The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1921, Page 8

EVEN CHANCE FOR UNITED EVANS, QUINT AND JONES ILL OUTCLASS The FIELD IN AMATEUR MEET ABROAD Strongest American Team Ever Sent Overseas Will Battle for English Classic Monday at ‘ Hoylake—Invaders Have Edge on Leading Engl By William Abbott. HE English amateur go! 1 pionkhip starts Monday 4 lake, a seaside course Ww \igh winds frequently play w pranks with little golf balls, for Magiand it is the biggent int wort event of the year. The United States thought so much of the cham- pionship that for the first time # trong, organized team was rout ove yous in quest of the trophy thst only ne American ever won Like other sports Fingland Is ng her grip on the ancient game of golf, once exclusively English and Yeotch. The time is not far distant when world supremacy on the links nil pass to this country, As far as amateur guif \s concerned the writer tirmly believes the time will come noxt week, and that the invading nkeos will fetch home the cld insaic. ‘The weuther will decide the nith- mate outcome of the battle at Hoy- inke. With fair, even weather the American team should clean up. Even nard-boiled English followers who still ‘ing to old-country traditions admit At Johnny Pull now has no star to mateh Chick Pvans, Francis Oulmet 4nd Bobby Jones, the tulwark of the American team. Should high winds prevail next week the champlonship will resolve itself into a buge gamble, cham- with odda greatly favoring the home | defenders, who will be out by the dozens. A line-up of the contesting forces shows that this country has never neen s0 strong for the foreign cham- pionship, and England never so weak. ‘The 1820 Anish of the English tourna. ! ment, when Bob Gardner carried Cyri! ‘Tolley to the thirty-seventh hole be- | fore the husky Oxford boy could win, encouraged autborities on this side of the ovean to make @ more determined | vid. this season for the English cup, After much juggling of talent, Evans, | ‘Ouimet, Jones, Wright, Platt, Guilford and Hunter were picked, together with | Gill Fownes as team cuptain. With the exception of Gardner and Dave Herron, former national title holders, this combination included the strong~ eat Playing skill that could be mus | ered. Byans, Ouimet and Jones furm tho nackbone of the teacn. They will be the class of the whole tournament, Hoy: | ational | ish Amateurs | (ry has only succeeded in winging on+ lish at Sandwich. It conditions, Hoylake is one of the famous stand urd English courses w championships have be n fought out It is well over six thousand yards in length and most of the distance fur |nishes trouble for the unwary, sand dunes that change nearly every day f #tift winds that sweep in heea use from th adjacent |, The winds, however, are.the chief {trouble makers, Stories are told about the frightful winds at Hoylake, ones that blew go hard that lon |range drivers ike Ted Ray couldn't | hit the Iittle pill further than 190 yards, [next wi Keund stay quiet, the pros as an even chance. If the wi the outlook would the other side. nsiderably faye But what ever hap sport meeis of the year. | Two-Ye to E) 1O}t072) By Vincent Treanor. ve "If they bet on the *@R take the band off the bankroll and don’t spar | any of it. jaround the Jama r | \« wi |was in the last race, a two-ve him were @ few rather stylish your |olers including st, Maurice, a° rts winner at Plinlico; Mawre penter and th ron, ( others which div count. Everybody that h rd of Da vans and Oulmet made previous at- tempts for the English champlonship, but miased by @ wide mark. They Is 1.01 1-5 waited imp went over in 1914, however, when England was powerfully equipped With ¢ any. firat class men. Conditions now are materially changed. Much is expected of Robby Jones, the nineteen-year-old Southern won- der. Ou the other side they have|there was a scurrying around to een highly impressed with the stocky cate the action on Dan ti Atlanta youth who Harry Vardon said had the best playing form of any American amateur. Se on hard-fought matches. He won his first golf championship| to get aboard the when only eleven, and has been win make the British lion a vory sick unl- mal. The remainder of the team can pe siepended upon to put out considerable|ors who had been caught with top) they] prices on Dan Bi Bos-} many anxi ley, his|cause nobody wanted it first opponent, and it would not be} The fleid went to post surprising if Guilford eliminated the|Starter Cassidy finally outset of the (barrier Out of a davalin y last year to pompete in the American national) amateur and failed even to qualify} like his countrymen, Lord Charles ow-scoring home talent betor ave through. Jess Guilford, th on walloper, takes on Cyril the present Enghsh champion, 3 litle holder right at th party, Tolley came ov: Hope and Roger Wethered The draw. always a jack, has