The New York herald., 1921-07-06
GOLFERS GETTING
IN LINE FOR OPEN
Many Stars Entered for Cham
pionship to BE Played at
Washington.
BY KERR n. PETRIE.


According to Thomas ]. McMahon,
who this year is taking care of the open
championship entries for the United
States Golf Association. the blue
ribbon goIr event to be held over the
links Of the Columbia Country Club,
( Washington. d. c., Will be as great an
attraction for the gallery as was the
tourney held last year at Toledo while
possibly il may be just q trifie ahead
Of that event for general interest.
Last year Ted Ray ana Harry Var
don were the attractions. The pipe
smoking Oxhey giant has declared that
he cannot defend at Columbia and Var
don told his American friends as he
left last fail that he had undertaken
his last tour here. Fortunately the
meteoric George Duncan and the hard
hitting Abe Mitchell are taking tho
place of the former pair and in addi-
ton the international favor viii be sus-
tained by the inclusion of Joe Kirk
wood, the Anzac champion. who has
taken Great Britain by storm as much
by his play in the big tournaments as
by his uncanny control as exhibited in
his stunt shot making.
Duncan and Mitchell are on their way
to this country and so are Kirkwood
and all the American professionals who
have been competing in the British
open at st. Andrews. What is more to
the point we did not have the British
champion in the field last year at In
lverness, but we are TO have him this
year. and the fact that Jock Hutchi-
soI ..s teen crowned king OF the domain
of .se cleek is to add just that much
to the interest of the gallery in the
play of one Of the most brilliant golf
ers who ever swung q niblick in an
American bunker.
More than that we are to have with us
at Columbia the man who in the recent
tournament at st. Andrews made the
highest mark ever registered by homo
bred in that classic, Tom Kerrigan of
Siwanoy. When the Americans swept
against the British lines at the golfing
Mecca recently they knew that an Amer
lean born golfer never before had done
better than fifth in the open champion
ship Kerrigan placed the peg a couple
of notches higher and for his fine play
and brave display will be closely watched
In the coming clash at Columbia.
Mcmahon says that the pairings in
all probability will not be announced for
day or two but that record tourna-
ment is assured with the entries in hand
a day or two previous to the final clos
terday. 1t will be the biggest open
championship from the international
standpoint ever staged in this country
with entries from England. Australia
Canada and the United States at least
Then most of the Cambridge Univer-
sity amateurs are planning TO be pres
ent. No official intimation is made Of
the Cantabs, who competed last week In
the intercollegiate champio nship at
-. 1,,k lx1fl
Buffalo, where they are to compete In
an invitation tournament and get an
idea OF what Niagara Falls are like, the
English students said that they would
surely be in the play at Washington.
Record by Mrs. w. A. Gavin.
Record cards by women In the seven
ties are becoming II not exactly numer-
Gus at least sufficiently so 70 warrant
comment In the Metropolitan cham
plonship at Nassau both Mrs. w. A..
Gavin, the winner, and Miss Bishop, the
runner-up made the round in IS. The
next was a card of n by Mrs. Walter
MacGowan OF Glen Ridge at Upper Mont
clair, and now Mrs. Gavin once more
claims attention, this time by virtue of
| a record Of 10, made in the Independence
Day play at Belleclaire.
The former women's record for that
course was 81. also held by Mrs. Gavin.
This time the Metropolitan champion
just bad TO do Il. as she was playing in
the holiday competition against a field
of men. each of whom, with the excep-
ton of Mr.. Hundley. the finalist. she had
10 give nine strokes handicap. Mr..
Hundley received two. one at the ninth
and another at tho tenth. Victory was
won on the home green by a margin of
up Mrs. Gavin's card:
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In the above the was made on 2s0
yard hole. Mrs. Gavin drove two feet
beyond the pin. holing the putt. With
three holes TO so her score looked as IL It
might be II. However. she played the
sixteenth and seventeenth poorly.
One Of tho most coveted trophies of
the Richmond County Country Club Is
that presented by Henry J. Fuller and
played for on Independence Day over
thirty-slx holes It was won for tho
nrat time in 1919 by f. s. Bancroft, but
AZ. year Il passed into the hands of E.
20. Fowler who was good enough to win
Il again last Monday.
Conditions call for the selection OF tho
best eighteen holes Of the thirty-six.
Fowler played around in rs and "a. and
from this was able 20 pick n 60 for his
best ball Henry Miller-Jones finished
second, with 73. and W. G. Van Clief
third, with n. The Fuller trophy be-
comes tho property OF The player win
| ming Il three times.