Evening star., 1932-08-24
WALKER CUP PLAY
WILL Be STARTER
American Team for Matches
Is Mixture of Veterans
and Youngsters.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

big guns of national and
" international golf will be-
gin roaring in earnest. A
Summer of more or less local golf,
marked by only one big splash
that stirring victory of Gene Sara
zen in the National Open-will
wind up with display Of golflng
fireworks that few links years
have seen.
For tomorrow week, the Eagle and
the Lion will face each other in a
renewal of the Walker Cup matches
at the course of the Brookline Country
Club, ushering in half-month of
golf competition in which the guns of
the amateur will boom as they have
not doomed in the two years since
Bobby Jones and his Walker Cup team
stalwarts were whipping the British in
the international matches of 1880.
Those Walker Cup matches, which
start one week from tomorrow over the
course of THE Country Club" (they
call it that in Boston, will find a
team made up Of scattering of veter-
ans and few youngsters on the Amer1-
can side facing young team OF Br1tons
one of the youngest in point Of years
the British ever have sent to the inter-
national classic. Five of the American
team are youngsters either barely out
of their teens or still around 81. Five
Of them are caSe-hardened veterans,
tempered in the fierce fire Of big-time
competition. But the British have sent
to America a young team, almost all
of them comparative youths. headed
by John De Forest, the British ANA
teur champion, who spent Winter
here two years ago learning how the
Americans win so many championships,
and topped off that Winter by going
to the final in his own championship
and winning it the following year.
YOUNGSTERS on the American
II team are Billy Howell of Rich
mond, George T. Dunlap, jr., and
Maurice Mccarthy of New York,
Charles Seaver of California and Don
Moe of Portland, who is defending his
Western title today in Illinois. The
veterans are Francis Ouimet of Boston,
39-year old amateur champion, VINO
still can step along fast enough to top
any field; George j. Voigt, Capltal-breo
amateur star; Harrison R. Johnston OF
st. Paul, amateur champion OF 1929;
Jess Sweetser of New York and JACK
Westland of Chicago, This team, not
WithStanding the criticism that has
been leveled at the choices OF the U. ..
G. A, Is so strongly balanced ana SO
sturdy that there doesn't seem to be
ha British do TO WIN
back the Walker Cup this year. The
United States should win and WIN
handily, despite the absence OF Bobby
Jones and George Won Elm, who were
on the 1880 team which whipped the
British so soundly.
Almost Immediately after the match
es at Brookline, the star amateurs Will
repair to Baltimore, where they Will
start practicing for the amateur cham
pionship, to open at Five Farms on
September IL. This championship WILL
be one of the finest in half dozen
years, for, in addition to the best OF
the American group, the entlTe per.
sonnel of the British team Will be at
Baltimore. So for half month the
big guns of amateur golf will boom In
Boston and Baltimore.
Tommy Torrance, captain OF the IN
vaders, is a veteran OF many years eH-
nerience in golf, another of the fine
golfers who throng British courses
.John Burke is the Irish champion, De
FOREST is the British champion and w
l.. Hartley and Rex Hartley are the
golfng brothers who are capaDle OI
holding their own in the pest 6TIIisn
company. Other members OF the Brlt-
ish team are T. j. BooKleSs OF oc3o'
land. Leonard Crawley, E. A: NC
B1Ivie ] A. Stout and Eric Fiddian
the Scottish lad for whom the eX-
merits predict great things In golt
THE representative CT the Royal ane
Ancient Society, god Of things goI II
England, is Henry Cullen.
CECRETARY William C. Barr OF th'
y District Golf Association calls al
tention to the fact that entries 10
+be District Junior championship VII
close with him next Monday. In othe
words only five days elapse before en-
tries close for the biggest youngsters
tourney of the year. ..
THE tournament will be played owe
the Army-Navy Country Clun coul@
on September l, which IS one week iroll
tomorrow. Privileges OF the course ~ ~
practice are extended to entrants LII III III
event next Monday and Tuesday: IN
event will be over the 36-hole route ant
is open to Junior members and sons 0
members of member clubs OF the LIS
trict Golf Association who have not at
tained the age Of 18 years Ihe man
prize is the Albert r. Mackenzie JUNO
Championship Trophy.
Roger Peacock is the present cham
pion. but he is ineligible to defend M
title because of the decision OF the Dls
trtct association to drop the age liml
to 18 instead Of 81 as in past tourney
Medals will go to the first, secono an
third scorers in the tournament.
NNE OF THE few holes in one mao
~ this year was registered on the pa
3 sixth hole at the AnacoStl
course yesterday by Mrs. A. L. Chase
Wakefield. Mass. Mrs. Chase was play
ing with her husband and Mr.. and MI
M c. Strahorn of Washington.
Out at the Washington Coli an
Country Club 13 Of the members strlV
vahantly each time they play the cours
to secure that coveted hole in one. Fo
each Of the thirteen men has agreed
nav a bonus to the lucky individuf
who does the stunt. The odds, there
fore, and IL to /, and how the boys ar
going to it! You never saw so man
good shots on the one-shot holes 6
Warrington as there have been sine
this competition came into being.