Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-08
BIC GOLF PLUMS
ARE DEALT OUT
To MANY CLUBS
International Contests Likely To
Be Feature of Play Here
and Also broad
w TITHIN the last few weeks the

w TITHIN the last few weeks the
w courses on which nearly all Of
the important golf champion
ships of 1914 will be decided have
been selectedr by the governing bod
les controlling them, and in all but a
few cases the dates for the champion
ship tournaments have also been
| chosen. The 1914 list of champion
ships will be long one. and in the
| principal events on both sides of the
Atlantic the promise of international
competition adds to the interest.
Before the season in the United
States is fairly under way the big
| events IF the year in Great Britain
will be over, for the British amateur
championship Is to be held at Sand =
witch in the middle of May, the la
dies championship at Hunstanton
| viii be decided during the previous
week, ana the British open at Prest-
wick will he played about one month
| after the amateur.
AS the United States Is to be rep
resented at Sandwich by Jerome d.
| Travers, four times amateur cham
| pion; Francis Ouimet, national open
champion; Fred Herreshoff, Heinrich
Schmidt and possibly one or two 9TH
| ers, the first big championship Of the
year gives promise of being the most
! interesting of all Our champions will
be pitted against such great golfers
as Harold II. Hilton, the defending
champion; John Ball, Robert Max
well and a host of others, who will
make the task of the Americans a
most difficult one and one that will be
all but impossible Of success.
Play for British Title in May.
| The tournament proper will begin
on Monday, May IS, and will run
| through the week ending on Satur
day, May 23, when the 36-hole final
round will be played. If tho field is
| too big a one ii may be necessary to
! play off a preliminary round on the
| last day of the preceding week, as
the conditions of the British cham
pionship provide for nothing but
match play from start to finish. and
| there is no qualifying round to re-
duce the size of the field to the prop
er numerical proportions at the out
set OF the tournament. All but the
final round wifi be at eighteen holes.
Whether America will be strongly
represented in the British oper
championship in June is still mat
ter of doubt, but even If none of the
leading American professionals en-
ter. the results of the event will be
awaited eagerly in the United States
for il is probable that the leaders In
the British open will come to this
country on a quest similar to that
which brought Harry Vardon and Ed =
! ward Ray to these shores last year.
| Owing TO the changes in the condi-
| tons made recently the tournament
| will be stretched out over period or
nearly two weeks. The qualifying
rounds at Prestwick, st. Nicholas and
Troon will be played off on June IL
and u, any ties for last place will be
! decided on June 10, then will follow
several days allotted to practice for
the 100 golfers who qualify, and the
I 70 hours of play for the champion
ship itself will come on June Is and
] 10. 1t is long program that seems
| likely to test the patience of both
| players and officials.
The list which follows shows the
| courses selected for the champion
ships, the dates set except in the
| casese where no dates have as yet
been chosen, and the holders of the
| titles involved.
Here Are the Dates Selected.
| Nav 1-16-British ladies' cham
pionship, Hunstanton, England Miss
| Muriel Dodd Moreton.
May 1S-23-British amateur cham
pionship, Sandwich, England; Harold
II. Hilton, Royal Liverpool.
May 0-33-Metropolitan amateur
| championship, EngleWood; Jerome D.,
Travcrs. Upper Montcla1r,
May 25-29-Wcmen's metropolitan
! championship, Essex County; Miss
| Marion Holins, Westbrook
May 25-30-F'rench amateur cham
pionship, La Boulie; Lord Charles
| Hope, England.
June -3-Women's Eastern cham
pionship, Greenwich. Mrs. Ronald H.
! Barlow, Merton.
| June 4-6-New Jersey champion
ship, Morris County; Jerome ID. Ira
vers, Upper Montclair.
June 2-6-Southern championship,
| Memphis; Nelson n. Whitney, Audi
bon.
June S-13-Trans-M Mississippi cham
pionship, Kansas City; Stewart c..
| Stickney, ST. Louis.
| June British open qualifying
rounds. Prestwick, st. Nicholas and
| Troon.
June 1s-19-British open cham
pionship Prestwick, Scotland; j. II.
| Taylor.
July s-7-French open champion
ship. lie Toquet; George Duncan,
| England
July 27-AuR 81 Western anna
teur championship Kent Country
| Club, Grand Rapids, Mich; Warren
| K. Wood Homewood.
August Metropolitan open
championship, Scarsdale; Aleck
| Smith
Augusta September 5-National
amateur championship, Fkwanok
Country Club. Manchester Vt; Je-
rome D. Travers.
September 14-19-Women's national
| c championship, Nassau Country Club,
| Glen Cove, l., l.; Miss Gladys Ra-
venscroft, England
Dates Undecided.
National open championship. Mid
| lothian Country Club, Blue Island,
| H.; Francis Oulmet, Woodland
Western open pionship, Inter
| lachen Country Club, Minneapolis,