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Show fells Britishers About Their Own Game, Us Victory Was Due to jli Superior Putting and I " Approaching. ! I j; bjgpeaks Well of Foreign , Experts whom Ho Recently De- fc. fcated. N i ii v w - I' ! ii - gpORE leaving England for the ' D United States on the steamer . jl oceanic Walter J. Travis, the ! American golf champion, said to I ( t representative of the Associated mfl nm naturally pleased at the result Irpy trip. I dld not expect to win m championship, especially as T was (skd form prior to the contest. I have jM .et ninde up my mind whether to JM, come over next year and endeavor to F i retain the title. Some of tho young men K tifoM "ve a chance. I would lllco to ' MrtEome 6f our professionals open Eng-9 Eng-9 a Kjh championships. Willie Anderson, & i cteffart. Gardner and Auchtcrlonie are i every bit as good as Vardon and Tny-41 Tny-41 lor and other British cracks. They have S ; t greater number of good professionals H l-lkan we, but our best are equal to K j jttirs. Our men would need, however, J t least two or three months to get ac- J customed to the climate and changed ii conditions. We scarcely realize In I I -America what strides we have made In ? "vthe game. When we saw Vardon play-5 play-5 hig on thc other side a few years ago i thought he was a mnrvel. Today '-Vardon and Taylor scarcely Feem the nme. The fact is that they have not Improved and our men have. It is only H matter of time when the professional is well as the. amateur championship : sill be won by Americans. Criticism Not True. i ""The criticism that my win was en- tirely due to putting in quite natural, though hardly true. The English play-Lira play-Lira have not quite realized that putting H a proportion of 60 per cent in the ! jjame. They blaze away In drives that ' I 'confess are splendid, but which are ; Kldora circulated to win. A harmo- nious combination of driving, approach- vrg and putting can alone be succcss-J succcss-J 5,'fal. Putting they have almost ontirely if -Kgltcktrd forthe spectacular drive. "In th champolnshlp I did not attempt to fqcal, even If I had been able, some of 15 their long drives, but what I did was ' lasscriflcc length of drive for accuracy. . It my driving had not been tolerably I rere it Is scarcely likely that I would Z lave won. I think that within the next year the English players are likely to J pay a lot of attention to putting. They I naturally were surprised at my win, f, 1 snd when the unexpected happens there i' rsre always lots of reasons for their pwming. You will see that putting will I i.fet Its true proportion in the game be-I be-I "fore long. I? Chief Difference Explained. I The chief difference In their greens tad ours Is the undulation. Some of , tfce American players who are qccub- Retried to. billiard board greens might lad the change trying. Personally, I J.llxe It, as a slight undulating green re-fftucts re-fftucts the distances In which the ball nmit travel absolutely true." ! Dealing with his competitors, Travis i yald: "Maxwell Is a wonder. He was ; f'Wt playing up to his form in the cham-, cham-, I'Pwnshlps. For many reasons I would like to have met the holder (Robert t 'Maxwell, the former holder of the ama-" ama-" ' ; ,,l E0,d championship). ' fL eafle' lhe Ir,sh champion gave rne ti!'hte3t- game. At one time things JMked black, but I won out. i 7i here nns been some talk about ii?"18; When I was playing with Robb ; ;m anouted to my caddy to pick up a I jjSap, Instead of which the caddy picked ftff J my ball. Robb could scarcely have joaimed a foul under the circumstances. ; dy WftS Provided by the club, :vc did not know anything about the I'Wme. While I have been here I have 4?n treated In the most hospitable 1r ,l must that a man coming ? play tov thc championship might i 10 be fumlshed with a caddy H f10" something about golf. The SJWiokc I mentioned, even If a foul had claimed, would only have meant .Aim f.3 of oni ho,d. and I scarcely nnk It would have altered the result." |