The New York herald., 1921-08-13
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
ISSUES GOLF Def
Players Under Chandler Egan
Would Meet Teams Captained
by Evans and 0uimet.
ny KERR N. PETRIE.

Judging by the way events are now
shaping themselves that national anna
teur solf championship at ST. Louis next
month may resolve itself into two solid
weeks OF play for quite number of the
contestants. Lapping over into a second
week as II will owing to the decision of
the L.. $. G. A. to hold a preliminary
qualifying round on Saturday SO that the
neld can be whitfield down to workable
proportions for the championship play
proper, the programme has been fur-
ther extended recently by the proposal TO
hold a team match between Chicago and
the metropolitan district. That brought
play forward TO the Friday.
Now comes word that the Pacific
Northwest Is brandishing a metaphorical
niblick at the reputation of the East and
the Middle West, that plans are afoot
70 send the biggest muster ever des-
patched in its history to q national golf
championship. and that, moreover, it Is
the desire and ambition OF the afore-
said Pacific Northwest to satisfy itself
Of It's sectional team strength. Plans
are afoot for a team match or series of
team matches that will make the Chi
cago-New York joust look like an old
ladies' foursome by comparison, for the
story goes that Chick Evans and Francis
Ouimet have been warned to rally
around their standards the best that
their respective sections can produce.
Golfers there are in the East who are
not In love with the idea of holding the
championship so far from the rumble Of
the Atlantic. However, it Is an Ill wind
that blows nobody good. st. Louis is
far enough west to attract the golfers
Of the Pacific coast. who heretofore have
not attended these meetings in anything
Ike impressive numbers. This time
regular campaign has been launched to
round up all the available talent. Hence
the desire for the team matches, which
Il Is suggested should be played on the
Sunset Hill links sometime during the
week before the championship.
Not less than eight of the foremost
stars embraced in that golfing hotbed
formed by Seattle, Portland and Victoria
will journey to st. Louis, it is stated.
There may be as many as fourteen.
Those named as probable entries are
Chandler Egan. Rudolph wilhelm. Forest
Watson. Russell Smith, DR.. o. F. Will
ing, Guy NJ. Stadifer, all of the waverly
Country Club of Portland; George Won
Elm, Salt Lake Country Club; Bob Stein
and II. A. Fleager of the Seattle Golf
Club; G. A. Griswold of Portland Golf
Club Clark Speirs of Inglewood Country
Club. Seattle; Biggerstaffe Wilson and
A. ". Macan OF Victoria Golf Club, and
the justly celebrated Heinrich Schmidt.
now of the Grays Harbor Country Club
of Aberdeen.
Such an organized attack by the Pa
cific Northwest was first suggested by
Guy Stadifer. who. after watching the
play in the recent amateur championship
Of that section and remarlxing upon its
III "a
about time they showed their hand.
Never before had the section been rep
resented at a national championship by
more than two players at any one time.
Chandler Egan Is to be made captain Of
the team and Bob Johnstone, the Seattle
Golf Club professional, is to be sent
along as adviser in chief.
Arrangements were concluded yester-
day for the thirty-six hole match at
Sound View between the holder OF the
British open championship. Jock Hutchi-
son of Glen View. Chicago. and Jim
Barnes OF Pelham Country Club. New
York. open champion OF the United
States. The prize offered by the Sound
View Club, which was formerly the
Great Neck Golf Club, is $4,000. 75 per
cent. of which will go to the winner and
25 per cent. to the loser. The match will
be played on Labor Day.
The next important golf tournament
for amateurs il the Victory cup event TO
be held August rs, 26 and 27 at the
Sleepy Hollow Country Club. This COM
petition Is open to all amateurs in the
world belonging to recognized golf clubs,
and Is for the trophy presented to the
Westchester County Golf Association
by Rodman Wanamaker.
This will be the third tournament
under these auspices. On the first oc-
casion the cup was won by ID. II. Sawyer
OF Siwanoy, and last year 1t was carried
off by Jesse w. Sweetser.
Entries, which close on Saturday, Au-
gust 20. must be made direct 10 the
Golf Committee Sleepy Hollow Country
Club, Scarborough on Hudson.
Bob Macdonald OF Bob o. Link. who
recently won the metropolitan open golf
championship at Siwanoy, completed his
American naturalization yesterday In
Chicago before Judge Kenesaw M. Lam
dis. Macdonald is a native Of Dornoeh,
Scotland.