The New York herald., 1922-07-11
OPEN GOLF FIELD
TOO Big ANDERSON
Entry Fee of $50 Suggested as
Remedy-'Watch jock
Says John.
By JOHN G. ANDERSON.

SKoKIE CLUB, GLENCOE, ILL.,. July TO-
meant little in the lives of most golfers
But when the leader Is Jock Hutchison.
then one pauses to reflect that In the
open championship at ST. Andrews last
year Jock led the field and smashed rec
ords. while at Princes this year, with a
round of IL, which Duncan notes was a
most marvellous performance. Hutcbison
led the first day qualifying and later fin-
ished within two strokes of the winner.
So that in passing it Is well to place Jock
somewhere in the forefront II not In the
van of the aspirants for the open title.
The need of preventing the wholesale
fields which are gathering each year for
vacation championship holiday fairly
howls at the critic here. When more
than 500 present themselves for In
spection at the first tee in the practice
rounds out of an entry list OF 329. 1t Is
time to call a halt. But how are you to
restrict the field? One suggestion with
merit has been given, and that is the
raising of. the entry fee to sum which
will make the open championship some
what In the nature of a sweepstakes.
Charge $50 per man. and the entries will
be materially reduced.
It will keep out of the entry list nine
tenths of the amateurs who help clutter
up the field, and 1t will also stop the In
experienced PRO" from risking sum
which will be missed II there are no
chances for returns. Surely there are
enough open championships OF Sec
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the presence of these players. who can
by their performances In local fields con-
vince themselves or others of their capa-
bilities.
If $50 were charged the prize money
could be raised to $500 for first and
correspondingly high prizes for the
other nine players In the money.
There should be two courses with all
the players doing Sc holes for two days
unless the field can be cut down to a
reasonable size of a hundred or so
Fasteners will begin to think that the
Skokie course Is an easy proposition
because Of the low scores which are
being made despite the $500 and more
yardage. Personally we think that the
course Is overmeasured. But at al
courses where one can pitch up to the
green there Is a possibility of scoring
way down in the seventies or below.
The greens here have been wateret
night after night for five or six hours
Until they Will take the pitch almost
without the need of a stopum club
Hutchison to-day was using his ole
familiar backspin weapon and with the
usual deadly result
Abe Mitchell has been having one
terrible time with his putter. Down The
middle on every drive and extremely
far he had ten chances for one undel
par score on easy and difficult hole.
and but once did he find the cup, Will,
on seven occasions he took three putt!
from ten to fifteen feet He promise,
himself two hour putting practice o,
Tuesday. His score of IA was no effort
The same old faces at the scoreboard
the same old names at the top an,
lower scores. The younger fellows can
not seem to break through. Perhap
Johnny Farrell of Quaker Ridge. wh,
| has had five rounds In II or betters O.
Sarazen may do the trick and Gus
some Of the leaders.
Golf is talked differently out In tn
| West. You don't play a stroke, but yo,
shoot shot. You don't make 4. bu
| you par the hole: you don't reach th
| turn in 36 strokes. but you shoot ,
nifty even fours. So and so "birdied
on the tenth. "parred" the eleventh ant
failed on the next, where he "bogied.
Let's hope 1t stays west Of New York.
Several of the pros and amateurs from
the West picked up the ball when it has
mud on 1t and cleaned 1t. against u. s
G.. A. rules, but in accordance with w
G.. A. rules. Looks as II there should b,
unity on this point soon. It's needed.