Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22
FISCHER OPPOSES
YATES IN OPENER
Other Yankees Apparently
Destined to Clash in
Early Rounds.
BY BERNARD DARWIN,
British Golf Expert.


British Golf Expert.
LONDON, May 2l.-The British
amateur golf championship, which be-
gins at Troon. in Ayrshire, on Mon
day, will have more than usually
strong international flavor.
First of all, we shall have the Amer
lean Walker Cup side. Then there
will be strong team of four Aus
tralian golfers, who are here on a
tour. led by that fine left-ilanded
golfer. Len Nettlefold. Finally. there
are Jacques Leglise. holder of the open
championship of France. and a soli-
tary challenger from Berlin, Graf Hans
Won Reichenbach.
In the draw the American players
have not been. as a whole, lucky. 1t
is not that they have drawn very
formidable opponents, but several of
them are too near one another. so
that all too soon they must fall to
cutting one another's threats. More
over, two of them, Charley Yates and
Johnny Fischer have got to begin
this fratricidal business in the very
first round.
Must Accept PICKLE Fortune.
I remember that Francis Ouimet
had to play Gus Moreland in the first
round at Prestwick in Lawson Little S
year, and in an earlier year at Deal he
had to kill or be killed by that good
Californian golfer. Jack Veville. 1
wish that fortune would not behave
in this scurvy way. but she has, and
there is nothing for it but to stick by
her DEGREES.
Now, let me take the Americans
As they come on the list. In the first
round comes an American not in the
Walker Cup side. Bobby Dunkelber-
ger of North Carolina. He plays A. E.
L. Mackenzie-Grieve. Hampshire
golfer of whom. must confess. I
never heard before.
Then after pretty long gap, comes
our old friend, Francis Ouimet, drawn
against a Southern player. P. j.
Urlwin- Smith of no alarming quality.
see Francis moving safely.
Another gap Of 10 couples or so and
we come to little nest of Americans,
far too near each other to be comfort
able. The first Of them is Charles
Kocsis of Detroit. who meets R. w.
Crummark, Lancashire golfer who is
approaching the veteran stage but
good one for all that.
Americans JOstie Each Other.
c. S. Munson, jr., one of the leaders
Of last summers Yale team who has
been for the last year at Cambridge
but for some rather mysterious reason
did not want to play golf there-meets
Albert Briscoe, who few years ago
played for Ireland.
Next door to him is Marvin Ward OF
Olympia, Wash, with Israel Sidebot-
tom. a Cheshire golfer whose many
ferocious waggles have added touch
of humor to many championships.
Ward surely will beat him, and have
no doubt Johnny Goodman. of Omaha.
will defeat Robert Montgomery of
Cambuslang.
Then comes Ray Billows of Pough-
keepsie, N Y, against Raymond Quill
ter, a South of England player who is
long and strong and capable of bril-
liant rounds, but not of any great
quality l look to see all three Amer
leans go through with something to
spare, but it is indeed cruel that
Ward, Goodman and Billows thus
should be jostling one another so early.
After a gap of seven couples there is
Reynolds Smith of Dallas, who ought
to step comfortably over Koch de
Gooreynd of Addington.
Fisher and Gates Tangle.
Fifteen more couples pass and here
are Fischer and Yates, locked in a
deadly embrace, and finally at the tail
end is Fred Haas, jr.. of New Orleans.
against more or less unknown from
Cheshire, A. j. AshWorth.
In short, fortune has been kind to
the Americans as regards their British
adversarles. none of whom ought to
give much trouble. She has been un-
kind in budding too many Americans
too closely together.
Our own good players do not seem to
have any fierce enemies in the first
have any very fierce enemies in the
first round. and, by the way. I must
mention one of them whom we think
very, very good indeed. He is James
Bruen, an 1rfsh boy, who, when he
played In the Walker Cup trials early
in May. was still two days short of his
18th birthday. He scattered all his
adversaries like sheep and his score for
four rounds of ST. Andrews was the
wonderfully fine one of 282. He is not
an elegant player, but he is good
one. very strong very confident and
apparently able to play instinctively
the rather thicky shots that are de-
manded by the banks and braes of st.
Andrews when they are hard and fast.
If our Walker Cup side can play on
the day as in the trials. then I have
reasonable temperate hopes of them,
but we have failed so often on the day
before that I am no. saying much.
As to Troon. where the championship
Is played. it is a good. honest test of
seaside golf. 1t is next door to Prest-
wick, where Lawson Little won the
first of his two championships and,
like all the West Coast courses, has
flne. velvety turf such as should not
seem too strange to our visitors.
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