San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-23
MACDONALD NOT
To DEFEND HIS
TEXAS RONORS
New Open Champion VIII
Be Crowned Here Next
Saturday Night.
ENTRIES MORE THAN 200
Golfers for Tournament
Crowd Course Despite
Restrictions.
ENTRIES MORE THAN 200

There'll be q rev Texas open golf
tsIiampioE next Saturday night. Word
was received Tuesday from Bob Mac
Donald of Chicago, who carried off the
tile and $500 first money last Feb
ruary. that he would not be able to
come tc San Antonio for this year S
tournament. Macdonald runs a golt
school in Chicago and finds he cannot
leave it for the long trip South.
A larger field than last year, full
of possible winners, and Macdonald
message that he cannot come, are STIR
ring up SPECULATION among the hun
dreds of San Antonio and NOrther WISH
TORS who daily go out TO Breckenridge
Park lust to watch the experts per-
form, There are so many stars here,
or due to arrive Tuesday night and
Wednesday. that few "pickers" agree in
their choices of likely winners. y field
that includes Hagen, Barnes. kirkwood,
the Armors. Mcnamara. the FarrellS,
Hoffner. Hail, PEBBLES. Mehlhorn, Mae
lead, Rogers. Meyers, Golden, the
Burkes. Bowden. Boyd, our own Tar
rant. Lallys and Mahgham, and actual.
liz dozens of others who stand real
chances of coming through. offers too
much of task for the "dOpesterS. eS-
nrcially when il is a field in golf, OF
all sports.
More Than 200 Entries.
There are actually more than 200 en-
tries for the Texas open right now. On
the morning of the tournament proper,
Friday. the field. amateurs and profess
SIGNALS, will total fully 22o. it is be-
lieved. A good many are local ANA
tours whose entries were made more as
a matter of civic duty than anything
else and who got in just to be able to
play in the amateur-professionm best
bali round Thursday.
Walter Hagen, American holder ot
the British open championship. and Joe
Kirkvood, his Australian touring part
ucr, were due to reach the city IueS-
day evening from California, where
they have been engaging IN e&hiol-
tons. .,
The municipal course, closed TO- all
but tournament entries, was heVef'he-
--SS full of foursOmes Tuesday morn
ing. One of special interest found Tom
Boyd and John Golden opposed to the
Armours. Alex and Tom.
Some Fancy Shooting.
Alex Armour. alias SANDY daZzlcd
his gallery Monday afternoon by
boling out on the seventh from sand
trap. Golden Monday played a when
he and Art LongwOrth defeated Jack
Tarrant. the San Antonio amateur
champion. and John Rogers.
Tom Boyd, meanwhile. plaved \ 40
. for IS holes on the nine-hOle Alamo
Country Club course. which is the low
est score made on that new course.
Willie Hunter. not the former Eng
Iishh amateur chamnion, but pro
from the Onwpntsia Club, near Chicago.
blew in Monday and duplicated Ar
mour's feat of holing out from tran on
numbnr seven. Jack Burke of Min
ncapolis. was another star who arrived
Monday. and Fred Macleod sent in his
entry, with word that he'd he along in
plenty of time to @Ct into the big
stuff.
Several Mere Arrivals.
Among the latest arrivals arc Frank
Madden. Cheyenne. Wvo.. (you didn't
know they had anv other snort but
bronco-busting az Cheyenne. did you9.
Joe and Charles Mathews. Kansas City:
q. W. Chapman. MinnHanoliS: e.
Whalen. Fort Worth: Phil CNntil".
Now York: T. c. Madden. KansoS
City: Pill Crcavy. Kansas City: c.
Manning. TcXarkana.
The tournamcr1 officials. Of which
/ there are n hundfd or 81. including
the score-keanrrs. we 10 mcet at the
course az 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
10 discuss the thing and get set for the
start.
The tournament this year. will hp
n'ayed under Western Go't Assonin-
t;o, rrles The limited States Golf