Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03
HAROLD HILTON
WRITES ABOUT
], 8. GOLFERS
British Amateur Champion Thinks
Travers Most Dangerous OPP
ponent in Coming Title Play.

Tn writing of the proposed visit to
England of Jerome d. Travers
Francis Ouimet, Fred Herreshoff
and Heinrich Schmidt, and the
chances of the quartet of Americans
in their attempt TO win the Brit
ish championship, Harold H Hilton.
the present holder OF that title. to-
cay gave his impressions of the four
inv aders
Ii is to Travers that he comedies
the greatest strength, and while ne
does not underrate the other three.
the British amateur champion deyotes
most of his discussion to the chances
of the four times holder of the Amer
lean amateur title. He says of the
four Americans
That two of them al least will
with fortune on their side be quite
equal to the ia SIX of holding Their
own against any of our own amateurs
we Veritably believe. jerome Travers
is wonderfully accurate iron PLAYER
and marvellous putter, and one who
perhaps deserves the title of being
the finest player of matches in he
world.
Knowing American golfers and
their opinions as we do, we have an
idea that ii will be on Mr.. Travers
more than on any other member 81
the select band that American hopes
Will be pinned.
Course Hard for Travers.
That the Sandwich course is nor
one which will prove altogether SUI
abe to the American amateur cham
pion is our firm conviction. Although
he il supreme artist in the PLAYING
of the more delicate and scientific
department of the game his weakness
exhibits itself in a more than oc-
ca sionsl inability to hit the ball truly
with his wooden clubs, and the
length of the carries and the severity
of the hazards on the Kentish course
do not allow a goodly degree of Ii
cense to the man who can neither nit
his ball straight from the tee nor
cause it TO fly with comparatively
nigh trajectory.
But there are times when Mr.
Travers has very lucid intervals in
his wooden club play. If one of those
Intervals arrives on Monday. May IS
next. our players will have a hard
struggle to keep the championship
trophy from once again crossing the
water
vi Oulultl We KNOW Out
little on this side. We have every
reason to remember that ne defeated
both Yardon and Ray in hand to-
hand encounter. That alone suggests
that he must be at least the equal
II not the superior, of the best anna
teur talent on this side.
Britons Strange Here.
But in judicially weighing up this
wonderful performance we must not
forget that Ray and Vardon were
playing amid strange environments
and in a climate to which they were
not accustomed, and that their young
opponent had the inestimable ad
vantage OF playing over the course
on which he originally learned The
game
MIR Herreshoff We saw over here
in 1912. His play at the amateur
championship meeting at Westward
Ho,. was in no manner convincing
but he is and always has been 2
player OF moods. and when the good
mood is on him he is a fine, powerful
golfer.
"Of Heinrich Schmidt we save
enough last year at ST Andrews { =
show us that, while PLAYER with
limitations. he is nevertheless an eN-
tremely hard man to beat. POSSIBLE
for the reason that he is wise and
knows the present limitations Of his
same