Evening star., 1928-12-31
COAST AND SOUTH
LAND BIG EVENTS
Amateur Golf Tourney Goes
to Pacific, Dixie Gets
Heavyweight Bout.
BY ALAN ]. GOULD.
Associated Press Sports Editor.

~ YEW YORK, December 31.-N0
~ prospective feature of the sports
VI campaign for 1929 is any more
4 significant than events aimed
at breaking down the old Sec
tional barriers or removing a number
,of time-honc ed traditions.
Where 1923 has been season of re-
markable international activity, 1929
will find most of the American athletic
activity concentrated at home with fresh
opportunities to develop intersectional
interest on a wider scale than ever
before.
One of the most ancient of all the
ancient traditions will be removed
when the national amateur golf cham
pionstip is staged for the first time on
the Pacific Coast at Del Monte. And
to- make it the biggest campaign ever
held on Far Western links the Profess
sional Golfers Association tournament
also has been booked for Santa Barbara
as the forerunner Of round OF open
competition for the country'S leading
pros.
Army to Take Jaunt.
Following the path blazed by STAN
ford, California's foot ball team will
tourney East to meet Pennsylvania,
while the Army will send its eleven to
the Far West for the first time to play
the Cardinals in a return engagement
at Palo Alto.
To add to the gridiron gayety, Yale
will break away from another old tradi-
tion and go South to play the Uni
versity of Georgia. The Ellis are booked
to play at Chicago in 1891 and may
Eventually wind up some season on the
Pacific Coast.
Tex Rickard, after having tested the
drawing powers of boxing centers In
the Far West, Middle West and East
during his colorful career, will promote
his first big fight in the South Feb
ruary 81 with Sharkey and Stribllng
Flashing at Miami Beach.
About the only main events that the
East still has a Strangle-hold on are
the national tennis championships and
the Poughkeepsie regatta. But the big
fight of the year, with Dempsey in
comeback role, is slated for the YAM
kee Stadium, where half of the world
series also may occur again, providing
the Yankees have good share OF their
health and strength.
A few of the main questions at issue
rs the new year gets under way are:
/. Whether or not Jack Dempsey Will
attempt comeback?
2. Whether Big Bill Tilden will be
restored to good standing in amateur
tennis ranks, and, if so, try another
comeback?
3. Whether Paavo Nurmi will re-
main the greatest of all amateur foot
racers or yield to the siren call of the
professional promoter?
A. Whether the Army and Navy will
effect a reconciliation and pave the
kxrou fnf41 a M fhQir
classics by 1880, since there is small
prospect of any get-together in 1929?
I If a guess has to be hazarded it Is
vote for "aye" on all of the above
counts, if for no other reason than
that it would stimulate competitive in
tereSt.
Tex Rickard predicts that new cham
pions will be crowned in most, if not
all of the professional ring classes in
1929, but no such sweeping forecast
can be made in other ranks.
Such bearers of the laurel wreaths
Rs Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen and
EGlenna Collett in golf, Helen Wills and
Henri Cochet in>tennis, the Yankees in
baseball, Rogers Hornsby in batting,
Babe Ruth in home-run hitting. France
In Davis Cup competition and the Cali
fornia crew in rowing will be difficult to
dislodge. Most of them have acquired
the championship habit and all have
enough stuff left to shake of any rivals
in the coming year, if not for several
years.
There will be comparatively little in
ternational rivalry for 1929. Tennis
and golf will offer the main opportuni-
ties for conflict where polo, tennis, golf,
boxing and all the Olympic sports fur
nish continual round of international
activity in 1928.
Walter Hagen will lead another big
pro golf invasion to England where he
will. seek to win the British open Tor
khe fourth time France will defend
dhe Davis Cup again and is not likely
ito have much trouble doing so unless
italy or the United States make some
astonishing forward strides.