Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-31
NERVES, COURSE AND FIELD TO
BEAT IN u. S. TTTULAR GOLF
Ten Dozen Locals Will Take Whr Classiest National
Euer Promised-Cowse and Entry List Analysed
BY SANDY McNIRLICK
EXPECTATIoNs are that not a

IMPLICATIONS are that not a
- single one of Philadelphia's first
ten amateurs will be absent from this
years play for the amateur golf cham
pionship Of the United States. the most
promising struggle for the title, on pa
per, ever to be staged.
J. w. Plat. city champion, and Fred
Knight who has won number of i'm
portant matches this year. leave today
for the Engineers course, Roslyn, J.. l..
where the championship proper starts
Monday.
The clans are beginning to gather
there today. according to reports.
Walter Reynolds. Norman Maxwell,
Edward G. Clarey, George Hoffner and
Paul Tewksbury are all planning to go
over Friday to get in at least four
rounds over the course before the cham
Merton. will very likely go before that,
with Pat Grant and Eddie briggs also
taking up the grand march.
The Philadelphia entries are expected
to reach ten or a dozen if all are able to
make the trip.
To Gloom
| There never has been SO much talent
before in the American classic as is en-
tered this year and there can not be too
great cause for gloom If the Philadel-
phians hit all around the necessary
qualifying total without breaking
through solidly.
Grantland Rice has an interesting ar
ticle in the current issue of the Amer =
ican Golfer on the Engineers course.
There are those who think it the
finest course in the country. There are
others who look upon it as bag OF
tricks and who finish round muttering
strange things" he writes.
1T will be n test that no entrant in
the impending championship will ever
regard as light one.
THE main test will be on the green's.
IF these are cut and rolled to any
keenness, with their various undula :
| tions and slopes and twists you will find
strong men weeping as they finish the
round.
'The course. under 6400 yards in
| length isn't long. Unless heavy rains
or heavy winds prevail. it will be pos.
sible to reach most of the greens with q
drive and a pitch.
yet the sloping effect Of the greens
and the rugged nature of the rough il
such that low scoring is a rare mat
ter"
Sound Nerves
The course for the qualifiers. o,
would -be's, Is described as q stiff test
of sound nerves and nerve. The short
holes are liable TO result in 5's or 81
more often than IS and there are plenty
OF spots to wreck the hopeful.
briggs is native of the Engineers
course. six other of the local entrants
are veterans" of national tourna
ment. and the Philadelphia prospect il
therefore not so bad.
On n course such as the whole helt
would ordinarily play its golf, it woult
be possible to go through the entry lis
and pick with some precision the play
ers from each district that ought t.
qualify. o,
New York has such hopes as OSWALD
Kirkby, Jerry Travers. Jesse Sweetser
Gardiner White, Frank Dyer, John G
Anderson. Lucien Walker, J, S. Worth
ington. They are liable to qua lily NOR
than their quota" Of four, since the'
have had the opportunity right along t
get accustomed to the course. Civ
them four.
BeantowD Confident
Boston has Francis Ouimet. Jes
Guilford, +. c. Newton and a sur,
fourth. The South has D. G. Corkran
Bobby Jones, j. s. Dean, Loui