Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-21 | Page 14 | Fifteen Former Amateur Champs Exempt from Qualifying Round

Fifteen Former Amateur Champs Exempt From Qualifying Round United States Stales Links Event Will ViII Be Conducted on Match latch Play for First Time Since 1903 NEW YORK June 21 AP Instead AP-Instead Instead of at only the defending titleholder titleholder title title- holder fifteen former holders of the national amateur golf gal championship or as many of them as choose to enter this years year's event and W. W Lawson Little 1934 winner of the British amateur will be permitted to sit on the sidelines this year when their rivals struggle through the se sectional Qualifying rounds on 24 courses August 21 The United States Stales Golf association Wednesday decided to exempt all former former for for- former mer champions from 78 old Charles B. B MacDonald who won the first tournament in 1895 to George Terry Dunlap Jr the 1933 winner with the sole exceptions of or Bobby Jones Jerome Travers and George Von Elm These three are no longer amateurs In addition to MacDonald who said he not be able to take advantage advantage tage of the officials' officials consideration because because be be- I be-I cause Im a little old now the exempted ex empted men are H. H J. J Whigham Findlay S. S Douglas and I. I N. N James of New York H. H Chandler Egan Medford Ore Robert Gardiner Chicago Chi cago William C. C Fownes Jr Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pitts Pitts- burgh Francis Oui et Boston Chick Evans Chicago S. S Davidson Herron Pittsburgh Jesse Guilford Boston Jess Sweetser New Ne York Max Mx Marston Philadelphia Harrison p J Jimmy my Johnston Minneapolis and Ross Somerville London Ont The tournament to be on an all match play basis this year for the first time since 1903 will be played at atthe the Country club Brookline Mass in September The courses chosen for the sectional qualifying ng rounds which will r red reduce duce ce the field to are Rhode Island Country club Barrington Barrington Bar Bar- rington Ridgewood N N. J. J C. C C. C Baltimore Baltimore Bal Bal- C C. C C. C Philadelphia Cricket club Atlanta A. A C. C Brook Hollow G. G C. C Dallas Oakmont Pa C. C C. C Elyria Ohio C C- C CC C C. Somerset Som C. C C. C St. St Paul Normandie C. C C. C St. St Louis Kansas Cit City C C. C. C Cherry Hills club Denver Wilshire C. C C. C Los Angeles San Francisco G G. C. C Portland Ore G. G C. C Omaha Field club Miami valley valley val vat ley G. G C. C Dayton Ohio Niagara Falls C. C C c. Belle Meade C. C C. C Nashville Tulsa C. C C. C Waialae C. C C. C Honolulu G. G C. C Orlando FI Fla Detroit Detroit De De- troit trait C. C C. C and Oak Park Ill IU C. C C. C