The New York herald., 1921-08-09
TROYINGER LATEST
LINKS SENSATION
Canadian Open Champion Has
Had Detroit Stars on Their
Mettle All Season.
ny KERR N. PETRIE.

When the news was flashed from
Toronto recently that W. II. Trovinger
had won the Canadian open champion
ship golfers Immediately jumped 10 the
conclusion that once more the proverbial
dark horse had broken loose, or that
again the great unknown had caught
the field asleep. Trovinger may have
been q dark horse to some, even an
unknown before his name got into the
public prints as the leader OF the parade
at Toronto, but 1t is safe to say that
whoever feels that way about IT Is not
Of those who make the divots fly In the
town where they turn fiivvers loose
every second to prey upon the land
Any one mentioning Trovinger to
players such as Mike Brady. Alex Ross.
Harry Hampton or Leo Diegel any time
between the start of the season and the
Canadian open might have heard OF n
lad whose golf had all the accepted
stars of the auto town not a little wor-
ried. Like Diegel and ths well known
Lizzie" Trovinger is q Detroit product,
Also, he has that faculty for getting
there for which the other pair aT-
noted.
According TO those best d ,alihed TO
know, Trovinger all season ha3 been
leading the Detroit stars a merry dance
II seems that tournament play for the
professionals is anything but dead
Issue In that town. Troyinger, at Oak
land Hills, which is Mike Brady's
course, led the field with 20, and with
that score he not only was in front OF
Mike and Ross but two shots ahead OF
Hampton and three better than Diegel
and Dave Robertson.
For more than a month prior to the
national open championship at Wash
ington Trovinger had been averaging
below IA on the Bloomfield Hills course
Moreover he lowered the record stand
ing for long to the joint credit of
Wilbur Oakes and Charles Evans, Jr.,
from 6S to Go.
Like many others. Trovinger got off
the wrong foot in the national open
championship, his first three rounds be-
ing 70, SS and 70. However. he was
again coming on to his game when the
party broke up at the Columbia Country
Club. his final total of 72 giving him
an aggregate of 31S and setting ais
game right for Toronto
1t was at Toro"' t Brady hoped
to square account WITH = a. niger for
the 6S, which Billy had played to Mike s
60 In a match cve- the latter's home
course. Mike Is still far from all even.
In the Canadian championship he ran
second TO Trovinger. and SO personal a
matter did the pair make of that Do
minion title event that the field could
do nothing but take their dust.
For the time being last years sensa-
ton of the Detroit professional golfins
ranks. Leo Diegel, appears to have been
lost sight of. These balmy evenings
and dewy mornings Billy Trovinger Is
the Ursa Major OF the Detroit golfing
armament.
Match Mt Sea- laIe Saturday.
George Duncan and Abe Mitchell will
have an opportunity on Saturday.
August 13. to improve on at least one
record left behind them by Ray and
Vardon. The record Is not one that
Ted and Harry are particularly proud
of, for it marked the first thirty-six
hole defeat of their tour last year. The
fact OF the matter is that Duncan and
Mitchell have been engaged to play
thirty-six holes against Jack Dowling
OF Scarsdale and Tom Mcnamara of
Siwanoy on the Scarsdale links on the
date in question, and after what trans
pired exactly twelve months ago metro
politan golfers naturally are all keyed
up over the match.
That Dowling and Mcnamara will give
the sritons a lard fight goes without
saying. but as their margin over Ray
and vardon was something In the neigh
borhood of and 8, 1t would be unwise
TO prophesy that the result will be the
same. Bowling knows Scarsdale like the
7roverbial book, while Mcnamara gem
orally can be relied on to keen well
down in the eeventies there. en- the
other hand. Duncan and Mitchell ap-
peey to be leaving record at evetr
course which they visit and 1t Is within
the bounds of possibility that they may
set a new low mark for Scarsdale. AT
Yahnundas!s Duncan played the eighteen
noles in SO and. following this. Mitchell
made a SO at Lake Placid. Indications
are that those who journey 10 Scarsdale
next Saturday will enjoy treat.