APRIL , 1921 31 CHICAGO GOLF MATTERS AND MATCHES Jock Hutchison and "Chick" Evans Will Lead Assaults from the Windy City By JOSEPH G. DAVIS

HE return of several of our leading professional golfers Scottish courses and of the game in general. The old St. Andrews who visited Great Britain has added zest to the ever course over which the British open championship is to be played Tpresent controversy regarding the respective merits of the this year is, in the opinion of Hutchison and Macdonald, not a real British and American players. Jock Hutchison of the Glen View championship test. On many of the holes it is possible to run up club accomplished enough during his stay in to demon- approaches with a putter from as far as one hundred yards. strate his right to rank as a first fighter over there. He set a new Hob asserts that some of the inland English courses are a better record of 70 for the Eden course at St. Andrews, and in lest of golf than St. Andrews, and jock is of the same opinion. several competitions played remarkably fine gulf. It was Jock's There are glorious traditions surrounding old St. Andrews, but first visit home in ten years, and undoubtedly be has improved they are merely tradi- greatly during his stay here, the influence of which will be soon seen. tions and are no longer It would hardly be fair to class the performances of Laurie held in reverence by Ayton, who played much with Jock, as those of an American the younger school of player, seeing Laurie had only been away from Scotland for one players who have im- season. Last year Laurie played on a number of American courses bibed the newer ideas and came in contact with many of our leading players. Nobody of this changing world, expected him to play quite up to his real form, but nevertheless he although the older did remarkably well. He was not as good as Jock, but the blonde players still pay hom- Glen View expert had a remarkable year. Back home at age to them. Ad- St. Andrews, Jock, on the reports received, appears to have mitting that they were performed quite as well not in Scotland at the as Laurie. Now Laurie, best season of the year, when he sailed for the the returning players to take still assert that Ameri- up his position at can courses generally Evanston, had the best are kept in better con- record of any of the dition than those they Scottish professionals played over across the who had been playing water. Lastly, we come regularly in Scotland. to what may be called Arguing on this show- the playing "atmos- ing, Jock Hutchison is JOCK HUTCHISON phere." It can be put quite as good as any of Who recently returned from Scotland down in black and the Scotch professionals eager for tournament play white that the majority on the Scotch courses. of British professionals who have made their homes in this and this would certainly country like the "atmosphere" of the United States. give him the edge over Three changes in the directorate of the Western Golf Associa- them when playing in tion were made last month. Reuben W. Newton of the Glen the United States. View club, who has been secretary for two years, resigned, and All this leads to the his place will be taken by William W. Harless of the South Shore assertion made by Country club. John W. Hughes, of Omaha, resigned as director Charley Mayo, the and is succeeded by Sam W. Reynolds, of the same city. Thomas English professional at B. Paine, of Atlanta, after several years of service, also stepped CHARLES EVANS, JR. out and has been succeeded by J. K. Wadley, of Texarkana, Tex. the Edgewater club, that The Amateur Champion has not played or Abe since last fall Mr. Harless, who has been active, in golfing circles at both the Mitchell would be odds-on favorites against Jock Hutchison or any South Shore and Olympia, Fields, is a man of wide experience. of our leading players, in a match in Great Britain. If quoted In Sam Reynolds the western board gets one of the strongest correctly, he says the odds might be as high as four to one. Charley's players it has had. He has won the Nebraska title and also the case is no different from those of a number of other professionals Trans-Mississippi Championship, defeating the redoubtable Harry from the other side, who naturally are more familiar with players Legg, of Minneapolis, in the final of the latter event in 1917. over there than with those over here. These controversies are Mr. Wadley is also well known in western and southern golfing good for the sport and just at the present time add a lot of interest circles. In the national open tournament at Toledo last summer he to the invasion of Mitchell and Duncan. would have qualified but had to play his last few holes in the dark. A match at the Bob O'Link club of Chicago is recalled in which President Wilbur Brooks of the W. G. A. and, his associates Hagen and defeated Hutchison and Bob Macdonald. hope to make the western amateur and open events this year It was a windy day, quite as breezy as anything they get in the stronger than any of their predecessors. As the amateur tourna- old country, and yet Hagen with a card of 67 beat the best of the ment is to be staged in Chicago and the open in Cleveland, there other three no less than 6 up. Neither Duncan nor Mitchell could should be no lack of entries. Although the western amateur event have surpassed this. Then again at Glen View last season Hutchi- in Memphis last year was a big success, largely through the pres- son and Ayton gave Vardon and Ray an overwhelming defeat, the ence of Chick Evans and , there were quite a few Englishmen winning only one hole in the afternoon round. Do we players who feared excessive heat and so did not go. Possibly the hear any cry of "odds on"? We think not. Another interesting cooling breezes from off Lake Michigan will lure them to Chicago feature of the return of the professionals was their opinion of the during the coming summer season.