The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-30
VISITOR OFFERS ID GIVE GOLF TOURNEY
ENTHUSIAST OF IOWA WILL CON TRIBUTE CUPS FOR THE
 FIRST HoNORS.
Visiting Baseball Players Are Findino the Game Interesting and Make Many Vsita to the Course.
BY U. " AMMAN

'' ". W. l4A-Nl'l4AN.
 Press Representative the Arlington and Eastman Hotels.
 Hot Springs had it's first rainy day
 Of the new year yesterday and the
 lively golf contingent finally secured a rest. In reality, the forced vaca- tlon was appreciated all around, as play in the annual mid-winter tourma- ment Tuesday and Wednesday was unusually stiff, the majority of the contesJan1s playing thirty-six holes each day which is mighty trying if one is not hardened
 r. w. Fitch of Boone la, who has been in the Spa since the holidays and who plans remaining until mid. February, and even lcnger if his busi- ness affairs will permit, has galantly come forward and suggested to Pres ident win O Forbes of the Hot Springs GoIf and Country Club, that a tournament be arranged for next week
 Mir. Fitch wants to give the tourna- ment He promises the winner in each flight a handsome silver loving cup. Dr Forbes will doubtless accept Mir Fitch's kind offer 10 bear the ex pense of the show and today the style .of play as vel as the dates, will be selected
 (. A. Kerr, member of the Evan ston Golf Club of Kansas City Mo, who qualified in the first flight in the mid-winter tournament and who is quartered with the gay golf con tingent at the Arlington, suggests an entrance fee to add to the keenness Of the Fitch tournament.
 'I play a foursome at Evanston al- most every day during the summer and fall months" states MT Kerr and we always play for a little wag- CT. 1t stimulates interest in the play and | guess we are even on our wager ing
 Mr. Kerr is a rare good golfer and would doubtless have fought his way into the semi-fnal round in the frs
 flight in the mid-winter tournament if he he'd been at all familiar with the links. He arrived the day before the tournament started and never ne- gotiated the course until he competed Il the qualifying round.
 A foursome is carded for today or tomorrow on the Country Club links, with j. V, Rohan of Racine, Wis, and Professional Willie" Hoare on one side, and A. c. Johnson of the Mini tahda Club of Minneapolis. Minn., the winner of the mid-winter tournament. or r. w. Fitch of Boone la.. and II. C. Walker, the rising young prOfes sional of the Westwood Country Club of St. Louis. on the other
 Then for either the coming Sunday or a date later in the season, Hoare will play Herman Hackbarth, the pro fessional of the Little Rock Country Club. He defeated Hoare in an eigh- .a-a hole match over the Essex links
 -o seasons ago, registering very Iuly victory and if Messrs Holien- Aeck. Mann English and those other
 cod fellows from Little Rock again
 0me to town with Hackbarth and show an inclination to back their pro- .assional they will find oodles Of coin here. IIoare is c1nddont be is Hack bartha superior and not only is 'Wil lie" willing to bet $200 of his own money that he can turn the tables on the Little Rock player, but he has a lot of additional backing
 The rJsilent members of the lIot| springs Golf and Country Club sh.uld he ashamed of themselves for not cn- tering the mid-wlnter tournament. Nary a single Hot Springs player en- tered and Hoare had difficulty com pleting two flights Golf is one Of Hot Springs biggest and best attrac- ti0ns and is affording the Spa more advertising than ang ether feature of the winter The St. Louis Globe-Demo crat, St Louis Republic, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Examiner, Chicago Record4Herald, Cincinnati Enquirer pittsburg Gazette-Times, Pittsburg