Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-01
AMERICAN GOLF
HONORS NOW
SAFE
BY ct"

The British invading contingent,
Hilton, Hunter & Co. has been routed
on the battlefield of Wheaton and the
trophy of the United States Golf AS
sociation once more ornaments an
American clubhouse. Ii is not the
first time that climate has proved an
invaluable ally to an army OF defend
ers, and we can only regret that Mr..
Hunter had to drop out. 1t is rather
unfortunate that after the u. S. G. A.
had done all in its power to avoid
warm weather and so give the visit
ors a fair chance that the weather
man deliberately chose that time TO
give us almost the greatest heat or
the season. Such, however, are the
fortunes of war. There is one disad-
vantage which the Britisher has to
face in playing in heat out here which
some people may not realize. Across
the Atlantic no man ever dreams OF
playing without a coat and our sum-
mer shirtwaist man would be quite
out of the question there. The Gil
mate does not demand it and coats are
regarded as a necessary part of ones
costume on the links.
The natural question the public here
would put would be why could they
not doff their coats when in America,
where il is the custom? remember
meeting a very good British golfer up
in Canada one summer and made that
same query, for the weather was
warm, but was met with very peril
nent answer. There Is certain re-
striction of movement in playing in
coat. One feels the coat slightly when
the top of the swing is reached and
Immediately begins to bring the club
down again. After being used to this
slight reminder that ione has gone
back far enough, If the coat is taken
off the natural tendency is to over
swing badly" So all we can say to
Mr.. Hilton and Mr.. Hunter is that
we wish. they had been able 10 do
themselves justice at wheaton. They
are good sportsmen and we hope they
will come out again and bring others
with them, for this international golf
is the very best thing for the game in
both countries. That English people
have come to regard American golf
highly, and that the result OF the
championship was regarded as quite
possible, is shown by the following,
which came out in Golf Illustrated:
Golf in America has developed
wondrously in q quarter Of a century.
Horace Hutchinson has said that,
when he first landed on the other
side of the Atlantic and proceed to
knock ball into the hole with imple-
ments sadly ill-adapted to the pur-
pose, the natives came to the conclu-
sion that what he was doing would
make a nice quiet game.
Still. America has found golf very
pleasant pastime, and she possesses
so many good players that few people
would care to pick Mr.. Hilton and
Mr.. Hunter at Chicago against the
field.
jerome d. Travers (perhaps the
finest iron-shot player ever produced
by the States), Charles Evans Jr.
(that light-hearted boy who worked
his way across the Atlantic in tramp
steamer In order to compete in the
British championship at Prestwick
last year,, w. ]. Travis Ga veteran
who has lost nothing by experience),
Robert A. Gardner "a brilliant young
golfer who recently accomplished at
Cooden Beach, Bexhill, score which
only about half dozen men beat in
the professional competition on the
same links last June)-these and 9TH
ers are formidable rivals to the in
vaders.