New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Tales of a Wayside Tee
------------By GRANTLAND RlCE--------
Copyright. 1924. New York rribuns 1po

confidence thus upholstered, should be
figure of Importance.
There are Leo peigel and Eddie Loos,
two other fine young homebreds, who
have been making threatening gestures
in other championships.
There are many of these young home
breds who may spring tidy sensation
ness Leo Deigel and Jack Burke were
only a stroke away, and no one heard
Burke's name mentioned until after
the third round. Burke, with the cham
pionship in his grasp, took on an
easy hole after almost driving the
green. And even then he was only one
stroke back of Ray.
No amateur has figured now in five
years, not since Ouimet, Travers and
Evans won three out Of four champion
ships between 1913 and 1916. That
ended their march.
But Evans is always dangerous, and
when Bobby Jones can fall heir to
greater serenity and can build up a
philosophy that will not permit mis-
takes to warp his mental poise he has
the game to get anywhere. But golf
happens to be something more than
a matter of mechanical form--of merely
hitting small white ball with club
head of wood or iron.
And there is always the Old Guard,
the most picturesque Of tnem ali Alex
Smith and Freddie Mcleod, past cham
pions, one weighing 200 and the other
12c, prove that golf isn't matter
of displacement. George Low, the
friend of all; Gil Nichols, who had
the game to win his share of champion
ships if he had been less high strung;
George Sargent, another ex-champion,
and with him long list Of other vet
Grams, rare characters with their turns
of humor and philosophy, who help to
give the game its color and variety.
Who Will Win?
| It would be no great surprise to see
the battle fought between Hutchinson
and Mitchell, with the former slightly
favored Jock began his great march
last summer and for over year now
he has played the greatest golf in the
world. After finishing one stroke back
of Ray at Toledo he won the pro-
led three big fields by decisive margins
before starting for Scotland, where he
achieved the highest honor in profess
| sional golf and the hardest of them all
to win. If he can hold his great pacs
another week he will be out in front
Mitchell has a great chance, and we
figure him next to Hutchison, with
! Hagen, Barnes, duncan and LAKEWOOD
punched hardly a six-foo. putt away.
There is no ballyhoo press agency in
the statement that this will be the
greatest field that ever fought for
Uncle Sans championship cup-a cup
he yearns to replace upon the shelf
after years of absence. He will send
his best into action, knowing that he
will need his best to check Mitchell
Duncan and kirkwood, who make up an
even stouter combination than the
Vardon-Ray encourage of a year ago
And they were good enough to :inish
! IL.
Golf is an uncanny game that dehes
the prophet and Knocks at dope. Lack
of putting touch, hard luck in a
bunker, puts that rim the cup with.
out dropping are quite enough to
wreck any champion. Those lucky
enough to be in Washington this week
will get an eyeful OF. excitement
drama, comedy and tragedy, and they
! should also see the finest open cham
pionship in our history.