Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-17 | Page 14 | Champ Crown Sits Lightly Adopts Much Social Grace

CHAMP CROWN SITS LIGHTLY i Goodman Yearns for Bobbys Bobby's Wood Shots ADOPTS MUCH SOCIAL GRACE By HENRY J McLEMORE United Press PreM Sports Sport Writ Writer LONDON May 17 It 17 It was on the way to London after helping win wine the e Walker cup that Johnny Goodman began talking about the star hots shots of golfing ag ages We were re pla playing g a little blackjack You know he said theres something some some- thing I wish I could have done before leaving caving New York S that Champ asked Gus Moreland Get the U. U S. S G. G A. A to pass ass a rule against Moreland drawing sixes to fifteens No answer Goodman though that lat been a swell idea What I would have to have done would have been to borrow a few strokes BoY Joy I sure would like to have Bobby Bobby Boby Bob- Bob by y Jon Jones Jones' with me Yes sir r if I had Bobbys Bobby's woods Tommy Armours Armour's irons and Ho Horton r ton Smiths Smith's putting utting Id I'd be able to take St. St Anrews An An- drews and Prestwick apart and then put ut em cm back tog together U er again Goodman is Champ to aU all the Walker cup players his age And noman no noman noman man ever wore the mantle of the open pen championship of ot the United tales States more lightly It has spoiled him in only one way way its its it's spoiled his leisure Most of his waking hours now ow are spent in figuring out the weaknesses in his game and how howo to o strengthen the ailing aUIng shots He admits hes he's mighty proud of the title tie and that its it's pride now that makes him him study his game all the time me I UI soon oon found out after winning the he title he told me that people people peo pea pie expected me to be in there around under par all the time They seemed to think the open champion ought not to make any mistakes Th That's ts t's Impossible Of course ourse but Id I'd like to make as few as possible while Im I'm cham cham- pion plon and that goes oes for more things than golf rolt I knew what he meant It It wasn't so long ago that Johnny who was born on the other side of the tracks and who has been on his own since he tic was a kid lacked some of the social graces You should see him now Not that hes he's become a poser for lor he But hes he's found a poise and an ease and assurance that puts him lim at home anywhere Hes He's a a. far cry from the boisterous kid who not so many years ago traveled to a golf goll tournament in the caboose of a cattle train rain Watching him sitting quietly sipping a brandy or on the dan dance e floor loor in his hi faultless dress clothes it was hard to picture the Goodman of ofa a few years back who whooped like a Comanche when he made a good goodshot goodshot goodshot shot shot or the G Goodman man who paused on n the he putting green to comb h his s hair He admits doing those things with witha a soft Guess I didn't know any better better bet- bet ter cr in those days Goodman Johnny Is 2 2 21 Been playing golf oIl since he was wu 11 II Was that age are when he be shot his first full round of golf oU and came home borne in 76 says his greatest thrill In golf roll Is a tie between Bobby Bobby Bob nob by Jones Jone whom he all but worship worships warships wor war ships ship as a man and a player In Inthe Inthe Inthe the amateur at it In 1928 1328 and winning the open championship thinks Jones far and awa away the finest tined player h he ever saw has no Idea of turning professional proCessional