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Show TOLEDO MB -PUUB FDR BOLF National Open Tourney to Be Held In Ohio City August 10-14 TOLEDO, O., Juen 2. Experts, golf course architects and green keepers have started to work on the grooming of the links of the Inverness Country-club Country-club to make sure that it will be worthy wor-thy of the international character to I be given the National Open Golf cham-pionship cham-pionship to be played here August 10-14 10-14 Harry Vardon and Edward Ray are jto take part in the meet, and possibly (other Britons. Par for the course is 35-37-72 for a total yardage of G511: but this will be changed somewhat so that the par will be 36-36-72 and the length 6569 yards. The links is said to be approximately three strokes more difficult than Maur-field. Maur-field. Scotland, where the British championship Is to be played this year, but to make sure that difficulties con-jsist con-jsist of nothing except scientific bunkering bun-kering and arrangement, the club managers man-agers have set to work to make every inch of the course as nearly perfect as The links does not punish short or long drives provided they are properly placed, but the golfer who is Inclined to "take a chance," letting himself out for distance rather than direction will find a course that offers a problem for mathematical calculations of superlative su-perlative dimensions. New bunkering bunker-ing on the course will, it is said, increase in-crease the hazard on each misplaced shot about 70 per cent. Especial attention has been paid to the second shot in which judgment of j distance, control of direction and the test of ability to get home make the; difference between a birdie or a pari plus one. There are three "dog leg" holes on the course seven, nine and seventeen. ' The man who Is sure of himself and j j his distance can save a shot by nego-1 tiating the "turn" from the tee, but the "safety first" player will find that his bail will be in trouble even if he plays straight ahead and doesn't keep the exact center of the course. There aro only three one-shot holes but all the others are comparatively short, the longest being the 522 yard 12th. The following table shows the yard-lago yard-lago with par of the change course. Holes Yards Par 1 385 4 3 135 . 3 4 -130 ..' 5 -138. , 5 6 .360 iy 4 7 . . ; 320 un -4 '8 208 -'. .' 3 9 '. 432 5 1st half 3160- 10 ? 3-i6'." - -. 4 11 ' 359 - - 4 12- 522' '' '' 5 13 ISA'" 3 14 117 " 1 4 15 ..; 143 ' 4 16 410 ' , ty;. : 4 17 "..430.. " 4 18 .. 332 4 Total 6569 72 JLAD1ES ENJOY IT. PUEBLO The boxing committco In Pueblo has put the game on a niErn plane. Tho fighters don't stall. There is no smoking. Harch words aro left outside and tho lady fans -attend in flocks like it was a moving picture show. nn |