Show Goodman Goodman- Will Use His Lucky Charm CharmIn In Assault on Par at St. St Andrews I I w. w v I ff I y A f j J 1 ili ft MJ P I 1 t t r P r 11 t I w wt 1 t tf t I 5 d 54 I i l f g f s st t W S 'S m 5 9 fry pt S S t s 's F S i JOHNNY i Y G IAN GOODMAN Hora Horatio io Alger of Golf Has HasLow Low Shot and Is Deadly Dead Dead- I ly Iy Putter Note This is the third or of a series serle ot of articles on the ca Ca- and personalities ot of the eight members of Americas America's Walker cup team which meets the British at st. st Andrews May 1112 11 By PAUL I Associated Press Sports Writer I CHICAGO April England 25 American learned its from jazz bands but it'll learn about wham dittie from Omaha's John Goodman Johnny Is going over to England at last with the American Walker cup team For once hes he's going to the golfing wars in style with his favorIte favor favor- ite war cry wham dittie all oiled upa P a dready for actIon Good Luck Charm Where the little killer giant from Omaha's wrong side of the tracks ever pIcked up wham dittie no one knows but its it's his good luck charm As s he stampeded through the big field to win vin the national open championship cham cham- of the United States last June with a tying record John ny fly wham par into slon sion Wham dittie he shouted when told he had been named on the Walker Walk Walk- er cr cup team after years of disappoint disappoint- ments And wham dittie hell he'll shout when his clubs rattle off their first I par in the cup matches at St. St An drews Johnny unquestionably is the Horatio Hora Hora- tio Alger boy of American golf golt How he was born in poverty in Omaha how he got his first jab as a caddy how he amazed everyone in the golfing golf golt ing world world by himself beating beat beat- ing Bobby Jones at Pebble Beach five years ears ago how he cleaned up everything everything every every- thing in his path along the sectional championship trial only to miss by narrow margins in the big shows and how he finally broke through to win the national open last year is history familiar to American golfers Goodman will have a better chance to play winning golf golt on the Walker cup team and in the British amateur than many people realize North NorthShore Shore his vIctory ground in the national na na- open Ls is built something like St. St Andrews Deadly With Putter Johnny plays plas a low shot most or of the thc time with a pitch and run around the greens almost the exact duplicate of Engla England's ds d's best but with probably a lot more accuracy On the thc greens he is deadly with an almost uncanny ability of dropping putts putts' from almost any distance No player 1 13 quite certain when he has won a hole from the wham dittie dit tie tic genius from Omaha At North NorthShore NorthShore Shore he missed many a shot from tee to green only to erase his mistakes with spectacular pitches and putts Except for a hole 72 championship chain cham match which he hc lost 2 down to Denn Denny Shute British open champion at Miami Fla last Decem ber bel Johnny hasn't played much golf gOlt all winter But word Is out that he is right near the top ot his same game |