The Washington herald., 1922-01-29
GOLF FANS FLOCK
SOUTHWARK;
COMMISSIONED
Guilford Among Stars
Performing in Florida
This Winter.
n, GORDON sHAsD.


While Washington's golf courses
are covered with snow large and
indescribabiy content host of fol-
lowers of the royal and ancient
Southern skies. ready and waiting
Tor the numberless, tournaments
that are booked for this week and
the weeks to come.
Nov Is the winter of their dis
content. made glorious summer" In
the land of palm and pine. From
the East Coast links of Florida to
the far-famed courses of Southern
California, the tournament sheets
are up, the courses groomed. the
alibis ready and the modest golfer
armed with his pat remark. MY
honor. ] believe"
The season in the South should
receive added luster this year from
the fact that the present national
amateur champion. Jesse Guilford,
of Boston. Is now taking his ease
In a Southern inn. and intends to
remove his renowned driver from
his bag in Florida tournaments to
show the Inhabitants of that part
OF the country that he came honest
ly by the appellation Of the Siege
Gun Golf"
1t Is some time since a national
far South as Florida to display his
prowess, and the visit OF the long
hitter from Boston will add much
to the mid winter contests. Quill
ford will not have II all his own
way. however, for the South has
many capable golfers who are not
easy conquests on their native
heaths. and If Jesse casually en-
counters Robert Jones. jr., OF Al
lanta. in the course of his peregri-
nations the meeting will be worth
going miles TO see
All the health and pleasure re-
sorts below the Mason-Dixon line
have set lures Of large amounts OF
current coin Of the realm for the
professionals. A national amateur
champion is a rarity in the South
ern tournament season. but every
winter finds practically all the pro-
titleholders Of prominence at the
starting tee. 3
This year there will be no dearth
of champions. In fact. Jock Hutch
inson brings an added and by no
means accustomed honor to the
Southland in the form of a British
open champion.
with this array Of famed WELD
ers OF the mashie and niblick, the
southern tournament season will be
a source of JOY to those fortunate
enough to witness or take part in
II, and an object of envy on the
part Of the unfortunate, but no
1Aa ID. Ar
by an unkind fate to these regions
colds.
The recent agitation in the West
Side Tennis Club OF New York
over the question OF the right of
women to occupy the courts when
the men members wished to play.
golf club. exclusively for women,
has acquired land at Glen Head.
Long Island. and will construct a
course there next summer, indicate
that women, in both tennis and golf,
have reached that stage of their
development where they are about
ready to branch out for themselves.
There is no question but that
women tennle anu ROll "Oulo DC
immensely benefited were they to
have their own courts and links.
It is not possible for players to
reach the utmost point of efficiency
in either golf or tennis IL their
hours for play are restricted to the
extent now prevailing in a major
ity of the clubs in the East.
1t is true that the women's game
has advanced tremendously in the
last ten years. and largely because
they have more playing privileges
at present than ever before. Com
pared with 1910 the ratio of women
playing tennis today probably Is
about 10 to /. and IL is only since
1918 that a ranking list has been
compiled of the feminine players.
During the past year in WASH
ington both tennis and golf found
great quickening of interest
among the fair sex. and in the
country at large, the increase in
active tournament players in both
sports has been so marked as to
present a serious problem for the
national associations to solve. II
seems that sooner or later they will
either have to be granted equal
rights with the men in the existing
clubs or else strike out for them
selves. as in the case of the new
club for women at Glen Head