The sun., 1914-08-26
OLD PLAN IN VOGUE
FOR NATIONAL GOLF
Unwieldy Field Nccessitatcs
Two Days to Qualify for
Championship Play.
FIRST RANKERS PRESENT
Travcrs, Ouimet and Evans on
Hand-Only Four Foreign
Players Entered.
FIRST RANKERS PRESENT

Once more the attempt OF the Tinted
States Golf Association to begin thc ma
tional amateur championship with /
thirty-six hole qualifying round played on
one day has been frustrated by the ,izc ~
the entry list. In announcing the names
and palrings OF the ii2 golfers who hops
to start at Ekwanok next Monday morn
ing John Reid, Jr, the y. s G. A secs
retary. also states that return to tho
old system Of qualifying is necessary boz
cause Of the size of the field
An eighteen hole round will he played
next Monday. ard the leading sixty.four
will play another eighteen hole round -
Tuesday morning The makers ~ tho
lowest thirty-two scores for,thc thirty.s's
holes Of medal play will qualify fur the
title. and the FIRST match round which
will be at eighteen holes, will be played
on Tuesday afternoon.
This system has been used for 4 NUM-
hcr Of years, except In 1912 at Wheaton,
when the field was small enough to per-
NIT the playing of thrty-six holes on tho
first day. Last year at Garden city t.
was intended to repeat the Wheaton 'N-
pertinent. but the size of the field made
necessary reversion 10 the old order
As the number of entries would indicate.
nearly every first rank amateur golfer n
the country will be on hand at Ekwaruh.
IN IONltlor 10 '1t nome players are tne
names OF four foreigners. &. u Nt-
Farane. Bushy Han. the young ScptrN-
man who beat chick Evans In scu t'ou.l
fashion at Sandwich, has entered, tut
word came from England day or tgp
ago that he had given up the trip b"caI-
OF the war. Norman f.. Brookos, ~
victorious Australasian tennis player.
an entrant. Whether he will play or rot
is an open question.
The two visitors most likely to play are
Fred Leslie, Sunningdale. and G Il. Gr."-,
Royal Montreal.
jerome u. Travers. four times chan-
pion and tho present holder of the titl,,
will defend his honors, and tho other tNp
members Of Americas amateur triunyir-
ate, Chick Evans and Francis Ouimet, arc
on the list Of starters. Four former va
tional champions w. G. Fownes, Ir.
Robert y. Gardner Ebcn NJ. Bycrs and
Walter ]. Travis will seek to regain their
lost laurels. Other golfers Of national
prominence who have entered are Fred
Herreshoff, Warren X. Wood. Oswald
K!rkby, Paul Hunter, B. Warren Corkran
and Max II. Behr. The pairinGs follow
caqy pras BUN ) g H"aFTSf cofSfan 'Ga Ralimoi. I'm
99,nd W Kcmble, Phiiadelphia; II. F.
SiathSras; Mn2s N"'ie eS. "Pd Isss nTss faas:
and y Anderson. Brae Burn. J. f. shan.
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c!nnath and !. II HYDE, South Shore, y :.
Ekwanok: r. S wOrthinston, Shawnee. and
Anan Lard Cheyy tTh4nse; Oswald kirng|'
5oarss Neson @a whney S0Nf1 AadnSon sna
Devoreux Lord, Haworth; Philip Cartcr,
GsTdner, Hinsdsfe, and II l. Fes!ey. POS
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| Francis Oulmet. Woodland, Slnd Robert
Hunter, Wee Burn: Sheriff. sherman, YAH
| nundasis. and Il. W. Brown. Meadow Brook;
IL. u. Hepburn. Louisville, and r. NJ Byer-
| Allegheny; Oliver Perrin, National. and II.
| NJ Lewis. Ridgeheld. Charles Evans. Jr,.
Edge,wSter and r u Hoyt; woodlaa9d ~ 4
crocker. BrOohline; john Reid. Jr', St Al.
| Grantand Rice, Englewood. and " p.
/ Slmons. Garden city, J. B. Chase, WOOD
| land. and @, r. Brokaw. Garden city, Ious
Iacoby, Dallas. and T. NJ sherman, Yah;
| nundass; X G. Watson, Westhrook and
Harold Weber, Toledo. J; y. csdy Rock
Island. and NJ I. Lewis Flushing; Chisho'm
| Beach, Fox Hills and G. A. Crump, phlIa
deiphia; y, S. Bcttome Fox Hills, and
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