The Washington times., 1905-12-17
MEXICO ATTRACTS
MANY GOLF PROS.
Big Tournament on Heights
Captured by Gen. Taylor.
WILL ANDERSON GOING WEST
four-Time Open Champion Viii Take
Charge of Onwentsia Links,
Near Chicago.

Two golfing matters OF interest tc
start the new year viii be in the same
week, the annual meeting OF the United
States Coli Association. at Delmonico.s s
on January 10, and the international
tournament ut the Mexico Country Club
which begins on the same day and lasts
for two weeks.
The heights defended by Santa Ana
and stormed by General Taylor are
golf bunkers now, and the tournament
Is apt 10 be a notable success. The af-
fair had its start last year, when VIII
Smith won the Mexican championship,
and he has stayed there ever since to
teach golf AS matter of fact, the
English and American colonies In the
city cf Mexico support the game, for
save few enfranchised .sstives, the
Mexican prefer bull fights and cock
fights to placid golf
Attracts Good Men.
VIII Anderson, four times open cham
pfon, is to attend the tournament, also
Aleck Smith, Steward Gardner, Bernard
Nichols. and probably George Low.
Walter J. Travis has not as vet won a
cup In Mexico, and he will hardly re-
sist the temptation to play. while George
p. Adams, John Moller, jr. c. L. Tap
pin, and Arden NJ. Robbins, in fact.
nearly all the golfers who annually pack
their grips for winter trips, are likely
10 include Mexico in their itinerary The
first contest will be for the open cham
pionship of Mexico. at seventy-two
heies. with 800 TO the winner ana sloC
TO the second. There will be team
match for amateurs. four-baIi compe-
tition open TO pairs-pro and amateur
and the amateur championship of Mex
leo, which win begin with a thirty-six-
hole medal play round. The entries
close on January 10.
Since the gift OF a trophy 10 the In
tercollegiate Golf Association the L. s.
G. A. committee has been urged TO give
similar trophies to the New England In
tercollegiate Golf Association and the
embryo Western intercollegiate The
intercollegiate has the honor of senior
ity. and with a little enterprise IL
might widen its scope to make the tour
nament Of really national consequence.
The college boys should take In the
New England League, at least. say
many graduates. for with the teams
from Brown. Williams Amherst Mas
sachusetts Technology and others as
rivals. the interest In the annual team
championship would not rest in merely
whether Harvard or Yale is TO win.
Princeton. Pennsylvania, Columbia. and
Cornell should hold out the hand OF
welcome TO the New England colleges.
II only for the selfish reason 10 get op-
ponents they could beat.
Anderson for 0nwentsia.
The East is to lose its greatest golfer,
VIII Anderson. four times open cham
Mn Of q -.
eepted an offer from the Onwentsia
Club, near Chicago. The champion will
receive the highest salary yet paid to
a professional in this country.
Anderson, who has been connected
with the Apawamis Golf Club. OF Rye
~. T., for the past two years, will sue
ceed Fred Mckenzie at Onwentsia. the
latter having decided TO return to Scot
land
Anderson first came to this country
when a boy of sixteen. his first green
being at Watch Hills. r. /. 1t was in
the open championship or 1897. at
Wheaton. that Anderson sprRng into
prominence by finishing second, d stroke
behind Joe Lloyd
The following year at Baltimore An
derson finished third. and fifth in 1895
at Myopia. after a tie with Alex. Smith
hhished NTH the next year at Garden
Slty' and then won in succession at Bal
tusrol. Glenyiew and Myopia-
He has also won the Western open
title twice. his 299 at Cleveland Tn. sc
years ago going on record as one of the
most remarkable performances ever re-
corded by an open champion in either
this country or Great Britain. Anderson
was born III Edinburgh sco,iand a,d
did most of his playing when a boy at
North Berwick. where his father was
greenkeeper for eighteen years
Discussing Schenectady.
The English papers are having heated
discussions over the value OF schenec-
tady. popularized by Walter j. Travis.
The gist OF the argument Is thus given
by the standard:
Since Mr.. Travis won the champion
snip In spite OF the handicap which he
imposed upon himself by using a