Evening star., 1928-09-09
Facing Busy Period Following Summer of Tourney Inactivity
DR.. A. F. willings. Roland r. Mac
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according 10 opinion as 10 tI16 TeidliF'
merits of the players, as follows: Georg
Dawson. Jess Guilford. Eddie Held Eu
gene Homans. Max f. Marston. Maurice
| J. Mccarthy. jr.. Donald Moe. Bef
! Stein, George J. Voigt. Fred J. Wright
/ lr.
/ Those in the first 10 all are member
| of the Walker cup team. with the eX'
| ception of Frank Dolp. who won tbs
western amateur championship two
weeks ago and Dr. Willing. The 9TH
ers were the eight men who scored ar
overwhelming victory over the British
team in matches played at the Chicago
Golf Club the latter part of August.
Most of the entrants in the amateur
championship are at Brae Burn today
practicing in advance of the champion
ship. which opens with the first Ia
holes of the qualifying round on Mon
day. Two 18-hole match play rounds
will be played Wednesday. with the
balance of the matches scheduled at
SO holes.
The Joncs-vou Elm Debate.
It appears to fall t. the lot of the
two greatest amateur stars of this coun-
try to get hot" on successive weeks
First it was Bob Jones ct Chicago. with
some such amazing record as 18 under
even Is for seven rounds and that stal- =
Ting last nine of 80 at Flossmore. a
rough. tough layout with par of 36.
And only last week 1t was George Won
Elm. newly rehabilitated in Detroit, far
from his beloved Los Angeles, who aver
aged 68 to the rolind in winning the
gold msshie tournament at Newport
with a 72-hole card of 272. Jones didn't
play in the gold mashie. but SWeetSer
o,.l o,,;,,,nf onl NHorSfOY1 and CnrSr9 n
old. And Won Elm led by some such
fantastic margin as 19 strokes.
Golf form is an elusive thing. It's
mere one day and gone the next-as any
duffer knows Even such stars as Jones
and Won Elm know the dimming of the
keenness-that slipping over the edge
of tightness that bring scores below 70.
But if George Won Elm maintains any
where near the streak he uncovered IN
winning T. Suffern Tailer's very high
hat affair he won't come far from
toppling the amateur crown of the
brown head of Bob Jones. For the past
three years Won Elm has been very close
to Jones-if any one can be close to the
Atlanta marvel. The gap hasn't been
so wide between these stars as the
casual observer might think.
Won Elm slipped through in 1926,
dropping Jones by and l in the final
at Baltusrol when the young LAWYER
from the South had plainly gone over
the far side of the heights of keenness.
But the Won Elm of today is not the
Won Elm of last year--or even the year
before, For more than a year Won
Elm's path in Los Angeles was none too
easy. His golf game showed it.
Last Spring he moved to Detroit, got
himself settled and proceeded to get
even better than he had been previous
". Out at Chicago, in the national
open extravaganza. Won Elm WASH {
more than cat whisker away. A good
kick from the woods at the fourteenth
in the last round and he would have
been in a tie with Jones and Farrell
But instead of he took and was
out by two strokes. That performance
and his showing in the gold mashle
event may mean that Won. Elm is be-
coming a medal player instead OF the
bulldog from the West that he used to
be called in match play.
Jones still has something on MIN,
from any angle, but the gap between
them is not so large 1t may not pc
bridged by a missed putt or two. The
seeded draw may bring this pair to-
gether in the championship final. II
that happens the battle of the century
will be as nothing compared to the bat
tie of Brae-Burn And the odds en-
Jones shouldn't be as overwhelming as
an earthquake. The Atlanta Argonaut
is moving along smoothly on his way TO
his fourth amateur championship. : II
he wins he'll tie Jerry Travers' record
of fou. victories in the simon pure title
chase. But our guess is that sundry
wards of fur will fly before the Detroit
diyot digger goes down to defeat.
The official publication of the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club, the
Tee. carries in its latest issue the be-
ginning of a history of the club from
the day 20 years ago when a small
group of men walked over the tangled
country that now is the layout of one
of the most picturesque golf courses IN
this locality. The first clubhouse was
part of what is now the caddie house
and cost $780, The article, written
by A. G. Rice, secretary of the club.
says: Among those keerly and ac-
tiveiy interested in the development of
the project in the beginning were the
men who held the first Offices and
Admiral P. M. Rixey, r. Walton Moore,
now our president; P. l.. Dougherty,
Cuno H. Rudolph. Admiral Cary T.
Grayson, Sidney Taliaferro, Gaillard
Hunt, John S. Barbour. John c. David
son. Charles A. Douglas. Albion K.
Paris, A. T. Hensey, A. Colt Yates and
E. F. LOCKER"
In the clubhouse accommodations
were somewhat cramped, but we were
not so exacting in those days and a
few of us who have been with the club
through all the years hold some very
delightful memories of the sandwiches
and coffee and impromptu lunches
which were served from the miniature
quarters and of the very charming
oamaraderie of it ALL
Immediately after the amateur cham
pionship comes the only big invitation
tournament of the Fall season about
Washington-the annual event OF the
Bannockburn Golf Club. scheduied Tor
September 19, 20. 81 and %. The
following week the District amateur
championship will be played at Co.
lumbia.
Chairman McClenahan of the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club golf COM
mittee has returned from an extended
vacation trip through Maryland ana
Virginia.
Albert r. Mackenzie and Donald
Woodward of Columbia will leave the
Capital for the amateur champion
shin at Boston tomorrow.
BELLE HAVEN CLUB
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