Evening star., 1938-09-15
YATES IS BEATEN
IN MEDIOCRE TILT
Brownel| and Burke Fail.
Tournament Is Test of
Physical Fitness.
BY WALTER McCALLUM,
star stan Correspondent.


By WALTER McCALLUM,
star stan Correspondent.
| oAKMoNT COUNTRY CLUB, Pitts
burgh, Pa. Sept. l5.-More than ever
the National Amateur golf champion.
ship becomes the greatest scramble In
sport. And more than ever . tourna-
ment Of stamina and physical fitness,
and the most democratic affair in the
realm OF games. Remaining in the
Simon-pure joust here at Oakmont to-
day are a couple Of millionaires in
Tommy Taller Of Newport's station
wagon set. and Dick Chapman Of
swanky Greenwich; a flock Of guys who
would like to make three grand year,
some men just out Of college, and 4
few business men like John Goodman,
the unspectacular insurance salesman
from Omaha, who Is blowing along
winning matches in defense of his
title and making less than no fuss
about 1t.
! Vanished from the battle-ground are
q flock Of the pre-tournament big
names, like Charlie Yates, the British
amateur king: Ray Billows, runner
up last year. along with three more Of
| their Walker Cup teammates: Johnny
Burke, the intercollegiate champion,
who will report at Georgetown Univer-
stty for his Junior year next week, and
two former champions In Jess Sweetser
land Ross Somerville.
History May Repeat.
But Goodman and 1anky John
Fischer still stick around. It wouldn't
be any upset in this biggest Of sports
scrambles to see them In there facing
each other in a 36-hole match Satur-
day. to renew their battle Of two years
back at Garden City, where Fischer
licked Goodman In a gale Of wind and
rain that lay nat, driven by . 40-mile
sephyr.
OF the big names of q year or two
back only these two. and couple more
remained as the field, cut to Is sur
Nvors Of the first two 1e-hole rounds,
started out on another hog killing ex-
i. pedition today. with two more l8-hole
jousts coming up before they leveled of
for the 36-hole matches tomorrow.
Gone from the scene of the champion
ship also is 19-year-old Bobby Brownell
OF Manor Country Club. the tow-head
who stands out among the Simon pure
performers around the Capital this
year. Bobby licked Reynolds Smith
Of Dallas, Tex, 4 1888 Walker Cup
team member, in the opening round
Of the tourney. and then vanished be-
Tore the Jove-like wallops Of fearless,
mighty hitting, Melvin Chick Har-
bert of'Clay. N Y, the kid who tells
the world he is good. The Chick IS
good. He is the same slugger who
whipped par by 80 shots in winning
the Michigan open championship of
1887 with q 72-hole total of 26S. Har-
bert today met Medalist Gus More
land OF Peoria. ILL.,. In . battle that
should touch of some pyrotechnics,
and may be the tip-off on 4 new cham
pion.
Calls for Stamina and Punch.
1t takes more than 4 puffball to
remain around through two or three
lS-hole matches on 7,000-yard battle
ground like Oakmont, softened up by
two days Of almost steady rain, and re-
tain the putting touch on greens that
are as slick as . press agents promises.
But the main point is that the anna
teur championship, where you have
to win eight matches on the heels Of
. 36-hole medal test, more and more
Il hArnpnino tn,,rn q rn> >v,& - sk>x.;~>
and punch, and spot where big
names mean exactly nothing. OF the
Is men remaining in the third round
today, not more than four are known
except Is sectional stars. And social
standing and money bags mean moth
Ing either. One Of the queer quirks
OF the draw today is that Chapman
and Taller, who between them repre-
sent more than few millions, met in
the third round.
It's sports big scramble any way you
want to call it. Feature matches Of
the third round were those between
Gus Moreland and Harbert and Fischer
and Willie Turnesa, who may crack
the Turnesa jinx and crash through to
. national win this year.
Bobby Brownell no more deserved to
Be licked by Harbert than he deserved
to lick Reynolds Smith in his first
match. For the frst time in three
days the youngsters second shots were
straying from the line, his iron shots
were missing the green, and his putt
ing was jumpy. Harbert, on the other
hand. was walloping that ball 4 coun-
try mile. and always inside from the
tee shot he gave Bobby few chances.
One up at the ninth tee, Bobby lost
that hole to Harbert's perfectly played
birdie 4. He dropped the tenth when
. 4.foot putt slid past the cup, halved
the eleventh and then ran into wild
stroke that cost him three straight
holes and the match. Bobby pushed
his second shot deep in the woods at
the long twelfth. enabling Harbert to
win with . cozily played pay 5. He
also went over par at the short thir-
teenth, to 90 3 down. and then three
putted the fourteenth green to let
Harbert win with bosey 5. The end