The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-06

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the rough grass experiences, 49, that they
broke even ~ " fgih eas 4 up Nv roles
In The mofnina aud Travis 4 ~ IN tho after.
noon, which IL merely = detail. Tor when
etpefts ara striving ~ mrdsl play the
match play result IL y minor confederation
The Iva formso ~ the game are ne faf apart
~ swimming aud motoring
Sincr that eysntfui meeting when tho
two for the only time were companions for
u rouml and IN u position Ia study each
Others gane II has been ~ interest 10 the
~. ual golfers to note how the memory ~
this rough grass eptsods has rankled IN
Travis's memory and how under the At fess
~ criticism Egan has come out in defence
~ his play then. Travis annot hut praise
Egan, yet II h qualified commentator and
leads always to n sad and almost fearful
regret that q player should ever by luck
get n fine approach from out of the rough;
willis Eean, when hia subject IL the game
and its difficulties. does not fail to treat
with JUNCTION Of the fine shots that. with
care, MAJ often 10 gained from high grass.
Neither, which gives the charm to the situa-
ton to the casual golfers. Is conscious that
he wears his heart on the sleeve In this
matter. II IL always a delight In signed
stories actually written by champions In
any sport when motives and possibly jeal-
ousies are revealed which they think are
hidden as deep ss the bottom Of q well.
The position Of Travis seems to be that
a player who may repeatedly get from the
rough by a single fine shot 10 lucky rather
than a great player. His attitude regard
ing Egan has been assumed by gradations.
At Wheaton, TO quote from a Chicago news.
paper, Travis said: The best man I'M
q~uestionably won in this championship,
and 1t was the best field ever gathered for
the event. Egan's skill in recovering from
the rough is marvellous, and ! do not see
how he does it with 20 little effort. / know
golfers, powerful men, who get out by
brute strength, cutting great swaths in the
process, but Egan's work Is infinitely
smoother and surer,"
Later on, in Country Life in America,
Travis wrote: AT Wheaton, h"wever,
fully half the time his tee shots found the
rough, and were 1t not for his brilliant re-
coveries he certainly would not have been
enabled to repeat his success of last year.
" ! characterize Mr.. Egan's shots in
these instances "a lucky, for this reason:
II n man is unable from the tee. where
everything il in his favor, to keep his ball
on the course, how much more difficult
it is to place the next shot out of rough
grass and presumably from an indifferent
lie onto the more circumscribed green.
" 1t is the ability to play all shots, not
that should mark the true champion, and
no course which fails to adequately penal
ize poor play in any department OF the
game can be said TO possess real champion
ship qualifications
Because Egan had many fine shots out
| OH lDB llk tV ~ WV 'NN IN
is almost equal to calling him, in the cad
dies slang. a lucky dub"-while here there
is a slap at the Wheaton course as well
Now, among visitors to Garden City it
has for long been an adage that Travis
can play a fine shot from out any hazard
or rough grassy place on the course. but
no one has damned the links on that ac-
oount-except some who have lost matches
to him. So, as to the slap at Wheaton,
Travis seems TO have been unkind.
III ,~z~hntg nffnn M IN n ~
illustrated Of London to get the honor of
personal recollections and narratives. de-
Med to them in their own country. In
the series Of articles by eminent hands
running in that journal on THE Begin
ming Of MY Golf" Travis was a contributor
in February and Egan the present month.
Travis wrote 30 much, after the essential
data demanded, on the value of putting
that the editor bulletined the ARTICLE
"Mr. Travis Writes on Putting The
that won at Sandwich in the British amateur
championship. Egan had no English pre- j.
udices to repel, and in his article, fol-
lowing in the wake Of the essential data,
he drifted into a defence OF his shots from
the rough, and without mentioning e. names names
at Wheaton, which Travis calls lucky, were
really good golf.
For some reason which l cannot ex-
plain myself" wrote Egan, "my tee shots
For the last two years have shown a strong
tendency to be wild in direction, and i
have been given to slicing and pulling
of the course at most embarra esing and
unexpected moments. l have tried every
remedy l could think Of, but as yet have
met with little success. As q natural re-
in playing out of trouble, especially from
the long grass and clover which border
most of the holes or American courses.
Thus / was obliged to get out az best /