Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19
INTERESTING ARRAY
OF GOLFERS LISTED
Amateur Tournament Draws
Picturesque Linksmen
of Other Days.
BY WALTER HAGEN.


Peninsula of California.
Some of these players are already
we'll known to the golf1ng world, but
there are others with quite as inter-
esting background who at one time or
another have figured prominently in
national and international golf.
One of the most noteworthy of the
contendefs at Pebble Beach will be
Heinie Schmidt, entered from the Clare
mont Country Club of Oakland, Calf.
Schmidt was reared in the Massachu-
sets golfing colony, which more than
25 years ago held State championships
with fields of real worth.
Winner in Old Days.
Schmidt was a winner in the old
days in Massachusetts, but he left for
the Pacific Coast at about the time
Francis Ouimet was coming into promi-
nence. Heinie has remained on the
Pacific Coast ever since and this VIII
be his first return to the national anna
teur championship in more than 10
In the Spring of 1912 Schmidt, then
Young golfer at the worcester
Country Club, worked his way to Eu'
rope on a cattle boat and played in the
British amateur championship at HOY
lake, where he reached the hnal elgnt
and was only defeated in an extra
hole match by the master British anna
teur, Harold Hilton.
Schmidt has had little opportunity
for big league competition since ne
moved West, but he possesses methoo-
ical game, has hardly changed IN physl-
cal appearance and is very likely to
qualify at Pebble Beach.
Lord Hope Coming Back.
Lord Charles Hope of the Royal and
Ancient Golf Club of st. Andrews Is
coming back to the championship the
first time since he failed in the qualify
ing round of the national amateur when
il was played at the Engineers Club, IN
1920. Lord Hope failed to qualify IN
that meeting largely because he ran
into a seven or eight on one hole, ana
remember that when an American cor
respondent asked his lordShip how ne
could possibly have taken an elght Oh
a hole, he replied:
Easy enough, my dear man:
G. M. Standifer is entered from the
Deep Dale Golf Club OF Great Neck,
N. Y, although he is really PACING
Coast man who for years was ldentlneo
with golf in the Northwest. IL was
Standifer who in 1921, with the sane
tion of the United States Golf Asso-
citation. sent a delegation of Portland
and Seattle players to the natlonai
chamnionship in order that they might
demonstrate that the standard OF golI
in the Pacific Northwest compared IA
vorably with that of any other sectlon
of the country.
Made Splendid Showing.
Standifers players made a Spienolo
showing in st. Louis and altnougn ~
golfer from that section has yet won
the championship they have men cap
able of it in Frank Dolph, Bon stem
and Don Moe On trips to the Mloole
west both Dolph and Stein have won
the Western championship.
Tn looking over the list of entries l
see the names of amateurs from the
British aristocracy, American miiiion-
aires and the sons of American million,
aires. as we'll as players who learned
their golf on the public courses OF
America. There are players whose
names are in the social register anu
players who are just IN the teiepllore
directory, but they all have one COM
mon interest, and that is golf. :.
One old-tiner who will be there IS
Max II. Behr, who in 1908, 10 years
ago. at Garden City, was runner-up
In the championship to Jerome u.
Travers. Behr has made his nome III
southern California for many years
and this year made trip 10 EUROPE,
where he cOnISSIeu III bOCAA WAY
and amateur championships: 10000
Behr has been a most active propa-
oandist for the "f1oater" ball, sphere
which is even lighter and larger eIlaii
the one which this Summer was auopG-.
ed for play by the United states Con
Association. He played his noater pali
in both the, British championships anu
promises me that he will pound ~ o'ei
the links at Pebble Beach.
Egan Another Old Timer.
" Chandler Egan--and do not
thinI, he will object to my referring W
him as an oregon farmer-is returning
to the championship after an aose t,tIe
of many years. Egan won TINS lieie
at Baltusrol in 1904 in a maj III wh.oii
he defeated Frank Herreshof. ana re-
,1eoted his victory a year later in chi
rago. Egan shares with H. ]. Wlgnam,
waiter ]. Travis, jerome D. IraVeIS
and Robert T. Jones, jr.. the dlstlnclIoi,
of being one of those who mas repeayyIo
in the national amateur championship
in consecutive years: o,.,o ,,hoce
7 A, Kennedy of Tulsa. Okla, Wiiose
father built him private goi. G no;ior'
&c going to be a starter, and 1. ,. 1d Inc
r. of Newport, r. l., whose fatner hke-
Xyise built him links along the SHORES
~ the Atlantic, will compete, aloIlg
18th MANY a player who in his poynoou
Javs was caddy and for years never
Rad ANYTHING better than croWoeo
c;tv coiJrse to play on. The Ist Oh
onf-;as shows that Walter Fovargue,
who quit the professional ranks many ma
vears ago in Chicago and has mace
fortune in the lumber business III Ore-
pon, is entered. .-,s fret
SIT It will be Jesse Sweetsers nr 81
championship since he lay deatniy IA
in The Grand Hotel at st. AnoIems'
Scotland. the night. after he nao COIL
oIeted the Walker Cup matches tns.e
and a week after he had become t tLle
first American homebred TO VIII llie
british amateur championship.
Among other familiar names are
1esse Clifford of Boston, Francis Oul-
met of Boston, Jimmy Standlsn OF DS
tnoit paul Hunter of Los Angeles LOUIS
,Jacoby of Dallas, H. G. Legg OF MIME
snolis. not to forget Roscoe Fa"cel1 VI
Minneapolis. x-o,,, colt
There are many players from can
+ornia entered, but I think the pest OF
The lot is a young boy from tne . n0e
Angeles Country Club, Charlie SeaVer;
Seayer is still in his teens and Wnen !
niaved with him in Los AngeieS lass
Winter he appeared very mucn as
Rohbie Jones did in 1916 wnen ne
stopned into the championship at me
Merton Cricket Club. in Phnaoeiptla,
and surprised the golf world by ooihs
a ~ in the first qualifying ROUND.