been very fortunate to the there will be no serious conflicts unt the semi-finals, whic eweet for our iti either Evans, Ou England faces the sttuation, know ymoved many notable English golf eva, Former champions like Harolr iiton, Jobn all and others wil @Wing Into action next week to dr 5 their bit toward repulsing the fur eign invasion, but their ag be a] baek outside the money tough bunker to get over 1 it may that t the home folks do w: wat | eked “edu likely will be through the ape | Toads, whe pearance of some brilllant unknowr ‘Phere will be @ smo nowns at Hoylak On the « ne English Critics expect Bobby's age will work| against him in a big tournament, but) {he southern star hus been developed ase of blind| ing Americans, ‘They are ao! seattered through the long list that will be very is ponsi- final round it will! the cup is coming} !t d jog she has no one to match the three trongeat wonders, The World War) va, high class tournament perform- 1 army of these Reling and his work of five fu tiently for th last mice. Many let all the otner| | gO by without wage ‘order to get down one of si dimensions on Dan. Right after the Afta race vw ing lost. The yers prepared for it when mony her their equivalent, the sl gan to show, Dan ten to one, but it didn't last lor much time was hard) tc With ev pric reached and sti!) that was acceptabl colt wi e. Meanwhile the fayor nine to od colt and has suown it in pudtir Fo his odds didn't 1 ing ne 1% Moments They couldn't jay anything off be olors shot the favorite hind him in hot pursuit w soron and then Dan Boling \tempt t in the runn ever contd get near thi urive and Mawrcoror lons of a clean-up 1 so widely ¢iven out as ‘opping further bac i Jockey saw that the chase wi y {less and he began ¢ : Maurice went on about is bus Jand was never threaten Mawr and Dan Boling Wa 1 him, iron side they are banking not on any |e?) Rete outstanding stars, but en | num: | 4 : hers of comptent golfers who are ex-) r aut p eted to win thelr matches if their | Ut r q joaet off form. Mm numerous attempts this LO GROL 1GAGO. merican opponents xhould be the races. Joe Howe! f bu me would convert Care }r mateur title, In 1904, when Walter J. Travis defeated all comers ® this showing that tends to make London critics believe that history will repent iteelf next | week and that the Americans wili again fall victims to strange playing © many If these winds will only be obiging | pect of the Amertoan team Is as good aR get frisky and the weather is uncertain pens phe week's battle will be one of the most Interesting internat wont | **Played Off the Boards,’ Good Thing Dan Boling Finishes Outside Money Into a useful racing too “Old Fails to Run | pectations of Those | Who Backed Him) From A WINDY DAY MAY BE FATAL TO THE AMERICAN GOLFERS-A CALM ONE WILE FAVOR. THEM fo some of our fa: CNRIL TOLLEY, BRITISH AMATEUR CHAMPION Phat was the word passed track early In the Y yesterday, The “they” meant s the Oakridge Stable, trained by Lewis Garth, and the colt was Dan | Boling by Sea King and Coat, Ve! {dash of five furlongs, and against NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING. AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING. track up to ‘national fight. hich will carr sz run At Jamaica May 20. a8 opened at Down went (he price to seven, then rybody serambliny was foreud down until three to one was eagerly wing ‘em ever since, Jones, Evans) grabbed, Finally two to on and Quimet have been shooting around seventy-two in practice this! By post time the Oukrid| week at Hoylake. ‘This sort of golf it touched off in the championship will) ile St. Maurice was almoyt a drug on the market, but he is a thorought Bill Bryan is the only fe much, Lay | put in so} fore a rice ewint Roce goers will have the opportunity) polo team which choose this afternoon as the United Hunts Racing Assoc will hold ite spring me Park ‘Terminal lected. all ina His rider, Kelsay, tried to mut Dan didn’t ustling. He mado an at- ive card of six rac of them steeplechages, has be the sport should be able} Tombkinseon wn with e wil the goon | for the differ ched the struggle breath s that something senaa happen t aw Din where n the front. | eod marvel | could be so far out of it. But Dan | was out of it from the start and was as the race gressed. In the stretel hie] | NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE PITCHING. uld furniah the thrill events. are at six furlon: Penn State COMLEX Haines has the Pennsylvania» lege baxebail te t having done ied ty AL Mune Kilian, ’ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1991.7 STATES TO WIN ENGLISH GOLF TITLE THE BRITISH CHAMPION AND THREE OF OUR HOPES \- The Week's Siftings ) Ee in tie 8 By Thornton Fisher. MY CADDY. (Apologies te BR. Kipling ) L would trot an’ carry one Til the longest day was done When we cussed a bit 'e didn't seem 