The New York herald., 1922-07-06
Star Golfers Expected to Make
Important Contributions
to Golf Literature.
THEY WILL COVER EVENT
Ouimet May Play; Gardner,
Harrison Johnson and
Wright Are Entered.

American professional golfers do not
lack ambition, for with some aid from
their amateur brothers. they have
swelled the entry list for the national
open championship to be contested at
the Skokie Club in the Chicago dis
trict next week to 29S. This is rec
ord for the event. The final figure is
expected to reach the 800 mark.
Chicago affords an opportunity for
all who believe they have chance
and for a lot who are just going along
to be with the crowd to send in their
names. 1t attracts from the East and
the West. The United States Golf
Association announced last night an
additional list of forty-four starters
who wish to worry over missed quits
at Skokie.
There are number of golfers Of more
than ordinary merit in this list. Wee
Willie Hunter. the former British
amateur champion, who arrived here on
the Majestic July Fourth. will celebrate
by playing at Skokie. His entry yill
give the British three strong players.
George Duncan and Abe Mitchell,
already having signed for go at our
title.
1t is likely that Francis Ouimet Of
Woodland, a member of Americas
amateur triumvirate, along with
"Chick" Evans and Bobby Jones, will
play, as his business associates have
advised him to engage a lower berth
and take another try at the open. He
won the Massachusetts title again last
week and is playing well. Jesse Gull
ford, the national amateur champion
and clubmate Of Ouimet. is to be there.
Literature and Golf.
Another Aecord will be broken in this
tournament 1t will mark the burst
ing into literature Of more prominent
golfers than ever before took pen
In hand. There will be as much anxiety
at Skokfe over split infinities as over
golfing authors will place their commas
and periods with as great accuracy as
their drives and irons.
A host of both amateur and profess
sional golfing stars. whose names will
be easily recognizable upon first glance,
have signed up to cover this cham
pionship. Some have been booked for
analItical reviews of the play; Others
will distribute, pertinent advance dope
while a number VIII write intimate and
personal impressions of all that tran
spires.
1t is to be hoped that there will be no
professional jealousy among the authors
concerning the merits of the stories
which are to be distributed II would
not be gracious were Walter Hagen tc
point out to Chick Evans that. he had
made a serious grammatical erRpe In one
Of his compositions.
Friends Of the authors are worried
fearing that so much literature may
annoy the players to such an extent
that they will not do themselves Justice
on the links.
1t was Lord Northclffe who re
marked that he considered the fioubl,
duty of author as well as player hat
been too great an impost on some o
our men in British tournaments. Thcr,
IN something in this, for how can
golfer do his best when he is worrying
concerning an inflnitive which he na'
have split, while preparing his story tn,
previous evening?
Among the important golfers who
have added their names to the list o.
starters are Harrison b. johnson OF st
Paul. one of the most popular amateur
ever developed In the West: Fred ]
Wright. Jr., member of the 1921 amateu
international team Jimmy Manion. ST
Louis amateur: Teddy Cow of Weston
Mass. the MIDGET with a wallop AL
Espinoza. graduate of the Califorrf
Mexican school OF professionals. AM