Evening star., 1936-09-19
YANKEE SURVIVOR
KEEN FOR BR|T0N
Conquers Goodman in Hard
TussIe While Invader
s Swamps Voigt.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM,
o1rrneNanlartA ~ Tha Gtor

Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
~ ARDEN CITY, Long Island,
September ia Cincinnati
law student from Fort
~ Thomas, KY, against Scot
tish whisky salesman from Glasgow.
That's the set-up for the final round
of the national amateur golf cham
pionship today at the swanky old
Garden City Golf Club. The final
round is being played over the 36-hole
route, starting at 10 a m. and pm.
with Johnny Fischer, law student
from the Blue Grass country, against
the startling Jock Mclean, Scottish
champion and whisky salesman, who
was licked handily in the Walker Cup
matches and has gone to the mai IN
the American championship for the
first time for any Britisher since Phil
Perkins took it on the chin from Bob
Jones in 1928 at Boston.
1t was at first decreed to postpone
the title match until tomorrow because
of the heavy wind and rain that COM
pletely inundated the course yester-
day. However, conditions became SO
much better overnight that it was
decided to 60 on with the interna-
tional battle.
Even Money Match.
"A FLOCK Of Scotsmen, their palates
whetted for the first time in two
decades by the possibility of fellow
countryman winning the United States
championship, smacked their lips
in anticipation of drinks Of VIC
tory, for Mclean is an even
money favorite to whip the lanky
Fischer. The whisky salesman from
Glasgow has shown enough around
here to warrant equal rating with any
man, and even with Fischer, who
happens to be playing in his first anna
teur championship final.
1t may even be that the Scots,
kicking aside their traditional close
ness, will open Up tomorrow and set
up free bar at the eighteenth at
Garden City, but no matter what
happens, there will be a real celebra-
tion among the gents of Caledonian
descent.
Not in Is years has the American
championship been won by Britisher,
II you count out Ross Somerville, the
Canadian who won in 1882. Harold
Hilton, born in England, was the last
one, but you cannot count out Nc
Lean. The guy has too many fine
golf shots and he plays this course
too well. He can lick Fischer on this
course and tote the big gold mug
back to Glasgow.
But he won't do it if Fischer shows
the same stuff he showed yesterday
to whip John Goodman, the hard luck
) kid from Omaha, who seems to be as
far away from the championship as
he was back in 1929 when he whipped
Bob Jones in the first round. Play
ing under the most atrocious condi-
tions any championship match ever
has been played in this country,
Fischer outlasted Goodman to win on
the seventeenth. when Goodman hit
three bad tee shots in row to drop
as many holes when he seemed to have
the match won.
Mclean was out under the same
conditions against George Voigt, but
he was 6 up and guy can coast in
with such lead.
Skill Hardly Counted.
THE real match of the semi-final
was the Goodman-Fischer i'm
broglio. Goodman was the favorite,
naturally, and no man can say today
that Goodman isn't as good an
amateur as there is in the land. But
the conditions were so abominable
that skill hardly counted. The u.
S. G. A. did a wise thing when they
postponed the final until tomorrow.
The only mistakes they made was in
not postponing the whole thing until
today and tomorrow.
It wasn't so bad in the morning
A big wind swept the course, but it
didn't start to rain until around noon
George Voigt, playing against Mclean,
who has gotten better with each round
In this joust, was outclassed. Nc
Lean was in weather to his liking
Scotland has lots of weather like
that. Voigt, good as he is, couldn't
cope with the winds. Mclean,
finishing the first round with II and
some darned good putting, was up
at the turn on Voigt's SO. That
match was in. No man could spot
Mclean six holes and beat him. Co.
ing out il. the afternoon to face a So
mile breeze whipping squall across
the narrow farways, George lost by
8 and Z. 1t was far from a test of
skill.
Goodman Square at 30th.
RUT no less test of skill was the
epic scrap between Goodman and
Fischer, the tall boy who has smoothed
down his swing until today he Is one
of the smoothest strokers of q golf
ball in the world. He isn't the same
man who played at Congressional last
. year and was whipped. John Fischer
today is very fine golfer, perhaps the
finest amateur in the world. That will
be determined tomorrow.
Fighting a dogged scrap through
out the first 80 holes, Goodman and
Fischer were all square facing the
thirty-first. The wind was whipping
across the course. the rain was splash
ing and the conditions were atrocious.
par, and worse. Goodman won the
= thirty first with buzzard five to CO.
one up. But Fischer came right back
to win the thirty-second with five on
the par four fifteenth. That's the
kind of weather 1T was, for it wasn't
altogether Goodman's fault that the
wind carried his tee shot into .
bunker.
But the break came at the thirty
third. There Fischer hit . great tee
shot, $50 yards into the wind and
rain, q great shot under the condi-
tions. Goodman topped his ball. It
didn't go 40 yards. He lost the hole
to . five on q par four hole. One up,
Fischer pounded out . good shot on
the thirty-fifth and Goodman, facing
defeat, hit low hook which smacked
into the face Of bunker and buried.
He found the ball and lost q shot dis
LODGING 1t, Lawson Little, 1885 cham