The Washington herald., 1916-06-22
SEVENTY ENTRIES
in GOLF tourney
Small List of Golfers Seeking
Open Championship-Trav-
ers Not to Defend Title.
PLAY AT MlNIKAHDA CLUB

The experiment of sending the national
open golf championship to the Minikahds
Club at Minneapolis is not complete
success II the size OF the entry list may
be taken as a criterion.
Howard 2. Whitney. secretary of the
United States Golf Association. gave out
the names Of those who had entered up
to yesterday afternoon. the official closing
time, and there were only sixty-seven
Jerome d. Travers. has stuck to his de-
termination not to defend his crown next
week, and the 19l3-19l4 champions, Walter
Hagen and Francis Ouiment, also have
not entered In fact the only former ma
tonal open champion on the list is Alex
Ross. who won in 1907. 1t is probable that
a number Of names will be added before
play begins, among them that of George
Sargent, national open champion In 1903.
who is now the professional at Min
ikahda
There are fourteen amateur aspirants
for the title, the leading ones being
Charles Evans, jr.. the Western amateur
champion; Douglas Grant, the California
Scotchman, who Is said to be playing
great golf just now, and James Scott
Worthington, who enters from Mid Surrey
golfer and held the Irish amateur cham
pioship in 1904. Two years later he was
runner-up for the same title.
Although no announcement was made
yesterday by Secretary Whitney about
any changes in the program for the open
tourney next week 1t does not seem likely
that qualifying rounds will be needed with
so small field The pairings will be an
nounced in the newspapers OF next Sun
10, tl,ot H.
cisls probably will know whether or not
two qualifying rounds will be played, as
was done in the last three open cham
pionships The list of entries follows:
P. ]. Gaudin. Onwentsia; Louis Teller.
Brookline James A. Donaldson, Glen
View; J. NJ. Barnes. Whitemarsh Valley;
J. B. Simpson, Blue Mound Jack Jolly.
Newark; Nelson NJ Whitney, Audubon;
'Reuben G. Bush, Audubon; Alexander
Cunningham. Wheeling; Herbert Strong.
Inwood: George Mclean. Dunwoodie; ].
Morton. Racine; Tom Boyd. Fox Hills;
Wilfrid E. Reid Wilmington; Jack Burke,
Rockford; Walter G. Fovargue, Skokie;
James c. Ferguson. Spring Lake; 'Harri-
son r. Johnston, Minikahda; Alfred F
Hackbarth. Hinsdale; Arthur f. Reid
Virginia.
Walter Clark, Denver; NJ ]. Brady,
Oakley; Tom Morris, Town and Country;
J. j. " brlen, MansllelQ, George simpson,
Oak Park: Otis II. George, Lafayette; H
T. Van Every. Lafayette; w. c. Sher-
wood. Memphis; &c. McElligott. Fargo; H
Fletcher, Winnipeg; John Gemmill, Win
nipeg; Henry Boddington, Winnipeg; Jack
Dowling, Scarsdale; William D. Robinson
Atlantic City; 'Eliot H. Evans. Evanston,
y. S. Worthington. Mid Surrey, England;
Jack Hutchison. Allegheny; Charles
Evans, Jr., Edgewater; Alexander Ross,
Detroit
Harry G. Legg, Minikahda: William
V. Hoare. Omaha; sL. w. Carpenter Min
ikahda; Edwin A. Fish. Minneapolis: &C.
P. Jafrray. Mnikahda; douglas Grant
Burlingame: Harry E. Flora, Portage
Lake; r. Taylor. Minikahda; Howard
Mcmillan, Minikahda: George SIdenberg
Minikahda; John Harland, Park Club,
Buffalo: Carl H. Anderson. New York; J.
Mitchell. Ridgewood: Frank Adams
French Lick; Dave Livie, Geneva; Otto
G. Hackbarth, Cincinnati; sJohn Reuter-
jr., Dickinson; David B. Mcintosh, Glen
Oak; Robert Fairbairn. Alexandria,
B. F. Kelley. San Antonio: r. G. Mac
Donald, Buffalo; Gilbert Nichols, Great
Neck; Bert Battell. Flushing; George
Sailing. Hotchkiss; Leslie Davis, Lincoln;
Tom Mcnamara, New York; Frank P,
Goss. Worcester; ]. J. Ross, Milwaukee.