Evening star., 1950-08-20
Coe, 1949 Champion,
Picks Jim McHaIe as
Probable Successor
BY the Assoeiaied Press


MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 10. -
Charles Coe. the human f1agpole
from Oklahoma, can repeat as
National Amateur golf champion.
He'll join a select company. Win
ing successive Amateur titles has
cen done only by Lawson Little
nee the days of the immortal
iobby Jones.
Starting Monday over the $685.
ard layout of the Minneapolis
off Club, where par is 35-36-71,
oe gets his chance to break the
* that has followed defending
lampions since 1895.
And If Coe doesn't triumph
gain, who will? Suggestions are
S numerous as pickles at a fire.
lan's picnic. Solid favorites are
lon-existent.
Coe picks Jim McHale, the one
time pro from Bethlehem. Pa, to
succeed him after a weeks play
on the plateau course some eight
miles from the heart of town.
Turnesa Won 1t Twice.
Willie Turnesa of Elmsford,
T. Y. whose two championships
came 10 years apart, thinks Ted
Bishops long irons will be the
deciding factor. Bishop, whose
home is in Weston, Mass, won the
crown in 1946.
Others say Turnesa's putting
can win it and there are those
who point out that Frank Strana-
han of Toledo always has done
well In this sector. Stranahan al
ready has won the British ANA
teur this year and comes here
from a double -barrelled victory in
the hopped-up fairway frenzy at
Chicago's Tam O'Shanter.
In addition to those established
players, there are youngsters
such as Mac Hunter of Pacific
Palisades, Calf. William Dyna-
mite) Goodloe, Valdosta, Ga,
Mason Rudolph. Clarksville. Tenn.
and Fred Wampler. Indianapolis,
who could take over. Moreover,
with field such as this there is
always the prospect of a dark
horse surging to the front.
Rudolph is the United States
Golf Association National Junior
champion, and Wampler already
has won the Big Ten and National
Collegiate crowns this season.
Rain Changed Things.
Virtually the entire field of 210
contestants has been here the past
two days for practice. Early ar
rivals tabled the layout easy"
because long drought had dried
up all the rough. But it rained
Thursday night and by late Fri
day par IT'S had replaced the 68's
of the preceding days. Lowest
round of the practice period was
a 68 by Dale Morey of Dallas.
For the fourth successive year,
all competition will be match
play. Nine of the 210 contestants
were exempt from qualifying be-
cause they either held or had held
British or American, champion
ships.
Enough. byes were placed in
Mondays 18-hole first round to
provide 64 second-rognd matches,
also over 18 holes, on Tuesday
Two 18-hole rounds are scheduled
for Wednesday and Thursday
with 36-hole duels in the semi
final rounds Friday and Satur-
day.
A blind draw set up the
matches. No attempt was made
to seed the players with the re-
suit that the fourth quarter
bracket is studded with top
flight players.
In this section are Wampler,
Stranahan, McHale, Turnesa,
Goodloe. Hunter, William Maw-
Kinney of Vancouver, B. c.. the
Canadian amateur champion; Bill
Campbell, the golfing legislator
from Huntington, w. Va, and
Nal Galletta of Douglaston. N. Y,
a rugged metropolitan SHOEMAKER.
The draw pits Stranahan and Nc
Hale against each other in a
Tuesday match should each tri-
umph on Monday.
Among changes announced yes
terday in the National amateur
field was the substitution of John
A. Enrich of Baltimore for Ed
Finessey of Towson, Md, who
withdrew.