Again, Little

To Brookline, Mass., went 184 golfers last week to play for the U. S. Amateur Championship. Instead of the customary 36 holes of qualifying medal play, followed by four days of match play, the U. S. Golf Association this year decided to try six straight days of match play. Upsets, as common in golf as they are rare in tennis, were even more numerous than usual.

P: At Brookline in 1913 a 20-year-old named Francis Ouimet beat two of the world's most famed golfers. Ted Ray and Harry Vardon, in a play-off for the U. S. Open Championship. At Brookline last week a Bobby Jones, 18. of Detroit, put out Francis Ouimet. Famed Robert Tyre Jones of Atlanta watched the match, praised his namesake's putting.

P: Twenty-five years ago, Chandler Egan put young Chick Evans out of the National Amateur in the semifinals. They played each other for the second time last week. Evans won, 2 & 1.

P: Most spectacular players in the field were two young Texas clerks, Reynolds Smith and David Goldman. They went to the tournament together when an airline offered them free transportation in case of vacancies. They rented a $7-a-week room. Smith, who had lost his suitcase in Cleveland, borrowed a pair of baggy trousers. On the fifth day of the tournament there were four golfers left out of the 184. Two of them were Goldman and Smith. As they had often done in Texas, where Smith usually wins, they played each other. Goldman won, 4 & 2.

P: In 1911, Harold Hilton of England won both British and U. S. Amateur Championships. Bobby Jones won both (in addition to both Open Championships) in 1930. Last week, the golfer who played Goldman in the final had a chance to do the same thing. Huge, round-faced William Lawson Little learned his golf on a course laid out on the site of a graveyard near Tientsin where his Army-Officer Father was stationed. He beat an unemployed carpenter in the final of the British Amateur at Prestwick last spring (TIME, June 4). Last week in Brookline Golfer Little had, as usual, been driving the ball 250 to 260 yd. Among other able opponents, he had beaten young Willie Turnesa, who had eliminated the defending champion, George Terry Dunlap Jr.

In the final, Goldman managed to win the first hole with a birdie 3. It was the last time he was ahead. Little squared the match on the second, finished his morning round with a 69 that left him 5 up. In the afternoon, he picked up three more holes on the first nine. The holes ran out at the 29th green. Little sank a two-foot putt and Goldman stepped for ward to shake hands.

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