Show GOLFERS DAZED OVER MEET 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 INWOOD EVENT BIG SURPRISE I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 VETERAN ST STARS ARS TRAIL IN REAR I By Dy WAi cv CUll C fl rp special of Ih iho E Standard COP Copyright right richt 1923 by The Standard Standard- Standard Examiner N NW MEW CW W YORK Au Aus- Aus 11 A A rabbits rabbit's rabbit i foot toot is almost as an adjunct In the ba bag bap ot of a successful golfer as 03 the tb mashie niblick ne ac- ac according ac cording to lo some of those experts who would eliminate the tho clement dement ot of I luck from the th game The con con- contention con contention of these thee men has been fiat golf courses for the proper test ot of I champions should hould be made IncreasIngly Increasingly difficult but those who argue arcue I thus forget that thit It may Cry ery ery well be that such courses coures they put a premium on perfect play olt at atthe atthe the s-amo s tim time tims enormously Inc Increase ease the element clement of luck There have been ben many rumblings and some sine the hi open but owing to the Immediate publicity given Eiven to any 0 overheard chance remarks Of some Seine guileless one mho ho talks un- un un re eT edly the professionals proCessionals for or tho most moot t part haic haie shut up like clam clams ca draz comment from them thorn I Is as difficult ai as a extracting a tooth an lin ant I requires quite as much cas S A good many ot of them arc are still dazed lazed over the results at lit Inwood but those tho who have thought It out begin to that the Goddess of Luck surely had her hr Innings at In 01 01 GA GAME U For example e-campie let et us take the first nt two rounds of ot play In the recent open tournament aith Ith its still dl die dis- distinct Impressions of ot golfers crawl crawl- I log In around under fences fence wading Into loto ponds playing 81 spoon OOn shots of ot lards ards out Olt ot of rough and the like lik As some one on said In speaking of ot the th breaks of the game ame The luck of some men Is better than a 1 license to steal Here Her was a course coue ot of such uch Ing Inc exact conditions condition that suc golfers golfer os as Hagen Melborn and McDonald Smith could not have qualified ou on the tho first tint 36 holes ot of o play In the first t eight and s Mere ore ere no less lew than 10 strokes es worse than the tho le der Bob MacDonald Mike Uke Brady coil could not get gt K t into Inlo the first sixteen and men lle Ikc Gene Emmet French John Black Je Jeo Jes Sweeter Sweetser Sweet er and Chic I could not come near quaIl quaIl- t t fing In In the first 32 Jim Barnes was 0 Oer o er r 40 places down the lI list t tand and 17 away from the lead lead- leader leader er Besides Beside all this there ther wa sva wai a host of als SHOT HOT To carry the matter still fur fur- fur ther thor further the championship was tied up by Cruickshank with aith Ith a 0 wonderful shot hot on the last hole and untied In inthe the by an equally remark remark- remarkable remarkable able shot to the same tame green by Bobby Jones Joncs Lout Louis Diegel DIel and MacDonald Smith who each had a 0 around around round ot of 69 C before the th tournament andI I I started turned In the following cards cards for the th first t two rounds ot of play Diegel 77 71 Smith 76 71 77 otI I Among the th leading golfers goUers of th the I country who took an 20 SO or over on one o ot of th the first two rounds round varo ro Brady vs Ouimet Held Black Blaek and Barnes while Kerrigan had an 85 and Armour an 87 27 The latter was 27 strokes away from the leader leadar atthe at atter the tho After Atter end of the tho fIrst days day's play At- At ter all that the leader In that first days day's play did not figure In the championship Now suppose e ae e look at another angle Out of bounds hounds was the big I hazard at Inwood In In considering the tho effect of o this handicap two balls are hit In the th same iame im imperfect perfect direction One tra sl sit Inches further than the other oilier and costs Coats Its er to t o 0 strokes the other player suffers little it If any setback Or take take-a ball baU pulled or sliced Into the rough This Thia sh t Is a bad one ono and should be pen pen- penalized play But Is la It In the play oft Jones and Cruickshank the th latter at the first tint h hole ole Iole sliced his drIve Into the rough got a bad lie and as aas able to get but a short distance with his ond shot On Oi the fourth holo hoi the same am player Iota foa pulled his hi drive In Into io the th rough got a bad lie ll and anc and was eble able to get but buta buta bua seco a short distance with his second second shot On the fO hole the th same player pulled his Into the but followed with pith a grard crar spoon shot which hleb carried him al- al almost almost almost most to the green ereen on the yard hole In two On the ninth hole Jones pulled hs h's drive into the rough but got a good lie took a mashie mahle put ond his hi second within 15 feet of ot th the pin yards from front the tee te With nil due respect to the playing quality ct Cf these two great golfers golfer oHer It Is 3 1 fault or merit of ot the that ph ar ho he finds aY abad bac bacr or r a rood good lIe w nen hl hi ball baU goes coes oes Into the te rough and these grand crand yard ard spoon poon shot shota and lard ISOard ISO ISO- ard mashio shots to with wIth- In withIn putting of ot the tim holo halo de- de depend do pend absolutely on the luck of ot tho tholie tholie lie Johnnie Low president at the tho time Ume of the Oxford and Golfing In treating of ot this element of luck lick and the th large group roup of golfers who winte w luck eliminated from the tho game Ilme told tolof of two golfers colter who were pia Ing their second shots hot to a green creen 2 10 ards away guarded by a cop bunker RE In A The first played a beautiful high brassie shot hot which apparently was wa going to clear U tr bunker nicely nicci and bound s onto the green A greenA gust of or wind struck th Ih the ball however and the pellet struck the thi I top inch of ot the tho th bunker and trickled bade bacle Into the trap The other man mai halt half topped his hi ball all which however struck a 0 hard spot In the fairway skipped merrily o er 0 er the th bunker and rolled dead deol to th ho he pin hero nere was one on player who played a fine shot and was In the th bunker while I the tho th other played a poor shot and an l was on the th greenLow green cren reen Low wont went wenton on to say that the ad- ad advocates advocates advocate of eliminating luck could coult only have adjusted matters by placIng placing Ing tho th ball bail of ot the tho th second man milD In inthe the tho bunker and dropping that ot of ot the th executor ot of the good shot on the green ereen Thus Thu ho he h reduced to an absurdIty the th contention of ot nho aho ho hope hop to see ee e this thi ol of o chine c-anc taken from the th game cam Few Fw of o the th latter who are aro always alway clamorIng for tor mor more traps moro more hazards and more mor difficult shots i realize that these the may bo be the i I means ot of raising the th of tuck tucle so 10 that It is 18 1 too toe dominant and result In a most un un- un undesirable un desIrable lessening ot of the th value of o skill to such uch a degree deree that the th play play- player player or er with II- II rabbits rabbit's rabbit foot toot may he be b triumphant over an opponent ac ac- ac actually actually more mor skillful Many thoughtful students of the th game cam are ar ready to conclude from recent happenings that too great eat a 0 multiplicIty of ot hazards especially of bounds may base hau exactly the opposite result from that tha desired I Fortunately the th two men 1 0 i came to the th top at t Inwood wore wr both grand frand golfers golfer but the tho poci Uon of some somo om of the th others at tho I end of ot the th tournament loo od ed d like a 0 created by chance 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