Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1932, Page 10

SPORTS TRIBE STRUGELING 70 BOLSTER PECK Anxious to Prove Worth of Manager—Crowder Shines in Win Over Tigers. Flag Drive May Fag the Bruins O'DOUL AND KLEIN BEST WITH FLALS Two National Leaguers Top American Loop Leaders. Foxx in Slump. YORK, September 17 (CP.A)—The Cubs needed five more victories to insure their presence in the world series. They still have nine games to play, while the Pirates have 11, of which four will be played at Wrigley Field. ‘There is little doubt that the Cubs will finish where they are. But they may be a trifle fagged out when the time arrives to shape up against the Yankees in the stadium one week from next Wednesday. ‘The Pirates are booked for double- headers with the Giants today and tomorrow at the Polo Ground. After a double-header with the Phils to- day the Cubs visit Cincinnati tomor- row and on Tuesday begin their im- portant series with the Pirates at By the Associated Press. EW YORK, September 17.—With the end of the major league season only eight days away, two National League batters, Frank O'Doul of Brooklyn and Chuck Klein of the Phillies, appear to have the year's major league batting honors well in hand. DANGER IU YANKS week, while Klein improved his slugging | league hitters through most of the sea- Chicagb. O'Doul maintained his .370 average records a bit. And at the same time Jimmie Foxx of the Philadelphia Ath- | son, slumped to .358, where he was tied | for the American League lead with Dale H {that tops both leagues through this letics, who set the pace for the big | Alexander of the Boston Red Sox. Bruin Star’s Fifth in Eight Games Defeats Phillies. Close One to A’s. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEVELAND, Ohio, September | having its last look at the Washington base ball team Nationals close their Western en- | gagements for the year in a series | of tough opposition. There has been some talk here of ager of the Indians. The anti-Peckin- paugh movement was given a boom by one of thé so-called prima donnas of | the major leagues, did not like his as- | made some publia statement reflecting upon Peckinpaugh's ability to handle came to a suspension for Ferrell. As a result of the suspension, it was players were up in arms against Peck- | inpaugh. But the boys went out to| BY GAYLE TALBOT, and a fine manager and that he stands Associated Brese Jouts Witer ace high with them. You can wager E Yankees' wrecking crew and on opens Peckinpaugh will be man- 2 - ager of the Cleveland team. whes Geu wee TRV S 0o “do-it-for-Peck” attitude. The going |ing in the approaching world series, it will be rather rough here in three games | might be timely to point out that the day Crowder pitched the final game in | upper of their own In big Gabby Hart- | been better. He held the Tigers to three | ¢ hits. He walked only three men and| .\ the Chicagoans win in "‘; e arring a | 17—The Middle West is| for the season of 1932. The here, where they will have plenty replacing Roger Peckinpaugh as man- the Wesley Ferrell incident. Ferrell, | signments, did not like this and that, | pitchers and the arguments finally rumored around town that all the ball | prove that Peck is really a good guy | 5 ITH "the talk of the nything you care to that when another Washington will get the benefit of the | to the Chicago Cubs’ pitch- | and Alvin Crowder cannot pitch ever: ubs boast & pretty fair game breaker- Detroit yesterday and he has rarely | nett | he won by an 8-to-3 score, enabling | £ague, Which they will, the Nationals to continue their fight|major catastrophe, the Yank curvers for second place. will do well to work on Hartnett very The team came up well behind |carefully. He is hitting like a ton of Crowder. Cronin made an error, and | bricks for Manager Charley Grimm, 50 did Bluege, but both misplays were | specielizing in home