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opyright. 1920, New York Tribune Inc.

With the national open champion
ship now a matter of Golf history, only
q brlet breathing space lntervenes be-
tore the amateur championship gets
under way over the Engineers course
at Roslyn, L. l.
This coming championship will be
written down among the classics for
two reasons: 1t will be the first played
under the new golfng code and it will
have the greatest entry list that ever
fought for the title. Cyril j. Tolley
British amateur champion; Dawson
HERON. American amateur champion;
Il. Fl. Wethered, captain Of the Oxford
team; Robert A. Gardner, twice ANA
teur champion; Evans, Ouimet and
Travers, past open and amateur cham
plons; Bobby Jones and so on through
the most formidable set of slashers
and back spin immortals that ever took
lunge at brassie shot or sank a
l0-foot putt.
The New Code
This 1920 tournament will register
the first international code under the
revised rules. 1t will be the first
championship ever played where a man
will lose both stroke and distance on
en- out of bounds shot--a penalty that
will play minor part over the En-
g1neers' course, as there are very few
out of bounds opportunities for eSen
the widest of the hitters.
But the change giving the man who
loses his ball or reaches an unplayable
lie chance to keep in the battle may
be an important one, as there are GER
tain sections of the course where it is
extremely easy to do both these things.
Under the old code the player, ir
match play, so confronted would have
nothing left ahead except to concede
the hole and walk to the next tee with
melancholy vision of the future.
Now he can drop ball from the spot
where the shot was made that wan
dered to invisible terrain or unplayable
terrors and still go to it.
This is an eminently fair and just
ruling in every way.
The British Invasion
The championship would be brill
liant affair if only home bred stars
were to compete. There would be
thrills enough in any tournament
which brought together Chick Evans,
Bobby Jones, Dave Heron, Francis
Ouimet, Jerry Travcrs, Bob Gardner,
Oswald Kirkby, Ned Sawyer, Max
Marston, Johnny Anderson, Bill
Fownes, Jesse Sweetzer and dozen
others. But when to this list are ADDED
Toiley, Wethered and Armour from
Greas Britain, with the ten best anna
teurs in Canada, you can absorb some
Of the atmosphere in advance.
1t will merely mean two or even
three star matches every day, where
the Engineers course will be in the
nature of three-ring circus, as the
big galleries futter about in an at
tempt to decide which match will offer
the greatest thrills.
This will make the third time q
British champion has come over for
the test. Hilton came in 1911 and out
played the field. He won the medal
qualifying round with a brace of 75s
at Apawamis and then bagged the
championship. He came back in 1912
to Chicago, wilted in the heat. and was
displaced in his first match.
Now, Tolley. d powerful young Eng
lishman who has come to sudden fame
will attempt to land both champion.
ships, as Hilton did in 1911. He has
already filed one away by sinking a
1Qfoot putt for a 2 on the thirty