Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-02
WANT YANKEE OPEN
DURING SEPTEMBER.
Foreign Golfers DESTROYS That
American Tournament
Be Held Late.
EVENT IN FALL

While the officers OF the United
States Golf Association are deferring
the selection of the dates for the ma
tional open championship until they
hear something definite in regard to
the plans of the expected professionals
from the other side of the Atlantic,
word comes from England that the
British professionals are making no
plans and will not make any until
they learn the dates chosen for the
tourney at Midlothian.
With both sides marking time In
this manner, each waiting for the
other to take the next step, there
seems little chance for accomplish
ment. It Is known that the foreign
professionals are practically unani-
nous in the desire that the American
open championship be held during the
month of September, as was the case
last year. 1t is the only month which
will enable them to spend the neces-
sary amount of time in getting ac-
climated after the British and French
championships are over. and IL the
tourney is not held until October the
Britishers fear that cold weather may
hurt their chances.
On the other hand, September has
been pretty well filed by the U. S.
G. A, for both the national amateur
and the national women's champion
ship will be played during that
month, according to the present plans.
If the British professionals maintain
their preference for September the
u. S. G. A. may find it advisable to
change the dates for the women's
event and hold 1t in October, the
month In which 1t has been held for
several years past. In 1911 the ma
tional governing body changed the
dates for the amateur event after they
had been announced, in order to suit
the convenience of British visitors,
and that precedent may be followed
this year.
In any case the U. s. @. A. should
select the dates for the open cham
pionship as soon as possible and give
the British professionals who hope to
visit this country a chance to make
their plans for the season.
Louis Teller, who arrivedB from
France on Saturday, is strong in the
belief that George Duncan will sweep
everything before him during the
coming season. The little French
man is still full of praise for the
great golf that Duncan played when
he won the French championship at
Chantilly last October.
Now that the dates for the national
amateur championship at Ekwanok
have been selected and the first week
in September chosen the Intercollegi-
ate Golf Association has settled def
nitely upon the following week for its
championship tournament at Garden
City. The collegians are planning to
make their 1914 tournament bigger
one than 1t has been during the last
two or three years and hope that by
holding 1t at Garden City more col
leges than usual may be induced to
enter teams.
The American golfers who compete
in the British open championship
next June will face a system of play
unusual both in this country and
England According to a recent de-
cision OF the managing clubs the en-
trants will play qualifying rounds on
one or more courses, and the 100 re-
turning the best scores will be eligible
for the championship play on the
Prestwick links June IS and 10. This
innovation will be of particular inter-
est to Jerome D. Travers, Heinrich
Schmidt, Francis Ouimet and Fred
Herreshoff, the quartet of United
States players planning a golflng in
vasion of the British Isles this sum-
mer.
One of the first matters the execu-
tive committee of the United States
Golf Association will have to settle
when Robert G. Watson, the presi-
dent of the association, returns from
trip South this week, will be the
selection of the time for the national
open championship, which will be
held this year at the Midlothian
i Country Club, near Chicago.