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Show M W rr-3ggL zz-v if BYERS'S PLAYiHE I Year's Ainafeur Championship : Tourney Marks Advance ;, in America. j " PUTS PLAYING HERE I . ABREAST BRITISH GOLF jj Jn Number and Proficiency of l! Its Players the Country Has Developed. ' iflll I11"106 Spccinl Sporting Service. . fmi PHILADELPHIA, July 2S. Golf cx- '; ' 4n Hill" Perts say that Mr. K. M. Byors may . , : Jtiljllr't lay to his soul tho flattering unction 'I Wlljjj' that the trophy of the American olf i i ri'llll'' championship, Svhich he curried oil :it Iji'ijjljtl'! EnRlcwood recently, is the fruit of a 1 iillll h victory that put 'his prowess to the I-'.; oMllL,! severest test ever imposed upon un IHJjj'j American golfer. To come out at tlic ; 'jj "IfjJBjj top against, such a field was, indeed, f-',h 'ilhPll a victory worth winning, amlono that I'Himl conferred distinction. This year's ; j , ijjljjjj! championship test of amateur sVcill at r i'Ml?lK'i m n,oro naM oue W!l3' marks an i HI? II i advnnco that puts the American amo ,, i ikinitjj'l fully abreast, of old country golf, a ' ' ' nrlll''' act "hich Travis's winning of the 1 Hill'' British trophy in 1004 sufficiently forc- ; j' .'jljjjjp shadowed. 1; , 'f.'hl!j Strong Players in America. r i i Willi' 1S not on'v proficiency at tho t , i J Kjj came and in respect to the nTuiiber of ' "ally strong jiluj-ers the countrv has ; , y I! Ha developed, but iu respect also to the ; j ' .1 quality of our links that wo have final- i 1 'ImB''! 1v con,e UP J3ritisu standards. There '' ! Ifin'1 "nerc i3(i entries for the Enplowood : ' J 'j'HJIji! championship contest, against 1GG for ' i fljjll1! British open championship prize I t iiRibi at tuirfieltl miit month, for which both i li! i JiIIt' amateurs and professionals contended. i f l' '! ('! III' When we consider that golf became a ii' :ii III! J popular game in this country only a !'''' 'nlllii "nT0 ,ton "ears siPt while it is 250 vears I ' ;' i if f His in tlie British islands, this is doing K:1 pretty well. h '' ! , M Interesting Comparison of Scores. i"'' ! J It iH . Moreover. Trnvis's score-of 77 and 75 i ' i' ! M iil tllG qualifying test, two -rounds of r' !-AiM eighteen holes each, making a total of I,' 'Ml!'! 152, suffers little by comparison with ' I'llJ ili James Braid's score of 300 for four ' f '-i'lllfS roun(la for tuo Muirlicld links, and ; ; , -k; Jj MB Braid, a professional, won tho British i f ' I !' il M opcn championship. The Muirficld links. J.' ijll t00 uave a Playing length of only 5937 ' i Ml UP feet, against 6203 at Englowood. Thirty- 't ;-iijn two players qualified at 109 or under " i II Gil 'or two rounds, Travis winning the gold 'i 1! DO medal for low score at 352, followed bv 'K u MBJ Travers at 155, Bnnkard at 158, Egan "j 2i nf r 15Qj an(1 Ijon i(J1- Having reachod I'1 ,i i oil Hi thP P,ni; "where she can turn out if !'! 1 iW, "y;? pollers capable of doing this " 'l-S JUIla difficult hnlis m 169 or better. America 1 U ! !1 M ma3r,8ct up .iustifiablc pretensions to bo H t'i j B;! i," the amo with tl,e Englishmen and i i . j! jjjjjf. Scotchmen. I l Conclusive Evidence of Advance. ( i '1,5 iHi! ' Conclusive evidenco of the advance H 7 Um 1,1 Anie"can golf skill mav be had by i f' " US t'IomPiri"f: Travis's low score of 152 in M f'lffiS t,1B contest -with Macdonald's 175 in , ' i': llffl K"e championship match of 1897: ! i ' VHll ' Choaies 175 in 1809, Eeid's 170 in ! S 1900, Travis's 166 at Garden City in ' . ' MM iSS1' and Frederick's 155 last year at ; 1 IlB WneUpn, when Egan won tho chain- I-' '1$ ii Ol Ponship '' ?!ll f Length of Links Increased. ' T$' Ifl l , Tjl ibe lns threo vcars American links ' i ml 2avici be?n "iado. Progressively more dij:- Itll ficult. To begin with, our best links !H i MUBI ?vMaRO fully 1000 yards greater play- ir ': b sill xnc as comnarr;i u'ith n' BELMONT FAMILY Photograph of mombers of the Belmont family, leaning over the rail of the stoamcr Minneapolis, as tho famous stallion, liocksaud, was being taken ashore. Below is a photograph of Pocksand, tho 125,000 Derby winner. in use prior to 1900. This incrense has been made necessary by the rubbor-corod rubbor-corod ball, which lias onormously increased in-creased the power of driver and "bras-sio "bras-sio to give length of stroke. Just as in billinrds tho balk-line game was do-vised do-vised to bafilo the wonderfully skilled players who have made the game too cas3', so in golf it was found nccosHary to add some ccher difficulty- than mcr'o length or cross bunkers. This need has been mot by side hazards, which compel com-pel the player to play straight under pain of continually getting into trouble. trou-ble. This has had the cft'ect of making mak-ing the long drivers much more caro-ful, caro-ful, since on a course lined with side hazards, a long driver who slices or pulls encounters intolerable punishment, punish-ment, and 'the longer his drive tho worse his trouble. |
