The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-29

Struck me as sort ofJoHN G. ANDERSON
relic Of the dark ages OF golfing igno-
rance The only Justification, II seems Ia
mo, FOR such a procedure is that there was
100 po~s hllitS Of their settling IL In any
Otn,t way.
/, has long been well settled that the
tvo STYLES OF golf have little in common
AMI should never he mixed
There Is something of an Injustice Ia
an opponent in asking him to play a
match IN that way. for the ball may have
n be replaced any number OF times to
putt FOR a medal score after there per-
hays has been stymie In match play
Such things take time. Again. surprising
man IN his match play reached the
green a stroke worse than his opponent
ard sees that the only chance he has Of
winning or halving the hole IL TO gobble
the putt. Winning that hole IN the match
may mean more In his eyes than getting
good medal score. and he tries for his
sobhle, makes II, and is that much better
IN on his medal score. The rules OF
soI' say:
RULE I.
The winner.
- IN stroke competitions the COM
petition VINO holes the stipulated round or
rounds in the fewest number Of strokes
shall be the winner
The Rules Of Golf Committee Is Of
opinion that 1t In hardly possible to
PLAY Match and Score Play at the
SANE time In satisfactory manner.
or without infringing rules r. d 4.
In all the years that ! have been
following the affairs of golfers throughout
the country, curiously watching to see
VINO Vas doing more than his share OF
winning In the various districts, do not
recall II difficult
task to make an accurate guess upon who
VAS likely TO come through" than this
season. II used to he that In the Metro
notan district, for example. Il could he
taken pretty much for granted that In an
open tournament the winner probably
would lie Walter !. Travis, Jerome u.
Travers or Frederick Iierreshoff, with
Oswald kirkby and one or two others
conspicuous in the earlier rounps or
gong still further back. there was the
name OF Travis and F'indlay :. Douglas
always bobbing up In front. or take Il
~ the middle West, there was always e.
E Evans, Jr, Warren n. Wood, Albert
Seckel. Mason Phelps. Robert Gardner
Kenneth Edwards or u. ". Sawyer march
ing home with the tournament prizes. eN-
rept that Paul Hunter managed to rake
N goodly share OF the medal score
prizes Massachusetts always had few
VINO were getting more than fair share
match play. and In the Philadelphia dis
uict II was much the same story.
How different IL has been this year :
Take the United North and South cham
p.onship at Pinehurst, in the early part
OF the year. aud how many would have
picked II. :. Worthington Of the Phila-
del phia district 10 win the title? Few,
an fairly certain. lie had done little
previously TO warrant the assumption
mat he would land the chief amateur
prize Of the Southern season. Even though
ne was the first amateur golfer TO defeat
Francis Ouimct after the latter won the
rational opcn, as he did playing for Penn
syvania against Massachusetts in the
Lesley cup match Mt the Country club
i was generally stated at the time that
the open champion had gone stale from
MS efforts In the amateur ana open
championships
Numerous other surprises have oc-
CURED as the season has progressed, one
anne 10 the golfers OF the Philadelphia
district week ago, when George V.
lIotsn of Waco, Texas opened their Ideas
u the fact that there IL something In
IeAys besides oil, steers and pathways
into Mexico, by winning the Lynnewood
Hall cup. We of Massachusetts knew
something OF Rotan and his game. for he,
= 2 member OF the Bass Rocks club on
the Massachusetts North shore and has
Played in a. number of the Essex County
Club tournaments at Manchester. in
which he has proved himself capable OF
holding his own with the longest hitters
We could muster.
/ notice by the reports from philadel.
phla that Rotan in the LynnewOod Hall
cup play was getting $50 TO 800 yards on
the tees. and | am not in the least sur
prised. He has an upright swing, but II
seems 10 me, as ! recall his game, that
his club head gets an unusually long hori-
zon,al sweep before II gets to the ball
consequently there is tremendous initial
force and ftne carry through. He Is
rangy golfer and. l should Judge has pow
eful wrists, BY winning the Lynnewood
Hall cup. which Is one OF the handsomest
and most valuable ever offered for golf
competition, he gets into good company.
Tor II has been won by Travis and Tray
Us, among others. IN the past II must he
won three times for permanent possession.
Retsn and II. w. Perrin met IN the hnal,
and | have heard that they played the
most brilliant final round OF amateur golf
ever seen In that district But--once more
marking back to the fact that there have
oeen 80 many oyerturns this ssason-it
uas only Just before he started North that
Rotan Was defeated by a hfteen-year-old
golfer In the Southern championship.
Considering how relatively inconspcu-
Gus some OF the prominent names OF tha
past have been this year, IL was almost
IIh" reading Richard IS himself again
20 note few OF the occurrences OF III
lsst fortnight, First there was the victor
~ Harry Vardon. already discussed. TAcr
there vas that invitation tournament OF
the Wilmington Country club, where -. r.
sawyer Of the Wheaton COT Club and
walter j. Travis tied for the best gross In
Ss-h"le qualifying round ana idtcc met
20 the final OF match play, sawyer win.
h'ns 10y up. In Traviss second round,
ny he way, he had an at one hole. which
perhaps has escaped the att,ut on %
many. Vet Mr.. Travis is CREDITED With
tnat nithy saying, There are sometimes
excuses tor sevens, but never Toy r'ghts,"
Looking further ahcld than Wilmington.
WIN us mai between Travis and sawyer
note that H. Chandler Egan had the best
Er'ss score In the qualifying round of the
Ihrltc Northwest championship at Seattle,
~ tor 10 holes, Doubtless there are
MANY who have almost forgotten that
7sndler Egan not no long ago was about
nN foremost figure IN national amateur
-'l, When he moved TO the Northwest
NJ IN way dropped out Of the golhng
|'neHght hut the facts from Seattle indi-
..' mar he is the same old Egan. 50 far
az "ls solf Is concerned. Few have had a
Va W such "A his N unlf Whila in, Iar-