The New York herald., 1921-12-24
$500 IN TROPHIES
FOR GOLF AMATEURS
Florida Country Club Making
Plans to Give Tourney En-
trants q Good Time.
BY KERR N. PETRIE.

Amateur golfers who may be plan
ming or contemplating a Southern trip
this season will find tournament well
worth their consideration at the Florida
Country Club of Jacksonville March 6
to 3. Frank Rogers. chairman of the
golf committee. forwards additional de-
tails of the arrangements that are be-
ing made down there in the Gateway
of Florida, both as regards the anna
teur event and the Florida open cham
pionship which the same club is to stage
Immediately after the amateur, in other
words, on March 10 and IL.
In the first place this amateur tour
nament Is to be known as the South
eastern championship and is open to all
members of clubs affiliated with the
United States Golf Association. The
event will carry about $500 worth of
cups and medals and II is the inten-
tion to have i'm the field the best talent
that the club can gather together. AL
ready ten squads of four men each have
been lined UP for the team champion
ship, which is to be decided i'm conjunc-
ton with the qualifying round. These
teams are from the different cities, and
IL has already been stated that those
who go down from the frozen regions
will find some of the best players Of
the South anxious to lend hand at
warming them UP.
Club to Entertain Entrants.
The Florida Country Club has made
quite extensive plans to entertain the
amateurs while the tournament is going
| on. You can assure them that they
will have an exceedingly good time"
writes Mr.. Rogers.
nf lac Jtpnr
pected to stay over for the Florida open
championship which was inaugurated
last March and won by Jim Barnes. At
the present time Barnes Is with Hutchi-
SON on the Pacific coast, and unless the
pair of champions cut their schedule
the likelihood Is that the Pelham star
will not defend his title this year.
Twelve months ago the Florida
Country Club put UP $1,000. This time
the tournament is to carry a purse of
$1,750 as well as a gold medal for the
winner. AS in the amateur tourney, a
splendid field already is assured for
the open meeting.
Golfers who enjoyed the play of Miss
Cecil Leitch in the tournament at Belle
claire and in her other matches around
the Metropolitan district were rather
disappointed that the holder of the Brit
isn, frencn ana Canadian titles did not
give a few more exhibitions after the
one at st. Georges. Staten Island. Miss
Leitch played there with Miss Marion
Hollins. w. III. Follett the Staten Island
champion, and Devereux Emmett, the
well known golf course architect, and at
the date OF her sailing for England
still was two weeks off it was believed
that she would continue to play. Even
when it was announced that Miss Leitch
had gone off to visit friends in Canada
1t was thought that she would return
to the United States and play at least
one more game before sailing from New
York. The next that the golfin.y public
heard Of Miss Leitch she was on board
steamship leaving a Canadian port.
Miss Leitch Injuries Arm.
1t seems. however, that even if the
champion had returned to the United
States 1t would only have been to dis
appoint her admirers, as in her last
match on American soil she suffered an
injury that has put her arm in sling
and is to keep her out of the game for
at least six months. 1t seems that in
digging her ball out Of very bad lie
at st. Georges Miss Leitch felt her
arm "go." and although she played on
to the finish 1t was found that she had
torn the muscles of the forearm away
from the bone just below the elbow. It
should be mentioned that 1t is the cham
pion's right arm that sustained the
injury.