The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-05-30

championship honors this year, when
the greatest golf tournament of the
year is held at the famous Glen
view course. Every drive, every bras
sey shot, every midiron or mashie APP
proach and every putt is made with
an eye single to getting to the top
of the game" No money prize is given
to the winner of this national tour
ney, and the big $1,000 silver emblem
that accompanies it is only given over
! to the winner to retain at his club
house until his successor captures the
trophy. This is gold medal that the
champion may wear for a watch fob
ornament-and the glory of winning,
that's all.
Do the boys of 16, IS, 2O-say:
whats the use of starting in this
tourney, the old timers will be more
seasoned and beat us out ?" Not in
golf. The most enthusiastic veteran
at the royal and ancient game will
tell you that he would rather play
Champion w. j. Travis himself in the
first round than to have to pit him
self against zone of those college
youths" Golf is the game of the sup
ple-the quick, muscular young men
who acquire the swing when their
wrists are about as big as small gas
pipe are the ones to fear. The grizzled
veteran who delights in SO hole or even
r. hole competitions, quakes. to
himself, of course-when he has to
play match golf with one of the knick-
erbockered boys. It's hard for him
to play his best game against boy.
If he is at all inclined to be generous
he will handicap his own game by Civ
ing the youth the benefit of any doubt
that may arise about shot, any in
gre Ct h ETC. fbe boq +
have fair amount of the usual
NERVE of Young America, need have
no fear of his older rival.
Each season the veteran golfers saw
that they are being harder pushed by
the college boys in the national cham
pionships. True, at the final test
generally in the long route of the finals
the boy succumbs to the veteran.
But it is fresh in the minds of those
who follow this great sport that Wal
ter E. Egan, the Harvard boy, gave
Champion Travis a mighty close rub.
for the premier honors at Atlantic
City. Walter B. Smith, the Yale bow,
after getting through big field at
Morris county, fell by the wayside in
the finals before Findlay S. Douglas.
the scotchman. Allan Kennaday, non
chalant golfer and as true sportsman
as ever swung club or rowed in
race on the Thames, could not play
his steady, strong game when he was
pltted against the vests young won
der, the schoolboy, William Holabird.
The latter, it is true, has Just escaped
becoming famous in national cham
but the greatest golfer in
the land says Holabird will yet beat
anybody. Because he is youth.
bright school lad, and knows every fea-
ture OF the game" is the way Travis
puts it. "We old-fashioned PLAYERS
will have to step down and out for the
schoolboy golfers. 1t may come this
year-the appearance of the bow cham
oion-but if it does, the defeated old
A'Seu NOV Aeel paQly. Inc sport
is such that when taken up early by
boys and girls, it becomes second ma
lure to them to play WELL The old fell
ow-middleaged man rather - must
not expect to frown down the little
fellow who beats him. Nature has a
way OF setting our old muscles so that
hey are not the equal of the bow.
The supremacy of the college golfer is
coming, just as sure as DEATH"
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