Evening star., 1923-04-18

In the party. besides Nessrs. Byers
and Gardner. was the present Ameri-
can amateur champion. Jess ".
Sweetstr Of Ardsley and Siwanoy,
who also holds the metropolitan golf
crown. Two formc" champions were
also on hand. Francis Ouimet of BoS-
ton. winner of the open crown in 1913
and the amateur in 1914. and :. pa-
wilson Heron of Chicago. winner of
the amateur title at Oakmont in 1919,
when he defeated Bobby Jones i'll the
final Together with Gardner, who
reigncd supreme in amateur golf mat
teis in 1909 and again in 1915. it gave
the invaders four national champions.
state sectional and district title
holders and luminaries brought the
quota UP to twelve, at least ten of
whom will comprise the Walker cup
team.
Evans Unable to Go.
Conspicuous by his absence was
Charles ("Chick'D Evans. the Chicago
golf wizard, who at the last moment
telegraphed his regrets to Capt. Gard
rer. All in all however, 1t was Il
scintillating array of talent, thor
oughly representative of American
golf. that marched up the Maure
1ania's gangplank. uttering pledges to
bring back the Waller cup surely. the
British amateur trophy If possible.
hut the good wishes of the British
golf world certainly.
II was Il representative delegation
with three Pacific coast stars. one
Southerener. three midwesterOcrs and
four 'waydown easterners in the line
up. From the faraway Pacific coast
went Jack Neville, the California
state champion: DR.. o. F. Willing.
the Pacific northwest titleholdcr, and
Fred !. Wright, who just at present
happens to be titleiess. From the
prairie section went Gardner, Her
ron and Harrison Johnston. the Min
nesota state champion. The south
was represented by George Rotan, the
Texan. who served five terms as
champion Of the Lone star state. The
Atlantic seaboards representatives
were Swectser, Oumet, Max Il. Mars
state monarch. and Guy NJ Sandifer
of Washington. d. G, the last
golf free lance. who is going for sport
mainly but also to help cut down the
numerical e-sidedness in the Brit
ish amateur event.
Even with Evans among the miss
ing it was a portentous-l looking ar
ray that embarked yesterday-an ar
ray that. even should it fall to carry
out its mission, will be sure to give
Jonathan Bull cause for worry be-
tween now and May Z. Numerically
il was the strongest golfing deiega-
tion that ever assembled for a similar
undertaking.
American 1921 Team Strong.
On only one other occasion has
America ever dSSeInDltU 81 IOECc lHdl
approached 1t in number or approxi-
mated it In strength, that being in
1921, when ". c. Fownes. jr., of Pitts
burg headed Il team comprised of
Evans. Ouimet. Bobby Jones. Wright.
Or. Paul Hunter, Jesse Guilford and
J. Wodd Plat. That team was vic
torious in an informal team match
against the British golfers at Hoy
lake. prior to the championship, the
score being to 3, the United states
winning all OF the foursomes and two
out of the five singles events played.
In the championship proper. however
it met with disaster, only one. Wright.
surviving to the sixth round. where
he fell before Bernard Darwin. a
good golfer but by no means great
one.
Last year the British sent over its
first team 10 play for the Walker cup
In the array were Tolley. Wethered,
Hooman, Darwin. Caven. Aylmer. Tor
rance and Mackenzie. Playing at the
National Links at Southampton. l.. j..
the Americans won, points to 4. cap
turing five out of eight singles match
es and three out of five doubles
Noted Caddie mt Pier
At the dock was also Americas s mos
experienced caddie, Joe Horgan. wins
has caddied for all the great guns Of
golf and who has seen more ships
laden with golfers come and go than
any other single person on this side
of the water. Joe sized up the bags
of all the departing golfers, but failed
to find any large enough to contain
himself and the clubs already in them.
so that the team will be forced to
rely upon such local talent as there is
to be found on the other side to tote
their clubs.
The golfers were all optimistic over
their chances of retaining the Walker
trophy, but refused to make any COM
ments on the championship. Well do
our best" said Capt. Gardner. 1T