The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-07-31

Plans are being discussed by the golfers
Of Australia to send a team 10 this coun-
try In 1911 Those slated to come viii
be the past and present champions OF
Australia and New Zealand, together
with a few others Of almost equal promi'
nence. Among those who have beea
asked 10 join the party and who have
practically sent in their acceptances are
Hon. Michael Scott, amateur champion
OF Australia and open champion Of New
South Wales and Victoria. and brother OF
Hon. o. Scott. several times a Scotch
interna tiOnalist and runner up TO A. q.
Barry In the British amateur champion
ship In 1906. and Of a great golfng family,
as his sister. Lady Hamilton. won the
first three British womens champion
ships. The list also includes Clyde
Pearce. a former open and amateur
champion Of Australia. Felsted, a left
handed player. who was open champion
OF Australia last year and who recently
broke the record at the Royal Melbourne
Golf Club; Arthur Duncan, I'VE times
amateur champion Of New Zealand;
Bruce Pearce, an eighteen-year-old lad,
who is champion Of Tasmania and South
Australia with no less than thirteen
minor titles; Simpson, former champion
Of New South Wales who IS also noted
az billiards, and O'Hara Wood, regarded
as the most promising golfer Of Aus
tralia.
SOuter May Coach.
souter. winner Of the amateur cham
pionship Of Australia and Of many Eng
| lish honors, but now a professional, may
! come as coach. The two famous Aus
! uaIian lawn tennis players-Norman
Brooke and A. F. WiIding-may also
| come with the team. which VIII be headed
| by DR.. F. G. Braithwaite. American vice
| consul at Melbourne. Secretary Watson.
Of the United States Golf Association. has
/ suggested an Australian-United States
/ team for the week preceding the amateur
| championship Of 1911. The plan Of the
Antipodeans seems 10 be 10 arrive in Cal
| ifornia in The spring ant % play team
matches with clubs OF participate in
| tournaments open TO them from the Pa
/ cafe Coast through to the East, and TO
/ Join in the open and amateur champion
1 ships The visitors will find travelling
very expensive in this country although
/ they viii doubtless receive a hearty well
| come and be entertaluvt at many clubs
/ The visit should arouse quite as much
/ interest as that OF the Oxford and Cam
bridge Society in 1903. That team had
matches West and East against teams
| representing various golf associations.
N-r4 ~
/ United States team captured by Walter
| J. Travis. the issue was so close that il
depended on the result OF one Individual
match. This was between George T.
Brokaw, United States. and Brans1on.
England, the former winning on the
/ thirty-eighth hole. Philadelphians will be
| glad 10 receive the distant experts and
endeavor in every way TO treat them hos
pitably except in the one item Of letting
them win.
Busy at Minneapolis.
Out in Minneapolis the top-hghters OF
the Western Golf Association are hard at
work In their annual struggle for the Sc
lection OF an individual champion. and
when those wild and wooly'' gentlemen
set out in quest of the highest golfng
honor In the gift Of their association there
IS generally something doing and the
fur is made 70 fly some Judging from
the exhibition 20 date, any one OF half a
dozen Of the contestants is able and like
ly 10 pull of the trick; and it's a sure
thing that when the battle is over and a
new champion unearthed that victorious
gent VIII have a iuu realization that he
has bee0 in a match ar golf Tho Vast
ern golfers have way Of going at one
another with an abandonment Of spirit
that engenders the fercest kind Of com
petition. and almost every annual tour
Il nament brings forth records that smash
the old ones to smithereens. Harry c.
Legg's phenomenal card OF 40 for the
qualifying round makes all past scores
take a pronounced back seat; the nearest
card ever before written being II. Chand-
Ter Egan's ia at ExmoOr a few years
ago. Such terrific playing is scarcely
credible: and yet each year the Western
fraternity treats the golhng world 70 q
batch Of surprises. The men Of the East
move more sedateIy, and seldom so faster
than they need 20 win. Out West they
90 at one another hammer and tongs like
and records begin 20 wilt from the fall
Of the handkerchief match with ten
men TO a side between Eastern and Vest
ern golfers would be worth going miles
to witness. and from present appearances
the odds. if any, would be found on the
representatives OF that energetic body
now pulling of it's great annual feature
at Minneapolis.