The Washington times., 1913-09-06
TWOLOCAL PROS. PUT:
IN PRACTICE L|CKS.
Mcleod and Sargent Prepare
For Matches To Be Held on
BrookIine Course.
By "CLEEK.

George Sargent, Canadian open cham
pion, the professional at Chevy Chase.
and Fred Mcleod, former open cham
pion. are putting in lcks for their en-
trance i'll the national open championship
matches to be held at Brookline on Sep
tember II.
Both Sargent and Mcleod have won
the honor before, and are in the van
guard of the professionals expected to
keep the title in this country. Mcleod
says he is in good shape to take a
crack at the foreign players. many Of
whom are now at Brookline getting the
course down for the title match
Mcleod is expecting to leave next
Monday to familiarize himself with the
Brookline course. and Sargent is expect
Ing to leave little later in the week
Today at Garden City John G. An
derson. Of Braeburn, Mass, and
Jerome d. Travers, of Montclair, N. j.,
are playing for the national golf cham
pionship. They began the 35-hole course
at 1890 this morning, and fully two
thousand men and women are follow
ing the players over the links. Travers
is the present holder of the title, but
the feeling among golfers in general is
that he will fall before the sturdy game
of the young player from New England
The semi-finals saw Travers defeat
Fred Herreshoff up and 4 to play, and
Anderson dispose of Chick" Evans, the
Chicago star. by 2 to / margin
Travers play was excellent, save for
his machie Shots and It is his weak
nr hot hot Sob
title from him. Anderson was behind
Evans at the lunch hour, but In the
afternoon Evans poor short game
swung the victory to Anderson Evans
tried one putter after another without
success.
Harry Vardon and Edward Ray, the
British golfers, are playing today at
Brookline. Mass. They are here to play
in the national open championships, to
be held at the Brookline c. c. Septem-
ber 1913. About October IA they will
play at San FRANCISCO. and their tour
IF the continent Will take them to
various other places in the United
States and Canada
ITO win the championship matches"
said Mr.. Ray today. ''Vardon and | are
convinced Will be very great task. We
arc going to try our best to win, but We
realize that we will have a great field
to go against When we came over to
this country first some reporter quoted
Nardon as saying that We would win
everything that We went and that the
American players would be easy for us
''Vardon never said anything of the
sort. Neither did ]. We knew that
some OF the best players in the world
are ir America. We never under estt
mate the ability of men like McDermott.
"Alex smith and several more whom |
could mention.
This Is my first visit to America. and
am enjoying every hour of Fly stay
And so am /, said Mr.. Vardon.
Since my last visit thirteen years ago
the courses and the American players
golf in the United States has been won
derful.''
The open championsh golfer. ]. ]. Nc
Dermott, is repentant. Robert c. Wat
son. president of the United States
Golf Association, has taken cognizance
of the speech made bv McDer1nott at
Shawnee, which gave offense to Var
don and Kay. He wrote to McDermott
letter warning him that unless as
surances were received of future good
conduct, and of civilitv to the British
visitors that his entry to the open
championship at Brookline would be
refused.
McDermott wrote a contrite reply.
saying. This affair breaks nv heart"
He gave the assurances sought and de-
clared that II he were barred from the
chance to meet Eardon and Raw he
would throw his clubs into the ocean
and retire from golf.
''The United States Golf Association
intends to do everything in its power
TO preserve the present friendly rela-
tions with British clubs and individ-
uals,' said Mr.. Watson yesterday. No
man. no matter who he may be- will
be allowed to disturb that harmony"