Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-10
GOLFERS GOING ABROAD.
Willie Anderson to Take Part in Eng
hsh Championship.

Willie Anderson, three times open golf
champion of the United States and the
present western champion, will sail from
New York on Saturday to compete in the
open championship of Great Britain, at st.
Andrews. Scotland, June and 0. Ander-
son is thoroughly well qualified to reflect
credit on the professionals now in this
country, and his presence in the English
tournament, taken in connection with the
trip of the women golfers who started for
Cromer last Saturday, is likely to awaken
keen interest in international golf through
out the season.
can be relied upon is illustrated by the rec
ord Of his victories in this country. In
1901 at Myopia, he tied for the open cham
pionship at 81, with Alex Smith. winning
in the eighteen hole play-off by So to sc.
Stewart Gardner took the title the fol-
lowing year at Garden City with score of
BOT, Anderson tieing for fourth place with
J. H. Shipper of Marine and Field. AT
Baltusrol in 1903 Anderson was again in
form, but he had to fight second time for
his honors after teng with David Brown
at 301 for rst place. In this play-off An
derson won by 81 to 81 Last season, when
the championship took place at the Glen
view links, in Chicago, he was first with
a score of BOB. Gil Nichols having second
money with :f0S.
Anderson is one of the younger profess
SIGNALS on this side of the water, being still
under thirty: He has been for the last two
seasons in charge of the Apawamis links,
a t Rye, whose members have voted him a
months leave of absence, in addition to
providing him with a purse to defray the
expense of the trip. He is a son of the
veteran Tom Anderson of the Montclair
Golf Club, and one of the most popular pro-
fessionals in the United States.
What success he may expect against the
professionals of Great Britain may be
gagged in some measure by the showing
made in this country by Harry Vardon
who visited the links here in 1900 having
held the open championship of England the
previous year. Soon after his arrival Var
don met Willie Smith. who was then the
American open champion, at ST. Augustine
beating him in a thirty-six-hole match by
z up and to play. At Dyker Meadow.
later In the same season, he defeated
George Low, the Dyker Meadow profess
sional in a thirty-siX-hole match by j.
up, though at Morristown that September
pardon was beaten by the best ball of the
late Tom Hutchinson of Shinnecock Hills
and George Low by up and to play
rms was also q thirty Sx-hole match
Bernard Nichols was the only man how
ever to beat the Englishman single-handed
ana TINS he did twice, once at Ormond, Fla
by up and to play, and again at the
Brae Burn Golf Club. near Boston by 2 I'D
But the truest comparison was shown at
Tie open championship of that year at Chi
cago, where Vardon led the entire field of
american professionals, winning by a score
or lof, while j. II. Taylor, who had Joined
the contest after coming from the other
side with the title of champion, was second
at loS. David Bell of Midlothian was third
and the other professionals followed down
the line. Jack White is the present omen
champion of England, and he is the man
Braid and ]. H. Taylor at Sandwich last
year by one Stroke.