The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-05
TRAVERS NOT TO Be
IN LOCAL OPEN TILT
National Champion Most Noted
Absentee From Event That
Begins on Thursday.
McDERMOTT COMES BACK

Sixty-three are on the list OF
entries for the Metropolitan open cham
p%ionship. which will be played on Thurs
day and Friday of this week. but 1t IL
not unlikely that a few more will be
added before the tournament begins.
Conspicuous among the absentees are
Jerome d. Travers. national open cham
pion. and Walter C.. Hagen, holder Of
the national open title In 1914 and who
won the Massachusetts, open last week
AZ Brookline. Travers may have de-
cided not to play any more tournament
golf for a while. but Hagen Is most
likely to be an added starter when the
championship test gets under way on
Thursday.
Even though the two newly crowned
champions have not entered. there IL
one former national open champion on
the list whose play will be watched with
the greatest interest. John j. McDer-
mott. the first homcbred to win the ma
ional open championship. who held the
title in 1911 and 1912. has selected this
weeks tourney as the scene OF his at
tempt to come back after the severe Ill
ness and nervous breakdown that have
kept him out Of competitive golf for
sliuy HlpltIls. II hCl'cI luOtt INdlly 10
his old self again he will be a formula
BILE contender for the title.
Macdonald Smith. the present cham
plon. will defend his title mt Fox
Hills. although he has not been playing
up to his gane this season. James NJ.
Barnes. the Western open champion.
will he on hand, n others Of promi-
nence whose names appear on the list
and Tom Mcnamara. Oil Nichols. A'eck
Smith. Louis Teller and Wilfred Reid.
The leading amateurs who have entered
are Max r.. Marston. the New Jersey
champion. and G. T.. Van Week. Jr.
Both are Baltusrol golfers.
The championship test. as usual. will
be seventy-two holes of medal play. the
first thirty-six on Thursday and the
second double round on Friday. There
will be prizes for the first eight. the
winner getting $3.50 and u gold medal.
In addition to the regular prizes there
will DE SO prizes for the makers of the
best morning and afternoon rounds on
each day and for the makers OF the best
thirty-six hole scores each day.
On Wednesday the annual amateur
professional four ball match will be
played. open TO teams composed Of an
amateur and "A professional. Every pro-
fessional playing on Wednesday must be
entered in the championship. but no such
is placed upon the amateur.
Four prizes are offered for the Wednes-
day competition.
The first Metropolitan open champion
ship was held Just ten years g on
course over which this weeks
tourney will be played. No champion
ship was held in 1907. A list Of the previ-
GUS winners. the courses on which they
won and their winning scores follows:
1906, A'eck Smith. Fox His. 500: 1908,
George Low. Hollywood. sy%: 1905. Jack
Hobcns. Baltusrol. 3o5: 1903. Alesk Smith,
sol: lsli. Gilbert Nichols. EnEiewood.
Isl: 1919. Tom Mcnamara. Apawamis. ?ss.
AlsSk smith, Wysasyi' ssi; 1914
The rrst pair will be sent away on
Thursday morning at $50 and the last
of the field will leave the first tee shortly
after IL. The pairings and starting
Flushing; s:s5, Frank I. McNsmars, sound
Beach, and David : Hunter. Es.eH
Msr,,on, ,BaltnsrOI: $50. jack mob.n..
Hills; s:;5. Ii. copiahd Roeinson. unst.
and X. A. Conroy. North Jersey:
90; David osilvie. Morri, county, and
dart, Bedford $40: wilfred L. Reid. Sea
clair s:i5. Marin .O'LouEhlih. Plainneid.
Hombe. ENGLAND; and Macdonald smith;
L igsnc x. Mccarthy. Jack,onviie'
$3.50. William Norton. lakewood. and
Il. On T@o" sisa r Rias.' ana i m.sibsF,
Inwood; $40, james NJ; Barnes.
,Nhitemarsh valley and Fred II, Stella;
ban Cooper. unattached; y:5o. 'John II.
Newms Fox nus and j. j. M%Sp.rmo,i;
Nichols. Wilmington, 1906. Aleek Plrie,
iacned: io:i'o. Ernest Wei.s.r. " sns,,aSSsd.
and Thomas Harmon. saegkill: 1915.
George Dernbach. unattached. and Thomas
1910. Thomas /. Mcnamara. Boston.
and George Low. Baitusrol; io:zS. George
Sailing: HG,chhi... ana a J. ssndss.Sn'
cola. io:ss ". Macfariane. suburban. and
=, Van Week; Jr;, Baitu.rol. and
smith wykasyio and Chanting Floyd. IN
somsrviil;.. and George Mclean Dun.
1855. e. l. Mothersele, woodhall
spa, b Enf'anH' 100 snd Joe low" syy C ghT W E mn,
and william Brsid R~ockaway; 1905. Ell.
mer w. Loving, Quaker Ridge.
NSiltNcuI'
The Country Club Of Detroit evidently
has determined to leave nothing undone
that may help to make IA success OF
the national amateur championship IA,
in September. A letter has been
sent to every club hat belongs to the
States Golf Association urging
each club to send to Detroit as many OF
it, members us are on the national
handicap list and so are eligible TO play
for the title. The club expresses the
hope that n large number of Eastern
will make the trip to Detroit.
The letter does not confne Itself to
Intending competitors. but also asks all
Of the u. y. g.. 4. clubs To send their
members TO Detroit to watch the play In
the championship. Any golfers who
intend to be present at the champion
ship tournament either ms competitors or
spectators are urged 10 write 10 the
secretary of the Country Club of de-
rot, who will be glad TO furnish in
'orma ion In regard to hotel or other
accommodations during the champion
ship week.
II the letter from the Detroi, club
meets with the esponsc which IL de-
'erv"s the cha mpionship surely will be-
gin on Saturday. August ~, the day
10y the l.. =. q. a. In cas-. tho field
II 50 large that the thirty-slx hole
qualifying round cannot he completed In
me day.
The seventeenth annual championship
II the Connecticut Golf Association will
% playcd on the Last four Inyu ~ mic