The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-20

as professional four years ago. Since then,
although once held at his home course,
o N"aef the reason esS n1 i "a ss rnmo RED Why Why the II On.
wentsia Club has sent TO England for u pro-
fessional., The Chicasoans wanted a man to
Ef E.9 ssdsrs from The The s lA'' Louis w'i dol RAJ Elu s,
and the result Of the tournament this week
VIII demonstrate whether the onwcnts!a
Club has made a wise choice or not.
The famous, player of the younger set
IN Scotland, George, Duncan. is expected
here soon for a series OF matches, ana e
play in our re open me championships. The first
noted players from abroad to come here
we're Willie Dunn, Willie Campbell and Joe
and for a long while had the game at his
feet as TO laying out links and coaching be;
G%inners. Campbell located at Boston and
the first professional matches in the United
States We're between him and Dunn in 1894.
Campbell never won an. open champion
ship abroad, but he had the initial open
hole. He was all square by strokes. with
Horace itawlins, the subsequent winner,
pulled a drive into a stone W rail-. dropping out
Play 1s ; :, scam np%iiiI P was N =" a bunSer.
the sp eais ' plss i Sso in' wSiGlRYie, said the late
L. A; Havemeyer. who was scoring the
@fn e'er played back T. my life" rejoined
The hole cost him q 9 and the cham
pionsi!ip Campbell died at the age Of 80
having at last accounts q green on the
Isle Of Wight. Joe Lloyd has oscillated
since 1898 bet cen the EsseH County Country
Winters ''' there He won our open chain
Bp,9}in s s. t5o in wi ,s9a i a. Mhes'9 9bsD a la sir 10 e
short jacket. and he has often been proInl-
nent in the competition since those early day
Another pioneer sSlfer was Willie !, Davis
GOV ciSSb in l S. S SsHs em ~ in a bsnk
6sriaS tn, The N Winter At m soafssm snd IN 70 i IsH
Hills Golf Club. He laid out the Newport
GoIf G ,SaTs in ,h lsss rs sna the or oss, Sear
TO the lpawamis club. He died at his home
in Rye. near the clubhouse. in 1907 OF pneu-
monia,
Davis stood, high in the good opinions Of
amateurs and professionals. In 1894 he
held his own in home and home matches
1905. being the f~avorite for the open cham
pionship. but his assistant, Horace Rawlins.
won out In 1895 Willie PaTk, Jrs twice.
tour here. He played matches with Dunn.
each for 500 at Morris county. Meadow
Brook and Shinnecock Hills. Dunn winning
ENGAGEMENTS. Park went to Newport, and
Davis. who made II a point of honor never
20 refuse a match on his home course, beat
him by one up in thirty-siN holes, Harry
yardon and J. II. Taylor we're both here in
1900, the former winning our open cham
pionship at Wheaton that year by two
won the British open in that spring, an
nounced to the reporters that he still con-
side red himself the champion of the world
He is speaking truth, was Nardona
comment The British open is the cham
pionship Of the world. but the American
title is next IN esteem and that's why
TAYLOR tried so hard to win it
Vardon played some seventy matches
here and only lost three times. On their
way to and from Mexico City four years
ago Alex Herd. Willie Fernie and Rowland
Jones all stopped at New York, but it was
not the playing season. Fernie played at
Myopia before sailing for home and he
Great Britain. Tom vardon is the only
Brltisher TO enter our open championship
since Harry Of that Tx and Y. n TAYLOR in