scottish lad is
plenty good, and if the wind blows he
can win any tournament.
But Mclean isn't going to win an
American national until he tightens
up his game and adds the killing
punch, along the old theory of Bob
Jones, which ran something like this:
when you get 'em down, get 'em
2 down. When you get 'em 2 down,
get 'em down. And don't ever re-
lax in a golf match until they are
licked"
Needs Jones' Philosophy.
HAD young Mr.. Mclean little OF
the Jones philosophy regarding
golf matches, today he would be sport
ing the amateur championship of the
United States. the first competitor
from the British Isles to win since
Harold Hilton scored at Apawamis in
1911. But he couldn't get down the
short puts over the last 18 holes
The Caledonian had no fewer than
nve three-putt greens during that
final march, but notwithstanding that
he had John Fischer licked, until
John, sensing the break that came
when Mclean three-putted three out
OF four straight greens. took heart
and began to figha For Fischer
looked to be a beaten man as he
shanked an iron shot at the twenty
fifth hole. and three-putted the
twenty-fourth green-a man waiting
for the ak to fall, with one of those
what is this all about?" expressions
on his Unconditional face. Mclean let
that match slip away from him by
three-putting the sixth, seventh, tenth,
eleventh and thirteenth green's. You
can't win championships by doing
that. even though the other fellow
can't hit lick. Any man will scrap
and fight when he sees that his op-
ponent lacks the finishing punch. as
Mclean lacked it up on Long Island
last Saturday afternoon.
Tossed Away Title.
OF COURSE, that Stymie on the
thirty-fourth green had some
thing to do with it. 1t may have been
the one spark that Fischer needed for
his final charge, for there isn't any
question that Mclean had the hole
won when Fischer blew 5-foot putt
for par 4. with McLean's ball lying
less than foot away. The ugly thing
had to pop up at that moment. and
again next Winter you are going to
hear plenty about the stymie, based
on that match. For had Mclean not
been stymied he would have gone
dormie up, and probably would have
won on the thirty-flfth.
But as the match came out he
tossed it away with missed puts Of
less than 4 feet on an eight-hole
stretch starting at the sixth and end
ing at the thirteenth. Scotsmen aren't
noted for giving things away. but If
ever a man tossed championship
out the window Mclean tossed that
one.
All Of which doesn't take anything
away from the courage of Johnny
Fischer. Outplayed through 18 holes
OF the match, suffering tortures from
twisted ankle, Fischer fought back
when the going seemed hopeless,
gained renewed courage when Nc
Lean couldn't slip across the final
punch and at the end holed a couple
OF picture puts to win. They don't
do that without irving.