Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06
American Golfers
Are Just as Good
as Englishmen
Yankees Return from England with
Agreeable Reports on
Game.

BOSTON, Mass. Nov. American golf
ers, who have always been taught to be-
leve In the unquestioned superiority Of the
devotees of the game in Great Britain, will
doubtless be agreeably surprised at the i'm
pressions gathered by Donald J. Ross the
Oakley professional, recently returned from
tour Of the best links in ScotlRng and
England. Ross, It will be remembered,
with win Smith, made a fine showing in
the last open championship tournament Of
Great Britain at st. Andrews. With re-
ard to the relative merits Of the players
here and abroad, Ross said:
Golfers over there seem to take less
pains with their golf and TO care very much
less whether they defeat their opponents
than they do here. Perhaps this is because
the larger leisure class has been less under
the strain of professional business life and
| therefore is less sensitive to success or
failure. In any event as we went from one
golfing resort to another we used TO wonder
whether Il would be possible to find so
many players anywhere in the United
7 states who would promptly be rated as
| buffers
Nevertheless, these buffers were en-
Toying the game on some Of the hardest
links to play properly in the world, and II
any one had dared to suggest to them that
they might find more pleasure on an easier
and therefore an inferior course, their re-
marks would have been received with ST.
lenoe and contempt.
Passing to st. Andrews where the oper
championship was played from June p &c
"a, we had another ten days OF golf. o.
all the links we visited st. Andrews wa'
the most worthy OF study to those whC
wished to make q good score. OF course
VIII Smith and 1 we're DESTROYS Of making
a good showing in the tournament.
est. Andrews goes out and comes back
everybody at least knows that, and alsC
that at one time the nine holes were onc'
played twice, out and In. Now the bunker
ing Of St. Andrews led the professionals I,
defeat the object Of the committee, 20
coming home they would play to the fair
way of the holes going out and 80 avoi,
the bunker problems and open up an cas-,
way 20 the greens. But that's RnOthe
story,
p 1--WE found at st. Andrews during tn
open championship. the same worship o
> names as Mr. Travis had found ct sand
wish. England. In 1904. The crowds wer
4 all Braid and Taylor and Vardon and
= few others, and seemed to think Il pre-
= pOsterOus that any Of the young and risin
1 golfers in Great Britain or the Smith O
p
these historic giants OF golf. Smiths r.
/ cord round OF Il was forgotten when GeorE
81 Duncan was left to himself, as Smith ha
3 been, after he had failed In his next rounS
E Being accustomed 20 the admirable al
= ranEements that the United States Col
= association makes for its open champion
= ship In relation to the posting OF the scor
= and Of giving everybody the squRrest Dos
Eible deal, certain happenings at 81. Ar
drews should not be allowed to pass with
A out mention. For example. the scores wei
A printed each day, but during the progress
! OF the play each day Il was next to In
= possible to find out how the golfers wei
going, all information, except few casu,
- pOstngs on a blackboard, being kept reul
: iously within the tent OF the cOmmitte
: Everybody seemed 70 DO asking everybOd
= Yelse how SO and So or So ana so had III
= ished with little hope OF enlightenment.
y Again, the great players and the gre
names in the competition we're followed
large crowds and they were taken care
by flagmen and others, but the poor stru
Cling player was left to himself and, h6'
n ever well he might be going. would at al
n moment be held up by crowds. which hi
just left favorite pair or which were ra
10 ing to follow another fsvorite pair"