Evening journal., 1905-06-21
YOUTHS AHEAD IN GOLF
Prominence Of Schoolboys Ex-
planned by w. o. Inglis.
THE ROYAL GAME TRANSFORMED.

sednte ofd Fellows No Longer Domi-
nate sport That once Was a Pas
ttme-Peaehy Checked Travers De-
fented the Great Travis, ana Young
SeeIey - Now a CbamDfon-Boys 90
Set Higher standard of Excellence.
Alackaday for the old boys at golfl
They don't exactly lag superduWH on
the green. for they are still able to win
a championship now and then. but they
know that their days of greatness are
numbered, says W. O. lnglis IN the
New York World Now that the metro
politan championship has been won
by c. H. Seeley, a youngster-the golf
season is IN full swing. Boys are more
than ever TO the fore.
II an artist were asked to paint the
ideal golfer OF today be would put on
canvas a tan. slim. thin armed school
boy, pink checked and mild eyed, with
no visible muscular outfit. Lads like
this whang the ball Incredible dis
tances and play with deadly accuracy.
Such a figure Is Jerome ID. Travers,
who put the great Travis out of the
metropolitan championship recently.
BY no stretch OF the Imagination could
one conceive OF this lad winning a
championship at running, jumping,
wrestling. swimming. rowing or any
other strenuous game; yet he was good
enough 20 put Americas greatest mas
ter OF golf out OF the competition by
the appalling score Of seven up and
six to play, finishing the match on thu
twelfth green.
Young Travers. Of course, was
beaten next day. II Is a well settled
rule Of the game that any one who
beats Travis is so exhausted by the
struggle that he will fall victim 10
the next one he golfs against.
Imagine a boxer who had bested JET
fries trying to fight any one the next
day! Yet the peachy checked Travers
has acquired honor enough IN the late
tournament TO last a lifetime. If he
should happen to go into big tourna-
ment forty years from now he would
be sure TO hear some one in the gallery
say as he stood on the first tee: "Oh.
that's Jerome d. TraverS. He put out
the great Travis in the metropolitan
championship Of 1905"
Curiously enough, it has usually been
a schoolboy that beat Travis. The
grand old man Of the royal and an
cient game has been soundly defeated
at least once every year since he be-
came the deity of the links, and OF late
it is the youngsters who rush In on
him where oldsters dare not tread In
cidentally c. IL Seeley, the winner Of
the metropolitan championship. is a
very young man. It seems like only
the other day that he won the school
boy championship OF Connecticut
Youth will be served" was the mot
to that the bucks and bloods and noble
Corinthians Of good King Georges day
swore by. and today more emphaheaE
~ than ever it rules In golf.
Who ever hears nowadays Of the sea
s0ned veterans of the game In the big
competitions? Who today can tell you
the playing strength Of Douglas, Of To
Ter, OF whlgham, Jim Tying. Menzles,
Mcdonald, Singer or Moller7 They are
no longer dangerous. The schoolboys
are upon them The little fuzzy chin
ned lads, whom the veteran athletes
could break In two with one gesture Of
rage, are now crowding the first ranks.
In no other department OF sport today
is this so true as IN golf.
The reason Is not hard to find. The
boys who are displaclng the old ath-
letes at the game have grown up at
golf. They were caught young and
taught how to swing. They have none
OF the shoulder Stiffness OF the old
baseball or boxing or rowing or swim
ming expert.
They were put at golf at the age Of
fourteen OF so. when their muscles
were rudimentary and could be easily
moulded TO perform any special work
They don't have to hold themselves
down to a certain distance and swing
even as you and l. They swing a golf
club as easily and naturally as the
ordinary boy jumps or a moving street
car. The act requires no special con
cenratiOn Of mind or tension Of mus
cles.
And that is why it is entirely pos
sible that Walter ]. Travis may be-
come the last OF our grownup. settled,
matured golf champions. II may well bc
that hereafter the champion shall be
schoolboy or, at most, a collegian.
Until the last half dozen years golf
has been the pastime Of sedate men,
men well grown and set in their ways.
1t was a game, a sport. a fine divertise-
ment out on the green grass beneath
Gods clean blue sky. But golf today
Is no longer a mere pastime. School
boys have made II Ru athletic game.
When the late lamented Wullie
Campbell was greenskeep6r at Boston,
three tapping legged. croef country
runners to whom he lent midirOns one
day paralyzed him by asking when they
came back painting from the eight
eenth green, whats the fastest time
ever made over this courseT'
Well, the royal and ancient game is
really growing TO be like that now. 1t
IS becoming a regularly organized aths
letic sport. Boys are going domi-
nate it as they do all other branches
of athletics.
And. mark this, croaking old men:
The boys will set the standard Of ex-
cellence higher than it ever has been.
sRadior Term For wireless Message.