Show j ls He Started Y Young o M FRANK K BAKER BAKER- year Twenty Lawson Little who won the British championship last week with such a remarkable display of at fine goUt golf won his first cup at Va Vancouver couver Wash when he was only 14 Lawson was vas but 11 years old when he be firs firs' tried to swing swint a driver and stroke a putter on the Un tiny improved course at Vancouver barracks That Tha was In 1922 1022 and Lawsons Lawson's father father Colonel Colonel W. W L. L Little was Little was commander of the medical corps there By 1927 1027 however when the Littles left Vancouver for tor San Francisco Lawson not only had had the thrill of winning several trophies but he hea a also o held the course record at the Clark county Country club and was causing much comment by his play on the Waverly course In Portland The boy was but 16 years old then The boy who started darted his golf golt In tho the shadow of army barracks barrack has been en around a lot between n that time and the day of his and 14 triumph In the British amateur Born Dam at Newport R. R I. I he has moved often as army dut duty took his father from post to post One of his stopping stopping- places was at China here where Lawson recently told correspondents he learned something about golfing golf golf- y Ing nerves after arter playing plain over a course that traversed a Chinese graveyard card This particular cemetery was unlike the thc American I cemeteries in It that thai cad instead of being buried in ill holes six si feet dec deep f the coffins were placed on all top of the ground Y Young Ot Ilg Lawson recalled that thai some sonic of these tombs were o open CIl and that he bc had bad to 10 use a putter utter on Oil several occasions to lift an all erring drive out of a mass of skeletons Lawson Likely Will Visit Salt Lake on Way ny Home Honie P The champion dropped out of school at Stanford during the spring quarter so he could make the trip to England with the American Walker Cup team He has divided his time between California and Fort Warren War War- Ten ren ren Wyoming for several years because his father was located at the post near Cheyenne Th That t arrangement has been concluded however ho for Colonel Little has lias been transferred back to the Presidio at Sun Sn Francisco and left with Mrs Little over the week-end week for his duties on the west coast const d i Young Lawson who vho is now en route back to the United States to play In the national open at Philadelphia June 9 7 will su stop p at Che Cheyenne enne to get set his automobile before motoring to the coast probably via ia Salt Lake to Join his family He is majoring in economics at Stanford and will resume his studies In the fall The husky star has bas been Northern California amateur champion twice has won the Colorado amateur the Denver and Broadmoor invitation meets and was last year in the tourney at Colorado Springs as Gus Moreland 1 of Texas retained his crown Long Driving Forced Change In lii Location of Practice Range Reports of or Littles Little's mighty driving in the British championship p occasioned occasioned occasioned occa occa- the memories at San Francisco of how Little was responsible for tor forthe forthe the change in location of the practice driving range when he used to play at the Presidio course One day Little hit a drive that c carried yards across the canyon and landed on the playing course It war WM the first time the feat fent had been acc accomplished The ball struck Major General John L. L Hines then commanding officer of or the Ninth Corps area who decided it would be bei i 0 s safer fer to have thc fhe hc driving range In some other location Especially If it ro young n Little propos proposed d t to stick sUck around I When the Reds wanted to farm latin out F Feathers alberS the Un- Un ve of f Tennessee gridiron great retired from baseball which was probably just as well anyway for football players playeD just dont don't seem able to make the grade in major league baseball |