Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07
Interest Cenes Now Coming Golf Championship America
BRITAIN TO SEND GOOD TEAM, HEADED BY HILTON

MO Southern golfers are expected
~ to make any showing in the
coming amateur championship of
the United States. No golfers from
the South have ever done anything
in the national event and there
seems to be none in the turisdic-
ton of the Southern Golf associa-
ton this year who is likely to-
This point, and the reason for it,
was rather well brought out in a
recent letter from W. P. Stewart,
Southern golf champion. Said he:
Dear Sir: l recently received an
article you wrote in one of the
Atlanta papers and | am obliged
to you for the kind words therein.
On the chance that you may be
interested in my views of the
Chance Champion proposition, l
will say that there is more in this
than probably appears to you.
Real good golf players like Mel
son Whitney and Ellis Knowles do
not get a fair chance to demon
strate their superiority on such
the tournaments on.
We have a bully time at the an
nual meetings of the Southern
Golf association, but we will never
be able to call it a test of golf I'M
til we play S6-hold matches and
play on a course that is properly
guarded by hazards.
BY the same token l do not
Il.
in the South until our courses are
thus improved.
Yours very truly,
w. p. STEWART.
The East Lake course in Atlanta
is today the only one in the South
so trapped as to require real golf
in the playing of it. 1t hasn't been
built and trapped long enough yet
to have developed any champion
ship golfers. But after another
generation of golfers has learned to
play on it Atlanta may be able to
furnish some players who can hold
their own on any course of Amer
lea.
II H. HILTON'S experience in get
ting in trim for the recent anna
teur championship of Great Britain
is Illuminating. He was busy in
the spring and early summer and
gave himself but ten days to get in
condition for the event. As often
happens with experienced players,
he reached the top of his game in
a couple of days, and then went
stale before the tournament began.
1t has long been known by golfers
that it is impossible to get good re-
suits by hurrying into condition. 1t
takes a good month of play to
bring a golfer around, even if he is
a top-nOtCh player.
Speaking of Hilton again-it is
reported that he is trying to get
together a British team to play in
the Olympic cup contest held each
year in America. If he brings over
Michael Scott, H. f. Taylor and
Robert Harris, he will take the cup
back with him, barring miracles.
CADDIES have been killed by fly
ing golf balls and players have
had narrow escapes. But nowadays
birds in the air and fish in the
streams are in danger. From Nash
vile comes the yarn that I. G.
Tabb in a recent golf match killed
a sparrow. About ten times strong
er than that is the story from
Springfield, Mass, that J. S. Hunt.
postmaster of Worcester. while
playing at the oxford Country club
in a team match with the Chico
pee Falls team drove a ball into
the brook at the seventh hole. This
wasn't any novelty. But the ball
killed a ten-inch brook trout
which was going some
1t will soon get so that circus
parades will not be allowed near
golf courses for fear the elephants
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