Evening star., 1928-05-10
COMPSTON AMONG
GOLFERS EXPECTED
Conqueror of Hagen, Mitchell,
BccG.ar and Others Due
10 Seek honors.

TIME national open championship
for the crown resting slightly
awry on Tommy Armour's head,
L TO be played the week of June
Is at Olympia Field, near Chi
cago. will have complexion as of stout
foreign competition. il all the British
entrants who have told the United
States Golf Association they will play
show up at the first tee.
Archie CompSton, who packed Walter
Hagen away in moth balls few days
ago, thereby reducing Hagen'S conf
dence to the vanishing point, will head
list Of foreign invaders which sounds
ike who's Who" in British golf. The
tan Slugger from England will have
with him Abe Mitchell the man of
i,1any diSappointments; George Duncan
and Aubrey Boomer
Australia will be represented by Rufus
Stewart. open and professional title
holder of the land down under, while
British amateurs will be represented by
r. r, Burton of the Royal Wimbledon
Golf Club of London.
Entries sent to the u. S. c. A. to date
include all the leading professionals of
the country. Bill Melhorn, who has a
pleasant habit Of grousing at the golf
course and then burning it up with his
golf clubs, will be there, as will Hagen,
Kirkwood. Fred Mcleod, Bob Barnett,
Willie Klein. Larry Nabholtz, Tom
Boyd, Emmett French, Tommy Harmon.
AL EspinoSa, Al Watrous and Mike
Brady.
Provided. of course, all these gents
make the grade in the sectional qualify
ing rounds to be held at II courses
throughout the country on June IL.
Tommy Armour and some 30 others do
not have to qualify, having finished far
enough in front in the battle of Oak
mont last June TO automatically qualify
them Tor the championship this year.
It's just a little amenity of the U. S.
@. A. that the boys who finish in the
money in the preceding year do not
nave 10 struggle through the torture of
qualifying round the following year.
Entries for the open this year close
on May %, and the U. S. C. A. believes
the record entry of S98, received last
year, will be shattered for this seasons
title test. Inasmuch as only $50 or a
few more can make the grade, it seems
that competition viii be rather keen in
the qualifying tests. OF course the in
dispenSable Bobby Jones of Atlanta,
chief money maker for the u. s. @. A.,
VIII be out there showing his graceful
and efficient brand of golf And this
year George Won Elm of Los Angeles
who putted Bobby out of the amateur
title back in 1925, viii play in the
qualifying round in the Detroit district,
and win probably be among those to
face the starter at Olympia fields ten
days later
Local entrants viii qualify either at
Philadelphia or at Richmond If they
are wise they viii go to the city Of
Brotherly Love, where there will be
from three to six places for the quail
flers. instead of Richmond which or
dinaTily produces but two qualifiers
Jimmy Thompson. Virginia open cham
pion, may come to Richmond TO qualify
again this year, from Knoxville, where
his dad has secured the professional
berth.
v. Calvert Dickey Of washington Is
somewhat Of a faddist when IL comes
70 the finer things Of golf So fasttdt-
Gus is Dickey that he Is the owner OF
probably the only pair Of silver tees In
use around Washington. Dickey doesn't
Use them, for he found they dent the
faces Of HIS wooden clubs but he owns
them ano points 20 them with pride.
They were given him some time back
by Ralph A. Drain. frequent conipan-
ion Of Diclley on the golf course. The
tees are Of regulation wooden tee size.
connected by silver chain.
Inc I1Ifu 0O1e al the lOWA ana
Country Club is gaining quite q repu-
tation as a. wrecker OF scores. We re-
member watching an entrant tn the
Town and Country Club tourney q
few years back crash through with a
brace Of brides on the first two holes
and then take an on the third. where
the out OF bounds line runs parallel
with the line Of play 10 the right
Yesterday Harry q. Pitt Of the Manor
Club took sixes on this 427-yard hole
On both his circuits Of the 9-i0le lay
out. Two sfoGirs would have made his
score 81 instead Of the splendid II he
registered over the sl0w, rain soaked
course. AS II was, however. Pitts II
vas four shots Ia front OF the rs reg
ss1eyed By 4. L. Houghton, clulornate
a. Manor, and second IN yesterdays
scoring 10 Pitt. The men who qualified
10 the tourney yesterday played Ia fire.
0Jeat small showers and over a course
thoroughly soaked with rain. Today's
final qualification round is being played
under more pleasant conditions
Pitt ard H0ugElton played together
ard IL was apparent over the first nine
that they were 70 be close when they
negotiated the first nine In 80 strokes
each But Hoilghton took S on the
tenth, a 4 on the short fourteenth and
on the long fifteenth. Pitt ended
the round by chipping his ball into the
cup for a birdie at the eighteenth,
The starting deid today includes John
g. ShoGey Of Espnockburn. winner Of
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