| Show I. I I American Golfers Who Go Abroad 6 I t ill t. t Ii r 0 d i j Ar t a t. t i IV 4 1 j ri i I 1 1 I 1 y iS i'S aSS c II I I OlE 01 t. t I 1 Itt I S.- S. L Ti d va ct 4 t-r t 1 If r T TRi T Cc EW EWt t tJ oo FoR S O EN I f SW Gi t C FRt o. o Ri mj 3 to o i e ats Be T TolON olO N l otT cAr ot cA r T CEAlS S j I AM T TEAI J j JI I I U. U S. S Has Won British Amateur Golf Title but Once Splendid Invading Team This Year Has Great Chance to Turn Trick By Robert Edgren rT THE tHE I American team invading England to compete in the tIte 1 1 British amateur golf championship and in the Walker Valker cup matches is the strongest that ever r represented presented Uncle Sam abroad The amateur title play at Deal goes on May 7 to 14 and the Walker Valker cup matches at St. St Andrews will be play played d I lIay rl and VAt The United States has mad man many valiant attempts to separate John Bull fro tro amateur golf golt laurels on hIs home courses but hut succeeded only once when Walter J. J Travis performed the feat teat at Sandwich In 1904 Walters Walter's er Y at t that Alme e was al almost miraculously 1 ai good He lie dropped em from everywhere on the greens using a Schenectady put put- ter ter then then a a. new Implement In this CO country The British and unknown were vere ns scandalized In nf England lf dbY by Ing f the them spectacle e a at putting of an I Intruder on ruti their r rb b beatIng beat beat- own greens s. s especially all with a p putter r of f Il novel d design Anything In new a al always al- al r ways is an object of ot i suspicion In England The golf goIt authorities there immediately f g barred r th the Schenectady from all future u t tournaments Just as they afterward barred the ribbed mashie when Jock Hutchison I had won the British open with It In Travis Travis' case Travis and not the I Implement did the putting Ills putter was no better than any other he has used since IllS ST. OF OP TRY COUl OV OX V. V S. S TEAM The American team consists of ot Jess Sweetser our national amateur amateur ama ama- champion champlon Francis Ouimet of or Boston Davey Herron of ot Pittsburg Bob Gardner of ot Detroit Fred Wright of southern g 11 California f Dr Willing V of Portland Harrison I Johnson o of II St. St f. f Paul George Ru Rutan an of ot Texas Ma Mar Mac Marston of ot Philadelphia Oswald Kirkby of New York Lewis lwi of ot f h C and Reggie Jess lives s r In New York and Is a student at Yale Ire He had no intention of ot leaving college to play golf golt abroad until the faculty listened to the arguments of ot the th U. U 8 S. Golf Golt association officials and gave gao him i permission l do o go although l he hadn't applied for It t Sweetser ts will have to make up his studies upon returning being merely ex excused ex cx- from attending recitations during durin the period covered by the trip trW Bobby Jones Jones studying g l law W sd t Harr Harvard Har Har- yard vard d and Rudy Knepper I of Princeton Prince Prince- r Yd ton were also listed t for the team a but found the six weeks weeks' absence would cut to too seriously Into their studies There are so 80 many good amateurs amateurs ama ama- now In this country that two wo or three thre champions could be left off ort the list often tOften without crippling the team Evans Gardner Herron and Oui met are all nil former national champions cham cham- Ouimet won won both open and amateur titles and Gardner was amateur champion twice IlEA WINDS A fiG BIG HANDICAP Th The team of ot stars Invading England En- En r U. U gland a S. S d G Golf under association the tI direction 1 Isn't the th of t fl first the that ever wen wend after the British amateur title In 1921 this country sent over a a. team of ot Its best amateurs amateurs ama ama- but they all fell victim to the 11 winds VI at ar I Hoylake I Fred Wright youngest member of tOt the team hailed from Boston but now no lives on the l Pacific coast He lie HeIJ nada made IJ the best r eora showing ora among the American players e lasting t until the sixth round Bobby Dobby Jones one of ot the strong strong- eE etc est members of the invading golf goil army lost in an early match and und tore up his card in disgust which severely shocked the s sporting sporting Ort nil noU no no- U lions Jones of st said the Id English at r the h time golf t i hed he'd fans never never compete In England again while only holo hole matches were I played l up to the finals finale He e considered con le fg sal eighteen holes all I t too doo s short t to be a fair test Thirty-six Thirty hole matches are the rule In American championship tournaments nod and players contend L that the shorter distance is not an equable teE tec of ot golf golt when any un un- known n may play a few w r remarkable ar argame holes e entirely beyond o his l usual game and eliminate a a. better player before ho he can get started I This hIs is isone isone one condition that has worked against American players on theother tho the other side They're taking a a. long trip to have everything r decided Inan In Inan inan an hole eighteen hole n-hole match Another handicap Is the heavy winds that blow on English seaside courses winds courses winds rare in this country Unless the ball bait driven into the wind Is hit very low it will almost come back to the player Americans playIng playIng playIng play- play Ing In England have to change their carry long y yh and d high l pitching I r style and learn h how t to drive v low and depend de de- de pend on on a long run The winds on English seaside courses even shift the sand dunes around round forming new traps and hazards haz has ards every day dav BEAT A 1 TOUGH rOUGh CO un SF Deal scene of ot the coming coming- ham cham is one of or the historic old English championship courses In 1920 Walter Waiter Hagen for tor the first g time tried dd ddn for O the English open at f Deal and n not o only failed a but made a a f twenty six we miserable tl I strokes showing so behind finishing George Duncan the winner Returning home Hagen said Deal was one of ot the toughest courses ho he ever played because It was golf golt suicide to hit a ball bail high enough for tor the wi wind net to get hold of it In 1920 Bob Gardner former U. U S. S national champion went over and forced Cyril Tolley to go to the thirty seventh hole at St. St Andrews Andrew's to beat him In the finals for tor the British crown Jn 1914 Francis Evans and Travers all 1 lost in early rounds for the English title A A. strong American team met the same fate tate In 1911 Before that year many manyin In players layers made unsuccessful attempts attempt to lift the English title Th The Walker Valker cup competition Is Isol becoming ol n In Inte golf W what t the Davis cup Is In n tennis The h American e team won the Walker Valker cup cup Cupat at South South- ampton Long Island lE last year bw hut agreed to defend It In England th this season Hason i Copyright d' d 1923 e bv by brn Inc the e Bell Ben Syn Syn- j |
