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Joe Louis National Golf Tournament
In Detroit August 12-13"14 To Draw
Top Sepia Professionals Of Nation

THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION himself
will compete in the national golf tournament IN Detroit
August 2314 The meet has been called the Joe Louis
Nationals because the fact that the Brown Bomber mas
laid the line the entire prize money of Sooo ana mas
also availed most of the elaborate trophies
Louis a keen golf enthusiast despite the TACT tndt 10
date his best 1Shoe have been in the nnetes orig
mated the forthcoming tournament means OF person
ally doing something develop the among representa-
tive Negro golfers.
To further his moral support to the effort to place
Negro golf in the upper bracket of public interest LOUIS Is
also competing in the annual United Golfers Association ma
tonaI tournament in Boston Only tortngh' ago. 'oe
participated in the Eastern Open in Pittsburgh
The Joe Louis Nationals in Detroit will be played @ over
the tricky Rackham course The INKS are idlo o"' o'e
$3.50 yards with par of II for IL holes.
Clyde Martini youthful professional has been retained
by Joe Louis as his personal tutor and is sharpenng up
the Brown Romber game for the City extravaganza
Martin has recently shot twounder par 69 over the
tough and also turned in sensational lohoe OF 90
in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania not so long ago. m 80
The hot young pro thinks score of something like 292
will carry away the 2hoe honors for the top prize OF S5oo
cash. The other prizes graduated into smaller sums
but all the awards far in OF those that nave
been offered in any other coored meets. -
With half grand the object of competition the
forthcoming Detroit meet certain to be of the most
grueling ever staged. They have similar nducement-
ST 900 in prize moneyn Boston the week after the Joe
Louis Nationals and by that fact ITSELF you may res
assured will flock of crack performers travelling
on up the line from Detroit to Boston.
Atlanta Georgia. the Gate City of the South, is sending
whe-hot entry in Zeke Hartsfied recent winner OF the
tough Southern Open the New Lincoln links when he
oudd defending national Champion Hugh Smith of Thom
aston GEORGIA. former national champion Edison MarShaH
from Indianapolis Indiana, and host of others
Zee nav not win the Joe Louis Nationals. He may not
pace or show either he has been shooting the type OF
golf that will make the winner turn in subpar figures to
beat him Tn fact, Harsfied shot the amazing score OF
262 over the 72oe in the recent Southern Open
cracking the course par 264 by two strokes and beating
the former mark set by Hugh Smith 263 in 1889 by one
stroke.
Par for the nine holes at New Lincoln Country and Golf
Club where F. A. Toomer auditor of the Atlanta Life In
Company, is president and Arthur L. Miller past
national u G. A. president is an influential MEMBER Is 50
and Of course the 18hoe standard is 66 But believe II
or not the course has been shot in the astounding aggre
gate of So, exactly eight under par!
No better example of what sort OF competition you're
running into when you enter the pro division of the South
er Open held annually in Atanta be presented than
merely TO remind the uniformed that New Lincoln has
tered into competition imposing array OF past national
champions among them John Brooks Dendy, three-tme
Hughes Hugh Smith, and Edison Marshall, all of whom
have won the national crown once.
Resides New Lincoln dispatched the former national
amateur champion Alfred T. up) Holiness while Miss Mel
Move onene national womens champion, also signed out
from the Gate City ,
Aside from their feat of winning the national title
FIVE TIMES between them, Dendy and Wheeler each
the Southern Open twice. while aside from his 1910 national
crown Hugh Smith has THRICE worn the Southern Open
diadem.
The uations pros will have to be mighty cautious when
they tackle the touch Rackham because there are
at least two exceptionally tricky hOes-Nos and lS, ana
plenty of bad roughs and traps.
According to Martin, Joe Louis tutor:
ITO keep your down it is absolutely necessary
keep the fairway That rough is at least SIX
inches height and will prove terrific handicap to
one who gets off the iairway"
So golfers beware; don't say didn't give you the
tip-off: