The New York herald., 1921-04-10
VETERAN BRITISH
GOLF STARS READY
Many Celebrities Will Be in
Field to Repel American In
vasion at Hoylake.
BY JOHN G. ANDERSON.

teur championship OF Great Britain. The
team which will invade the Hoylake
links country has the best three golfers
OF America as members. Some will say
that from the ordinary point OF view
there is little pecd of any one else going.
since the other Americans are SO far
outclassed. II the championship We're at
medal play qualifying with 80 to take
part In further match play there might
be some justice In the remark so fire.
quently made, but in a match play
knockout where 16S persons will partici-
pate the larger the entry the better.
Every win by an American may put out
of the running some British player who
has 1t in him at some time or other to
come through with a brilliant round. To
snuff out this sort of thing means
much.
But there are a few players who
stand between American golfers and
the longed for championship trophy
Let us not despise their worth even
though the names of some of them
years, winning championships even be-
fore any one of our three best repre-
sentatives saw the light of day.
Harold II. Hilton Of Hoylake will
groom himself as never before. Last
year at Muirfield he played as fine
golf as any and was on the way to the
fifth round and actually UP at the
turn against a comparatively new
conner to championship class-R. H.
Howie-when the latter uncorked three
wonderful puts which turned the
tables and left Hilton a loser at the
asst hole. Don't overlook this Hoylake
veteran even II he was born in 1869.
AS topnotchers In the defending brig
ade are these men. all or nearly all of
whom have won as high honors as those
ho will oppose them: Hon. Michael
Scott Gordon Lockhart, Gordon Simp-
son, c. J. II. Tolley, j. L. Jenkins, Z. w.
Holderness. A. v. Hambro Major c. o.
tezlet, Fl c. Ellis, T. d. Armour r. w
Crummack, t. Robb. Robert Harris,
Capt Carter, Major H. A. Boyd, Robert
Maxwell. j. Z. Laidlay, Lord Charles
Hope, Roger Wethered. Harry Braid.
T. A. Lassen, Major Guy c. Campbell,
Major A. G. Barry. Edward Blackwell,
l. e. Taylor, Robertson Durham. III. d.
Iillies. Ian Munro and dozen others
u almost equal merit
Trouble and Breakers Ahead.
Don't fancy for a moment that any of
these golfers will be absent from the
test. Don't forget that Bob Gardner
playing very fine golf had to go to the
last putt In his three last matches with
the final at the first extra There's trou-
BILE ahead and breakers aplenty, for never
have Britishers felt that they would have
to be on the defensive III their amateur
event That we believe they will pre-
sumo to be necessary in view of the
showing made by Gardner. the poor ac-
count of their cracks in our own cham
pionship and the slowness of the pre-
lit.
mand on the links.
Personally we feel that the hope of
Britain lies in their younger players.
Much will depend upon the weather con-
ditions. A single day Of high wind and
mugginess will not hurt, but give a week
OF that stuff and the chaps who have
been accustomed to playing thusly will
win.
The eighteen hole feature OF British
championship play Is the bunker for
many an American golfer. In our thirty
six hole matches there is always the
tendency on the part of the golfer who
feels he has the edge to conserve his
playing brilliancy until the afternoon
round. Such traits become habits all
too soon and must be guarded against.
The golfer who Is cool by nature usually
goes far. Heinie Schmidt was phleg-
matte. but Evans. Ouimet and Travers
in their several attempts have not been
at their best because they wanted the
match over all too soon.
There will be few golfers to quarrel
with the statement that Evans ranks
above any amateur In the world at the
present time but that won't help much
IL youngster gets going as did Reggie
Lewis at the Engineers last fall We
look for the defenders spirit in attack
ing their problem OF repelling the in
vaders to counterbalance the strength of
the little extra skill. Michael Scott. Cor
don Lockhart, Hilton, Harris, Armour.
Wethered, Jenkins and few others have
all scored In the low 70s over many a
course and they win be fighting harder
than ever.
May Have Am srican Final.
II the Americans IRE well drawn In
opposite sides Of the list, and such
players as Jones and Evans begin to
NOW down the opposition calmly. we
look for a surrender on the part of the
gallery, which thought last year that
Gardner would come through.
vardon and Ray have spread broad
cast their opinion of these American
amateurs, and no little dismay was
manifest at their declaration that they
were the two best golfers in the world
IN the amateur ranks. II they don't
win most of their contests II will be
because of the uncertainty OF any ones
game over the eighteen hole route or
the different conditions OF play with re-
gard to the weather II Il would affect
Hagen. and 1t did. It will affect anna
teurs who have not had experience.
Any extra skill Is evened UP by playing
on foreign links. That Is why we con-
slider Tommy Armour dangerous on his
home course much more so than he was
In our title play. when he reached the
third round only to be snuffed out by
Ouimet playing extra fine golf. And
Armour is not the best of British ANA
tours.
Hoylake Is a course which measures
3,21O yards out and 3,270 yards home.
as evenly distributed as possible. II Is
unlike any links In this country In the
testing nature of second shots. which
demand placed shots and long carries
over trouble. What the new balls will
do to take care of these tough spots
remains to be seen. A hole by hole
length follows. the figures being the
latest obtainable from score card
printed this year:
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