Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-09
GOLF. GOSSIP

Everybody likes q winner, said
e golfer not so very long ago, but
next to a winner give me good los
err" This must have been the frame
of mind of the gallery at st. Andrews
links in the British championship re-
Gently when John Ball, last year s
winner, crawled through the ropes
guarding the first tee at the call OF
his name, and, despite limp, a score
or so of baniages about his limbs and
the advice of physician, proceeded
to tee Gp. The crowd broke the iron
rule OF British golfing etiquette and
greeted him with ringing cheer.
Only a week before the veteran OF
the British links had been Knocked
down and severely injured by an au-
tomobile while motorcycling in the
vicinity of his home links at Hoyiake.
His ankle and wrist were sprained
and he was strongly advised to re-
main at Hoylake, but in spite OF his
injuries he went to st. Andrews. He
looked i'll and his friends urged him
to withdraw, but as champion of the
year Ball took up a definite attitude
and declared that 4 he only played
one hole he would start.
In the morning Ball could hardly
hold club, but he went to see q
physician, had some final surgical as
sistance given him and In the after
noon he appeared ready to meet his
opponent. Egerton Pegler. Despite
the bandages on his injured limbs,
the veteran played with much of his
cid brilliancy. The match was all
square going to the home hoe, where
Pegler was little short with his APP
froach and Ball a little string, his
hall finding the rough grass at the
back of the green. The all import
ant chip. shot was weak, and this
with the like Pegler was three yards
away Balls putt failed and he was
beaten.
Pegler is only twenty-five years old.
He is spoken of as young. strong.
and accomplished player. Already
his collection of trophies includes fiji
teen cups and numerous gold and sill
yer medals. In the same champion
ship last year Pegler was beaten in
the nineteenth hole by G. B. Macfar-
lane, who was one of the sen1ffinals
When in Florence Pegler won the.
Tuscany championship and was rum
ner UP in the championship of Italy,
being defeated at the thirty-eighth'
hole Three weeks before the open
ing OF the British championship he
won the scratch cup at lie Toquet
Because it was a meeting Of two.
of the longest driters In the world, J.
the match between Abe Mitchell
and Edward Blackwell dwarfed every
thing else in that particular round in.
which they met. 1t is an interesting
fact that five years after Mitchell was
born Blackwell drove a bill on. st.
Andrews links probably farther than.
any amateur player has ever done,
namely, distance of S66 yards, and
this despite the fact that at the time
the rubber cored bali was unknown.
In their match Blackwell, who is now
forty-six years old, outdrove Mitchell.
and on one occasion was no fewer
than forty yards ahead of him. Only
three times did Mitchell outdrive his
opponent. Blackwell use6 a wooden.
putter with splendid effect, especially
in the matter of laying his long puts
dead. However, the department in
which Mitchell was most cleverly
outplayed was in the iron approaches.
Visions of, that famous champion
ship final in which James Robb, the
winner, took a hole from his opponent
in eight strokes to nine must have
cofjured up an Incident in this years
event when one player defeated an
other by 2 up and I to play by takir
the seventeenth hole IN ten to thir-
teen strokes. The opponents in this
match with the remarkable finish
were Hugh McCulloch and Douglas
Leng, the former being the victor
Leng was on the roadway at the sew.
eIlteenth, and although McCulloch
did not get on that dreaded thorough
fare he still contriyed TO take ten for
the hole.