1] we sliced or hooked or cut, You could bet your bloomin’ nub Kd be waitin’ fifty paces in the reo Yes, Din! Din! Din! You ragged iitttle urchin Gunga Din’ Though I've belted you and flayed wou, By the living Gawd that made you, You've never lost a ball yet, Gunga Din! Anybody who can count ten should be able to qualify for r for the classic at Jersey City. a 8 6 They teii us that atmospheric conditions may decide American golfers in England. Wind on the course Bunk! Used to it on American eovrs > 2 Harding and Cabinet may be invite: 4 fool there was and he played his jock Been as you and On-a favorite horse at Jamaica traci: The nag quit cold the very first er tod the poor fool lost the shirt on Even as you and 1. * 8 @ FOR POLO CUP MATCH WITH AMERICAN FOUR LONDON, Internatiot ion ting at Belmont) next mo: three nN are It will be the 1 ore preten= |p ooie Jamatea arge it Is wencil will ard efte for the ‘ hase Han- was unh an th: but posta Me in he Tui Steeple W. Athle uffain ¢ for ant-in Resigns Under Fire. sore ts the Pa, Ma esigned mb U vie Vd, played for a 1 who qualified for ¢ Virginia Le nder [finals to-morr it He he bj to qualify this. mo CHAS. (cnicie) EVANS. NATIONAL AMATEUR CHAMPION at Hoylake Why not slip Congress an Annie Ov buneb of boys who know the game. h one who isn't running for inj elude he coming ¢ squabble, | Still the fight is six weeks away United Banta | ENGLISH TEAM PICKED Holds Spring | Meeting To-Day| ~°* Noi York E Hurlingham hag buon forz t and Lord Wodehouse. overnight Devereux Milburn, captain of the n, 18 Still feeling the American tes of his jumpers in] Rocksavage last turday, when he i) and fell on the which was injured in the Unit Wubt] States before he eailer ists that right ina few ¢ » Qualifying SOSTON, May ? =e pars sachusetts Institus sixteen ary ed twenty ¥ i Lal ‘Admission M. LT. men gained a place r that he had violated} but twelve events tha athletic codo of ethics by not mem- Jone of numb the next higu.s vithin ring twice as many as MIKE GIBBONS LETS PADDY FLYNN GO. LIMIT WITH Hi St. Paul Middleweight Out« | classes Opponent and Should ' Have Scored a Knockout. MIKE GIBBONS RECEIVES \ $1,939.47 FOR ‘CAKEWALK’ Mike Gibbons received canctty .47 for his end for tho easy xperienced in getting the Irish Paddy Fiynn Boston, but who is King his home in Brooklyn, in their fifteen-round bout at ‘the | Brooklyn Arena last night, Flynn Gibbons got 3 per cent the net receipts, Which were SH G4LOL, wile Fyynn per cent © grOrs re- including the Government tax of 10 per cent, were $6,411, About sons witnessed tie bouts, 206 paid for trek- et tickets were sold as fo 1,091 at $1.10... $1,200.10 1,656 at 2.20 3,643.20 459 at 3.30. 1,514.70 Exchanges ........ 53.00 Total + $6,411.00 By John Pollock. ' ¥f Mike bbons, the St. Paul mid- cts to retain the good fans in Brooklyn he r do some al fighting im bouts which he expects to en- n in that ‘ough. After ao years Mike re turned to Brooklyn 1 night and met Irish Paddy Flyna, an ordinary fighter, in 2 feature event of fif- teen roun at the show of the Brook n Arena, Just why Gibbons let: Plysun last the full limit when he d him in a bad way as early as the ond round was a mystery to the crowd of fans who paid heir good money to see whether Mike was the same great battler of severa) years ago or was on the to boggan After watching Gibbons closely the solution that can be arrived at that he appreciated the fact thut Flynn « to meet him after sev- ghters passed him ap, lim Jast the limit, Had Mike fought with the same viciousnes® brother Tom did in the two that he fought in New York nd as Paddy i il he went to his corner tired and bleeding from under eye and his 2 cut open. Krom that time on with Flynn EES LeonnardaKkansasy Boot Will Be Held | at Nic Daye 1 who w Sewnrh champton matoh be Leon 1 Harri div. June 6 sent out Bat! F i ' torday 1s “of querier ed to fourna sskir Henny would be | the eve " . il held tn ’ slready a at © Ughting: ‘ purl insured al y cage of rat poned Ui!) the ne; ) are finail: nse yall the und deliv that ean possibly pres except serious aeci- or the other of the princ!- Oo Men to Be Heard on and Condition AHIA, May 21.—A pla entation to ini s of the system int reviewing com. m ished some time ago fo men in the engine and train servic jhas been announced by Gen. Wa Atterbu Vice President fation of the Pennsyl an PULLADE r employwes' repres n will not affect the fo! committee by which and en ervice emplo | settled, it was announced, | ee | ANCHESTER, England, May 21 Phe Manchester Cup, at one and one« vif miles for a purse of £2,240, run yes- was Wen by Lord Derby's Marci: Sir W, Nelson's ‘Tangiers was nd J.’ Shepherd's King’s Mdler JAMAICA $3,500 Highland Stakes Columbia Purse AND 4 OTHER GOOD RACES FIRST HACK AT 2:15 P.M, VHAINGS wave Penu an A Ave; srk OWING & BILLIARD THUM "° 5 i ‘ have lasted four yi