Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19
GOLF PLAYERS
DIVIDE HONORS
SARGENT STARTS STRONG,
BUT WEAKENS
Alec Smith Only Knight Of Niblck
Who Wears Double Crown.
East Lacks New
Material

NEW YORK, Dec. 1S.-The end OF
another competitive golf season finds
no one person enjoying a monopoly OF
honors. Early in the summer George
Sargent sprang a senastion by VIM
ming the National Open championship
| title, but since then the Briton has
been compelled to acknowledge fire.
quent defeat Then there was Robert
Gardner, the Yale pole vaulter, who
went through a classy field at Wheaton
and won the amateur title. Prior to
! this achievement the Chicago youth
| did little to prepare one for the sur
| prise. In fact, to make use Of the
! phrase, he was a field choice" in thC
| pool when the match play began.
| 1t was the same in the principa
| competitions hereabout. Walter j
Travis began auspiciously by winning
chief cups at Atlantic City and Gar
| den City, and a little later the Metro
| politan championship over the Apawa-
mis- links. Since then, however, the
Garden City veteran has been brushed
aside right and left. Practically the
only golfer wearing a double crown Is
Alec Smith, the Wyagyl professional,
who won the Eastern title at Scars
dale and supplemented this by gaining
the Metropolitan open" over his home
green. Smith proved somewhat OF a
disappointment i'm the National open,
and he also failed to gather in much of
the California gold during the Portola
series of tournaments.
Then there was Willie Anderson, the
four times national title holder, who
after barely getting in the money at
Eaglewood returned to st. Louis for
a few weeks and then went to Skokie
and won the western open with the
phenomenal score of 2SS for seventy
two holes Anderson's record now en-
braces four western titles, to say MOTH
ing Of severtl southern.
Young Material Lacking
1t has been said that the east is
sadly lacking i'm promising young ma
terial, and while this is true to GER
tain extent the defect would not have
been nearly so apparent had that great
amateur Jerome ID. Travers, been able
to do himself justice The champion
of 1907 and last got poor start on the
their side in the spring, and since re
turning to these shores his INDULGENCE
in the game has been of a desultory
nature. Anyhow, at no time during
the past season has he shown his true
fgorm, consequently his name fails to
appear as a tournament winner max
ing the first time in five years that
this has happened.
Besides Gardner amateurs that stand
Evans, jr., the western champion; Al
bert Seckle, the intercollegiate title
holder, and II. Chandler Egan. There
are many who believe that had Egan
not been taken i'll he would have beaten
Gardner in the decisive match of the
last national tournament. However,
Egan is the same great player, greater,
in fact, than during his reign of nation
al champion in 1904, and 1905.
The visit of Miss Dorothy Campbell.
woman champion of Great Britain, re-
suited in the championship on this side
being won for the first time by a for
eign player. Had the North Berwick
lassie not made the trip the title
would have changed hands anyway, as
Miss Kate Harley. last years winner,
failed to display her old time form.
Miss NJ. b. Adams did exceedingly well
to win the eastern and Massachusetts
titles. When it comes to team matches
it is worth mentioning that the Metro
politan district forces Won the Girls
com cup among the women and the
Leslie cup among the men.