Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-20 | Page 19 | Fischer Has Strong Field to Cope with in Amateur

Fischer Has Strong Field To Cope With in Amateur 4 By JAMES S. SHEEHY United Pre Sports Writer ALDERWOOD COUNTRY CLUB, Portland, Ore., Aug. 20 Five national champions and a dozen Walker cup players dominated a star-studded field today that practiced for the 41st amateur cham-oionship cham-oionship of the United States Golf association Monday. Th tltlebolders, headed by defending de-fending champion Johnnie Fischer of Cincinnati, Ohio, paced ISO of th nation' out- standing golfers ' In touring this restful, tree-lined 6982-yard course, i Striving to re-: re-: peat were Francis ' Ouimet, Aubum-'dale, Aubum-'dale, Mass.; Charles (Chick) Evana Jr., Chicago; Chica-go; C Ross Som-ervllle, Som-ervllle, London, Ontario, and Max R Maraton of I Bridgeport, Pa. Ouimet waa national na-tional chamoion Omaha, Neb, famed for defeating Bobbie Jones in the first round at Pebble Beach, CaL, In 1929; Walter Emery, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Gua T. Moreland, Peoria, III.; Jesse P. Guilford, Auburndale, Mass.; Jack West land, Everett, Wash.; Maurice J. McCarthy Jr, Cincinnati, Ohio: Reynolda Smith, Dallas, Texas, and the veteran Da O. F. Willing, Portland, Port-land, Ore. a Interest centered also in a group of less experienced but brilliant players topped by Fred Haas Jr., national intercollegiate champion of Louisiana State university. He shared gallery discussions with Charles R. Ystes, Atlanta, Ga., former for-mer intercollegiate champion; Charles Kocai. Royal Oak, Mich., former Big Ten champion; Frank Strafaci, Brooklyn, N". Y., former public links champion; Willie Tur-nesa Tur-nesa of the golfing Turnesaa of Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., and Ed Kingsley of Salt Lake City, who tied with John Goodman in the sectional sec-tional qualifying round with 137 strikes, the lowest in the nation. 111 1914 and 1931. Goodman Evana also won the title twic. If Fischer repeats next week he will b th seventh player to win in auccessiv years. Walker cup players, who combined com-bined youth and golfing experience, experi-ence, were favored to be among the 64 low scorers who will qualify Monday and Tuesday in 18-hole rounds. Donald Kermlt Moe of Portland, Ore, and Harry L. Given and Albert Al-bert (Scotty) Campbell of Seattle formed a formidable trio. All have been playing under par. They have the (hot and competitive drive to win. Not since the late H. Chandler Egan of Medford, Ore, won in 1904-05 has a Pacific northwest golfer captured the title. Thia section sec-tion of the country takes its golf seriously and felt the intimate knowledge of Alderwood's water hazards and greens might carry one of it favorite to the top. Among former Wslker cup challengers chal-lengers were Johnnie Goodman,