Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-13

One of the greatest tussels for the
amateur golf championship OF the
United States is expected to develop
over the links Of the st. Louis Country
Club when the stars Of North, SOUTH
East and West foregather for the start
this week.
The qualifying round to reduce the
field to sixty four survivors VIII De
played out there by the Mississippi TINS
Saturday over test which Is SAID 70
be in as good condition as champion.
sbins links has ever been the week oil
the play. All Is commotion out there
now. MANY of the contestants are on
deck and the last touches are peihg
AZ last wear. the British invasion is
headed by the champion of the pirth-
rlace of golf. the doughty Willie Hun
ter, who survived at Hoylake TINS year
where the greatest American team esyi ,,
sent over to lift Q. foreign crown iei
by the wayside one by one. n.u.v ,os,
yeor. by three other British stars.
Tom Armour, Scotland, is one. he
made the third round at the Engineers
when his fellow -countrymen were uh
able even TO qualify. Swift and Mickey
are the other two, both said to be ex-
perts. ,-..,.,. ,,d
America holds both the British ana
American open cups. The question Is,
can Britain win the American amateur
gonfalon and thus square the count
If eve. America looked good to hang
on to her own crown, the chances look
bright this week. For in the fray we
are turning all but two OF the cham-
pions who have won our title In tne
last seventeen years. ,,.,
One of those missing Is Harold Hill
ton, of Great Britain. The other IL
Eben M. Byers. His name does not
appear in the pairings but the Pitts
burgh veteran is expected to enter:
At any rate, when all the champion
ships are collected into one event whose
activities have furnished the script on
the side of the yictors' bowl for seven
teen years of national golf history
there is bound to be a real imbroglio
for the title.
In Choice Lots
On Monday those remaining from the
first qualifying test will play thirty
six holes Of medal play and the thirty
two low scorers will then be drawn for
match play. New York, Boston, Chi.
cago and the other big golf centers all
have their best assortment entered.
| For Philadelphia, 1t still has ma
tional championship to win. There are
many who believe if it is to be brought
here this year it will be by Max Mar :
ston, Merton ace, who has won two OF
| the biggest local tournaments this year.
! One of his great feats was the trouncing
| of George Rotan in the Lynnewood Hau
fete and win of the title over J. J.
Beadle, where he displayed all of his
punch at the big moments.
Another was to play Duncan and
Mitchell even, and the third was to
win the Pennsylvania amateur cham
pionship. Marston is paired in the ma =
tional with Cameron Buxton. who won
the Philadelphia championship before
third round of the national in 1915.
Buxton is now In Dallas, but will prob
| ably enter from Pine Valley.
Philadelphia fans are of the belief
| that this city has strong quartet right
now in Marston, Paul Tewksbury, j.
| Wood Platt and George Hoffner.
Each has been right astride his game
for the last two weeks More than that.
all who have followed them closely feel
they are playing the game of their lives.
! Since that historic match back there
where MarSton only lost IN the national
semi finals on a missed one foot putt,
experts have figured here and there that
the national title would come to him
some day. This looks a chance.
Dad Stars
Tewksbury is going as well. A record
of SO at Aronimink with all sorts of
other fancy scores out there and super
lative golf in both the Philadelphia
amateur and the Lu Lu tourney last
week make the tall Aroniminker an out
standing player here. In both Journeys
here he was drawn in the tough bracket
where he had to face one local star
after another.
1t was Platt, Norman Maxwell and
George Hoffner in a row at Lu Lu. To
win he had to go at 1875 clip those
three rounds, and he did. And of the
quartet mentioned above, Platt and
Hoffner both showed they are playing