Show n Driving S 'S H Y Youth Helps Itself bij F FRANK K K BAKER I Youth Youths it appears is not waiting to be served in golf It is going cafeteria and helping itself itsel Not so many years cars ago it was considered quite a feat for a young f fellow lI w of ot 25 or fewer summers to win wn or or- place well up in a m major Jor golf goll tournament Now it Is almost as much of or an unusual occurrence for lor anyone more than 25 to last through a fast battle with the youngsters rs A 17 year old old ear boy Fred Fled Haas Jr of New Orleans won on the southern amateur He is the youngest to hold the title since Bob Jo Jones won at 15 the same year car Haas Hans was born Charles Y Yates of AtI Atlanta nta 21 won the national Intercollegiate and waslow amateur in the thc masters masters' Invitation sponsored last spring at nt Augusta Georgia by the g great at Jones Like Ed Kingsley who has won Utah's amateur crown for three successive years rs c many of these title winners have yet yetto yetto yetto to cast their first ballots None of them has bas any reputation behind him out out- Ii t. side his own ba bailiwick im Jt They simply go out and shoot golf goll Not just par golf goIt but that blazing kind that is described by birdies and eagles Touted Veterans Bow Before Defore Unknown Youngsters There is Zell ZelI Eaton of Oklahoma City who celebrated his birth birthday birth birth- day by winning the western amateur And the western estern covers nearly three-fourths three of the United States Leland Hamman of Waco Texas 23 won the re refusing refusing refusing re- re fusing to be daunted by touted reputations even If Johnny Goodman the former open champion was his championship companion Even I Lawson Little the Californian who won the British amateur with such sucha a ft blazing display of golf a few weeks ago fell feU by the wayside In the early rounds of the tournament as the youngster stroked his way to the throne I Youth is even asserting itself in the feminine ranks as Is evidenced by Lily Harpers Harper's victory in the thc Virginia women's championship Lily is only 17 and she won the title only a day before her brother Chandler at 20 became the thc posse possessor r of or his third Virginia mens men's championship Dorothy Kirby of ot Atlanta 13 holds holds' the Georgia women's crown Helen Hofmann the youthful Forest Dale Dale- star who won Yon the state driving championship has been beena been a topnotch player in th the state for so long fans have almost forgotten that she is barely out of grammar school Americans Never Have Lost LostIn LostIn In Iii Yacht Cup Race In 1 14 1 series covering the international yacht racing for the Americas America's Amer teas leas cup all aU contests have bave been won by American craft and that's tsI 4 one reason wh why T. T O. O M. M Endeavour is rated as a. an underdog In the coming corning c classic lc in in- September In the 85 years of competition there have been 36 races in the theTa Ta ious s ries the United stat States s winning 3 33 and England 3 When Lefty ODoul the former Salt Laker started a a. long Ion hit hit- streak recently little Hughie Critz Crita decided hed he'd use his his' teammates team team- mates matos bat to s see e If he be couldn't garner gamer some base bue knocks himself according to press dispatches i V. V But while Lefty continued knocking horsehides to all aU corners comers of the the- lot cot got only one ball beyond the infield Hes He's switched I a b back ck to his o own war club |