The sun., 1909-06-21
GOLRERsTRAYERS HOME AGAIN
THE BALL HAS A CHANCE ON
THE BRITISH LINKS.
Also Good Players There Are ~ Thick
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He Ever Saw Was Final between Max.
well and Hutchinson-Story Of Play

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o. acknowledgements Match
He Ever Saw Was Final between Max.
weii and Hutchinson-Story Of Play
Jerome Dunstan Travers. the golf player.
got back yesterday from Scottish and
English links on the Anchor liner Caledonia.
Through his absence he has lost the New
Jersey and Metropolitan Golf Association
championships and he failed at Muirfeld
Of the English title he was after. His father
and brother, ". p. and Ambrose Travers.
met the returning champion. Jerry looked
In the best Of heslth.
/ Through. the perfect putting greens and
the hne Iiss on the fair green's, said Travers.
-the ball has moro chance than IL gets here.
Not thkt It 10 easier to play good golf there.
but there are many more good players
there thsu here. Any one will take you out
and give you q beating there. They give
you Q grand time socially and then whack
you on the links. where all friendships
cea se.
Il was beaten In the first round OF the
British amateur championship by w. A.
Henderson Of the Royal and st. Andrews,
by up and TO play. In the second round
he had q terrific match with r. Whitecross
OF the Dirleton Castle Golf Club. They
were all square at the sixteenth and Hender-
son holod . ten foot put at the seventeenth
which gave the lead to him. They halved
the home hole. In the next round Hender-
son lost to b. Darwin Of the Working Golf
Club. who had to 60 twenty holes to win.
Darwin lost In the sem-fnal 10 Maxwell by
8 and .. 1t is all foolishness to say had
cracked hands 10 the championship: they
had been well for q week before the COM
petition.
The golf 7 saw In Great Britain opened
my eyes. Good golfers there are as thick
as huckleberries In burned over wood lot
here. They are all very pleasant fellows
too, who do not put on frills or side to
stranger. The best golf ever saw In my
life was In the final for the amateur cham
pionship between r. Maxwell and Capt.
c.. K. Hutchinson. They were al SQUARE
with 70 play. Maxwell holins three foot
Hatshin:on played na the eI.Ysnth s 4. hes S9ss
I'll Fl. @ second out Of bounds. but be h.d only
. half in 9. On the second round Hutchin-
son pulled his short approach and was too
-on the eighteenth stimy robbed Max
well OF a certain half. As to the propriety
OF the stimy this incident welded my
stinliss s himself there is Justification for
It's adoption. but when u is put on player
by an opponent the hardship Is grievous
one.
'On the eighth hole too Maxwell had a
stiny. which prevented him getting q
until the seventh, where he laid an approach
dead, Maxwell was up for the morning
round. All square finally on the thirty
played the odd and Icy just, OF the green.
hole high, but Hutchinson SLICED a little;
| It took some time to get the crowd aligned
Each spectator was on edge with excite
ment, and such q host would have sent an
American golf committee TO the woods to
| hide But the onlookers we're all golfers.
which helped to make 1t easy to handle them.
| -Hutchinsops approach was and Max
wells three feet from the hole, The for,
bis put. Here are their cards. which