Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-08

GREAT GOLFER
WILL QUIT CAME
Auchterlonie Is to Return to His
Old Home in Scot
land.
.M'LEOD TO SUCCEED HIM
Famous Old Player Did Much for the
Sport in Notwithstanding
His One Weakness.
.M'LEoD TO SUCCEED HIM

! renee Auchterlonie of st. Andrews,
| Scotland, would not be seen this year
as golf professional at the Glen View
club. followers of the game realized
that man prominently identified with
golf in this country for more than
decade-a man who has brought cham
| pionship honors to the club and whose
| reputation as player gave worldwide
| exploitation to his performances-was
passing from local view Larry is
! likely to return to Scotland and be-
come the manager of the golf interests
at North Berwick.
Glen View is negotiating with Fred
die Mcleod. formerly national and
western champion and until last fall
the instructor at the Midlothian Coun-
try club. Both Mcleod and Auchter-
Ionic are in the south, and neither is
prepared to state his plans for the
future.
"The Passing of Larry
"The passing of Larry" unused an
old-time golfer. when he heard that
the former business man of ST. An
drews. who turned professional to ac-
cept the call to Glen View, after hav-
| ing long been the Scottish colossus
of golf in this country, may make some
! of the old-timers who learned their
game under his tutelage feel senti-
mentally inclined"
Auchterlonie and Willie Smith tied
at 156 in 1899 at Glen View for the
first western open championship. Smith
winning the play-off. In 1901-there
-,
loie won the western open title. de-
feating David Bell of Midlothian. 100
to 1872 In the 1902 western open Auch-
terlonie enc untered bit Of trouDie II.
one round at Euclid links, Cleveland
and was out of the running, which. in
deed. was too speedy for any other
player. when Will Anderson and VIII
Smith got into their top form. Ander-
son winning with 299 to Smiths 304.
Anderson's total was the first ever
made under the 800 mark in a cham
pionship over a course of more tnan
5000 yards
NOsed Out by Two Strokes.
In 1908 Auchterlonie fought hard
against the cold wind and deluge of
rain at Milwaukee to capture the
western, but was nosed out by two
strokes by Alexander Smith, brother
of Willie Smith and professional at
the Washington Park club at that
time. Smith won with 31S to Auchter-
Ionie's 800.
In 1904 at Grand Rapids. Willie
Anderson again came into his own,
taking the championship with 3O4,
while right at his heels were Alex
Smith and Larry Auchterlonie, with
sos and 314 respectively. But for the
terrific heat and the blazing sun that
caused the wiry little Scot to almost
succumb on the last round at Cinciu-
natl in 1905. Auchterlonie might easily
have led the field and captured another
championship. He went to pieces and
Arthur Smith won with score of 27S.
In 1906 at Homewood. Alex Smith
again won the title, Fred Mcleod land
ing third and William Anderson fourth.
Auchterlonie, recognized as one of
the worlds best players, but erratic
when he failed to putt, did not get
into the first three at Hinsdale in 1907,
Bob Simpson winning, with Willie
Anderson second and Fred Mcleod
Louis in 1908. Mcleod getting second
honors. Anderson won again in 1909.
taking the title at Skokie, with Auch-
terlonie finishing behind Stewart Gard
ner
After Willie Smith and Auchterlonie
had tied in the western in 1899 and
Smith had won the play-off, members
of Glen View and Midlothian backed
their respective professionals for the
national held at Baltimore. Smith won
with a score of 315, AuchterlOnie fin
ishing ninth, six strokes behind Ander-
son and three behind Alex Smith.
Fourth in Famous Contest.
Larry" entered that memorable
worlds championship tourney at the
Chicago golf club in 1900 against the
worlds most famous. golfers and fin
ished fourth Harry Vardon, four times
champion of Great Britain, winning
first: J. H. Taylor, his British Nemesis
and championship winner, taking sec
ond, while David Bell of Midlothian
won the American title by finishing 1
third, four strokes ahead of Auchter-
Ionic, the latter beating Willie Smith
by one stroke.
The Big Four" finished ahead Of
Larry at Myopia, near Boston, in the
1901 national tourney. Willie Anderson
capturing the play-off Of a tie with
Alex Smith, Willie Smith having en-
countered the hardest luck of his tour
nament career in an unplayable ball
when he had the honors apparently
won. and Stewart Gardner. then at
Garden City. nosing Auchterlonie out
by one stroke.
But in 1902 at Garden City Aucii,rr
Ionic came into his own, winning the
championship with S07, six strokes
ahead of the home links man, Gardner,
who tied with w. J. Travis, the anna