The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
A World Chnmpsonslaip

A World Championship
 Marking the first event of it's kind in this country and thereby begin ming an annual competition that will certainly become the greatest of all yearly golf meetings, there is to be played over the course of the Ma ttonal Golf links on Long Island, late this month, match between eight of America's leading amateur golfers and a like number Of selected play CTS from England. l have been hon. ored with d place on the American team.
 This great series of matches, which will involve every kind of testing golf, takes place August 2S-2S. The winners VIII receive the c. II. Walker cup, emblematic of world supremacy sport. MT. Walker, donator of the cup, formely was president of the United States Golf association, and Is one of the finest sportsmen in Ameri- ca. Always enthusiastically inter- ested in promoting anything that fur thered amateur sportDmanship. his effort to bring about this annual golf championship of world interest. which he has finally arranged for. marks still another step toward a world wide popularization of golf, which really is Mir. Walkers hope. The Walker cup un6ou btedly will be, each year henceforth, the most prized of golf trophies.
 Ail-Amcrican Players
 The ali-American team chosen for the international competition in- cludes also:
 Jesse Guilford. national amateur champion, Boston.
 Francis Ouimet, former national oI.of int Boston.
 Robert Gardner. former national amateur champion. Chicago.
 Jesse Sweetser, intercollegiate champion. New York city.
 Rudolph Knepper, transmississippi champion. Sioux City, Ia.
 Robert tBobby) Jones, southern amateur champion, Atlanta.
 w. c. Fownes, captain all-Ameri- can team, Pittsburg.
 Alternates: Max Marston, Philadel- phia, and Harrison Johnston, St. Paul.
 The all-English team comprises:
 Roger Wethered. who tied with Jock Hutchinson at St. Andrews in 1921 in the British open champion ship. losing to Jock in the play-off.
 Cyril Toliey. British amateur cham pion in 1920.
 John Caven, runner-up in this years British amateur championship. c. Y. s. Hoomans.
 Colin Aylmar.
 Robert Harris. one of the older English amateurs.
 MT. Torrance. very fine Scotch amateur. A
 Mir Mckenzie. Unfortunately F. W. Ho1derness the present British amateur champion will not be able to come to America for this international meeting. The players making Up the British team sailed August ?. The details of the competition were arranged in person by Howard Whitney of St. Louis, rep resenting the U. s. c. A., with Nor man Boase and John l. Low. Ber- nard Darwin, foremost of English golf writers. accompanies the British team to America.
 Dr. Paul Hunter of Los Angeles, one of Americas very fpe amateurs. was chosen for the all-American team, but was unable to be in New York for the matches.
 sible without causing financial hardship for the players. arrange ments were made by officials of the U. s. c. A. by which the expenses of the all-American team are to be paid. This marks the first time this has ever been done and indicates the wish of the controlling American golf au- tority to do everything possible to promote friendly competitive sport rivalries on an international basis, at the same time lending itself to a move for still greater popularity for golf in the United States.
 The yearly meeting of the interna- tional golf amateurs offers the best means to that end. U. 8. G. A. officials think. It gives opportunity for test of supremacy in the one sport which has tens of thousands of devotees in both countries. There Is no baseball in England and there Is no cricket in America, but there is golf in both countries. Moreover. the game Is not changed by notifications In the rules in either country. Golf here is the same as golf in England.
 The competition between tho two teams will include medal rounds. single matches. foursome two-team matches, best ball matches--in other words. every kind of competitive play to bring forth the best golf the two teams are capable of has been ar- ranged for. The victors will in reali- ty be worlds champion amateur golfers.
 American golf may justly be proud