Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-15
GROUPIFRQ|M EAST
MAy.NlOT. Be LARGE
Or. Willing Likely to Prove
One of Leading Players
at Pebble Beach.
BY WALTER HAGEN,
British Open Champion.

oEitisn Speh NhempAoh'
TINE next Jones massacre" will
take place early In September.
when as many amateurs as are
L able viii offer themselves as
sacrifices on the Monterey
Peninsula Of California. -.
There, ut Pebble Beach, the national
amateur golf championship tourna-
ment will be played amid the glamour
and whoopee OF Del Monte, one Of those
gay spots of the world.
This Is the first time national golt
championship has gone to the shores
Of the Pacific, and golfing California,
which includes most Of the eminent
citizens Of that State, Is going TO put
1t on right.
Size Of Field Uncertain.
Just how well this championship will
be patronized by the ranking amateurs
of the East and Middle West has not
been determined, but there are SO many
other things besides golf in this match
that every qualified amateur should do
his best to 60, and to see all the at
fractions will be well worth taking
beating from Bobby Jones.
Francis ouimet may ny from Boston.
and George Won Elm, who is sure to
start, may make the trip from Detroit
with Lawrence p. Fisher in the lat
ter's l6-passenger plane.
Outside of few Eastern stars It
will be the amateurs OF the Pacific
from Pudget Sound country to San
Diego who viii furnish the opposition
fFo the mist opportunity for n1ser
of very good Pacific Coast amateurs
to engage In a national championship,
and while most of the real Pacific
Coast talent has been seen in the East
I expect to see the early match play
rounds crowded with Coast players, q
number Of whom are sound enough to
take" even the mighty Jones IN an
1S-hole match II the Atlanta star leaves
too wide an opening.
Is Real Amateur.
One OF Americas great amateurs, and
by this I am not referring alone TO
his ability as q golfer, which IS more
than SUFFICIENT, but to his standing as
an amateur sportsman, who Will surely
take q vacation from his combining
work as q Portland, Greg. dentist IN
order to play at Pebble Beach Is Or.
o. r. willing, ranking amateur OF the
Northwest and, since Won Elm has gone
to Detroit, Of the Pacific Coast.
II the United States Golf Associa.
ton wished to give q lesson in what
really constitutes an amateur golfer 1t
should engage some one to write the
Portland dentists history. DR.. willing
will play finely at Pebble Beach, for he
knows It we'll, takes more kindly to the
Pacific Coast climate than to that OF
the East, and is very accurate IN driv-
ing, which Is more essential than length
at Pebble Beach.
In San Francisco the players will
undoubtedly be entertained by Roger
Lapham at the San Francisco Golf
and Country Club, one Of the finest golf
clubs In the world, q place where there
is never a brown patch on putting
green. "a
The course of the San Francisco
Golf and Country Club ranks among
the best In. America and Is one Of the
great courses Of the Pacific. A good
time will be had by all in San Fran
cisco, inHollywood, In Los Angeles and
on thef Monterey Peninsula OF Cali
fornia. Amateurs who play well enough
to start will do wrong to miss It.
(Copyrisl1t, 1929. by North American News
paper Alltance.)