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Show HIIGEri EXPECTS sura TO BESTAR . Champ Watched Youth-ful Youth-ful Golfer Defend Hi Title Yesterdsy By Walter Hagen Form 'American and Mrltlab pan Champion, Carraapondent af Tha Tlram and af tha North A marl-can marl-can Newspaper AMianaa. -NEW TORK. July 10. Tha ataga Ik set for tha American op a championship champion-ship at Inwood. There wa a curtain cur-tain raiser Saturdsy, with a team of Eastern jirof'sslonalg playing against a team of Wesiernarg for tha bene fit of tba Profreslonal Golfer association. asso-ciation. Thi draw a good lad gal. lary. match play la aiwmya Ular-stlng Ular-stlng to a spectator. Soma rounds of golf war played Sunday, so that the boys had a chance to haep on edge. At Troon we wera not permitted; to go out on th course, or vn to hit a golf ball, on th Sabbath. Tester day saw th flrat day qualifying round. Jock Hutchison, tien Kara sen. Bob Mao-Donald. Mao-Donald. Billy Mehlhorn. Leo tegl and Chick Evan, among th atara, play In lha first round. Tha awi-lery awi-lery wanted t aa Baraaea and LMa-gel LMa-gel perform, aa they wera paired together, to-gether, and Oen. being tb defending champion, la bound to attract a great deal af Interest among tha perts, aa well aa among th curious. cu-rious. . Kor th flrat two dsy t bar a lot of fun watchtng tha other boy, but on Wednesday I will have to get, busy myself. I regard my paal-tlon paal-tlon as a very favorable one. aa It Siveg ma a chance to reat an Thure-ay. Thure-ay. Kvery day la arranged that there will be some atara In tha field and those who coma out to aa tb play will hare plenty to do, Others who qualify on Wed nee day are Mlk Brady, Alex Smith nd his brothw, MacUonald, who wa th aen-satlon aen-satlon abroad In th racent open t Trooa. I am paired with him and fancy that ha will make a fin pacemaker. pace-maker. Mack 1 a grand IHUa golfr and ahould da wall la thla tournament. tourna-ment. John Black. Jo Kirkwood and Jeaa a wee leer, the amateur champion, ara among tha one who play on Tuesday, Tues-day, while Bobby Jones, paired with Orulck shank, will be on of tha star attraction on Friday. Crulcbahank mad g fl recently ovar tha championship cham-pionship couraa and It haa sot yet been equaled. 1 imagine, however, that It la going to be pretty hard to break T whan tha big ahow la under un-der way. Oil Nicholas made eav-erat eav-erat bet th other day that Tb would not be broken In any round during the champlonahlp. till t a good Judg of golf couraa and also a good judg of golf and human nature. I have angsgad a cot tag near th club and will be clone by the acen ef activate alt week. It la amusing to hear th different opinion on the Eim. Th boy ar already speru-ting speru-ting on the figure that It will take lo qualify. I -sat year, at Skokle, a 7 7 and a 7t hut squeesed In. It ahould be about tn aama thing thl year, although 1 am of the opinion that In-wood In-wood la a trifle harder I ha a Bkohle. It ahould be Mair to score oa tha flrat daya of tha tournament than ia tha championship proper, for many reasons. Th thick of the battle al-wiu al-wiu make one more or lesa careful, care-ful, and many shot can be waated In aaf play. Another very good rea-aon rea-aon at that the course will ba pretty wall worn out by Friday, with four 7usJlfying round a The tee will be ull of di rot marks. I am afraid, and th approaching a raa will suffer also. All the player ahould be especially urged to replace od takn In the approach, otherwiee wa will find many bad Ilea. The racent anina helped) tha links at Inwood a great deal. Th fairways were pretty well burned out a week ago. but the grne, deapita the hot weather, wera In excellent ahap. These are well taken care of by watering wa-tering them each night. Copyright, 1921. In United States and Canada, by North American Newspaper News-paper alliance. All righta reeerved. |