The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-04
ANDERSON BELIEVES THAT
- EVANS WILL SHOW UP WELL
Few Days Left for Practice Before Sandwich Golf
Not Necessarily Fatal to Chicks Chances
Is Opinion of Expert.

lures ana carried out in his play Young
players like himself are capable OF hnc
ueeus on the links Robert A. Gardner
gave fine example OF this the year he
won the national amateur championship.
Haroid %. Weber OF Toledo, the other
american representative from the middle
west is OF different type altoget ser
re ~ OF the careful. calculating school. a
close student OF the game and one who
cai pe depended upon 10 overlook no
point which would be to his advantage in
match. Every shot with him is played
70 the limit OF Its possibilities and his. He
mas mad lots OF experience and has van
quished more than one golfer Of superior
natural ability.
have been waiting for a glimpse Of
mat world renowned professional golfer
Ben Sayers. 1 trust thai he will not
ueiay his trip to the eastern section Of
.nis country and particularly Boston I
nave very vivid recollection OF the last
time that had chat with the Wee
Mamie" as he is called by his closest
friends. 1t was At the open championship
OF Great Britain held at Muiraeld q
couple OF years ago. was lunchinc
with him In the tent not far from the
INKS and our talk turned, as was quite
natural. to the disastrous attempt which
McDermott had made In his qualifying
round when he had 81.
I'm telling ye." said Ben to me, a.
ne took canny bite OF some hot rabbit
pie, that the odds against even Jeems
Braid qualifying are no less than ? to 1.
There's never a championship but some
good player goes bad and you can't tell
for your life who 1t Ia going to be. And
what's more you aren't able to say who
II ISN'T to be. either"
There had been a strong wind that
morn and when McDermott went out for
few practice strokes Sayers happened
along.
"You'll no break so the day, iadd,e." he
said. and the moment that McDermott
replied that he thought he would get
- ut the most, the master golf craftsman
turned instantly and said: "I'n 70 We
five pounds ye don't; I'll 20 ye ten. I'll
90 ye Nifty"
The seeming confidence Of the man
led me to entreat our then open champion
TO pass up the defy. which he did. and
In light OF the morning score Of over 80
It was very good thing that the advice
was needed.
That year there were professional four
somes played between Scotland and Eng.
land and Ben Sayers was chosen to rep.
resent his native heath. There was much
disappointment because Ben's oldtime
running mate. the one and only Andra'
Kirkcaldy. was not chosen to be his
partner. but he Was q bit OF his normal
game At the time. He was one Of those
who made up the gallery. however, and
together with Arnaud Massey We followed
round until the match ended.
There was excitement from the very
start. At the first hole Sayers topped
his drive and the second was not much
better. Their opponents were lying ten
feet from the hole In 2 when Sayers
played from a distance OF a hundred
yards OF and put the ball twenty feet
from the pin. His partner promptly
holed the putt, and when the hole was
halved In there was Joy indescribabie
pictured all over Sayers's face, for this
golfer 10 the most human of ali the great
players Of the day.
With short. snappy strides he went
from, tee TO tee. outpacins his far younger
opponents and AZ times outdriving them
too his mind ever alert and filled with
one great ambition-the winning OF a
match for Scotland. He did his level
best and so did his partner. but all to no
avail. With the most uncanny and fiend-
ish sort OF play their opponents went out
in S+-this at Mulrfeld-and were holes
ahead at the turn. The maddening pa RI
OF 1t all. and that which made the wry
Scot raise his hands in horror to an un-
responsive Scottish sky was the fact
that the Enelishman took but one putt on
six greens in succession on the outward
journey and that most Of these were over
twenty feet.
have never seen such putting. and
! don't suppose that I shall ever again
To be q foot from the hole in the odd
with your opponent lying forty feet away
with a difficult putt to deliver and then
hole the thing and to keep on doing this
for six holes-heavens knows II would
try the patience OF a golfer a thousand
times more docile than the ardent Sayers
But this II just one OF hundreds Of
Ben Sayers's battles. and II you get the
opportunity to talk with him or to sec
him play. don't miss It.