Evening star., 1937-02-03
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ENTRY PROPOSED
Former Amateur King Would
Omit Qualifying Test for
Noted Linksmen.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.
wv YITH still another change In
M the amateur golf cham.
Wv pionship impending for the
title test to be held neYt


August at Portland, Greg, lawson
Little. the former king of the simon
pures. believes that several outstand-
ing amateurs should be exempted from
qualifying and should go directly into
the match play rounds.
Little, the big slugger who won the
San Francisco match play open before
the eyes Of his home folks last week
dawson really learned the game
around San FTancisco), thinks that in
addition to exempting former cham
pions from sectional qualifying, as is
done at present, number of recog-
nized stars also should go directly into
the championship without being forced
to qualify sectionally and at the scene
Of the championship itself
He names Charles Kocsis. the inter
collegiate champion, and Harry Giyan.
the big Seattle boy who was a men,
Der Of the Walker Cup team, as twl
stars who failed to qualify for Il:
1896 championship, and who, alon
with John Goodman. should be give
places in the title tourney without tt
bother and suffering of qualifyin-
And when you come to sift 1t dow
Lawson's idea has considerable merit.
Stars Make Tourney.
THAT 1929 tournament withoy
Jones (Bob was bumped off In tn
first round) was a fizzle Other tour
naments have gone blooey when rec
ogniZed stars have been licked in tn
early rounds. An amateur tourna-
ment today without Goodman. Flsche.'
and a few others would be joke. bu.
it's conceivable they might fail to
get in.
Kocss, for example. led the ANA
teurs in the 1885 open and failed %
qualify for the amateur. Givan wa
good enough to make the Walker Cup
team and yet failed TO qualify for the
amateur. And take the case OF Don
More in the Pacific Northwest sector.
where there were only two places
open. Don scored l42 and failed TO
qualify last year. where l61 go into
the tournament in other areas.
There's plenty of merit In Lawson'S
idea. But the U. s. G. A. could hardly
go as far as they go in Britain. where
every amateur with a handicap OF
or less is permitted to play in the
amateur championship without quail
fcation. In explanation it should be
said that a ! handicap in Britain Is
equal to a 3 handicap here.
ID. c. Girl in Florida Meet
HELEN DETTWEILER. Congress
= sional star woman golfer viii be
making her second major tournament
start Of the year today in the Miami
Biltmore tournament. where Patty
Berg, the chunky Minneapolis red
head will defend the Grace Doherty
Trophy she won last year.
That tourney has been won con-
sistently by the medahst, which seems
to dispose of the old bromide about
the medslist jinx Patty won the
medal with an 80 last year and went
ahead to win the tourney.
Among the starters will be Jean
Bauer and Marion Miley. the Ken
IuSAy sdi N4lo s4c" up Ill WdSLAls-
ton. Miss Dettweiler will be in Florida
for most Of the Winter tournaments.
None OF the Washington links
champions will be in the national
championship of club champions
tourney, which opens in St. Augustine
February Is A list of the entries
includes Talbot Speer of Baltimore.
Morton j. Mccarthy, the 1885 Middle
Atlantic champ from Norfolk. and
Frank Allan of Pittston. Pa. who used
to play for Georgetown, but there
isn't local man in the lot.