Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-02
LiDe Sports NeDs and Comment
Great Gold Event
to Begin Monday
By Associated Press.

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New York, Sept. international
interest will be centered on this
years national amateur golf cham
plonship tournament which will be-
gin next Monday, Sept. 6, al Roslyn,
Long Island. The United States Golf
Association officials have arranged
that the qualifying round of So holes
Will be played over two courses, the
new links of the Engineers Club and
the better known circuit Of the
North Shore Country Club, which
are scarcely q mile apart. The big
field of entrants will be divided so
that those playing the first half Of
the round on either course will play
over the other links in the after
noon The subsequent match play
rounds consisting of So holes zach
cay, Will be contested over the En-
slneers' Club course which was laid
out by Herbert Strong only three
years ago.
ON Saturday, (Sept. ~, team
match between the United States
and Canada will be played over the
Engineers links and on Sunday
there will be the annual competition
Tor the American Golfer trophy All
or the Canadian players two take
part in this International match will
be eligible TO compete for the ma
tional championship. Among the
Dominion representatives will, be the
veteran golfer George s. Lyon. who
came close to winning the title many
4 T,t1, ~. =.
amateur champion and William
McLuclie, who formerly held that
honor Great Britain may be repre-
scented by Cyril Lolley, who recently
won the British amateur title: Lord
Charles Hope and ]. H. Wethered
while Thomas Armour, the Scotch
man. who holds, the French amateur
title, will be one of the councillors.
for the United States Golf Associa-
ton honor S. Davidson Heron, of
PITTSBURGH. last years winner. and
Bobby Jones, of Atlanta, Ga. whom
he defeated in the final round. will
he IN evidence again this year and
so will several erstwhile national
champions, including Charles Evans,
Jr.. Robert G. Gardner and Francis
Ouimet
To revert to the Engineers course,
! IT Is said that it is doubtful If any
contender for the title will be able TO
break records there. At present the
low mark is a a, made recently by
Max Marston. Par is n, So out and
30 home and it is the opinion Of
Charles Clarks, the Roslyn profess
sional. that those golfers making
10 for the IS hole testing round ov-
er the two courses, will qualify for
the match play stages.
There is probably no hole on any
link in this country which has at
tracted more comment than the
fourteenth. at the Engineers, known
| as the two or twenty hole" The
green is but los yards from the tee,
but deep ravine intervenes. Any
shot which does not drop on the
green will roll down steep embank-
nents and may not stop until 1t is at
least Is feet below the green, where
| there are a series OF sand traps, or
thirty feet down at the bottom of
the ravine. Two traps are built
across the front of the green so that
the tee shot must be all carry and
pitch in order to get safely on The
green shaped like the stern of
battleship is perched on a hill. Par
| for the hole is g. but when the Pro-
fessional Golfers Association cham
pionship was held at the Engineers
year ago. a good many Of the con-
testants considered themselves fav-
ored If they got there while
many of them took two or three
more.