Evening star., 1942-07-19
White, Co|ored Pros
To Play for S15,5OO,
Richest Golf Prize
81 AIl-Americu Amateur
Leaders Are to Enter
Tam o'Shonter Open
By CHARLES DUNKLEY,

By CHAkLES Dt NNLE1,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
CHICAGO, July 13-The biggest
golfing extravaganza In hiStory-and
the most unuSual-opens at popular
Tam oShanter Country Club Mon
day with top-ranking Negroes play
ing against their white brethren for
the first time III any ma1or tourna-
ment and with the professionals
shooting for SIS 500, richest OF all
pro prizes.
1t will be a golfing double-header,
first in the history OF the game.
so-called all-America amateur tour
nament, with more than 200 players
will open the affair and the Tam
O Shanter National Open starts on
Thursday with the GA low-scoring
amateurs carrying over into the open
competition. The amateur ends
Saturday, the open Sunday.
There will be nearly 500 players
more than 200 amateurs and nearly
300 pros-in the two tournaments.
Biggest U. s. Golf Stake.
The prize list totals $16,800-s15,-
500 in the open and 81 300 in War
bonds for the winners in the anna
teur competition-making 1t the
biggest prize winning event in the
history of American golf.
There will be a special prize Of
$500 for any professional breaking
the course record of 65.
Net proceeds for the tournament
will be turned over to Army emer-
gency relief.
The man behind this spectacular
golflng show Is George s. May,
president of the club and In business
life very successful efficiency en-
gineer. When the question of allow
ing Negro players to compete In the
recent Hale America Open tourna-
ment came up and Negroes were
barred from the course, May an
nounced that Tam O'Shanter would
bar no United States citizen capable
Of playing championship golf.
Colored Stars in Lists.
May said there would be 4 Negro
amateurs and or 10 professionals
in the two tournaments, each one
determined to win.
The list OF Negro pros includes
Howard Wheeler of Los Angeles,
John Dendy, Asheville, N. c.; Clyde
Martin of Detroit, Pat Ball, Chi
cago: Eddison Marshall, Indianapo-
lis; Zeke Hertzfield, Atlanta, Ca;
Leroy Smith, Norfolk, Va, and Call
vim Searles Of New Orleans.
Wheeler is a terrific driver and
Searles, a 22-year old youngster, is
a subpar shooter Martin is the
golf1ng tutor of Joe Louis, world
heavyweight boxing champion. The
Negro amateurs entered are DR..
Remus Robinson Of Detroit, Lyle
Jones, Springfield, Ill: s. Z. A.
Ferguson, Indianapolis, and Nicholas
Rayburg, q Chicago youth attending
the University Of Illinois.
The Negroes will compete tn
threesomes among themselves, will
have their own locker room In which
to dress and their own lounge, To-
Gated near the tenth green, where
the players and also the Negro spec.
tators will be fed.
Big Names in Both Fields.
There are plenty of big names In
both the amateur and pro fields.
The entry list for the amateur divi-
sion includes Pvt. Pat Abbott OF
Pasadena. Calf, recent winner of
the western amateur crown at
Spokane, Wash; Bud Ward of
Spokane, former national champion:
Johnny Goodman of Omaha. former
open and amateur titlist; Dick
Chapman, 1910 amateur champion;
Ray Billows, current holder Of the
Great Lakes amateur and New
York State amateur crowns; Frank
Stranahan, 1o41 winner of the
Trans Mississippi and current Ohio
State champion; Art Doering. Chi
cago, 1899 semi-f1nalist in the ma
tional amateur, and Gus Moreland
of Peoria, ILL.,, former Walker Cup
team member and western amateur
champ.
Among the top notch professionals
entered are Byron Nelson, Leonard
Dodson, Lawson Little, Horton
Smith, Ben Hogan, Ralph Guldahl,
Sam Byrd, Sergt. Jim Turnesa and
his brothers Joe and Mike, Tommy
Armour, Herman Barron, Pvt. Ed
(Porky) Oliver, Johnny Bulla, Ky
Laffoon, Harry Cooper, Jimmy
Hines, Chick Harbert. Denny Shute,
Toney Penna and Ray Mangrunl.
Looks for 100000 Gate.
May is the originator Of the one
dollar gate" which officials OF the
u. S. G. A. said couldn't pay. Mays
first Tam O'Shanter open last year
drew 1900 paid admissions at 81
head, largest in the history OF the
ancient Scot pastime. The final
DAYS round attracted $4,000.
He has laid plans to accommodate
100 900 spectators at 81 each. with
an advance sale already nearly