The New York herald., 1921-01-31
national open I'm July.

Last Friday the executive committee
Of the United States Golf Association
held a neet3.fg IN New York. Late on
Saturda, r was announced In Washing
ton th,S the national open championship
Is TO be held from July .19 to 20, in
clusi se. Recently the dates for the
wom.u's national championship. which
event Siso comes within the jurisdiction
Of the United States Golf Association,
escaped by way of philadelphia, so 1t Is
to be assumed that by and by golfers of
the East will be told something more Of
the arrangements for the amateur
championship, via St Louis Questions
Of wider scope. such as amendments to
the rules. and so forth, later on may be
released at st. Andrews or find their
way to this neck Of the woods, under a
Hongkong date line.
But the main thing is that the date
for the open is out A rather interesting
date. It Is, too. for most golfers had sat
isfied themselves that they were to see
an unusually late open championship this
year. Needless to say. the selection
knocks the hopes of the metropolitan en-
thusiast higher than q kite, for that
misguided individual for some reason
had got 1t into his head that through
the metropolitan open championship
New York was to be favored with the
first strokes of consequence played by
George Duncan, the British champion.
and Abe Mitchell on their tour. That
the M. G.. A. now will open the ball for
the British visitors does not seem proba-
BILE. for July 10 leaves little enough
margin between the British open In the
third week of June, especially when one
considers that many Of the stars win
have to come all the way from St An
drews. Scotland.
Quite evidently the powers that be
have weighed carefully these matters.
knowing full well what Is In the wind
both as regards American participation
In the British championship and British
participation In the one to be held In
Washington. d. c. They have calculated
no doubt that Duncan. Mitchell. Hagen.
Barnes ct al should get away from
England's shores not later than July 2,
which, giving them a week more, would
still bring them back In plenty of time.
Arriving about the 9th or 10th, they
still would have more leisure than they
would know what to do with. And this
Is just where the NJ. @. A could fit in
with its annual open title meet.
stfIl Chance for NJ. g. A.
Holding It on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, July IL to IA. would be
quite a good idea, for 1t would give the
contestants just about enough of cham
pionship golf without OVERRIDING it and
then time enough to rest up or practise
In an easy fashion for the national.
Moreover. II would serve TO get the voy-
ayers over their sea legs, at the same
time giving Duncan and Mitchell the
sort of practice they would desire.
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and Mitchell. decide to cross the English
Channel and play in the French open
championship that might be a different
matter, although even then II still might
be possible for them to catch steam-
ship leaving on Saturday. July 2. Even
were they hung up for few days
longer they might even reach the United
States In time TO play In the metropoli-
tan open, especially II by any chance
that should be scheduled for the latter
part of the week. say Thursday and
Friday. July IA and is.
It IS possible that since the U. s. @. A
has selected July 10 as the opening day
for the play at Columbia the NJ q. A
may decide TO hold off for little, select
ing a date, say. in thd beginning of Au-
gust. Before they declare themselves.
however, the NJ. q. A. committeeman
will have two things TO take into con-
sideration. One of these Is that once
allowed 10 depart for their homes IL win
be difficult to get many of the stars
back for the metropolitan championship.
especially after having given a matter
of six weeks or so to the British meet
ing. The other Is that the national
champion, whether he should happen to
be British or American. might think
twice before taking a chance In the
metropolltan with his newly won honors.
whereas no one In likely to have the
same hesitancy about risl<ing his metro
politan made reputation In the bigger
event.