The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-27
Early Arrivals
Polish Up on
Local Course
Exhibition Match Tomorrow
to PreCede National
Tournament.

/ nOlQ IN store Tor Cnem Will De known
today to most of the 1877 entrants
in the fourteenth annual National
Public Links championship who ar
rived in town to get bit of prac-
tice for the tournament that will be
contested all next week.
Early arrivals this week totaled
nearly 70 and the SEVERN hotel,
which is headquarters for the event.
took on a real convention atmos-
phere as trains, autos and even the
air transports brought linkSmen
from every section of the country.
Before the event opens Monday
morning the field of 1877, second
largest in the history of the event,
will be complete.
Brooklyn Youth Low
The course, closed to the public
that early arrivals may warm up
their games and groundskeepers
may put a final dress on the fair
ways, traps and green's, steadfastly
has refused to yield to having les
par broken.
Yesterday Frank Strafaci, 49,
year-old Brooklyn IN. " high
school student, came within two
strokes of 70, which is perfect fig
ures. Other luminaries have been
remarkably close, Arthur Armstrong,
the Hawaiian team member, having
turned in II Thursday. going out
in 38. two over perfect figures, and
coming home in 33, one under. He
finished in a remarkable squirt of
deuce deuce.
Lance to Perform
A pre- opening feature event will
be held tomorrow afternoon at / 80,
when David Mitchell, local pride
and defending champion, will team
with Arthur (Scotty) Campbell, Sc
attic, Wash, Canadian amateur
champion the past two years,
against Arthur Armstrong and
George Lance of Los Angeles, Cal.
Lance held the indianapolis Dis
trict and Indiana Amateur cham
pionships for several years while a
resident of this city. and the slender
| young gentleman was able to batter
par on almost any course when he
campaigned the Hoosier links.
Socially the tournament will get
under way tonight when a dance
for contestants and their friends
will be held in the Rainbow room
of the SEVERN. Tomorrow night, the
annual tournament dinner, with
local public officials and United
States Golf Association officials and
contestants as honored guests, will
be staged by the Indianapolis Public
Links Association, of which John
l.. Niblack is president. 1t will be
held at p. m. and both Governor
Paul V. McNutt and Mayor John W.
Kern are expected to attend
Monday night the Junior Cham
Der of Commerce will entertain the
group at the donkey baseball game
at Perry Stadium, and that will in
clude the scheduled social events
because by Tuesday night only the
81 players with lowest scores for the
36-hole qualification test, 18 of
which will be played Monday and
the same amount Tuesday still will
remain in the conflict.
Thirty-siX holes of match play
daily will become the program be-
ginning Wednesday morning and
lasting unit Saturday when it will
be known just who will rule the
middleman golf world for another
IL months.
The tournament will have, be-
sides Mitchell who will defend his
individual championship, the Los
Angeles, Cal, team that will defend
Its team title. The WesternerS
gained possession of the Harding
Cup for having the lowest aggregate
total for the four team members.
First and second round matches
Wednesday and third and fourth
round matches Thursday that will
reduce the field from 81 to four
each will be Is holes. The two
semi-tinal matches Friday and the
windup classic Saturday each will
be SO holes.
The players will tee off beginning
at 1870 Monday morning and play
will be in threesomeS with each
trio leaving at seven minute inter-
walls. The early starters Monday
will have later starting times Tues
day with the field reversed.
The tournament will be in charge
of R. Arthur Wood. Chicago, chair
man of the public links division of
the United States Golf Association
and Joseph c. Dey Jr., of New York,
executive secretary. Other men,
bers of the public links committee
OF the U. S. G. A. also will be here
and those who have arrived in adj
vance were rich in their praise of
the course condition.
Players who are identified with
any private club are barred from
this event. 1t becomes the middle
mans classic, with an occasional
occupation blank indicating that
those who will compete here are la
borers. They range from high
school youths and college students
to bank tellers and chemists, from
lumberjacks to city firemen, from
gas meter readers to what not. On
the golf course all are socially equal
with this group. On the tees, fair
ways and greens. that's different;
there can be but one ruler and next