Western Amateur

Few remember that Ben E. Stein of Seattle was runner-up in the 1926 Western Amateur Golf Championship--an obscure runner-up is easily forgotten. But last week when Ben E. Stein played one-under-par golf to defeat Eddie Held in the finals of the Western Amateur at Seattle, his friends in the Northwest began to boom him as a potential rival of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. and George von Elm in future U. S. Amateur Championships.

An attack of appendicitis, two days before the finals, did not prevent Mr. Held from going 35 holes with Ben E. Stein, before capitulating.

Among those falling by the wayside in last week's Western Amateur were: Frank Dolp, 1926 champion; Keefe Carter, 1925 champion; Chick Evans, eight times champion; Chuck Hunter, winner of the qualifying medal; John Ames, undergraduate son of Princeton's sinuous football player Knowlton ("Snake") Ames.