The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-10
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 English golfing authorities fully aroused to the possibility of an Amer ican entrant winning the English anna teur championship tournament which vii be played May is and l9, are watching with close attention the f. nal practice rounds of the more dan
 2erous competitors. Travers, Her resoff and Ouimet are objects of careful technical scrutiny upon every course where they have played during the past month and the same now ap- plies to Chick Evans who arrived The concensus of expert opinion to be that while all four Americans viG- late one or more of England's sacred golfing traditions, they are players of great ability and to ba feared in the approaching tournament at Sand wich. They have been the subjects of scores of interviews and descrip- tive articles in which the writer de- scrbed their strong and weak points as he saw them. The following on Ouimets play is typical.
 "Mr Ouimet's appearance is vastly different from that with which Amer ican photographs have made us fa- miliar, and, so far from being the long lank youth most of us have pictured him, he is a powerfully built player with an immense reach, which be- comes very noticeable when he stretches his arms out in the follow through of his drive.
 His style is too good to possess much that is remarkable, and the one noticeable exception is his grip, which is quite peculiar to himself. At least | have seen no player who holds his club in this way, and Mir. Ouimet knows of none in the States. The club is really held by the first three fingers of the right hand and the last three of the left. Instead of the little finger of the right hand over tapping the first finger of the left, as in the so-called Vardon grip, it actu- ally interlocks with it. so that neither of these fingers is in complete con tact with the shaft. It is not a style of grip which would suit everybody. but Mir Ouimets muscular and rather large hands seem to make it wonder fully effective in his case
 His stance is rather a square one, but neither in that nor in his swing is there anything orthodox. On the putting green he usually fayors the "heels together" stance, which most of our American visitors have adopt ed, but his style is very easy and uu- constrained In short, he appeared to possess that most valuable asset for a holes tournament-a style which gives a minimum of opportunity for going off
 After all, however, it seemed to me that the greatest strength of Nr. Ouimet's game lies in an infinite ca pacity for playing his own game. Here is an instance of what mean: As was natural in a four-ball match, it frequently happened that the des- tination of the hole was decided be- fore all the players had putted out, hut if Mir. Ouimet were one of those who had not putted he always tried the putt, even though it were only a yard or so. for practice. The effect of this was, however, that he was play ing these butts as the other three players, their caddies and the hand ful of spectators. were moving off the green. The temptation to play hurriedly or carelessly would to most men prove irresistible. and even the movement of the little crowd would have distracted many a firstclass player. But not SO Mir. Ouimet. H. holed out these putts with great steadiness and care, and with con centration of purpose which rose su- perior to all outside considerations. The same sort of thing was obserya- ble once or twice when he got into difficulties. He struck one as play CT who would never play wildly when things were going wrong nor care lessly when things were going we'll a very difficult man to beat even # he were not so fine a player as he is."
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