Albuquerque morning journal., 1915-08-28
GOLF FIENDS ARE
BUSY SELECTING
A NEW CHAMP ION
Vean Gregg Joins the Come Backq Brigade
Evans 0uImet and Trayers
Prominently Mentioned as
Probable Winners at De-
trOiti Dark Horses Plentiful

10y soRmsa JouRnA. SPECIAL LEASED wisEI
Detroit Mich. Aug. 27.-" win ths
new golf champion te Evans. Ouimet.
or Trdvers-or will he Dee someone
else ?'
These three stars, each of whom is
la champion. have been picked from
la brilliant field by majority Of
American enthusiasts, to furnish the
winner Of the twenty-first national
lamateur golf championship tourna-
ment, to be held here from August
Is 10 September T.
More than $50 contestants are ex-
Ipected to compete In the qualifying
lround. August 2S, on the Detroit
Country club course. Harry Vardon.
the famous English golfer. who shot
a game on these grounds two years
ago. pronounced the course the finest
he had seen in America. other noted
students of the Scotch pastme have
declared that no course i'm the country
demands more skin from star per-
formers in championship competition.
Since the links We're completed in June.
1912, no one has turned i'm a score bet
ter than seventy-tWo
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 possi-
hility will be greatly favored or seri-
ously handicapped by the require
ments OF the course. ON the other
hand il is probably their unanimous
view that the two shot star win be
left hopelessly behind before the pre-
liminary rounds of medal play have
been completed.
Many Amateurs Entered.
! Nearly all Of the amateurs who
! competed in the championship rounds
in the 1914 tournament are entered.
/ Chicago will have more than a dozen
/ players of national Importance, in ad-
diton to the western champion,
Chick Evans Jack Neville, the Pa
! cific coasts hope, and Nelson Whit
ney Of New orleans often referred to
as The peer of Dixie players" sent
their entries In early Through the
( efforts of the United States Golf as
sociatlon. th field is certain to be re-
/ markahly strong for the qualifying
rounds. After Monday the tourna-
ment is expected to resolve into a bat
tie of giants.
! Golf experts. who for months have
been writing of the tournament, have
delighted i'm again referring to the
| contest as a struggle between the east
and west with about ten top -notchers
on each side. Their articles, however
seemingly have been incomplete with
out reference to the open champion
Jerome Trayers, the national anna
teur title holder and former open
/ champion, Francis Ouimet and
Charles Evans, Jr, lone westerner Of
the trio, who. for the past two sea-
sons. has been inyincible in the west
ern amateur tournaments These three
noted players, it has been computed
have won twenty-three golf titles dur
/ ing the past eight years, These hon
ors do not include foreign or scholas-
/ tic victories. Travers has been most
successful He has been winner of
the final match in fourteen cham
! pionships of distinct Importance.
The fact that Travers and Ouimet
/ have not played much golf. in the west
and Evans has been unsuccessful in
/ his biz matches in the east, has eaus-
/ ed enthusiasts TO study the peculiari-
4 ties Of the Detroit course with unusual
care The grounds We're designed and
| built by an Englshman and are, per-
1 haps, more representative of British
Il{nbs ord tho moro diffipult of oastern
no,rscs tbnn ~ thoso neoror Inc Mis-
sissinnj ri,,er
MANY ua,ords
AItbouob tpe countrv is practically
/ ,,ot tLo dosi,,,o, nrnd,,ned IN end-
ioa, 80 ,,orio,,, ~ ba1arae diagonai cross
/ h,,,,,'or, iil,,ii,,e tra,s and tronosina,
mounds. Nearly all of the greens are
banked and are large, giving deadly
putteis an "pP'''oii''' '0'
iai clio' cc,r ......,. t..,.. ,,,, .
lhe COURSE I9 o'oao y"l uS n to'e ~ ~
ihcluues SIN holes tlul ~ 7Vu S"loo to9
or more apart thiee lnal dH are oo9
yards or more I'VE I'D the oVo-Salu
class ana iouI ot we -uu Hdi US %, @ @lC99'
A ues'i ilp'lon on 'le Eiouiius IolioNs,
no !, 4-U ya'us le tee y oil "
rise ana d carry vi ioV nius - NJ, ~
qufeu lo bel ono ''le eie"l, ""
ialee 5'"ps uuiu ~, 80 ',',.,,'.ad !" Ia -
odhHeu any .'1pa ,,.' "ie l.,,d a. ,,ii7 ~.
e"tCn s,l'su ~ LOON" "',G ,,.i t,aio
N9, NJ ~ So' Us, ~ 1te t,jrd q,
,'orimo a'oJln r, ,,Iii talyo TWO ionp shofsI
-. .sat ''iosa IN e,oar which is am
~ r5se Fee " i ,ven 'I enardad hy trans
as also is tbe groom tbe front Of
which however IL onen Par
No. 3. ass vardsLFor this hole an
absolutely straight drive will be nee
essary. a diagonal bunker makes al
hook or slice costly. A long shot to
the left opens up the hole consider
ably. This hole is a splendid test for
/ accuracy and power Par 3.
No. 4. 34l yards-A ditch runs dl-
/ agOndllN across the course, protecting