San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-21
MANY BIC GUNS
STILL OUT YET
ENTRY LIST. Jas
Starting Texas Open Golf
.ers in Foursomes Seems
Only Solution.
FULL DOPE ON AMATEUR
Program Issued for Country
Club Event Starting
February I.

Golf becomes king of sports In San
Antonio this week, for reign that will
last three weeks or more.
With the town full of visiting golfers
from all over the country. some with
international regulations and almost all
with nationwide fame, golf will get
the headlines from Monday, when doz-
ems of interesting exhibition matches
will be started, through the coming
weekend, when the second annual Tex
as Open Championship will be played.
until Saturday, February 10. when the
winner will be known in the San An
tonic Open Amateur, the big tOurna-
ment sponsored by the San Antonio
! Country Club.
The Texas Omen. for which $4,000
in prizes is being put up-S1500 for
the winner, $500 for second place and
gradually diminishing amounts for
other places down TO $50 each for
pros who finish from seventeenth to
thirtieth-wil begin Thursday with 4
sort of Sizing up event the amateur
professional best ball round of eighteen
holes, in which amateurs and pros
will be teamed for money prizes and
medals.
Tournament Begins Friday.
The Texas Open Championship prop
! or. medal play event at ~ holes, in
which every stroke may count on that
! $500 first prize. as was the case last
February when Cyril Walker missed a
putt for n tie with the winner, Bob
| Mcdonald, on the last green, will begin
| Friday morning and continue through
Saturday afternoon.
Saturday night, therell be a ban
| quet and the cold cash will be passed
/ out TO the lucky ones
Where twosOmeS went around in the
championship play last winter. four
somes are likely 10 tramp the distance
this year. There are 145 entries al
ready and lots of the big guns among
the pros" haven't arrived, like Jim
Barnes and. Johnny Farrell. who are
due Sunday, and Walter Hagen and
Joe Kirkwood, who play their last
exhibition against Sarazen and Hutchi-
\ son in California Sunday and hop a
RATHER Sunday night for San An
tonic.
Here's Entry List So Far.
The entry list, so far, with ana
tours indicated by the mark 80" fol-
lows:
n. Y: xAlex A. Armour. westchester-B Bit
more G. c., New York: r. D. Armour, New
York City; c. b. Allen, san Antonio; Reu-
ben Albaugh. San Antonio. q
| Jim Barnes. Pelham Country Club. Pei
ham Manor. New York; Fred Bell. Lake.
wood Country Club, Denver, Colo; Jack
Plakeslee. Globe Valley G. C.. ClsySool 1
Tom Boyd. Fox Hills. n. Y; John Bre-
demus. Corpus Christi c. C, Corpus
Christi. Tex; Jack Burke. Town and Coun-
Rivercrest C. c.. Fort Worth, Tex; Lee
]. Butler, xCharles Strosseau. San Anto- 4
nit: xE s REoTn san sn Snls IPsr,
Antonio; xJohn Bowler, San Antonio;
xCol Matt c. Bristol San Antonio; xPaui
Baldwin. San Antonio; xGeorge Breid- !
Tom cahilI okmulge.. okl.; p. c. Ca
nausa, U 8. Military Academy. West
Point, n. Y; Georse N. Christ. Rochester
Ciaeyssens, Glen Fiors Country club. wau- |
kegsn, ILL.,; KAY NJ. Clark, Meadow Lake
c. G. Kansas City. No; J. g. Collins.
| Dallas. Tex: XG. L. Christie. Tampico. l
Mexico: XJ. c. Callan. San Antonio; KS II. \
Chase, San Antonio; xDr. A. L. Curry, san
Antonio: IA. Chavez San Antonio; &c. 3 |
waiter c. psnninE. Orange County C C.. I
Middletown. n. Y: xcharlss Dinsmors. /
Johnny Farrell, Quaker Ridge c. C. Ma
maroneck. n. Y; Jimmy Farrell. Quaker /
Ridge C. c.. Mamsroneek, n. T., xcoionei
II. II. Gibson, Officers Club, Fort Lssv-
enworth. kan; John Golden, Tuxedo. n. !
=: Jack Gordon. Buffalo. n T.; Ersa
Broadmoor Golf Club. Colorado springs.
Colo: xL. d. Gilmore, San Antonio; xr.
$. Gogan. San Antonio; IF. z. Fersrds
II. c. Hackbarth. IItti. Rock. Ark: I,
Walter Hagen, British open champion, New
York; Charles W. Hall, Birmingharn. Ala; !
W. Henry, Cleveland. Ohio; J. G. Hendry.
san Felipe c. c. Del Rio. Tex; Charles
Hoffner, Philmont c. C.: philadelphia;
Ohio: Willie Hunter. Onwentsia G. C.
Lake Forest C. c., Illinois; &c. W. Henry.
San Autoni: 10. c. Hendry. Dallas. Tex:
san Antonio; Names d. Harnstt. New
York City: NE Il. Hoffsr, Joliet, III rs.
f. Hutton, San Antonio.
{. NJ. 1mmel. Denver. Colo.
Independence. Kan; L, NJ. jackson. san
Antonio.
weston. Tex; Dan Kenny. Tyler c. C. Ty-
Ter, Tex: Joe KirSwood. former Australian
open champion. Australlss IF. ]. kanst-
ger, San Antonio; XIV. u. hroeseI. Ssh
Antonio. NGeorge Eoerner. San Antonio.
Tom Lally. 81 Antonio c. c. san an
tonic; Joe I.ally, San Antonio c. g. san
Antonio; Charles lawrence sSsai $50,
adelphia, Pa; Alfred Lssperanee, Meadow
Lake {. c. Kansas City, Mo-; Art Long
worth. 81 Louis c. G, CLAYTON. No: W. ~.
Tex: ~ T LaPrelis. san Antonio: xrorn
=. Logan, san nAtonio; SCoionei i1neoin'
san Antonio.
ton. Tex: Clarence ManEharn. niunielpat
golf links san Antonios XkutheytoId Ner-
tin. San Antcuio: Thomas Mssee =, Lou
OrteEn. Fla; Jim Mckenzie. Lakewood 6
C. Dailas Tex: wv. A. Matioek. Denver
c. c. Denver, Colo; BIN Mehihofn shfe.s-
mort c. C.. Shreveport. La Lewis Meyers.
fsrDt Ideres. r. j.. Eddie Murphy, Taupico.
Mexico: &c. r. McElroy. san Antonio. II.
u. Crum. San Antonio; ~. p. Nsisen. san