runs where they excusable, and Cronin did some brilliant [ will do the most good. fielding as well. He made two dazzling | Hartnett's smash over the right-field catches of foul flies in left field terri- | wall in the third inning, his fifth in tory. West, Rice and Kuhel also con- | eight games, started the Cubs on the tributed spectacular plays. Myer made | way to their 3-to-2 victory over the one that was far out of the ordinary. Phillies yesterday The Nationals hit well together terday, something that they did not do in the previous two games. Only three of their ten hits did not figure in the run scoring. S all the other National League teams were idle, the victory plant- ed the Cubs a full six games ahead of the second-place Pittsburgh Pirates, with only nine'to go. They now need -third | {o win only five more, even if the Pir- He 15 | ates capture all of the remaining, il He had plenty | o pick up the marbles. of staf? against Detroit. He walked the | Cxug. Sinnig. whe took Burleigh Do i Batters who faced him in the | Ginmes iase o5 one of the Cubs’ Stare s scventh and both scored. He gave only | ing pitchers, went the route vesterday, one other base on balls. . keeping nine Philly hits well spaced. = ¢ [ Ed Holley also pitched well for the Phils, yielding seven hits, but an error Alvin Crowder won his twen victory of the season yesterda) charged with 13 defea By winning vesterday Washington go an even break for the year with Detroit. | elding Fach team won 11 games and lost the | PY,Chuck Klein cost him a run - % | Appearing in Chicago for the last same number. It is the first time since st e e ) e Stanley Harris took charge of Detroit | % BUIORC thed' €0 back 1o tackle | that the Tigers have been able to gk:z cm_;_d‘a 4_1‘!“'13“;‘1;‘ o :‘hc fl&he‘:‘-:‘ ‘I‘\f,"‘“‘i‘ as an even break with the |,y "oy "Moore and Dan MacFayden puonas Lt allowed the Sox only five hits, while | They are having ladies’ days in De- | the American League champions jumped troit for the first time this season. on Sam Jones for five hits and three About 5,000 were out yesterday, and they | Tuns to sew it up in the third inning. screamed lustily for nine innings. L SIMMONS’ thirty-third home run | Sam West was back in center field of the vear. with Cochrane on base, | He killed a three-bagger for Davis with helped Lefty Grove of the Achletics | a brilliant running catch in left center. |take a close = decision from Irving| He got only one hit, but that drove in a | (Bump) Hadley of St. Louis. 3 to 2| et The A's made only six hits off Hadley. | o Oscar Melillo knocked in both Brown By beating Detroit the Nationals sent runs, the Tigers below a .500 percentage. It ~Ivy Paul Andrews, who missed being was Detroit’s seventy-first defeat of the in the world series money when the year. Yankees traded him to Boston in the — : MacFayden deal. pitched the Red S Buddy Myer walked three times. o e “Twice he scored and the third fime he | {0 @ closing 6-to-2 triumph over Cleve- = = h lat land. was thrown out at the plate. Washington took its season final from | Charley Gehringer made two swell I?_Aenmt. 8 to 3, Alvin Crowder setting | ot in the first inning, but neither the Tigers down with three hits, two ge;pcd Detroit. He dived behind first Of them by Heine Schuble. base and stabbad Rice’s drive with his gloved hand, but could not recover in time to make a throw. He made a catch of Kuhel's fly while running at top speed in center field, but was going so fast that h> could not throw home and stop a run. Two of the three hits that Detroit ited to Heinie Schuble, an in the line-up and the man in the Detroit batting or- . He got a single and double and | ande drove in two of Detra runs. The | _ Runs—Foxx other scored on Cronin's fumble. CROWDER IN COMMAND I By the Assoclated Press. (Including yesterday's games.) American League. Batting—Foxx, Athletics, and Alex- Red