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Show ' " :y (IKEE YOUTH RAPIDLY COMING I n- Q. TO THE FORE IN AMERICAN GOLF K t ' " - i v , . -7 1 WIMI II I" ''mVi i in reviewing tlie open cliuitiplonsinp in tne united States, Harold nilton, r- British critic, says: "This American chaniplonslilp has proved to be a veritable triumph for youth, as Oene Snnizen Is Just about the sam age as the boy wonder from Atluntn, twenty-one. and peculiar to say. the mnn who led with Hobby Jones for second position, John Flack, has passed more years on this t earth than the two of them put together have. "Dnt there can be no doubt that In the States youth develops much more rapidly than It does In the English climate, and a boy of seventeen or eighteen appears to be ns well developed, both mentally and physically, as a boy of twenty over here. "The late Fred HerreRhofT was playing In the American amateur championship cham-pionship when he was n school boy, and he reached the final round at Bnltu-sorol Bnltu-sorol when he was only sixteen years of age, but Bobby Jones was even younger than this when he first look part in championship of this country and, although he bus not yet won the event, he has always made a big show In It" |
