Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-06
PRECEDENT BROKEN
AWARDING TOURNEY
Place Is Regarded Second
Only to st. Andrews as
Golfing Center.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

~ REAKing precedent OF
- long duration of rotating
the British open around
49, small and selected number
of courses, the royal and ancient
has scheduled the 1881 champion
ship for Carnoustie. The small
Forfarshire town, with its i'm
maculately clean streets, is sec
ond only to st. Andrews as the
golfing center of the British En-
pire and the home OF great
golfers.
Carnoustic men have helped spread
the gospel of golf through the entire
world, but the greatest OF all It's sons
we're the Smiths--Willie, Aleck and
Macdonald. It Is quite certain that
Mac-the last of the great clan--wil
60 "hame" for Carnoustie's FIRST Brit
ish open, and 1t would only be poetic
Justice to have the tall, smooth-SwiIfg-
ing Scot win among the scenes OF ms
childhood. II Mac only could be GER
tain of carrying on next year as he has
this Summer the championship well
might be his and the pipes would sklrl
the Cock of the North" as they have
not done for years.
Compliment to CarnOustie.
The British open has been sched-
uled for n1id-June and that Is going TO
throw the United States championship
very early or else in July once more,
And at Inverness. where the United
States open will be played, the fair
ways can be hard-baked and the
weather hot in July. 1t may also COM
plicate the playing OF the Ryder Cup
matches that are set for Scioto. Co
lumbus, Ohio The Ryder Cup matches
usually are played before the open
championships, but if the United States
open is played early in July they VIII
have to follow the open.
Selection of Carnoustie as the venue
Of the next British open is pleasing
compliment to that great center OF golf.
Since the Inauguration of the British
open in 1850 it has been over Prest-
wick, and then. st. Andrews and Mus
selburgh were added. Musselburgh was
dropped in 1888 and subsequently other
courses were added.
westward Ho dowi on the shores
of Devon, where the fisher folk still
hear the roll of brakes drum on foggy
nights, will be the scene of the 1881
British amateur. Only twice before
has the amateur been played there, so
both scenes OF the coming British
titular events will be quite strange TO
Taylor Was Master.
The Devon course is best remembered
as the home of J. II. Taylor. probably
the greatest nashie player of all time
and one of Britain's four greatest pro-
fessionals. 1t also has sent numerous
professionals to the States. among
whom is w. H. Wayne of Mayheld. who
has taught duffer and star alike for
more than IS years and now is high
in the councils of the p. G. A. West
ward Ho had its first championship in
1912 and in the finals John Ball beat
Abe Mitchell. then an amateur, to win
the last of his nine titles.
Leo Diegel, who likely will captain
the United States Ryder Cup team next
year, and George Sargent, former presi-
dent of the p. G.. A.. recently were
discussing the effect of the new ball
on the British when they come over
next Summer. The Britons stand to be
penalized by the change in balls In
either the open or the Ryder CUP play.
If the Ryder matches precede the
open the Britons will have sufficient
time to become partly acquainted with
the peculiarities of the ball and may
do well in the championship. and vice
versa If the open is played first. But
in one event or the other they are
going to be under q handicap as both
Diegel and Sargent admit However
since Great Britain adheres to the
hard, fast ball. there's nothing that
can be done about it, except to let
them slug.