Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-10
our BOYS DAY IN GOLF
They Win from Veterans in Many
Championships.
KIDS" WHO ARE SHOWING WAY
National and Divers state Titles Now
Held by JuniOrs-GRrdner Was
n Dark Horse for Ma
tional HOnOrs.

what will we do with the Junior golf
ersf" was the question at the western
clubs five or six years ago. Now the
seniors out there scratch their heads and
ask, What are the juniors doing TO us7''
Players under q we're for a time ban
ished from the western tournaments and
the championship, for the alleged reason
that the men who had expended their
money and time in building up the game
there took umbrage at the advent OF the
kids as winners OF their best prizes. But
this embargo is now no longer general.
The object is in many instances being at
tained In a way that discounts adverse
criticism. It Is by increasing the cups with
an age limit, open only to players OF %
years or over. and so on. The Western
Golf association team match instituted this
year for the Tom Morris memorial trophy
is limited to players OF g years or over.
Practically every American golfer I'm the
first flight today began as boys. Walter
j. Travis has gone further than any OF
those trained here who began as adults.
o M. Ward, too, has been prominent.
In the amateur championship the eight
players who survived for the round be.
fore the semi-final included but one who
mad taken up golfing after reaching the
age Of 80, the veteran Travis. Three of
them, each a former western champion and
one an ex-national, began the game as
boys-Egan, Sawyer and Phelps. OF the
four others Gardner and Seckel are 10, and
Evans and Paul Hunter under that age.
The latter won the southern California
championship last winter, and in July was
runner up to Oaks Ainslie for the western
Junior championship. In the opinion OF
some fasteners Paul Hunter has the best
style of any golfer in the west, and when
more mature they regard him as national
championship timber.
Kids as Champions.
Three Of our amateur champions were Of
Gardeners age, or a few months under or
over, when they first won: Louis N.
James, who was about to enter at Prince1
ton when he took the honors at Glenview
In 1902; H. Chandler Egan, who had en-
tered the senior year at Harvard when he
won In 1904. and Jerome d. Travers at
Cleveland in 1906. Gardner, on his game.
is as good as any Of them, which expresses
his class in a nutshell. He belongs TO the
Hinsdale QlL) Golf club. and had a promi-
nent place In western Junior golf until he
entered as a Yale freshman in 1905. Last
spring he took up golfing, and at the
westward Ho tournament. not long after.
Gardner carried off the chief honors from
the hottest bunch Of players in the country
Tor so the western fields may be classed
when the boys are home from school and
college.
AT Westward Ho Rouncle b.. Martin.
also a junior, made the new record of 70 in
the qualifying round. c. Evans, jr. doing
~ which was a stroke less than the old
record, In the final Evans was 2 up at
the twenty-sixth but Gardner beat him on
the nome green, where he had a nervy
three. Also in the way Of eiimina
practice for the national amateur. Gardner
about this time made the new record. "A.
S4-6S for the Ravesloe course. Equally as
good as Gardner, some think better. in
the national was c. Evans, jr., but who
was not so fortunate as to be mated as a
dark horse. Instead the leading boy golfer
OF the Chicago clubs in 1907 and 1908. who
Is the western amateur champion and
Onwentsia tournament winner OF the vear
had ever a gallery to trudge after him &c
applaud the good shots and to eroan over
his misses. He is IS years old. and this
fan a freshman at the uni.
verslty. Gardner put out Travis: Egan
beat Evans on the home green and lost
TO Gardner in the final. That's the ma
tonal championship in a flash.
Boys Who Do Well.
BOYS who excel at golf If they stick IL
the game maintain usually a prominent
place. often they drift into other sports
particularly when they go to college and
90 not figure In golf tournaments YET
each has learned the game in the right
way ana In mature years every Junior NAV
bank on his knowledge of golfing for out.
uoor recreation and as a panacea fol
many Ills that age Is heir to. Often they
do not need much practice to resume tbs
tournament class. An instance was at tn,
Shinnecock Hills Golf club tournament ir
July, when G. Owen Winston won m,
qualifying round medal with 81. He wor
the first New York interscholastic tsurna.
ment and subsequently played on the Har.
ward team; then Winston dropped from IN,
game until his unexpected advent at IN,
course on the sand dunes.
H. b. Hollins, Jr, OF Westbrook was IN,
nrst boy prodigy OF eastern golf. In 1895
When 10 he won a thirty-six hole handi
cap at Meadow Brook from all the cracks
scoring 49, E1S7. and only being beata,
by a stroke by w. H. Sands FOR eros,
score prize. The same season he won m,
score medal at Westbrook with Sc. UolIins
jr., won the New York in-tersebolss, ga
the year after Winston and had man,
tournament successes before going to Har
Vard He was on the golf team. but
switched to base ball, ana since then m,
Westbrook player has only goIfed M an
tervals. Yet Hollins, jr, two wears 40,
was stil making record scores. This Is m,
story with many; once golf is mastersJ
as a boy It sticks, just as swimming doe,
or the knaek of sculling a boat.
First of the season.
The first youths prominent at a ma
uonal amateur championship were wal
ter Egan. just entered at Harvard. an,
c. II. seely. Just out OF school,. who bs,
one end OF the semi-final to themselve
at Atlantic City in 1901. Egan was LATE,
western amateur champion and seei,
has been twice the Metropolitan Col
Association and thrice Connecticut ohamn
Ion. Frank o. Reinhart, a~fterward inter
collegiate champion, and Louis N. James
VINO won out, were the kids OF the 1902 a
GlenVieW. Travers was only Is when M
played In the national OF 1903, the induce
ment Deins the meeting was at the Nassa,
Country club, then his home course. Tbi
was the "all match play year and Or
|, Simon Carr put out the STRIPPING who wa
- =.