Sox, 358. , Athletics, 140; Combs, 38 mo:}yuSh' Senators, 204; Gehrig, ns batted in—Foxx, Athletics, 149; Gehrig, Yankees, 145. Doubles—McNair, Gehringer, Tigers, 41. Triples—Cronin, Senators, 18; Myer, Senators, 16. runs—Foxx, Athletics, 44; e o Athletics, 52; P Wkl R e ncwl ElEauenunass mez, Yankees National League. Batting—O'Doul, Dodgers, .370; Klein, Phillies, .350. Runs—Klein, Dodgers, 117. Hits—Klein, Phillies, 216; O'Doul. Dodgers, 210. Runs batted in—Hurst, Phillies, 136; o | Klein, Phillies, 129, Totals DETROIT. s. 1 g M ] comosnosst Somd alcmsscuisml Phillies, 147; O'Doul, omoma 0 0 0 2 Sorurramuen® O Phillies, and Stephenson, Cubs, 49. | Triples—Herman, Reds, 18; Suhr, 9 9 2-8| Ppirates, 16 Al 20 0-3 il . anush (2), | Home runs—Klein, Phillies, 37; Ott, o-base hit:— | Giants, 36. nuble Stoien | Stolen bases—Klein, o1 DOIS, 2148 | Prisch, Cardinals, 18. s _Washins- | _ Pitching—Warneke, se_on_balls—Off ¢ = - o Erower 2 Brown, Braves, 14-6. Hits—O! 2 0 in—Kuhel (3), ronin, West hel. ns nulirg Phillies, Cubs, 20; 22-6; | el gell to Kuhel, Left on Detroit. First ba off Hogsett, 3 ing hertMarrow Hildebrand, Moriarty an Major Clouters | By the Associated Press. | | G. AB. R. H. Pct.| | O'Doul, Dodgers.. 140 567 117 210 .370 | Foxx, Athletics... 145 545 140 195 .358 Alexander, RedSox 114 355 53 127 .358 | Klein, Phillies.... 145 618 147 216 .300‘ Manush, Senatos 140 585 119 204 .349 Hurst, Phillies.... 141 546 104 188 .344 Home run leaders—Foxx, Athletics, 52; Ruth, Yankees, 40; Klein, Phillies, | 37: Ott, Giants, 36: Simmons, Athletics, 1. Pt | 33} Gehrig, Yankees, 32. Newark... 107 56 .04 Rochester. 86 10 .21 PR 33| FLAG TO MINNEAPOLIS Baltimore.. 92 72 561 Jersey City T 9 73 3% Albanyo.. 69 96 418 Buffalo.... 91 73 555 Alban: FHtey | Plays Newark in Bush League| Classic Opening September 27. | Montreal... 88 77 .533 Toronto... ST. PAUL, Minn,, September 17 (). | American Association. ‘Minneapolis, 9; St. Paul, 1. —The American Association base ball | championship, _carry the right to Milwaukee. 10: Kansas City, 3. Indianapolis, 2; Toledo, 1. Others not scheduled. STANPEGeoT T RN 1 per | et Newark, International Leagie win W. L. Pet. v i ‘wark, International - Min'apolis. 96 61 611 Toledo. ... 8178 509 ners jn a little world series ggsfvzni Columbus.. 85 71 .545 Kans. City 76 80 .487 Milwaukee. 80 74 .519 St. Paul... 65 92 414 | games, came to the Minneapolis Mil- | Ind'apolls. 8175 519 Louisvillé. 62 95 395 | Jers yesterday with a 9-to-1 triumph | over St. Paul. | Pacific Coast League. The series with the International | League champions will start at the East- | ern city September 27, where three| games will be played. Then the scene | Missions. 4; Oakland, 3. shifts to Minneapolis for as many tilts | San Francisco, 9; Portland, 7. Seattle, 4; Los_Angeles, 3. as needed to declare a four-out-of- e in the International League. Baltimore, 3; Albany, 1. Montreal, 7; Buffalo. 5 Rochester, 3—1: Toronto, 1—3. Others not scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. w Hollywood, 3; Sacramento, 2. riland .. A ;anll"ond ber 2. 17| In and out of first place several times | 517 this season, the Millers, managed by‘ 497 Donnie Bush, brought. back the title ,':‘alos last won by a Minneapolis team in 1915. | Cubs, .330: Traynor, Pirates, 40. Chapmen, Yankees, 37; | PutchingAMLeqn.; Yankees, 16-3; Go- | seven winner. The first game i ssociatioh Park is booked for Octo\1 UT Jimmie still held an edge in the struggle for recognition on the grounds that Alexander was a late comer into the ranks of the “regulars” and had only 355 times at bat against 545 for Foxx. Klein and Foxx still shared honors in the all-round slugging race, each topping the majors in two departments aside from the batting averages. | The high siugging marks for the two leagues were: Runs—Klein, 147; Foxx, 140. Hits—Klein, 216; Martush, Senators, 04. | Runs batted in—<Foxx, 149; Hurst,| Phillies, 136. | Doubles—P. Wener, Pirates, 57; Me- | Nair, Athletics, 44 Triples—Cronin, Senators, and Her- an, Reds, 18 Home runs—Foxx, 52; Klein, 37 Stolen bases—Chapman, Yankees, 87; Klein, 20. K in the National League batting | averages yesterday, hoisting his mark to .350. Trailing him were Hurst, | .344; Terry. Gi 343: V. Davis Phillies. .341: P. Waner, Pirates, 335.’ 