Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-24
WHO WILL BETHE
NExTGOLF CHAMP
Qualifying Round in National anna.
teur Meet WIN BE Played on DE.
tr0it Course Saturday.

Detroit Mich Aug. e#-'Wu the
new golf champion be Evans. 0umee
or Travers-or VIII he De someone
eIse2"
These three stars, each Of whom is
a champion, have been picked from
brilliant field by majority OF Amerl-
can enthusiasts. to furnish the win
ner OF the 21st national amateur self
championship tournament, TO be held
here from Aug. Is to Sept. e.
More than I50 contestants are eT-
pected TO compete in the qualifying
round, Aug. %, on the Detroit Country
club course. Harry Fardou the Ia
nous English golfer. who shot "a game
on these grounds two years ago. pro-
nounced The course the finest he had
seen in America. Other students of
the Scotch pastme have declared that
10 course in the country demands
more skill from star performers in
championship competition. Since the
links were complete IN June 1912. no
one has Turned in score better than
/ r.
So far as known the great players
from the east, middle west. south and
Pacific coast. who are entered in the
national struggle. are mostly of the
opinion that no championship posi-
biEty will be greatly favored or Sc
riously Handicapped By the require
meuts of the course. On the other
hand it is probably their unanimous
view that the two shot star viii be
left hopelessly behind before the pre-
Iiminary rounds of medal play have
been completed.
Nearly ali of the amateurs who com
peted in the Championship rounds ia
the 1914 tournament are entered Chi
/ cago will have more than a dozen play
ers Of national Importance, in addi-
zion to the western champion, Chick
Evans. lack Neville. the Pacific coast
+ hope and Nelson Whitney. of New Or
leans often referred to as "The peer
( Of Dixie players sent their entries in
early. Through the efforts of the
United States Golf association. the
field is certain 10 be remarkably strong
/ for the qualifying rounds. After Mon
day. the tournament is expected to
/ resolve itself into a battle Of giants.
Golf experts, who for months have
/ been writing Of the tournament, have
delighted in again referring to the con
( test as q struggle between the east and
west with about 10 top-uotchers on
each side Their articles. however
! seemingly have been incomplete with-
( out reference to the open champion.
/ Jerome Travers. the national amateur
/ title holder and former open champion.
/ Francis Ouimet and Charles Evans
Jr.. lone westerner Of the trio, who.
I for the past two seasons, has been in
/ vincfbIe in the western amateur tour
naments. These three players it
/ has been computed have won
+ % golf titles during the past eight
wears. These h0nors do not include
/ foreign or scholastic victories. Trav-
/ ers has been most successful He has
! been winner oil the final match m Il
championships Of distinct importance
The fact that Tr7vers and Ouimet
have not played much golf in the west
and Evans has been unsuccessful IN
his big matches in the east. has caus-
! ed enthusiasts TO study the peculIari-
I ties Of the Detroit course with unusual
care. The grounds we're designed and
bnilt bv an Englishman and are per
hans more Representative OF British
/ links and the more difficult Of eastern
courses. than Of those nearer the Mis-
I sissippi river
Although the coGntFv IS practically
fat, the designer produced an endless