South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-02
JONES, EVANS And
. OUIMET FAYORITES
TO LEAD Big FIELD
Great Professionals Pick
Bobby Jones to Win-Brit.
ish Stars Entered.
BY ROBERT T.. HARLOW.
International News Service Staff
Correspondent.

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International News Service Staff
Correspondent.
BROOKLINE, 2Iass.. sept. IL
The national amateur golf cham
pionship. which starts at the Coun-
try club here today. will have a
perfect setting for what should be
a week OF sparkling competition.
The Country club. always refer
red 10 as simply The Country
Club" is one Of the really old lnsti-
tutions IN American golf. While
young as compared TO such venera-
Die places at St. Andrews, in Scot
land. Brook!ine has had q place in
AmericaI golf history from the start
OF the game In this country
Setting j. Ideal.
The Country club is a fine spot
20 play This years national tuna
teur championship. The course IS
one Of the championship group in
American golf II has been the
scene OF other national title events
and has been kept up 10 the re-
quirements OF late-day golf
The fairways at Brookline are Of
the velvet texture which only time
can give. and the putting greens
are result OF more than 25 years
OF careful attention. There is lit
tie but creeping bent in these sur
faces. and the balls roll true.
Britins Are Entered.
The competition will be greatly
enhanced because OF the entry foI
the first time of British amateur
team
Il Is composed OF many strong
payers such as Roger Wethered,
Cyril Tolley and Bernard Darwin.
Wethered played so well at St. An
drews last year in the open cham
pionship that he tied with Jock
Hutchinson for first place and only
lost the British title after a play
off with the professional.
Interesting Queries.
Among important questions be-
ing asked and upon which money
is being wagered ere these:
Will a British layer win?
Can Francis OUimet come through
over his favorite course?
Is Bobby Jones due TO win his
first big title?
VIII Chick Evans get razzed by
Boston fans for certain articles he
wrote following his defeat by Jesse
GullfOrd IN last years champion
ship semi-final at St Louis?
VIII some new and unheard Of
player come TO the front and all
the old favorites have 10 step aside
as they did at Chicago. when Gene
Sarazen won the open champion
ship?
Will Evans win?
These are interesting queries to
golfers everywhere.
Walter Hagen. Gene Sarazen and
George Duncan all pick Bobby Jones
10 win. They know he has the shots
and shots are what appeal 10 the
professionals fin golf. Jones tied for
second at Skokie, a wonderful &C
complishment
Ouimct's old Grounds.
Ouimet won his first great fame
as a golfer over the Broo<line
course. when he defeated Harry
Vardon and Ted Ray in the play-off
for the American open title in
1913 lie has not won an important
championship I'm a number or years.
although his fine play has kept him
in the bracket Of the big three anna
teurs-Evans. Ouimet and Jones.
Some fun IS expected when Chick
Evans takes the field. There al
ways has been hearty golf rivalry
between Boston and Chicago. The
remarkab Bile battle in the second
round Of the amateur championship
at OakmOnt. when Ouimet won
from Evans on the home green. and
again at tho Engineers club. in the
final Of the same event. when Evans
played one his greatest rounds and
won by a wide margin. have in
tenslfied this sectiona, feeling.
Then. last year at St Louis
Guilford, another Boston player
and a member of OUmet's club.
took Chick over the hurdles n the
semi-f.nal round. and later Chick
wrote articles saying that 'profes-
sional gamblers from Boston got my
goat in St Louis"
This line did not sit well on Bos-
ton fans
So n Chick happens 20 meet up
with Jesse or Francis or some 9TH
or Boston favorite in the Brookline
tournament there viii 90 strong
feeling.
The British team may upset the
situation. A number OF the men
from overseas are capable players.
but American golfers appear TO be-
lieve that the struggle for the title
will be between Ouimet. Evans and
JOnee-as usual.
Call Aetna Cleaners. Garments.
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