Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-03
BRITISH HAVE GOLFED 1000
ININTERNATIONAL JOURNEYS
But Our amateur LineUp Looks Too Strong for Inuadne
Youngsters in Fifth Great Links Event of Season
BY SANDY McNIBLICK

lON FOUR international golf cham
" ponships already decided this sea-
son the British have scored the round
average of 1000. No slide rule is
| necessary to figure that this is con-
vincing, not to say impressive, per-
centage.
Golf apparently remains the one in
ternational sport where America trails
Great Britain. Invading Britons have
been consistently successful in our
championships. They have won the
women's, the open and the amateur
over here. Only once has an American
been successful abroad. that being when
| Walter Travis won the British ANA
! tCur.
In our amateur commencing Monday,
the British entry is the strongest 1t
ever was, both in numbers and talent,
according to the statistics at hand.
Besides their champion, Cyril Tolley,
they have entered two players. both OF
whom abroad are considered better than
| Tolley.
Roger II. Wethered, of Christ
Church, Oxford. played No. l on the
champion Oxford team, ahead of Tolley
at No. .. and Wethered was considered
an even better golfer than Tolley.
Armour Tops
Better than either was ranked Tom
Armour. who was the real favorite
abroad to win the British champion =
ship, and who did beat Tolley in the
French championship.
Lord Charles Hope, the fourth mem
bcr of the British delegation here, is
another top notch amateur abroad. anc
the question arises whether one OF these
four sterling players will not wade
through the American field again.
Somehow. in the dazzling list of oul
own talent this year. the Britons' en-
try has not excited all the interest anc
anxiety it apparently deserves. They
are only a sidclight in the brilliant
field
With not a single important absentee
throughout the amateur talent of al
countries, the American championship
will have all the ear marks of. ant
should actually carry the amateur
championship of the world.
Wethered Good Prospect
If Armour can beat Tolley. we would
personally like to see Wethered in ac
tlOn De1OTh making any prtuicNAOh vi
the chances of the Britons.
} Bob Gardner was said, by all WHIT
saw the British finals at Muirhcld, t
have thrown away" his chance o
beating Tollry there and winning tn
British title by his putting. In Americ'
we have about FIVE players who coult
beat Gardner fairly consistently.
Tolley Is Of the Heron type, great
: plump young giant of the links, hitting
powerful ball and playing masterfu
/ game throughout, but not by any mean
unbeatable.
Tom Armour is one of the best
dressed players we have seen ana
e handsome as they come. AT Toledo Il
: the national championship, he wa1
symphony. Light blue outing shirt wit
, a dark blue tie and vivid blue stocking
made neat combination for his ath
letic form, jet black hair and well
! tanned. fine features.
But his game lacks punch and de
cisivcnpSs which finished MN tar dow
2 /, and did not furnish much OF a Compari
1 son with Bobby Jones or Chlrk Evar
who wrrc both up among thc prize WIN
); ners of the fastest field that ever com
- peted in our open.
Young Players
Q The four British players are young
d sters. fresh to their honors, and wit
a the execution of Armour, will have ht
little chance to get acclimated befo
n the classic starts Monday.
d The chances, by and large, we shou
e say are that it will take Superhumt
golf gifts for them to lay low the supe