Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-22 | Page 16 | Fischer Likes Medal Play Quit School to Make Trip

FISCHER LIKES MEDAL PLAY t Says M Match Competition Hurts His G Game rne QUIT SCHOOL TO MAKE TRIP By HENRY McLEMORE l United UnIte Press Sports Writer PRESTWICK Scotland May 22 22 A certain member of the Walker cup team bet me a shilling shilling that's that's what you Americans call two bits I believe be be- lieve that lle that I could not obtain an interview interview in in- with Johnny Fischer It just cant can't be done said Jack Westland who asked that his mime name be withheld Wh When n it comes to talking talking talk talk- ing Johnny combines the best features features fea fea- tures of or J T P. P Morgan Sr Mona Lisa and the Sphinx Try him and see Come on on Ill I'll go with you Perhaps it should be pointed out here that Mr Fischers Fischer's silence is not founded on snobbery but just a natural natural nat nat- ural dislike of talking plus a shyness shy ness that is as charming as it is sin cere The only time Johnny really lets himself go is when he orders a meal Johnny was found in h his room his nose buried in a l copy of some British Quarterly review Good morning I said brightly Good answered Johnny without v missing a word of the line he lie W- W was WS S reading Mr Westland smiled triumphantly Td Id like to get amatory j tory from you I said figuring that a direct approach ach would be best Good Gooe morning said Mr Fischer In a JI Implied he be actually meant Goodnight or Goodbye Ordinarily that would have bave stopped topped me cold for I I. too m naturally shy ihy and retiring being of the same type as Hucy Huey but two bits two pardon pardon I mean mUD a a. shilling was shilling was at stake and I was aas jiving giving I no DO quarter If U you get the pun pan So I stayed in there and arid pitched 10 o to speak Around 5 j in the after after- noon or some six hours later I had mined the following information from Johnny He is 22 in Cincinnati Ls a senior in the school of ot liberal arts at Michigan and plans plan to study law quit school to make the trip with the cup team has been playing since he was 9 9 shot his first round of golf goIt at the age of 11 and turned in a sh should uld have had a 99 but bu went to pieces on the final hole and took an eight incidentally if it taking taking tak tak- tak ing an eight means going to pieces I haven't been entirely together in inmany inmany Inmany many years Wishes that all aU r golf tt tournaments tournaments tournaments ments were medal play pisy In medal play he said all aU youve you've got ot to worry about Is sticking the ball ban up there and getting It in the hole bole In match play you Just cant can't keep from trying to match the other fellows fellows fellow's fel lows low's shots and that hurts your game rame The records prove Johnny is red red- hot lot at medal play He shot hot a record tying ying to win the national ama nina eur honors in 1932 ant and came back with a in his ils biggest thrill from the game on on Ith he the ninth hole of his first qualifying round in the amateur last year M he ic had started with with-a six on the first firs hole lole he despaired of qualifying when hIs tee shot on tho the I ninth hooked into the he rough and landed in a grove o of big ig willow trees tree It It looked like another another an an- other six she B But t his No 3 second miraculously soared through the trees dropped on on the green yards away bounced twice and anc trickled into the he cup I am still stilt trying to get my shilling from Mr Westland