24 m: LEIN also climbed to second place | L. Waner, Pirates, .333; Stephencon, .329, and 3 z 20: Cronin, Senators, 320, and Simmons, Athletics, .319. Young Bob Brown of Boston moved into second place amonz Naticnal League pitchers with 14 victories and 6 defeats. The leader was Lonnie War- neke of the Cubs with 22 and 6. In the American League the leaders, Johnny | Allen and Vernon Gomez, both of the Yankees, suffered one defeat during the week. Allen’s record now is 16 and 3 Gcmez's, 24 and 7 Shadows of the Past BY I C. BRENNER. N the last two years of the old Garden, down in the Madison Square section of York City, many thrilling fights the classes below the welterweight division were staged Ly Tex Rickard, because. he often remarked: “Them tle fellers are like fighting cocks. money. Many stories have been written about the hectic affairs between little Jack Sharkey and Joe Lynch, John- ny Buffl and Lynch, Dundee and Jackson, Midget Smith and Jack Sharkey and others of their caliber. Every time Lynch, Sharkey and Smith were the headliners “Old Tedge” was certain of sell-out, or near sell-out. Popular boys with the New York fans, they were. Midgst Smith, the subject of this story, now a ralesman who travels game- They give ye a run fer your Doubles—P. Waner, Pirates, 57; Klein, | / MIDGET SMITH. South considerably and spends his idle moments around the new Gar- den, in his heydey was a fighter of the Billy Petrolle type. There was no let-up in the Midget's work, once he got started, and so pleasing were | his performances that he always had a horde of supporters. The Midget, the smallest man ever in the United States Regular Army, in which he served at Panama for two years and in which he won the bantam title, hasn't changed much since he retired except that though he still is a midget in size, he is a heavyweight in build. The Midget has taken on many pounds of avoir- dupois and instead of the trim, well-built J]ad who made a fighting name for himself in the old Gar- The Midget engaged in arwuk den, he now looks more like the old- style alderman than an athlete. The Midget engaged in many thrilling encounters in his short ca- reer, but he says that the hardest one in which he participated was that with Joe Lynch in Chicago on April 4, 1923. In that, he avers, he tcok his worst shellacking, one he will remember to his dying day. It was a 10-rounder in the Chicago Coliseum, ang the Midget came within an eyélash of winning the bantam title when, in the second round, he floored Joe for a count of nine and had the erown wearer groggy throughout the round after he got off the floor. From that round to the finish Lynch evened the score by lacing his rival all over Al % (coprrtaht, 19925 THE STUDENT BODY TURNED 0uUT WHEN HE fsaw His sQUAD THE OTHER. DAY..r- ‘I/// ==y Z 4 €§ %(’\\ =3 WON bsT == X “THE EASLE NENER A GAME YEAR- BUT ABVER SQUAWIKED /o we WiIN ONE THS YEAR, WERE ad IMPRAVED TEAM, ANYHOW N YAl (Ackep SPEED AND B XPERIEACE AST YEAR - BUT:I've GoT SOMETHING A UTRLE FASTER FOR. THE. TRADE -SAYS WALTER.. How They Fared In Past Tourneys ALTIMORE, September 17 (#).— Records of Johnny Goodman and Ross Somerville, finalists for the American amateur golf championship. are closely similar in this classic. Each has qualified only four times and, prior to this battle. each found the 18-hole early round matches too tough to surv Here are their comparative per- formances in this and previous na- tional tournaments since 1927: 1927—Goodman failed to qualify. 