New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
Golf Becoming
Popular With Men
In College World
By Raw Mccarthy

rived in this country. Nevertheless
each year sees tremendous growth
in it's popularity Particularly is this
true in the college world, where the
game has recently drawn hundreds of
new adherents. 1t wasn't so long ago
that the whole ambition of a young
man, athletically inclined was to make
the football or the baseball team.
Basketball, hockey, track and swim
ming got big response also, but ten
mis- and golf-those were sports for
the grinds.
To-day there is different attitude
among the athletes of the various
colleges towards these two sports just
as there is a different viewpoint, COM
corning golf among the present-day
major league ball players, from that
Of the old-timer. The fact is golf is
beginning. to attract as many students
as any of the other sports. And the
chief reason is that the collegian has
learned that whereas he can continue
to play golf after graduation, football
and baseball are but memories.
Dave Maginnes Speaks
I met Dave Maginnes the other day.
Lehigh's great fullback of three years
that ever wore the cleated shoe.
"Pll take you on for a game of golf
some day." he said. "That's the game"
he continued. "You have to be in con-
dition to play football or baseball, but
golf you can play any time. Do you
know l wish l had played golf instead
of baseball while l was at college,"
Maginnes is only one of many con-
verts to the game. Another is Eddie
briggs, former Princeton football star
who in two years play has become q
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to make bid for the national title
this year. briggs, since has gradua-
tion has become a virtual golf "bug."
At every opportunity he slips out
the Engineers Grub course for a few
rounds. briggs is so anxious to play
in the various tournaments that he has
arranged to take his vacation in parts
of two and three days at time instead
of straight two or three weeks.
Then there is Eddie Van Week, at one
time star pitcher of the Yale nine
Van Week mas long been a linksman
Of the dyed-in-wool sort.
But the main point is that where
there were only one or two good golf
ers in colleges several years ago, such
as Robert Gardner and a few others,
to-day there are a score or more of
stars, and in few years this number
will have increased to three-score and
more
Intercollegiate tournaments in the
past have been featured by the fine
play of one or two golfers. This week
at Nassau the quality Of golf shown
by some twenty-five or more players
was simply astounding Several bet
tered par easily, another group kept
the thirty-two who qualified for the
championship ever wandered far away
from what is considered good golf.
Average Score 79
Par at Nassau is rs. The average
score of each individual on the Prince
ton team for each of four rounds was
10, SO it can readily be seen that all
of the Nassau students were perform
ing in brilliant manner. Moreover. not
one of the eight colleges competing
failed to have at least one player who
turned i'll some fine scores. Sweetser
and Scott, of Yale, both played won
derful golf
Weatherby and Boyd, of mouth,
Kept we'll within range of par during
the time they performed, while all
four Of the Harvard players did sur
prisingly we'll. Williams brought along
formances were nothing short of sem
sational. Olin and Hukill did we'll for
Cornell. Rownd and Rhoads for Penn
sylvania, while Walker was Colum-
bias best bet. The tournament was
featured mostly by the general fine
playing Of all the contestants.
The long and short Of the foregoing
Is that with the collegians taking hold
Of the game as they are, the United
States need no longer worry about old
John Bull or any of the others when it
comes to golf or golf titles. What be-
tween the undergraduates who are be-
coming stars, and the graduates who
are taking up the game in increasing
numbers, we should produce enough
good players to hold the fort when
| Britain sends her army Of linksmen
across to try their luck on these shores
Eight colleges now compete annually
| for the championship. Next year it is
! likely that several more will enter the
! list, inasmuch az Penn State Lafayette
Amherst and others are making plans
TO support teams in the sport hereafter
Next years meet will have an interna-
tional flavor il Oxford and Cambridge
accept the invitation to compete in the
| tournament at Greenwich, in which
case international matches will prob
ably take place every year. Truly the
game Is making wonderful strides.
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Eorcoran Wins Bout
LAWRENCE. Mass. June 2s.-Tom