Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-19
lock HUTCHINSON
/. FAVOR|TE TO WIN
OPEN GOLF TITLE
Half Of Star GoHing Field Tees
off This Morning--others
Play Tomorrow
MAX MARsT0N WITHDRAWS;
{ II PHILADELPHIA ENTRIES
pv SANDY McNIBLICK

"ynlk away WIN Ihc '"V
- tho opcn golf championship OF 'ho
United States. One reason is that II
nil, he guarded by two huge dignitarieS
Of the Marine Corps.
Arotber is that It looks as though
ans toll scoring will have to be done
- fn;sb anywhere near the top. save
%, about ak greens that have suddenly
w. r,e nsour" on the hard. working COM
sJ,at ss,,ttes of green's experts down here, tue
Toiumbia links were pronounced py
.,ost NJ the brilliant. field here MT thc
start This morning MS being splendid
tsst and as n course in prime ronditioh.
pirds. however. are not withont th'
realm Of possibility. ana 1t looks ns
though these winged creatures or tne
links will be fitting In and out OF tne
NAV all the way through. Ihe pess,,,,,
mists are sure the qualifying score VIII
not be worse than 10. while the ma
iority think that n II or 1S will get IN
Play Under Way
Half the field tccd of this morning
a. n,av nm eighteen hole elimination
East and the other half will play to-
morrow.
!. Seventy two qualify. ties Tor last
place also getting in. These fortuna,e
few then 20 away Thursday nnd FIJI
day on the four medal rounds proper
for the title. -,
The course looks like grand one.
n is decidedly rolling. You could ds-
scribe many Of the holes by saying thc
tee is elevated with the shot over dip
10 a rise in the fairway. The sec
N the green. The fairway is beautiful
ali the wov. The grass is close and of
sufficient fiber to make the ball sit up
well.
The first five green's arc in bad shape.
Abont two weeks they were suddenly
bcsct with fungus growth, which
rtprcad for all the world like n ring
worm and ate the grass right off them.
Expcrts were called in from the the
United States Agricultural Department,
but they were unable to provide II
remedy. Sand has been sprinltled on
the green's. which nrntralizcs In n way
their speed. But still the putt on them
is Just about to start the ball rolling
and then ''lct her roll
In this way you can control the dis
tancc, but not the line. Many of the
experts who put on brilliant finish
In rehearsal had their cords damaged.
ruined and otherwise wrecked by extra
puts on the first few green's. The
eighteenth Is also in bad way.
HutchisOn Is Favorite
More than half the players pick Jock
Hutchison. winner of the British open
to win the title this year. It'll be his
first IL he does. though he's twice been
rhnner.up for the American crown.
Jock is not SO confident. lie was as
smiling as every yesterday afternoon, as,
dressed in a natty crash suit. he dotted
his hat repeatedly to the plaudits of the
gathering when he made his appearance.
He didn't play (instead he slept most of
the afternoon). lie has done badly here
in two exhibition matches of the past,
but slyly said he was going better now
Had an 50 Saturday morning. v
Guoth the Scot, but hucked up in
the afternoon and got an ~"
All of which puts him in George
Duncan's class anyhow. The latter Lad
that at Shawnee. you will remember,
here. The big four favoritcs are
Hutchison. Duncan, Abe Mitchell and
Joe Kirkwood. None of them have
turned in their practice round cards.
but that means nothing, even If they
went badly. The time to play the
shots began today. Scorers gave
Mitchell II 20 yesterday afternoon.
though not all of his puts were
dropped.
Seventeen Philadelphia Entries
Now that Max Marston has with
drawn, Philadelphia, has seventeen en-
tries, one being the amateur j. Wood
Platt.
The latter, who w. G. Fownes is
quoted as rating the best amateur in
the country today, played we'll ycster :
DAY. He had n total of 1918 -146,
the best card Of any amateur. The
seventeenth hole cost him ten strokes
IN the two rounds. It's go yards
from lofty tee 10 lofty green. and n
? great dip between. If you get the
green you get Il birdie, II not, most
anything.
rlatt played In n foursome. mostly
against the youthful TOnoy Natalie, pro
at Lansdowne. Here is the Phiadrl-
phian you want to watch. unless he
goes to pieces in his first national
tournament. He had u II in his first
round and 72 in the afternoon. This
nttie Italian pro hits a mighty sweet
oall and II he can keep cool under fire,
you'll be reading about this Philadel
pn,a product before the weeks out.
Ihere were some remarkable happcn
nsS Yesterday. For one, Joe Sylvester
w. a'. A'bhns, got Go. But that's not
ps, fne haif OF it. lie was playing agains,
DIN Leach, a Philadelphia boy. who
ran down an eagle 2 on the long twelfth
onN 70 have Sylvester sink a .. and
a wI ,nc hole from him. Make an eagle
S;n Inv lose n hole-phew. But that's tho
n,na OF golf they are playing. Syl-
n sS'er nolcd long cleek shot. lie also
hy hem nad on the eighth when hi,
SSnu. SS1 rolled on, hit the pin and just
a00u' bounced clear Of the brink.
setting Is Gorgeous .
The setting for this championship /,
gorgeous. The clubhouse Is u" whitI T.
us'ure roo which has more than enough
,S .Uom Tor everybody. 1t looms n,
in 'oHsh forest of spreading fir tree.
iahe he center Of wide cXpanse O,
,,p SopeS rise oil around the eighteenth
siiern si where the thousands of cIriou,
Tmays gather to be in nt the death. .
nns, ne course is a mean one for The hard
trsn journalists. You take up th,
tbr",ot OF a deserving pair, follow then
ClVush Maryland to the District o,
too'WEnbia, ~ to Delaware, counter .marci
N. VEST virginia and when YOU look 70,
ths, s,iphouSe-there is Is right owe,
And IN Maryland, where you left il
sith.. taey haven't provided nacks
TTsr, Tr, Tor the finish.
todsw pros were pretty we'll alarmed
ins apout this eighteen hole quality
H., BUSINESS, But the field was SO bi,
IA 'ne committee felt the only thin,
yea was 20 60 through with It. Mex
< 10 css,is u hkeiy there will be three day,
pi.sInn with Q third Of the entr,
EsXirs tniry-sx holes each DAY. III.
v,Ii cards forSthe thirty N Aois,