| Show ILE E EMERY PROVIDE CONTRAST Oklahoman More Boyish Coast Ace Runs Winning Match Streak to Thirty By fly JOE WILLIAMS Special to The Telegram t CLEVELAND Sept 14 It 14 It was son Lawson Little of San Francisco franci co Walter Emery of f Shawnee Okla Okia in the finals for the n na- na lional onal amateur golf championship over the oceanic r rolls of the club course here Satu Saturday d y Who are they what hat are they like k e Little isn't exactly a total stran-I stran stran stran- er r i. He Is 1325 25 years old a student at Cord where it evidently takes a aw aw learn He Is IsIt IsIt ow w a n lon long time to It like Jike Pepper Martin Marlin has a aId ait it Id and facial features suggestive Gene Tunney plays bareheaded Ii disheveled wears a fingerless ih erless love Jove ave on his left hand smokes cig- cig eb ts sips sips' PS Scotch and soda j Played his first golf shot in an d ned Chinese cemetery in the least east under the critical eyes eyes of i. i 11 father Cather an officer in the United d lies ites arm army This may be where B expression You haven't a aaman's an n mans aman's chance came from Few of Littles Little's opponents in recent petra s 3 have bave had any kind of ot chance By eliminating the feared Johnny BT Little ittle and Go Goodman E Emulate lul te Alphonse eJ Gaston in Semifinal Battle Friday The Tho two young men tried to out- out 0 one another in charm and sweeton sweet- sweet leu on u profusely applauding the good Ls and just as lavishly deploring he e C bid bad ones Those two fabulous of the earl early comic strips t rs Alphonse and Gaston nev never r bowed wed a amore more arnore touching respect for cli ch others other's feelings At the end If Uhe the match Little and Goodman braced with all the vigorous ar ar- arof fior r of Strangler Lewis and Gus t Someone said it was the finest of f sportsmanship Kat t they had ever seen in a national na na- rinal inal championship It was th the ost st conspicuous an anyway Way and In Inspired In- In ired an unfeeling gent in the gallery gal gal- lery ry to the acidulous suggestion that the 11 two young men had been play- play fag llie for Cor the Emily Post trophy was a different Little from the jumpy edgy pta player er of at the tho day before tore fore who had barked at the gallery galry gal gal- lery TYL ry and threatened a newspaper photographer Facing the toughest opposition he had drawn all week he e one man accounted most liable block l ck his bath to another title 5 oh On ii th the gre greens s' s he has has' a firm firm ac ac- rate touch Few of these human are expert putters Little n an exception There here are arc few bet- bet ier r putters in ln the game amateur or Added to this is a background that dates ck to 1929 when he beat the manh man rho ho h beat the great Jones namely odman his happy losing opponent f I yesterday i T Tommy y Armour calls Little a golf When he starts to irony arty orry about his game he goes to maur for treatments Generally here ere is nothing wrong that a p pains pains- king practice session wont won't cure f flats late Little has got round around to ad- ad bitting this r I I still stin like to go gop p Armour though says Little He Hean an always talk you into believing is aU all right Littles Little's opponent today is only two ears 8 yo younger ng r yet h he is s playing In Goodman of Omaha Friday he registered registered registered reg reg- his thirteenth consecutive match play victory in major c compe compe- titian This includes unbroken sweeps through the last two British amateur championships the 1934 American amateur and a successful successful successful success success- ful march to the finals in the current current current cur cur- rent tournament a record un- un any any other amateur in inthe inthe in inthe the history of the thi game Surly and sharp with str strangers nger a reflection perhaps of ot the military stiffness with which he is not wholly unacquainted Little is expressly sociable so so- in th the company company of or friends Goodman rates as one Their match yesterday generally accepted as the climactic test of the week was vas was was' wasa a revel revelation Uon t to the old guard S he ho was nevertheless perfectly calm and confident He played the match as If it was vas great fun And the way 1 it turned ou out it was What puzzled the old guard was vh why Goodman was so sublimely rapturous They were reluctant to tobel bel believe ye that being smacked around by even eyen evenso so so splendid a golfer as Little Lit tlc tie could be e productive product ve of such abundant joy But the old guard goes gocs back to the days of or Jerry Travers Traver avers J Jess ss G and Bob Jones who eschewed public demon demon- To the old guard there is no such thing as a pleasure mat match matchin h hin in a national l championship So much f for r the tho old guard Little is a. a a power golfer He is the longest driver the amateurs have had in years possibly the longest they have cv ever r had What's more his power is always alwa's under control On tho av average par four hole he will viIi have what amounts to half h lf a stroke advantage advantage advantage ad ad- vantage on an any opponent and usually usual usual- ly a full stroke advantage on th the thelong thelong long pa par fives His intermediate shots are all aU that they should be K P Stanford Ace ce Ex Exceptional eption- eption l. l Putter Competitive Background Imposing his first uit nad national nathal nat amateur Like Little Emery swung his first golf club on foreign territory In Batavia Batavia Bata- Bata via the capital of Java to be chic He still esteems esteem a bowl of Java and h hot doughnuts t. t ts very highly high high- ly as an incidental repast Hes He's a junior at the University of Okla Okla- homa A junior at 23 Yes but this is law Grade Gracie He hasn't the matured poise of Little He is more boyish seemingly less les concerned about things in genera general general gen gen- I era eral is lean l loose ose and lanky likes to scribble a autographs for the young 1 ladies especially if II they are easy on the eyes talks w with th a plainsman's i drawl draw is pretty sure of himself plays an iron shot to the green aswell as aswell aswell well as anybody the tournament has pre presented and is deadly on approach ap ap- ap- ap putts If these should start falling Calling for him tod today y he would be mighty mighty tough |
