Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-31

that time the professional there. In
playing the home hole. the drive is over
deep valley TO level stretch Of turf
beyond, after which the hole turns
sharply TO the left around q point Of
woods.
In those days Of the solid ball. golfers
considered II q good stunt TO drive
past the bend. so as TO have an open
shot for the green on their next. but In
this particular match Anderson startled
the gallery BY impartlng some myster-
ious spin TO the ball. thereby causing
II 10 travel straight for $50 yards OF 80
and then gracefully turn TO the left. I'm
ally disappearing round the bend. well
on its way towards the green. Four
times did Anderson accomplish this feat
that day without mistake. and on each
occasion II enabled him to get home with
an iron. whereas the others were COM
PEELED 20 use brassies with indifferent
results. Since that day Anderson has
won a dozen or more championships. In
GLIDING the national open four times
and the Western on three occasions.
Another master stroke rarely attempted
was brought off by Findiay s. Douglas
during the national championship In
Morris county back In 1855. In those
days Douglas showed q preference for
wooden putter which he had brought
over with him when he said farewell 10
old st. Andrews and decided to cast
his fortune with the land Of the free
Although often called bad puttsr. Doug
las got along remarkably well In this
tournament with the old-fashioned
wooden continuance almost obsolete now.
On one occasion. In his match with
Travis. Douglas displayed q knowledge
OF the short game that made those In
the gallery marvel. II was at the punch
bowl green, the present ninth. Trayiss
ball was a few feet nearer the hole and
in such a position as 10 lay the other
a direct stynie. Douglas might have gone
by his opponents bali as closely as pos
sible with view TO lying dead. but he
preferred 10 take bold chance by put
ting away almost in the opposite, direc.
ton. trusting 10 the basln-llke formation
OF the ground 10 give the bah sufficient
borrow" TO carry II to the hole from
the opposite side. The nicely Of his
Judgment was evidenced when the guilty.
after a winding course around three sides
OF the green. finally stopped within a
few inches Of the cup.
Trsver~ Equal 10 Occasion.
when fit. there h scarcely club In
his bag over (which Jerome ID. Trayers
has not almost perfect control. Like all
great players. the Upper Montclair ex-
pert occasionally gets off the line, but
the case In point occurred during four
ball match in which TraverS was a party
at Englewood several years ago. The
seventeenth hole was being played. and
Travers and hts partner stood one up.
but the Metropolitan champion had
pulled his drive into long grass. while
Jack Hobens. one Of the players on the
other side. had from a good lie on 1.-THE
falrway led his approach 10 within ten
feet Of the hole. Travers. however.
proved equal to the occasion by laying
his iron shot out OF the trouble TO within
a yard OF the pin. Because Of the high
grass Travers played the stroke differ
entity than for an ordinary lie, He took
the club up more sharply, and as II de-
ERttiatd NAAN Hatat0 Nags = tHthNA W. Wae
Impaired which prevented the bali from
running more than a few feet after the
carry. This remarkable shot may have
Disconnected Hobens somewhat. Anyhow,
he missed the putt, while Trayers holed
his for three. thereby winning the hole
and the match.
II rarely happens that brilliant efforts
or master strokes are brought off by op-
posing players at the same time. Such
an occurrence happened in that memoir
able thirty hole match between Travis
and Travers at Garden City some five
years ago. After finishing all square At
the end of the thirty-slx holes, the pair
stepped 10 the front tee and got away
good drives. The second shots had to
be made In the teeth Of gale Of wind,
and the trick was to gauge It 30 as TO
have the balls Just carry the pit. yet stop
short OF the pin. which would enable
them to putt for the hole against the
wind. On this occasion the balls came to