1928 — Somerville beat Frank Dolph, 2 and 1, in first round; lost to John Beck. 1 up, in second round. Goodman_did not compete. 1929—Goodman beat Bobby Jones, 1 up, in first round; lost to Lawson Little, 2 and 1, in second round. Somerville failed to qualify. 1930—Goodman lost to Johnny McHugh, 1 up, in first round. Som- erville lost to Bobby Jones, 5 and 4, in first round. 1931—Goodman lost to Billy How- ell, 2 and 1, in first round; Somer- ville defeated Gene Homans, 2 and 1. in first round; lost to Fay Cole- man, 4 and 3, in second round. 1932—Goodman qualified with 144, second lowest score; defeated H. Chadler Egan. 2, in first 3 S round; defeated Charles Seaver, 2 and 1, in second round; defeated Maurice McCarthy, jr, 1 up, 36 holes, in quarter-finals: defeated Francis Ouimet, 4 and 2, in semi- finals. Somerville qualified with 150; defeated John F. Brawner, jr., 5 and 3, in first round; defeated Jack Westland, 3 and 2, in second round; defeated Billy Blaney, 6 and 5. in quarter-finals; defeated Jesse Guil- ford, 7 and 6, in semi-finals. STILL SEEKING GAME. ANNAPOLIS, Md., September 17.— |st. John's_College is negotiating with King's College, Tenn., for a game on October 1. St. John's lost its game on that date by the cancellation by Long Island University. Standings in MajOf‘ Leagues SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1932, American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. In— | Somerville 'Semi-Final Cards ‘ Of Golf Battles ALTIMORE, September 17.—Cards of the semi-final matches in the |”” U. s. amateur golf tourney yester- day at the Five Farms course were as follows: SOMERVILLE VS. GUILFORD. MORNING ROUND. L. 445345 Guilfogd .12 01544456 |~ Somérville, 3 up. 4337 43-38 In— Somerville 5 4554 !—!F"! Guilford 111111, 3555444070 Upperville. 6 up. APTERNOON ROUND. | 437 out— Somerville .. 24354 Guilford . "/ x424544 Somerville, 7 up. | ....484 | Guilford °.1111 1 45 4 | Somerville’ wins. 7 and . GOODMAN VS. OUIMET. MORNING ROUND. Out— Goodman Oulmet ... Match all even. In— Goodman . Ouimet Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. | Al Simmons, Athletics—His _thirty- | third homer with one on beat Browns. | Alvin Crowder, Senators — Stopped | Tigers with three hits. 1 Hazen Cuyler, Cubs—Singled in eighth | to drive in run that beat Phillies. Paul Andrews, Red Sox—Scattered Indians’ nine hits and won easily. ‘Wilcy Moore and Danny MacFayden, \Kll'::ke(&—umlud White Sox to five National League. 'YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. cago, 3; Philadelphia. 2. Pittsburgh-New York, rain. Cincinnati-Brooklyn, 'rain. Other clubs not scheduled. Chicago . Pittsburgh_...[10/—|10 8| 8/12/13/12/70/64].552 Erooklyn ~110/131—1 7| 6114114/14/771691.527 - 71100 9j—I11} Philadelphia .| 5114112111101 91374/ .| 5/_7111110/—[11/12]_141 70/ 711.496 110/14/111—110/31] 9/73(73(.500 i 6817 453 /131 7/ 6—/58881.397 TLost_....14456/58/62/711831971108] —I —I 156164/69171/73/77178/881—I|—| GAMES TODAY. Wash. at _Cleve. N. ¥.'at St. Louis. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. N. Y. t Chicago, Phil on at Detroit. Boston at Detroit GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW Pittshy t N. ¥, Pittsburgh at N. Y. et Bl &) Chicaso st in. cf i 3 aemh at Boston. 8t. - Use PLANERS As sooN 7 /1 AS THEY Al STy ScCHooL- THERE'S NO FROSKA RULE .... AMERICAN UNIVERSITYS YOUTHFUL GQRID. COACH, WAO MAKES 15 FIRST BID FOR RECOGNITION AS A COLLEGE FOOT BALL TUTOR. THIS YEAR. WALTER'S LETTUCE PATCH!OF, (AST SEASON ‘NOW/ HAS EXPERIENCE.. \\\ REACH . = Gridiron Pep at American U. Coach Young Is Confident Eagles Will Make Better Showing in Foot Ball. BY TOM OUNG MR. YOUNG out there in the fastness of the wilderness which encom- passes American University is sprinkling the tobasco. Yep, young Mr. Young, citizens, is preparing to offer to the trade this Fall something a little