San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14
MAY HAVE To
| REDUCE OPEN
GOLF FIELD
] Tournament Committee Sees
4 Possible Necessity Of
Qualifying Round.
MORE THAN 100 LIKELY
Entries Flowing in and Many
l VIII Come Without Pre-
( vious Notice.

d Already, in its second year, the Tex
rs open golf championship tournament
is becoming unwieldy. 1t almost as
fumes the proportions of the proverbial
Hfhite elephant.
i The prospect faces the tournament
fiommittee of having to arrange for
Gay of qualifying play to reduce the
field to at least "A, the number, it is
Figured, that would jam the course to
fapacity during the playing of the tour
.iament proper between daylight and
Mark on Friday and Saturday, January
if6 and %.
n Up to Saturday night more than 60
and amateurs - mostly
Bros of reputation-bad sent ahead an
of their impending arrival.
land anyone who has had any deal
llngs at all with professional golf events
IL nows that sometimes even the major
Ity of the players do not herald their
koming at all, but just blow in a day
4 two before the big stuff. Wise tour
Iiament committees make their calcu-
|Ehtions on the entry list accordingly,
had the local workers are wise to
|Eshese things after the big initial Texas
Ipen meet last> February.
May Reach 100 Entries.
Some members believe the tourna-
Hnent entries may reach the hundred
|[nark. Unlike last year, local ANA
Hours are not being pestered to enter
Ia order to pad sout the field TO the
Emit; they will be entered if the want
10 and if they think they have chance
|f.o finish within respectable distance
From the bottom of the powerful list.
IL The raising of the fund of $1,000 to
Nut on the tournament is progressing
Nicely, it was reported Saturday from
,,ihe headquarters of the financial com
|rnittee in the office of Arthur a. See
who was recently made general
|hanager of the drive when 1t appeared
7 b be-. tagging. No official announce
Renr of the amount yet needed mas
|4een prepared, but it is stated that the
3loney will certainly be all IN the Dank
Nv next weekend.
~ Little details to make the tourna-
hent the biggest success possible are
eing arranged, such as hot lunches Tor
|fhe players at the course, motor trans
ortation in private cars to and from
Park and a banquet at
Will uO NASNA ADNb~N
The tournament on Saturday night.
E'raffic officers from Lieut.. I. O. Mil
hrs squad viii be on hand during the
tournament to direct the movement OF
'hotor traffic and parking, while it is
Hoped to secure a squad of military po-
tce to act as gallery police.
Most Recent Additions.
4 Among the most recent tournament
Entries received are the following:
Jack Blakeslee of the Globe Valley
Iitounty Country Club, ClaypOol, Ariz.,
.rrive January 20; Alfred Lesperance,
professional at MeadOwlake Country
Flub, Kansas City, and two Meadow
slke amateurs, DIR. w. n. Needles and
Lay W. Clark; Y. d. Armour of New
fork and Peter W. Henry Of Cleye-
tnd. now en- route; Frank T.SprOgell,
Colonial Country Club, Memphis; j. 6.
X'1endry, the "pro' at the San Felipe
sountry Club at Del Rio, and two San
ntonians who kept their official en-
Faring until almost the last moment,
lack Tarrant, the city amateur cham
ion and San Antonio Country Club
tle-holder, and Dolph Van Arsdale
Rarter at the municipal course, who
trives the ball as far as any and has
Teen playing fine golf lately. In nddi-
on to these two local players, Clar-
nce Mangham, the municipal "pro, y
Ind the Lally brother, Tom and Joe,
From the San Antonio Country Club
IRE entered.