Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-08
YOUTHS AHEAD IN GOLF
Prominence of Schoolboys Ex-
 plained by w. o. Inglis.
THE ROYAL GAME TRAHsroRHED

Sedate old Fellows No Longer Doni-
 nate Sport That once Was . Pas.
 time-Peachy Checked Travers De-
 feated the Great Travis, and Yoanw
 seeley Is Now . Champfon-Doys to
 Set Higher Standard of Excellence.
 Alackaday for the old boys at golf. They don't exactly lag supernuous on the green, for they are still able to win championship now and then, but they know that their days of greatness are numbered. says W. o. Ingiis in the New York World. Now that the metro politan championship has been won by C. H. Seeley. youngster-the golf season is in full swing. Boys are more than ever to the fore
 If an artist were asked to paint tho Ideal golfer of today he would put on canvas a tall. slim, thin armed school boy, pink checked and mild eyed. with no visible muscular outfit Lads Ike this whang the ball incredible dis tances and play with deadly accuracy.
 Such a figure is Jerome D. 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 . championship at running. jumping. wrestling. swimming. rowing or any other strenuous game; yet he was good enough to 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 the twelfth green
 Young. Travers, of course. vas beaten next day. It is a well settled rule of the game that any one who beats Travis is so exhausted by the struggle that he will Tall q victim to the next one he golfs against.
 Imagine a boxer who had bested Jef- 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 be 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. tbat'e Jerome D. Travers. He put out the great Travis in the metropolitan championship of 1905"
 Curiousiy enough. it has usually been . schooIboy that beat Travis. he grand old man of the royal and an cient game has been soundly defeated st least once every year since he b. came the deity of the links. and of late 1t is the youngsters who rush in on him where oldsters dare not tread h. cidentalIy C. H. seeley. the winner of the metropolitan championship. Is very young man. It seems like only the other day that be won the school boy championship of Connecficvf-
 Youth wiIi be served was the mot 10 that the bucks and bIoods and noble Corinthians of good King Georse's day swore by. nd today more eEnphaticai- Iy than ever if rules in golf
 Who ever hears nowadays of the sea- soned vesersns of the game in the big eompesitions. Who today can tell you the playing strength of Douslas. of To Ier. of whigbam. Jim Tyng MenaeA NcDooaId- slneer or MclIerf nbsy are 10 looser danerrcusL he scbossbsys are upoo tb>m- he liffse fuzzy dis ned lads. ~0ou the veferan atAIetes ceun break ia tro with sse oesfure ef nse. are now cr0vding the nrsf fonkA In ne seber aepartnent sf Qstt eDony Is tAas e 0ue as h eoR-
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