The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-14
MANY GOLF STARS
AT BALTUSROL
National Open Championship Promises
To Be Interesting Despite Failure
of British Stars To
Enter.

A
English golfng stars failed to- material
ize, the 22d annual national open cham
pionship at Baltusrol promises to equal
in every way preceding title tourna.
ments. A representative entry list has
been filed and the course ut Short Hills,
| N. D., Is Of character to test the all
round golfng ability of the leading ANA
teurs and professionals of all sections Of
the United States. Tuesday and Wednes-
day will be devoted TO qualifying rounds,
while on Thursday and Friday the "a
survivors win compete in 72.hole cham
pionship play.
This is the second open tournament to
be played at Baltusrol, the first having
been held on the New Jersey club course
in 1908 when Willie Anderson ws.l, this
starting his string of three consecutive
victories which still stands record. An
derson also won the open at the Myopia
Hunt club at Hamilton, Mass, in 1901,
giving him total Of four championships.
Alec Smith won in 1907 and 1910 and
Jerry McDermott in 1911 and l9l2. These
two players with Anderson are the only
ones to repeat in the United States open.
Harry Vardon of England came close to
duplicating this feat, winning at Wheat
on, ILL.,, in 1900 and being defeated at
Brookline, Mass, in 1913 by Francis Jul
met ~ to " in the sensational play-off
of the tie between Vardon, Edward Ray
and 0uimet, after the trio had tied at 304
at the end of four days play.
With the preliminary season finished
and the college crews gathering at Pough-
keepsie and New London for the final
races of the year, interest in the inter
collegiate regattas turns to the probable
outcome of the varsity aquatic duals at
the end of the month. The result of the
dual and triangular regattas during April
and May point to closely contested four
mile races ON both the Thames and Hud-
son rivers.
Harvard and Yale have had success
full spring on the water, winning all the
races In which their varsity crews start
ed, although the schedule was not as
heavy as in previous years. Harvard won
from the naval academy eight at An.
napolis on April "a defeating the mid
lies first crew in race of one and five
sighths miles by IL seconds. On May 22
he Crimson oarsmen won from Cornell
n a two-mile race on Caynga lake by
ength
Yale figured in two preliminary races,
Pennsylvania in a snowstorm
It Philadelphia April 3, when the Qusk
RS were outrowed over one and FIVE
'ixteenths mile course. The Eli first
rev also had the honor OF winning the
triangular regatta at Princeton on May
S when both Cornell and Princeton fol-
owed the Blue oarsmen at the finish OF
one and seven -eighths mile race. Less
han shell length separated Yale and |
'ornell, with the Tigers trailing badly. !
II the two defeats administered to the
'ornell crew the race won by Harvard
1as more impressive than the victory Sc I
ured by Yale. I
OF the five varsity crews entered for
be intercollegiate regatta at Poughkeep-
lie the Leland Stanford eight is the only '
ne indicated. The Californians won B
be Pacific coast intercollegiate title, de- J
eating the University of Washington O
nd California crews in a three. mile race 4
n April 10. The Stanford time was o
minutes, 81 as seconds. Among the I
astern crews Pennsylvania has been de-
sated by Yale, Princeton, Columbia and d
as won from the navy; Cornell lost to G
ale and Harvard defeated Princeton. &
he Princeton eight and the navy crew {
i'll not row in either OF the four mile
ices scheduled for the closing days of
he month.
American yschtsmen are still pulling
fer an alleged interview with Sir Thorn.
J Upton in which he was credited with
he statement that II it developed that
he lines of his Shamrock ". were
nown, he would build another chalIeng-
!. The Upton yacht arrived here last
ltumn and when the European war pre-
'nted the races for the Americas Gun.