Show Bo Bobby Cruickshank ank t Now Golf Favorite Florida Is Training Camp for Champions Ex- Ex ExI Ex 1 1 I Competition I IDY DY UT nn ItAY lC M Special Corr Correspondent of ot TIme The l Copyright 1927 By The Th Consoli Consolidated dated Press AssociatIon T AUGUSTINE Fla Fit March U 12 ST S As As ye e golf In the th South SOhAil so shall hall hAil ye golf golC In the north The Tite foregoIng foregoIng- be b a ft pass pass- pass ago Lore ago taken from front the tho th modern golf s-olt It if there thero were one In other othor words a good showing bya bya by a golfer colter during the th winter CAm cam- cam o opal pal In Florid and presages an n even b better showing sho UP north durin during time the summer Par Par- Particularly Particularly i is this true of the th won women amateur stars star and the tho th men pro pro- pro professionals In the tb case of oC the men time the early asoh has hax Invariably point pointed ed Cd to the tho th winner of the th British open pen championship for the tho th sante ame year This has haa been true Iru ever since inco Jock Hutchison in 1121 1821 be- be be became came cAmo the tho first foreigner r to o win in the ho the then highest honor In the realm ot of golf golt Although born and andr r ared on the th oth other oilier r Ido eldo lid thU tho Hutch was an American representative when h he lie won the time lInt lInt- Brit British ish open six years eara ago up In Ole tue th south during the winter of 21 1920 snows SHOWS JOn f Late In 1921 1321 Geno Gen be began gan to flash Intermittently across the golt golf firmament However It was all not until that winter s season that the tile stocky Italian began to show the form that later In 1922 was to net nt him the th American open and United States Slate professional champIonshipS Early In 1922 won big ble tournaments at New Orleans Orlean and elsewhere being closely pressed by Walter Waller The 1921 22 southern campaign also o was the tho best beet of many years eArs for Hagen Hageni who In th tire the amo summer sum- sum mer went across and won the tho BrItish open Hagen Hagn was wu the sensation of ot the early 1924 season in the th south sod and for or the second time tim in tn three years ears he h hewon won on the British open that summer Early In IUS 1925 Jima Jim Barnes pro at Temple Terrace on on the th outskirts of Tampa carried off oft the major POI por tion of ot the th big purses offered In Inthe inthe Inthe the Florida tournaments and that same summer It was VAS Jims Jim's turn to win In open Bobby Jon Jones Jonea hu has ha been beets playing a lot ot golt zolt since alnee he tint came Into prominence nce sonic some tn ten years ear ago but up to the th 1925 26 winter campaign Bobby lid did not play much In the tho th called o oft off sea sea- season sea ea season son lion A A year eu ago so go Bobby played In Ina ina Ina a nutTIer of Florida tournAments starting on New Years Year's Year day with Watt Gun Gunn lIS as a his hl t partner And playing against Archie Archil Com Compston pIton and Arnaud Massey Y In a ft- ft hole 36 K In I There There- Thereafter Thereafter after Bobby Dobby ns s In a ft match or tournament newly n IY every overy week It was feared that lIat ho he h wa was being o but tame tamo the summer of 1828 1326 and Bobby DObby not only won on the British ODO ope championship first tim ft I i had ever een won y American amateur amateur- amateur but ho h won 1 l back the th American open clown George Von on Elm the he CalIfornia star atar also Io played a good during deal the th last winter and ho he won the tha Ih American ama amateur title from Bobby Jones The Ram applies to the cx- cx ex expert pert women golfers In 1924 Mrs frs Dorothy Campbell Hurd played played al- al almost almost al almost most d dally daily lIy at Belle Bello Bell Air early In Inthe inthe the year and that summer she he h won the tho th national championship for the tho th first time tim since her W trI trIumph back In 1910 The follow follow- following In lug ing winter Glenna Olenna Collett won major tournament tournaments at Palm Beach and St St Augustine Augustin and a few months later she sh won the th Amer American ken ican crown n Mrs Irs Mr U G Heney Stetson of Phila Philadelphia delphia never played so winter Inter golf golt as lr did a I year eAr aro in tb south Mouth and nd her reward was as the tho th national championship r NEW IW ell this CIll It- It this unbroken n record means then we may chalk down wn Bobby Cruickshank as us the 1 1927 American open ope chAmpion and either r lies bliss Ml Maureen Orcutt ot of Englewood Inglewood N J or Mrs Dorothy Klotz Kletz as I the tho th next women's omens title till holder among the th men golfers on current winter JI per per- per performances r having won wn four big monty events of or them th m asan asan as an n Individual In medal competition ion tion and end ono one on In match play with Tommy Armour as al a partner Pour Four years year ago Cruickshank was u within a a halts hairs breadth ot of winning the tho United States State op open n with Bobby Dobby losing after a play OtC Jones hr Sirs Pardue Pardu won v the tha th Florida state title at Palm Beach and successfully defended her Iter South championship at Ormond Beech det defeating MISS MIM Orcutt In ina a hole 21 final At St Augustine wading through a ft field that In- In included in included Virginia an en Wie Mrs frs Dorot Dorothy h Campbell Hu-d Hu Frances Hadfield Mrs Mr St art Hanley and nd a ft host hOlt of or other othor leading II lights t 00 |