Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-16
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GOLF GOSSIP

class of player Jerome Travers is per.
! haps our best example. Ii did not
avail him, however, in the British
championship and his defeat so early
in the tournament came as surprise
to even the British who know that
he met an opponent worthy of his
steel, but whom few people thought
able to defeat the Montclair golfer.
Harold Saunders treats of this par
ticular temperament in The World of
Golf, stating that il has been observ-
ed by some one that there must be
such a thing as big golf tempera-
ment The description is clSSnsy, per-
haps, but the assumption that it does
exist Is not altogether unreasonable.
| We are now in the thick of the big
things, and each as it occurs eonti-
nues to attract an always increasing
number of entries. The stay-at-home.
golfer who never takes part In any.
thing more thrilling than club COM
| petition, unless 1t be a more or less,
frolicsome holiday tournament at
| some seaside place, might well ask
| himself what is the singular attrac-
ton these mammoth affairs have for
so many players, To an extent vanity
is responsible for some of the unduly
inflated entry lists.
There are some who experience a
queer sense of qualification in appear.
ing in the same event as the eelebri-
ties. They bask in the reflected glory
Of their more distinguished rivals,
even though record of their own
| small doings never sees the light OF
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| but 1t would perhaps be churlish to
grudge them the satisfaction of max
ing only a brief appearance in an
event which even their vanity would
net permit them to think they had
the remotest chance of winning.
The Stoieal Attitude. ...s=
| Apart from the incompetent nuts.
ance, however, there Is type of play
/ er who apparently revels In events
that would greatly trouble the less
happily constituted golfer. He does
not look as though he was enjoying
! himself. II il happens to be stroke
competition, and the other players are
| gathered round the last green on ten,
| terhooks to know what he has done,
he will assume look' Of premeditat
ed misery and protest that he could
do no hatbef than rs. II may be
the leading score, but that does not
relieve his gloom 3
/ The player with the 'big goif' TEN.
permanent will willingly submit to the
Inconvenience of starting at time
when in the ordinary way he is in his
morning bath, or so late in the day
that he must be aware that there is a
good chance of his not being able to
finish before nightfall Nothing per.
turbs him, however. He may be hung
up at every tee, but he always re-
mains patient. There is something
admirable about his calm detachment,
his stoical attitude to the little wor.
ries of the links, but it is a gift that
| is not possessed by every one who
| Yields a club.
Players Who Lack the Gift.
Even some of the great golfers have
not got it. Robert Maxwell Is one.
At the time of writing / do not know
| whether he intends to come out OF
his retirement and help us to resist
| the foreign invasion at Sandwich. II
he does it will be from patriotic mo-
tive only. Mr.. Maxwell hates cham
pionships and everything pertaining
thereto. After defending the title he
had won at Muirfeld a few years ago
he stated that he would not take part
in them again. Since then he has
played regularly in club competitions
and friendly matches at North Der.
wick and MuirfieId. He simply hasn't
the 'hig golf' temperament. He finds
It irksome to have to be on the tee
at stated times, for the space of q
week to meet whoever fate and the
draw DEGREES. To him, and there are
many like him, playing through a
championship is not only dreary
business; 1t is a severe disciplinary
exercise. John Ball may have enjoy.
ed such things in the old days. but
he seems to have lost much Of his
old zest for them now. 1t was only
when his friends threatened to take
him by main force that he consented
to go to Westward Ho! He won that
year. 1t is when they are nearing
the final stages of these events that
players who lack the proper tempera-
ment crack up. In both the amateur
and the open many man has spent
q oACCpICoo
hg test, and SO disposed of his chance
of distinguishing himself before ball
was teed III T.
The Ladies. = :.
In common with most other events
the. ladies' championship at Hunstan-
ton attracted record entry. 1t would
be ungallant, as well as untrue, to-
hint that IL was ufpra vanity that
prompted some Of the players to send
in their names The ladies, champion
ship Is different from most other
things in golf. The atmosphere is un-
like that at Rny other meeting
II is true that It Is conducted with
a businesslike precision that could
hardly be equalled at either OF the
mems championships, but It lacks their
tone Of light-hearted good fellowship
Al player may do well or i'll. Il does
not matter. The conQueror Is not
uHdiIly eiated nor the defeated very
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