The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-28
PICK THREE NAMES
FOR GOLF TITLE
VIII II Be Evans or 0uimct or Travers
as the Three Stars Go Over the
Course in Chicago Tourna-
ment2

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Detroit, Mich, Aug. 2s.--"Will the new
golf champion be Evans, ouimet or Ira
vers-or will he be someone elsei"
These three stars, each of whom is A
champion, have been picked from bril-
liant field by majority of American
enthusiasts, to furnish the winner Of tho
2lst national amateur golf championship
tournament, to be held here from Aug. IS
to Sept. 4.
More than $50 contestants are expected
to compete in the qualifying round Aug.
2S on the Detroit Country club course.
Harry Vardon, the famous English golf
er, who shot game on these grounds
two years ago, pronounced the course the
finest he had seen in America. Other
noted students of the Scotch pastimc
have declared that no 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 a score better
than ~.
So far as known the great players
from the East, Middle West, South and
Pacific coast, who are entered in the ma
tional struggle, are mostly of the opin-
ion that no championship possibility will
be greatly favored or seriously handi-
capped by the requirements of the course.
On the other hand it is probably their
unanimous view that the "two shot" star
will be left hopelessly behind before the
preliminary rounds of medal play have
been completed.
Nearly all Of the amateurs who com
peted in the championship rounds in the
1914 tournament are entered. Chicago
will have more than dozen players of
national Importance, in addition to the
western champion, "Chick" Evans. Jack |
Neville, the Pacific coasts hope, and Mel |
son Whitney of New Orleans, often re-
ferred to as "the peer of Dixie players" |
sent their entries in early. Through the
efforts of the United States Golf associa
ton, the field is certain to be remarkably |
strong for the qualifying rounds. Afte
Monday the tournament is expected to |
resolve itself into battle of giants.
Golf experts who for months have been
writing OF the tournament have delighted
n again referring to the contest as a.
struggle between the East and West
With about 10 top-notchers on each side.
Their articles, however, seemingly have
,een incomplete without reference 10 the
,pen champion, Jerome Travers; the ma
ional amateur title holder and former
pen champion, Francis 0uimet and
'harles Evans, jr lone westerner of the
rio, who, for the past two seasons. has
,een invincible in the western amateur
These three players, il
as been computed, have won % golf
tiles during the past eight years. These
onors do not include foreign or scholas
ic victories. Travers has been most
He has been winner of the .
nal match in IA championships of dis !
met importance.
The fact that Travers and Ouimet have {
OF played much golf in the West and !
vans has been unsuccessful in his big 3
iatches in the East, has caused enthusi- !
SITS to study the peculiarities Of the De- d
roit course with unusual care. The a
rounds were designed and built by an O
nglishman and are, perhaps, more rep
sentative Of British links and the more Q
fiicult of eastern courses, than of those c
carer the Mississippi river. u
Although the country is practically
at, the designer produced an endless va
ETY. Of hazards, diagonal cross bunkers, I
Iusive traps and imposing mounds.
early all of the greens are banked and
e large, giving deadly putters an op-
,rtunity for spectacular effort
The course is 6,6l5 yards long and in.
udes six holes that are 400 yards or 4
ore apart; three that are 500 yards OF
ore; five in the 3Oo.yard class and four
the 200 yards or less.