Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03

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Nh when the requisites for golf were
HA these: High blood pressure,
H sockful of the better bank stocks.
and membership, at 81 600 per
memb ership, in golf and country club
Nowadays you don't need the high blood
uresslre You don't need the bank stocks.
You don't even need the club.
For public links golf has not only risen to
the point whsre there are at least 200 mu-
niciual courses in the United States but it has
produced a champion who has done something
that even the peerless Bobby Jones has never
done Carl Kaufman of Pittsburgh is the
champion. and he has won the national public
links title three years running. And WINE
Jones has won the National Amateur Tour
times. his were not consecutive victories.
Kaufmann at the municipal course OF JACK
sonville Fla. will Begin on August 3 q battle
70 retain for fourth year the Standisn Cup
emblem of the king of the clubless golfers.
Each year the tournament competition Tor TINS
trophy and for the Warren G. Harding Team
Trophy is little tougher for the pay-as-you-
play courses are not only increasing In numbers
but improving in the quality Of play
Use tournaments handled by the public
Nnxs section of the United States Golf Assoc1a-
ton They are open to "all amateur golf players
who are not members Of nor enjoy privileges
of q private club maintaining and supporting
It's own golf course"
Qualifying rounds are played on all courses
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The Standish Cup goes for one year 70 the
individual winner. The winner 10 also gwen
. gold medal. while the runner-up gets
silver medal and the Semi-finalists bronze
medals.
Tn. inter-city team competition for the
Harding Trophy, played at the same toarna-
rnent. brings to the winning city the Warren
c. Harding Trophy, and each OF the four
players whose aggregate for 30 holes wins the
team title is also given gold medal
-Sauffmann at Jacksonville will face an entry
list OF ut least $50 individual players. The
team entries have been gradually increasing
from 10 in 1924 to % in 1929 and even more
cities may send teams this year to try to take
the rifle and the Harding Cup from New York
II AUFFMANN is another Of the golfers who
~ have arisen from that greatest of ali the
golf schools, caddying. From the time he was
q kid of 10 until he Is Kaufman was a
caddy at the Country Club Of Pittsburgh.
That's great training for a future golfer. He
sees so many things a golfer ought not TO 90.
The Pennsylvania State championship at
Oakmont in 1921 was kaufmann's frst COM
petitive gesture. There he was among the
oualifiers but was eliminated in the second
round At one time he a member Of the
Stanton Heights Golf Club, but he found that
he had too little time to play to make MEM
bership worth while so he discontinued and
has been playing the public links ever since.
His home course in Schenley Park in Pitts
burgh an 18-hoIe, 4432-yard municipal layout
run by the park department
For this champion hasn't whole LOT OF time
to play golf. He is a secretary with the Mesta
Machine Co. OF West Homestead. Between his
work. his golf and his mother, with whom he
lives and to whom he Is very devoted. Kauff-
mann has little SPAR time. He gets out on the
Schenley Park course an average Of three eve