Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04

cOrd1ng 10 tine caDleS, 10 DC HO 11dSeA,
but there is to be Bobby Jones, ana 10
them all.
What will happen at st. Andrews
when the entire crowd-and there are
crowds at st. ADVERTISEMENTS to see
him play his first match in the anna
teur championship I shudder to
think. Everybody is agog already TO
see him, and people come to me with
unutterable pathos in their voices ana
ask me whether I could not persuade
him to 60 and play on their particular
course. Never, I think, has the tremen-
dous tide Of his popularity surged and
roared here as 1t Is going TO DO tnls
time.
Walker Match Is First.
The order Of events and courses is
as follows: First, on May 10 ana 10,
comes the Walker Cup match on the
links of the Royal st. Georges Club
At Sandwich. Next, in the week be-
ginning May IS, the amateur cham
pionship will be played at st. Andrews.
and last, in the week of June Is, the
omen championship on the Royal Liver
pool Clubs course at Hoylake.
There could not be a better choice
Of courses, both for their actual merits
and their iIlustrious traditions. st.
ANDREWS, Oh ACCOo Az AAAeAO-
duction, and the two English links,
Hoylake and Sandwich, though mere
infants in arms judged by Scottish
standards, are yet Of great and well
earned celebrity.
There have been uneasy rumors about
the state Of the Sandwich links, but
have just been there, playing and spy
ing out the land, and think that when
the green's keepers have given 1t the
r,n1ieh there will he nothing
amiss.
Sandwich Is, I suppose, the most
typical Of all our seaside courses, for 1t
has the biggest Saharas and the talleSt
sandy mountains. 1t is essentially on
the grand scala great stretch OF big,
rolling, sandy, benty country, fun OF
sheltered dells and hidden valleys.
another course or two without their
being noticed.
It's difficulty consists In this, among
other things, that 1t is q course Of big
carries and high shots; the ball must
be got up, and then it may become
plaything for the sea winds. It is the
course for a big, high hitter, but he
must be able to control his shots IN the
air.
Whether it is likely to suit the Amer
lean team do not feel disposed TO
prophesy too exactly. I cannot see why
It should not, and this is a point on
which it Is possible to refine too much.
Give q good golfer some little time to
get accustomed to any good course and
he should be able to play his best there.
American golfers naturally keep the
ball in the air; they are particularly
good at the high pitching shot to the
green, and there Is plenty of scope for
It at Sandwich. We used to have the
pleasant belief that American golfers,
because they are not much accustomed
10 it, could not play in the wind. Ex-
perience has shown this to be a COM
plete delusion.
have heard it said lately that Sand
wich will not suit them, and believe
this to be delusion, too. If we by any
chance win the Walker Cup it will not
be on account of the course or the wind.
II had maliciously to pray for any
particular conditions 1t would be for
bitter cold, for that is hard to bear for
those who habitually play in warm
weather; but what I do pray for-for
both sides-is good, fresh, Spring
golfing day.
British Team is Chosen.
Our Walker Cup team is now duly
chosen. There are ten of them, with
Roger Wethered in supreme command.
He, Cyril Tolley, Sir Ernest HolderneSs
and Robert Harris may be called the
veterans of the team from the point of
view of international experience, and
He owes his place to the fact that he
knows every blade of grass on Sandwich
and Is a very fine foursome player. I
should think 1t very likely that he will
play in the foursomes and be rested in
the singles, but that is the captains
business.
Torrance, Stout and Smith are in the
middle stage, somewhere in the sos,
and Torrance has played before in
Walker Cup match; indeed, in our last
disastrous experience in America he
saved the side from an entirely blank
score sheet by beating Chick Evans.
Stout Is well named-a mighty driver
and brave putter, a powerful, danger
Gus and rather crude player. Smith is
of the sound and steady type, not very
long but having the ideal qualities Of q
foursome partner to a long player.
Hartley. Campbell and Lang are the
young 2rigade-in the eos, though not
so Wy young judged by the standards
of America, where champions mature
with such astonishing qulcknesS
AS I helped to choose the team the
least can do is to say that it is good
one. I believe it is, but 1 know the
American team is, too, and win make
neither too optimistic nor too unatri-
otto prophecies.
The entry for the amateur champion
ship probably will be the biggest of
record There Is a natural desire to
take part If possible in a championship
when the American players are there
and there is always big entry in Scot
land, country as full of good young
players as a bin is full of bottles.
Many of these young golfers cannot
often get away from their home
courses; they are inexperienced and are
not likely to come right through, but
they have been teethed on golf club,
they have blood in their veins and can
produce one round that may knock out
any one Scotland is a country of golf
ing dark horses" and so there are
more surprises In the championship
when it is played on Scottish course.
Very curious things can happen in
an 18-hole match, and think would
rather bet on Bobby Jones winning our
open championship than our amateur;
but 1t would not in the least surprise
me to see him win both.
tCopyright. 1890, BY North American News
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