The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-08
U. S. GOLFERS
TO MEET The
CANADIANS
Ten Cracks of Each Nation to
Compete on Links Begin
ming July Is.


At least three big international golf
features have already been staged in
which Canadian and United States
golfers viii participate. After a lapse
OF over 20 years In international golf
team match between 10 OF the best
amateurs in Canada and 10 in the
United States win be played at the
Hamilton Golf club on July IS. Last
year the Canadian seniors won the
Duke of Devonshire's cup in a match
against the United States seniors and
a return match will be held at Apswa-
mis- Golf club, Rye, New York. in
which the Yankee seniors will endeavor
TO take the cup away from the Canadi-
ans, At the same time the leading
United States senior will do his best
to wrest from George S. Lyon, Can
ada's greatest senior and amateur
champion, Lord Shaughnessy's beauti-
iul cup, which is awarded each year
to the individual champion of the
Canadian and United States seniors.
Charles Chick Evans, Jr., both open
n amateur champion of the United
states, will make another tour for b
treal about June II and playing IN
Montreal, Quebec, st. Andrews-by-the-
Sea and Toronto.
According to Evans. Canada is par
golf. In the May number of The Golf
ers' magazine, Evans gives his impress
olpAlS VI NdIltuS NdlduldH lnkS uHOh
which he has played during his four
dlfterent trips to Canada
II a superman golfer could drive q
ball controlled by wireless from the
first tee of the Charlottetown Golf club,
Prince Edward island. on the Atlantic
Victoria Golf club, Victoria, B. G., on
the Pacific ocean, the little rubber
sphere would pass over nearly 1000
miles Of wei l-distributed Canadian golf.
Likes Canadian Golfers.
II am an enthusiastic admirer of
Canadian golfers and of the wonderful
links they have created" Evans said,
They know how to build golf courses,
because they and their ancestors have
been at the game a long time. There
Is what might be called a distinctive
Scotch and English quality in all the
links have seen, and we all know
that the links of Scotland and England
are still the patterns for the whole
world"
Evans having played in Canada four
different seasons Is we'll acquainted
corning Hamilton, the scene of the
great international team match, he
says:
an 1918 l played at Hamilton, Scar
borough and Winnipeg for the Red
Cross, The Hamilton Golf and Coun-
Wy Atp Ia III OPllllVIb 10 VAlO - ANo
finest links in America. The course
Is $3.50 yards, and swings we'll 1t Is
what might be called a natural-born'
golf course. Very few artificial hazards
have been constructed, but the links
call upon a golfer for his very best
skill. Hamilton was not new to me.
had played 1t in 1917 and got round
In 70, one under par, with a dropped
ball at the eighteenth, due to the fact
that a ~300-yard drive carried me into
the brook guarding the green.
Meets Two Good Ones.
Last year Lyon and 1 played two
clever golfers at Hamilton, +. r. Mar
tin, ex-amateur champion Of Canada,
and A. A. Adams, champion Of the
Hamilton club. They teamed very well,
Martin playing a great game going out,
and Adams bearing the brunt OF the
battle coming home, with The result
that the match hung on the last putt.
II Lyon had not run down a long putt
for a four, the match would have been
all square. AS 1t was, we defeated
them, / up. The best l could do was
rs, Lyon registering rs. The club
members were most liberal contributors
to the Red Cross, 81, 400 being raised.
My caddie paid 5000 for the privilege
of carrying he clubs, and the oaddies
of the other three players Clipped In
500 each for the same honor. Then,
to cap the very climax of courtesy and
hospitality, the directors conferred life
club memberships upon Lyon and me-"