Evening star., 1914-05-17
PLUCK WINS.

PLUCK WINS.
Let no one think you are beaten,
Come back against hard luck:
Keep a tight grip on your feelings.
Show your nerve and sand and pluck:
Many a man has been going.
Has seen defeat draw nigh.
And then come back to victory
Because he wouldn't say die,
On Monday next. May Is the interest
of every golfer in this country will cen
ter on the English course at Sandwich,
where begins the first round of the Brit
ish championship. We have had men
there before but never such a strong in
vasion as this body of American players
who will represent US on this occasion
In the year when Walter ]. Travis won
this event six Americans went over
Byers Emmett, Horstmann. Maeler and
Burton. Horstmann and Maeler Were
put out in the first round. Byers and
Burton lasted until the third. This will
be Travers second visit. for he played
in the championship at Muirfeld in 1909.
and was put out in the first round. In
1911 Chick" Evans stayed in at Prest-
wick until the fifth round. Schmidt. as
will be remembered at st. Andrews last
year, was only put out in the round be-
fore the semi-fnals by Hilton. the man
who won the championship, and that, too,
on an extra hole.
All our golfers on this side are ia
miliar with the prowess of Hilton from
his actual demonstration here, but they
do not realize what class means over
there in regard to numbers. Our best
men are as good as theirs. but the num-
Der Of our first-class men is less than
the number of plus men they can turn
out. Hilton, Johnny Ball, Harris. Lassen.
Lord Charles .iope. Maxwell, Blackwell,
Graham. Rola. Laidlay and Scott
are all good men: liable to win At any
time, and 1t takes wonderful mental
poise TO go on meeting these plus men
round after round. for any one of them
may do a marvellous performance. and
very few of them can be r=ckoned upon
at any time to play badly. So that when
one of these plus men gets one cf our
men b. perhaps Z brilliant streak two
down, it is going to De mighty hard to
get those two holes back. However, we
highest quality, who, when once well
startci-that Is. getting by the first round
or two-will play better and better as
his opponents extend him. Chick
Evans and Ouimet are two other men 10
be reckoned with All will be more or
less affected by the change in conditions
and the putting may bother them. al
though Travers seems to have conquered
his new putter and is using it well.
Webber of Toledo is a good standard
golfer and Hale is brilliant player just
out Of the youthful ranks. only twenty
one years old. As to experience on the
course, Evans started over late, but he
played at the open championship on that
same course III 1911, and has already
gotten some practice since he landed.
Jerry Travers' "A at Westward, Ho, has
impressed the English more than any
thing else
Evans thinks well of Ouimet's chances,
and also believes that Parker White
more, another man who did well over
there in 1911, is liable to come to the
top In fact, as it is known about Bos-
ton, he has beaten Ouimet at both media.
and match playing. Herreshof. with
succession of brilliant days, might get TO
the final as he did with Hilton over here.
and. at any rate, if he goes far along
in the rounds will certainly put out some
dangerous men.
To the American enthusiast. the cold,
calm, uneXcitable sizing up or the Eng
lish critic is seldom entirely understood
Here in this country, Just previous TO
boat race, partisans of each crew are
ant TO see nothing but the merits of their
own men, while the outsider forms his
Judgment largely without any basis on
what the crews have done the year be-
fore. In England hardly university
race is rowed where the predictions and
betting do not conform exactly to the
relative merits of the crews. and the re
sujr usually confirms this judgment. So
N golf the English critic cannot see how
the American golfing writer or enthu-
siast who last year few months be-
fore the open professional tournament IN