The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-13
AMERICAN INVASION
OF ENGLAND BEGINS
Travcrs and HcrrcshOff Sail In
Quest Of British Golf
HOnOrs.
CHAMPION IS TACITURN
"Will DO the Best I Cam" Says
Amateur TitlehOldcr to
Inquiring Friends.

Il am going over to play golf and
am going to do the best I cam" was all
that Jerome d. Travers could be induced
20 say In regard to his hopes OF success
in the British amateur championship
when ne sailed for England yesterda,
On the Baltic. Fred Herreshoff. who
was accompanied by Mrs. Herreshoff. was
with him, and also will attempt to bring
back the British title.
A host Of friends was at the pier to
say good-by and wish good luck to the
great young golfer for although he has
won the amateur championship OF the
United States four times. Travers Is only
Is years old As most of the crowd were
golfers. Herreshoff was equally well
known to them. and with the champion
shared the good wishes that were offered
on every side. Oswald krkby. Max II.
Behr and Gardner W. White were the
most prominent golfers in the throng.
From the little talking that he did.
4 could be seen that Travers II going
60 England with one object In view. 70
do his best to win the amateur cham
pionship tournament, which begins at
Sandwich on May is. Questions In re-
gard to the probability Of his playing in
tne bTltlSn open bt f-TtStWiCn III JUNO
and In the French amateur were met with
the response that his plans were un-
decided.
Travers and Herreshoff will have seven
or eight weeks in which to practise for
the big tourney at Sandwich. They will
piay their first rounds over the famous
Hoylake links near Liverpool. one Of
the championship greens. and then will
wander about from one course to an
other. reaching Sandwich In plenty OF
time to get in some thorough practice
or the course over which the champion
ship will be played Needless To say.
both VIII devote n good share o. their
attention to putting. for both are accus-
toned to the Schenectady putter. which
IL barred on British soil. Travers. who
has won hs last two championships with
out using his wooden clubs to any extent
will do a good deal OF practising with
them, for ever since he announced his in
tention OF going abroad this year the
British critics have been harping on the
fact that Sandwich is a course on which
good wooden play Is n necessity.
The pair which sailed yesterday began
the most formidable American invasion Of
Great Britain in golfing history. Francis
Ouimet, open champion OF the United
States, will leave Boston on March 20, ac-
companied by Arthur q. Lockwood. once
a semi-hnalist in the national champion
ship. and according TO the latest advices
Heinrich Schmidt. who did 80 we'll at st
Andrews last year. will make a second
trip across the Atlantic Max Marston
the Eastern interscholastic champion. q
young golfer who has done well in tn.
past two years. is planning to leave fol
England in about two weeks and will add
TO the ranks of the American contingent
At Sandwich Rumors from the West have
said that Chick Evans and Warren X
Wood might make the trip. hut word wa,
received from Chicago n day or two age
that there was little likelihood that tn,
two Western golfers would go. However
with Travers. Oumet, Herreshof. Schmidt
Lockwood and Marston on hand the United
States will be better represented in tn
8ritish championship than ever before.