Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-18
CROWN HAS NEVER
BEEN IN FAR WEST
Moe, DoIp, Willing and Seaver
Possess Ability to Win
Major Tournament.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

championship may go West
this year-far toward the
setting sun, where the Pacific
rolls on the shores of California,
Washington and oregon. Never
in the long history of the amateur
championship has a man from
west of Minneapolis or Chicago
won the simon-pure title, and in
the main the championships have
been won by men from the East
and South, with Atlanta, Ga, the
golfing capital of the Nation over
the last seven or eight years.
That supremacy is all over now and
Bob Jones, the golfer-lawyer VINO went
Hollywood, has resigned himself to
life of future inactivity. as far as major
championship play is concerned. Which
naturally brings up the question: Can
the golfng cohorts of the East stop the
advancing tide of the Far West, where
good golfers grow as thick as peas in
New England garden patch.
The rise of the Pacific Coast to
position OF challenge in national golf
Is a phenomenon of only the last half
dozen years. A decade ago there were
good golfers on the West Coast, men
like Dixie Flaeger. Rudolph Wilhelm,
Chandler Egan and Jack Neville. But,
with the exception Of Egan, who is
Chicago product and a graduate of
Harvard none of these men ever went
anywhere in national golf. Along about
1926 or 1927 we began to hear of
Johnny Ntzhugh,, Oscar F. Willing and
Frank Dolp and Don Moe. along with
host of lesser lights like Fay Coleman
and Bon Stein. Don Moe broke into
the national spotlight by winning the
Western amateur. So did Frank Dolp
and Doc" Willing became a member of
several Walker Cup teams. BY the time
1928 had rolled around the Far West
was definite factor in national cham
pionship golf and this year with such
new players as Charlie Seaver in the
list the West appears about ready to
garner national title.
ITO date the East has produced no
i new stars over the last four or five
years. except Gene Romans, the be-
specialized Jerseyite, who was runner
Up to Jones last year at Merton HomapS
is not an impressive golfer to watch,
but he manages TO cling closely enough
to par to win lot Of matches. The
old stars, such as George Voigt, Jess
Sweetser. Francis Ouimet, Jesse Gull
ford, Max Marston and Harrison r.
Johnston. are past the crest, while
these boys from the Pacific Coast are
Corners.
On the other hand. the East has a
few Youngsters who may go somewhere
in the national. If they qualify in the
sectional tests to be held a week from
next Monday. Lads like Sidney Noyes
and George Dunlap, the intercollegiate
champion, may suddenly start off on
winning streak. So might Maurice J.
Mccarthy. the Flatbush star who is
out Of college only year. But in the
main the East must look to the older
players with the accepted regulations
to stave off the rush of the West.
nON MOE and Frank Dolp, o. F.
- Willing and Charlie Seaver are
quite capable of putting on burst
of speed that would overwhelm any one
but Jones. If one of them happens
to get real hot" in the championship
to start late next month at Chicago.
don't be surprised to see the national
title go toward the setting sun. All of
these have had enough national and
international experience not to will
under fire, and all of them are capable
of matching shots with the best the
East can produce.
Golfers on the Pacific Coast play
under more favorable conditions than
do the Eastern stars. They have golf
II months in the year out there on the
Pacific Slope, while most of the Eastern
golfers do not play often from mid
November to mid-March. All this
makes for better growing OF the swing
and a finer edge when the big tourna-
ments roll around. without Jones to
head the crushing caravan the East
will have trouble keeping the amateur
championship from crossing the Rockies
this year. With the championship be-
ing held at Chicago, the far Western
players are only three days away, and
to them that Is not long jump. From
Seattle to Boston Is quite a distance,
but when you cut this distance by one
third they do not mind the travel. So
We will probably find all the best Of the
West in the struggle at Chicago this
wear and it would not be at all astound-
ing if the championship journeyed West
for the first time in history.
T7HE tangled affairs of the Bannock-
i burn Golf Club now are in an
other stage and one that may
mean the abandonment of the club as
a going golfng proposition. Members
of the club authorized resolution last
night to empower the board of COVER
nors to take steps to close the affairs
of the club and seek a receivershlp Tor
the organization.
1t was pointed out at the meeting.
which followed a session of the board
on Thursday night, that interest has
not been paid upon two mortgages on
the club property since early in the
year and they matured some time ago.
It is hoped that some way may be
arranged to meet the Indebtedness OF
the club to keep the course open until
further reorganization can be effected.
A L. HOUGHTON of the Kenwood
"A. Country Club, Washington's lone
entrant in the metropolitan open
championship. is too far down the list
to figure as one of the winners as the
tourney enters its final phase today.
However he was one of the qualiflerS
for the last day of play. He shot an
81 Yesterday to add to his II OF the
previous day for total OF 1873 strokes,
one stroke below the qualifying limit,
Gene Sarazen led the field as the
SO holes of play started over the course