Evening star., 1932-07-07

~ RITAIN has a great chance
x this coming September to
do something in the way OF
international sports she
never before has accomplished, IN
the view of one veteran golf OBJ
server around Washington.
Fred Mcleod, the golf sage OF
Columbia, who has seen golfers
come and go over a period of more
than 30 years, and has forgotten
more golf than most of the young
sters of today know, thinks Brit
ain has a fine chance this year
to lift the Walker Cup for the
first time in the international golf
series to be played at the Brook
line Country Club, near Boston,
on September l and 2.
Freddie thinks that the absence OF
Jones and Won Elm from the American
team for the first time since the formal
Walker Cup series started back in 1922
will count heavily against the United
States players, and that without the
stimulating effect of an almost sure
singles victory by Jones and an almost
certain win in the doubles from the
clubs of the once rotund Georgian the
American team will have trouble Win
ming from the young team Britain Will
throw into the international series.
&sFTTHAT British team is not weak by
i any means" Freddie says. "Of
course, the matches are to be
played in the United States this year,
and the American boys always have
found it easier to win here than in
Britain. But if the weather at Boston
is not hot in early September look
for the British to put up a fine scrap.
They have young team this year,
with a scattering of veterans Of other
Walker Cup matches but with enough
Young blood to make it a real scrap.
Without Jones and Won Elm the Amer
ican team is undeniably weaker than
It has been in past years. That sure
singles point that Jones has been good
for isn't certain this year, and Won
Elm also has been almost a cinch to
win point in singles. And, if ! recall
correctly, Jones hasn't lost doubles
match either.
"The American team is strong. No
doubt about that, but it does not seem
to me they are strong enough to over
whelm the British as they have been
doing in recent matches. You can lay
those overwhelming scores to the credit
of Jones and Won Elm. No, think
that match next September will be a
real scrap and victory may go either
way"
A GOOD many golfers think it would
IA be a fine thing if the British won
tho XEo1lyor C.fYN fal1 T11fc
There isn't any doubt they have taken
a distressing series of whippings at the
hands Of the United States in the big
international joust and it may well be
that il America continues to win in
such overwhelming fashion as it has
in the last two matches, those gray
bearded gents who support the royal
and ancient will be looking out the
window when the hat is passed around
two years hence. Which would mean
the end of the international series. for
the time being at least.
Since the Walker Cup series were
started back in 1922, the United States
has been consistently victorious. Al
though some of the matches have been
won by as little as single point. the
last two matches have been debacleS
for the British, with Jones figuring ex-
tensively in the devastation of the
visitors. The Atlanta master has missed
only one Walker Cup match. He was
not chosen for the 1928 team, and that
year he won his first major title-the
American open.
I-ere is the lineup of the Americans
who will face the British at Brookline
a week prior to the United States
amateur championship at Baltimore:
Francis Ouimet, Boston, captain; |;
George Dunlap, Billy Howell, Harrison
r. Johnston, Don Moe, Maurice J. Nc
Carthy, jr.; Charles Seaver, Jess
Sweetser, George j. Voigt and Jack
Westland New faces on the team are
Dunlap, Howell, Seaver and Westland.
The others have played in one or more
OF the international series.