snap- pier, a little faster, and not so green. . And it isn’t a line of Autumn hats, either. It's young Mr. Young's foot ball team. You knew that, of course. A flock of young men, some 30, dashed out on the Eagles’ playing field the other afterncon to dazzle, bewilder and corfuse Mr Young. Heretofore, the coach merely velled for Oscar, Sam and Pete, and there was his foot ball squad for the training season, ready to go thrcugh its stuff. But times have changed for Mr. Young, if not for you. It could be a change of heart on the part of this Republican administration, a change in the weather, or a lot of other things which have caused Mr. Young to be in the midst of plenty. But it isn't. It is merely the fact that there are more boys at American U. this year who want to play foot ball. And most of them got the urge last year. Which, when it is under- stood that the Eagles mever won a game last season, is strange. But the lettuce patch which took a beat- ing last semester is foot ball wise Golf Analyzed BY JOE GLASS. ATCHING Tommy Armour play a brassie from a side-hill lie in which the ball is higher than the feet elicits information of value to the beginner at golf. First, Armour apparently believes that he should do nothing that will take the hands and arms out of their usual plane in the swing. As the ball is nearer to his shoulders than in an ordinary lie, he must either stand farther from it than usual or else employ a shorter grip. To stand farther away would alter WITH BALL the plane of the swing, so he short- ens his grip. This has the added advantage of giving him better eon- trol of the club. However, he guards against two t . A shorter grip means the clubhead will move in a smaller arc and also feel lighter, so Tommy takes extra care to see that a quick- er swing, with no follow through, shall not result. Here again he braces himself in the stance firmly, so that, in swing- ing, he will not fall away from the ball. e The correct grip for holding a club means distance to your drive. ‘Write Joe Glass, in care of The Star, and ask for his leaflet, “Correct Grip for Driving.” Be sure to inclose & addressed envelope, (Copyright, 1932.) N DOERER | this season, and out to collect on last Fall’s trimmings. For instance, in that group cavorting on the prepping plot yesterday after- noon were 13 lettermen and 5 reserves from last Autumn. Last season those s end of the foot ball was the other end. Add to this collection of 18 experi- enced players, almost as many more vyoung men who either sat along the | sidelines to watch how the game ought to have been played by American U, and others who come to the local schools this year with high school gridiron tutelage. ‘When Mr. Young watches Lionel Dick ) or George Bosari gazelle down the grid- dle like an antelope in a hurry, he grins. Last year Walter did not have a back he could trust out in the open with the leather pineapple. He was never sure whether his star back would take the ball into the stands and hand it to a member of the faculty, or throw it to the head linesman. “But I've got some running backs this year,” he says. “Those boys who were green last year have made progress. Those lickings we took helped us rather than hurt. We lost ball games, but we gained a lot of knowledge in so doing. “We have some boys coming in this year—you know we can use freshmen—who have splendid high school foot ball reputations. They may be just what the doctor ordered for us. The stimulus to our vets who had to take such wallops last year.” ‘ | _Oh. yes, Mr. Young is in his best | mood these afterncons. He also is | abetted by the arrangement which | places the one big game on the Eagle | schedule right at the bottom of the | list. This game with Randolph-Macon, the final one of the season for the | Youngmen, is the one which the team | desires most to take. | “Our big game being at the bot- tom,” says