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Show OuimetPicks Vetsof'20's -Over-Youths By BKRNARD FRF.F.MAN BOSTON, Oct ST iflv Francis Oulmt, thr time Walker cup tram captain, think highly of today' to-day' young golfer, "but In my opinion they can't com up to our Internationalist of IBM to 1930, and they don't know th rule a well, either " Th onetim national amateur and open champion I a buy man the day In hi brokerage office, with th atock market acting up, but he alway find time to talk golf. He like especially to explain why he' helping th Massachusetts Golf association to educate th golf public pub-lic on rule. "Out at the national amateur champlonahip at Portland, Ore," he related, "I aw numerous rase of rule violation. Th moat flagrant on. I should say. waa by younger player, who repeatedly atamped down tha Una of their putta with their cluba. "Now, th rule allow you lo bruah away Impedimenta with a club, but you mustn't apply any weight. Yet It wa a frequent occurrence. oc-currence. "At th water haaarda, too, th boy would face away from tha hola and virtually pick their Ilea, whereas tha rules ay you must faca tha hoi and drop th ball over tha shoulder. "If my impression." Oulmet went on, "th youngsters of today know lesa about th rule than th player of older generation." Oulmet waa asked how th ten 193T topnotrher would compare with tha early Walker cup playara. "Wall, I may ba prejudiced In favor of tha veterans," smiled th bespactacUd llnluman, whs flrat won th national open back In 1911. "but I think wa could hav bandied th present stara "After all, there waa Bob Jones, ' clearly tha greatest amateur of i all tuna; Chick Evan, whs In hi prim was a cloaa cond; Jease i Guilford, Harrison Johnston, Oeorge Von Kim, Jesse Sweetser, Bob Gardner Gard-ner and myself. |