The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-07-09
GOLFERS AFTER TITLE
National Tourney Opens at
Cleveland To-day.
ROCKEFELLER ON THE LINKS
Goes Over the Course to Watch
TrRveFs and Byers in a PTeIimi-
nary Match-ByerE, TraveVs, Her
reshOT, Travis, md the Egans
Among the FaVOrites.

Cleveland, Ohio. July S-Golfers from
outside and Of the home clubs-Euclid
Cleveland Country, and Mahoning-haye
been burning IN the local links for sew
eral days in practice rounds for the
amateur championship play Of the United
States Golf Association, which begins to-
morrow, but It is as hard to get figures
from them as TO ind a hens tooth. The
playing length Of the Euclid Club 1S-hole
course is 6125 yards, and par golf Is %.
How near the amateurs will come to il
and about what the low score will be
in the qualifying round may be prognosti-
Gated from to-day's scores in the olympic
team match.
The teams most fancied 20 win are the
Western Golf Association. Metropolitan
Golf Association, Western Pennsylvania
Golf Association, Massachusetts Golf As
ISOLATION. and that OF the Philadelphia
Golf League The trophy is ali that sur
wives Of the tournament held at St Louis
IN 1904, during the Worlds Fair. 70 which
all the golfers Of the world were invited
to send teams. No players. however.
crossed the oceans 70 attend, and the
team up vas wa ~ AAtN " A7ANA "a
Golf Association. II put Up the trophy
for competition again on the Monday be-
fore the national championship OF 1905
held at Wheaton. and the Western Penn
sylvanla Golf Associations team won
The combination included +. N. Byers,
the present amateur champion. who will
Of course. play for the team to-day. Last
year. when played for before the Western
amateur championship, the Western Golf
Association team regained the cup. There
are souvenirs to the members Of the win
ming team. yet the Eastern players are
disposed 20 regard the Olympic Cup as
sort Of gold brick" FOR the ownership
and the selection Of the course Of the
contest rest always with the Western As
ISOLATION. The winning team is at the
beck and call Of the Western Golf As
ISOLATION when the time comes to de-
fend the trophy Some players maintain
that thirty-six holes OF medal play on
the day before the qualifying round Is a
gruelling task The idea, however has
not kept many starters out Of the contest.
Most of them regard the contest as a fine
opportunity to study the course.
Course Hard One.
The Euclid course is one that needs
study. II is more pulling than difficult.
moro tricky ihen exacung on goldng
skill The conditions may put an undue
premium on good luck, yet as stagers
skilled IN many Journeys over all sorts
of links, the favorites 20 win are Eben
NJ. Byers. the title holder: II. Chandler
Egan, Warren X. Wood, Walter J.
Travis, Jerome D. Travers. Walter Egan,
j. +. Sawyer, and Fred Herreshoff. Yet.
as the ratio Of skill is very even now IN
American golf, any one OF the thirty-tyyo
To qualify may win. especially on a
"leveling" course.
Besides the cracks already named. the
chances on IFS game this spring OF John
N. Ward look rosy, and nearly as prom
!nent should be George T. Brokaw, Rob
ert Abbott Max II. Behr, Archie Reid.
Archie Graham. and c. H. Seely. all en-
tered from the Metropolitan Golf Assocfa-
ton. Mason Phelps, jr, and Kenneth
Z. Edwards will strengthen the Chicago
cards. while. besides Byers. Plttsburg
may depend on ". c. Fownes. ST.. Ormis-
ton, and Macbeth, the last named q
Scotch amateur, who has not long been
in the country. Then, too. there are
many good players among the IT from
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore. OIL
City. Washington and the clubs near
those cities not 90 speak Of the Ohio
contingent, which includes Harold Weber.
of Toledo. a semi-fnalist In 1903, and r