Walter, “gives us a chance to study and improve as we go along. | We are going to take that battle this | year—or, at least, show the enemy that | they have something to vanquish.” - All of this optimism being displayed by the Maryland and District coache: other than Curly Byrd out at Mary land U. is giving me the jitters. It |is so different from other years that | I'm erossing my fingers and hoping for the best while fearing the worst. | It is possible that the mentors believe that this is that one year which comes just so often. Then they may only be whistling through the graveyard. Hotwever, from what I've seen of the teams so far they back up the coaches’ optimism. But I'll keep 0ol until the conclusion of the first jew games hereabout, and 1 just know that the word “hereabout” was going to creep up and snare me some day. I've been ducking it for @ year, too. Well, this puts young Mr. Young in line with the rest of the country’s opti- mists. I hope he, and the rest of the boys are sincere in their beliefs, and not trying to aid the Hoover adminis- | tration by taking a bull stand in a bear’s market. 125 GOLFERS BATTLING Eight Flights in Action in Indian Spring Title Play. One hundred and twenty-two golfers y were to start match play rounds in the annual Indian Spring champion- ship wumngunt. B | notabetand 5 & Rrvwna thd jor the | qualifying medal with cards of 75, Foll are the first flight pairings: J. V. Brownell vs. George J. Richardson, P. T. %flofll&érthus uAm.lEr J. ‘v’: shl;!eyxv;,'l!. Tom. Belse s, chi” Leo Pass vs. Craig McKee, Bonnett and H. L. Lace Baumgartner. ame boys were just 18 young men, who | had to use blueprints to know which | SOMERVILLE PIGK OF MOST EXPERTS Both American and Canadian In Final Round to Title Chase First Time. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. IVE FARMS COURSE, BALTI- MORE, September 17.—Two young men who never have gone anywhere in the national ama- teur golf championship before were saying it with high fron shots and putts today over this golf course in the final round of one of the most unusual of the 36 titular tourneys staged for the national's simon pure title by the United States Golf Association. With an international flavor for the first time in 21 years, since Harold Hilton bounced an approach shot off & rock at Apawamis to win in 1911, the final round today found Ross Somerville of London, Ontario, 29-year-old in- surance man, and 22-year-old Johnny Goodman of Omaha, Nebr, matching shots for the title that skidded from Francis Ouimet's Head yesterday as the Bostonian missed a 10-foot putt on the thirty-fourth green. Goodman uncrowned Ouimet with one of the gamest exhibitions of shot making witnessed in the championship since Jones first started crushing his opponents with par. The stocky Litle Omaha lad, who stung the United States Golf Association by whipping the relgning title holder after being refused a place on the Walker Cup team, beat Ouimet by 4 and 2. Samer- ville gave phiegmatic Jess Guilford one {of the worst beatings the farmer boy | from Vermont ever has taken, winning fromy the old seige gun by 7 and 6. 'HE professionals and close students of the game favor Somerville be- cause of the crispness of his fron shots and his putting ability, but you can't laugh off the stocky little Good- man, who clings like a leech as the going gets tougher and rolls ‘em in from any and all angles. Johnny also is an insurance man. or both Somerville and Goodman this is the first final. Somerville has beeh known for many years as one of the finest hitters of all shots of any amateur in the country. He never be- fore has gone past the second round in the championship. He grabs the Canadian amateur crown whenever he wants it, but never before has he been able to 'go anywhere in this tourna- men Johnny Goodman used to be known as the lad who beat Bobby Jones at Pebble Beach