The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-09
CAN OUIMET REPEAT
HIS FEAT IN OPEN?
All Eyes Will Be on Amateur
Title Holder in Tourney
Next Week.
MAC SMITH Is FANORITE
But McDermott Is Likely to
Upset Calculations and
Come Through.
NAG SMITH Is FANORITE

IN little over y week from to-day
the twentieth omen golf championship Of
the United States will begin on the course
Of the Midlothian Country Club at Blue
Island. III. about twenty miles
southwest OF Chicago. or course. the
main question 10 be decided by the open
championship this year is whether Francis
ouimet can defend successfully the title
which he won in such sensational fash
ion eleven months ago at Brookline.
The tourney viii no played on August Is,
10. 20 and 81.
The general consensus OF opinion among
golfers seems to be that tho Massachu-
sets amateur Will be unable TO retain
his title. but In spite u that Ouimet has
shown within a week that he IL playing
golf good enough TO win once more. At
Brookline the other day he went round
in 6s. and II no can attain that form
at Midlothian he will be again factor
with whom the professionals will have
to reckon. The fact that Oulmet will be
playing on strange course At Mid
lothian probably will initiate against
his chances. "a his victory last year was
won on nrks with which he had been
familiar for many years
Macdonald Smiths victory in the Met
ropolltan open at Scarsdale on last
Wednesday and Thursday has made the
young Oakmont professional the favorite
for the national title in many quarters.
He outplayed the rest OF the big and
representative feld 80 dec!sively that his
chances for the bigger title seem brighter
Af
United States. At Scarsdale Smith met
nearly every prominent professional with
whom he will have to contend at MID
lothian and IL they cannot press him
more closely next week than they ala
last he should win with several strokes
to spare
\ few noted professionals did not play
at Scarsdale, among them being John
J. McDermott, who always must be con-
sldered a factor in an open champion
ship Holder OF the title In 1911 and
1912, McDermott, II he should prove 10
be IN form, may win his third cham
pionship easily. At present the exact
whereabouts Of McDermott seems 10 be
more or less OF "A mystery. lie returned
TO Atlantic city after his trip 10 scot
land for the British open. OF which ne
arrived day too late 10 play. but LETT
Atlantic city soon after his return. ana
has not been back, 1t Is not known
whether or not he Is getting an oppor-
tunity TO practice, hut n he II not MS
chance for the national title VIII be
lessened considerably
NJ j. Brady the Massachysstts open
cha mpion, Is another golfer Who did not
play at Scarsdale, but who v conceded 10
have an excellent chance for victory al
Midlothian Brady tied for the national
open championship In 1911, but was beaten
on the play of.
In ADDITION to those mentioned there
are a number OF professionals, most OF
whom were at Scarsdale who are pretty
sure 10 nnlsn well up IN the national open
and who never are beaten until the last
round IL played Such golfers as George
Sargent. Fred Mcleod Aleck Smith,
James NJ Barnes. Louis Teller and Tom
Mcnamara must be taken into considera-
ton NJ all times,
AS the tourney Is to be played in the
West It IN quite possible that some hith-
/ erto unknown Western homebred may
fash uEon the scene, though the past his
B tory of the open championship shows That
most OF the good homebrtds are produced
right here in the East. Probably the mos
dangerous Western entrant will be Chick
Evans, and II he gets going in the midst
OF one Of his inspired strcnks another
amateur holder of the open title is more
! than likely 20 he the result
The course over which the open cham
pionship Ia TO be played Is one OF the old
est and best known in the Chicago dis
trict The Midlothian Country Club was
organized fifteen years ago, and ever since