Show Backseat Driving By Frank K Baker Telegram Sports Editor I Kids Kid Must Pick Up Walker Cup Job The Inexorable toll Father Time has hils on the veterans of any sport has become so of matter-of-fact that i it scarcely draws as much as an upraised upraised up up- raised eyebrow until the Old Man extracts his pound of flesh as sweepingly as he is collecting it in inthe inthe inthe the personnel of the Wal Walker er cup team this year In all probability not more than three players who have already experIenced experienced ex ex- the fire of Walker cup competition competition com corn petition will be on the team in September September Sep Sep- when the Americans enga engage c the British team Five Fhe of the eight players will be comparative kids to Francis Ouimet captain of the American Ameri Amen can octet Ever since the first international Walker cup matches were played at Southampton N. N Y 10 years ago I Ouimet has been a member of the team The national amateur champion champion champlon cham cham- pion plon has won three of his six matches lost two and halved the other in his Walker cup competition 1 America has always been victorious victoriou In this colorful match a against the Englanders But Dut men like Bobby Bobb Jones who won all five tive of his en encounters encounters counters in Walker cup play George Von Elm Harrison Johnston and Dr O. O F. F Willing were carrying much of the Yankee burden in the past When the two teams meet at the Brookline Country Countr club the job of keeping the unbroken string of victories over the British however howe will have passed on onto onto onto to man many untried hands Voigt's Choice Seems Most Logical Jones captain of the 1930 team has retired Von Elm has turned his golfing golf golf- and Roland ing into a business Mackenzie and Doc Do Willing who were hot In other years have cooled off oft It is doubtful that Harrison Johnston John Johnston ston former amateur champion ch will wIIl I make the tho team He failed to qualify for the amateur since winning it at Pebble Beach In 1029 1929 Don Moe also failed aUed to qualify quality for the amateur last year yar ear but a place will probably be reserved for him because of his fine showing In 1930 With the exception of Ouimet Moo Moe and George George- Voight whose choice seems to be a. a conclusion youngsters will make up the team Among these Gene Homans is the outstanding candidate Homans was an nn alternate on on the 1928 team and tied Jones for lor the medal at Pebble Beach but like Bobby he went out In the tho first round He Hc was runner- runner up tip when Jones completed the cycle at Merion Jones winning handily however S Anybody's guess gaess Is almost as asgood asgood good rood as the as aa to who will hold down the eI eight ht berths on the American tc team m but nothing ventured nothing gained So here goes A ble lineup follows Ouimet capt Moe 1 Homans Homans Homans Ho Ho- mans George p Johnny Lehman Lehman Lehman Leh Leh- man Jack Westland and Maurice I McCarthy alternates Bolstad and ani Lawson Little LiKie S Lehman Almost Certain of Selection Lehman is virtually a sure bet beL He has done well in in amateur championships championships champion champion- ships winning the western in 1930 and tying for the medal l last 1st year Dunlap recently won the north and south amateur for tor the second time as proof that his year two-year reign as the i intercollegiate champion has not nol been mere good fortune Westlands Westland's steady play last year in inthe inthe inthe the national amateur goes a long way toward qualifying him for forthe the team He was up runner to Ouimet and is former French amateur ch champion It is that final eighth place that causes one to hesitate in naming the probable me members of ot the team Even year old Billy Howell from Virginia Vir Vir- ginia cannot be passed completely by with no consideration for his rise last year was clearly that of a coming star His game is sound and his early play this spring gives indication that hes he's hesto hesto hesto to be a B steady performer again this season Golfers still stUl reminiscence about his match with in the semifinals last year when he lost 2 and andi 1 McCarthy was wu alternate on the 1928 team temm and Intercollegiate champ the same year ur and metropolitan champion in 1020 He reached the semifinals In the amateur last summer sum sum- mer bd before re Westland eliminated him hUn 3 and 2 and incidentally beis he be heIs heIs Is the chap who made the yard ard one hole on the seventeenth at Merlon Merion In the qualifying round |