in 1920. Whether he wins or loses today, he has gone far past that stage of notoriety, and he may be the champion. He has cer- tainly made the Walker Cup team se- lectors look bad, for at no time was he given a place on that American outfit He is 5 feet 8 inches of fighting, rug- ged American manhood, a stocky, sturdy blond lad who packs plenty of heart and a ton of that quality vul- garly and expressively called guts. One hundred and fifty pounds of scrapping kid, this Johnny Goodman. Everv match he has played has been a tough one, even that one yesterday. where he | whipped the fading veteran Ouimet on | the thirty-fourth hole On Thursday | he went to the home grecn to beat Maurice McCarthy, anf he won from Charlie Seaver in the second round only cn the seventeenth. OMERVILLE is a quiet Canuck. He seldom speaks more than a few words in a golf match. His face, like that of Johnny Fischer. is a mask. Never the ghost of a smile or the shadow of exultation crosses that poker mask. For sheer tenacious concentra- tion and_ability to bear down in the pinches Somerville and Goodman are the best of the tournament starters But Somerville, unlike Goodman. hasn't vet had a hard match. So far as sheer scrapping ability in the tight spots is concerned, he is an unknown quantity. For sheer shot-making ability he is better than Goodman. But championship golf, and particu- larly a final round, is unlike any other spot in sport. No other game holds the same tense moments, nor the same spots where & nerve quiver may cost a championship. So Somerville, who has | had such easy going, may lack that | power in the pinch that Goodman has demonstrated in this tournament. And then again, perhaps, Johnny is burned out by the strain of those scrapping battles with McCarthy and Ouimet. The final is wide open, and it may go to the last hole. OHN GOODMAN has qualified four times for the championship. So has Somerville. Never before has either gone past the first day. Good- man is the sole support of a family of 12, most of them younger than this 22- year-old lad. He didn't start playing golf until 1925, after he had caddied around Omaha for two years. and in his first year he won the city title. He has done plenty since. Today he can | win a national title. As a fighting | fool he has no superior. Ross Somerville would rather play | cricket than hit a golf ball. He said yesterday that cricket is his first love. |But he plays golf fairly well, too. He |is a fine amateur hockey player and a | good all-around athlete. He hits an |iron with that close crispness of | Tommy Armour. Until yesterday he | had displayed great putting ability, but | somewhere along the route he found the touch to output Guilford, himself one of the putting masters. 'HERE wasn't much to that Somer- ville-Guilford match. The Ca- nadian was too good for the Bos- ton boy. Although Jesse was booming | the ball a mile from the tee, he couldn’t |get his putts down. Somerville him- self was not playing any too well, but fwhenc\'cr he needed a putt he poled it Six up at the turn, he quickly lald | Guilford away. winning on the twelfth | green by 7 and 6. |~ The story of the downfall of Ouimet | as he strode across the green to shake thie hand of the gritty little Nebraskan Johnny was just that. All even with Ouimet over the morning round after a soul-stirring exchange of shots in which both shot 72, iman played the first nine in the afternoon In 33 to |turn 3 up. Such a margin with nine holes to go is all a Goodman needs. Prancis whipped out two birdies over the next six holes. but he couldn't stem the charge of the sturdy Goodman. Francis left his crown over in the woods on the Pive Farms hillside. where the gallery had cheered on the previous day when he bunkered his ball against Johnny Fischer. RACING Havre de Grace Sept. 19 to Oct. 1, Inec. 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