The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-05-11

London. May H.-English golfing
authorities, Hlly aroused to the pos
sihility of an American entrant win
ming the English amateur champion
ship tournament, which will be played
May Is ana ~. are watching with
close attention the final practice
rounds Of the more dangerous COM
pctitors. TTaVcrF, Hcrrcshom and
puimet are objects of CHreful tech
meal scrutiny upon every curse
where they have played during the
past mouth. and the same now ap-
plies Co Chick Evans, who arrived
much later than his fellow entrants.
The consensus Of expert opinion APP
pears To- be that While all Tour Amer
leans violate or more Of Eng
lands sacred golnng traditions. they
are players of great ability ana to bee
feared IN the ipuachiug tuurnu
meut at sandwich. They have been
h subjects ut scores Of interviews
and descriptive articles Ia which the
writer described their strong and
weak points as he saw them The
following on buimets play Be- typical
MIR Ouimet's appearance Is VASTLY
different from that with which Amer
lean photographs nave made US Ia
miliar. and, 80 far from being the
long, lank youth most OF as nave pic
turcd him, he is "a powerfully butt
player with an immense reach, which
becomes very noticeable when he
stretches his arms out I'M the follow
through OF his drive.
His style is too good 10 possess
much that Is remarkable, and the one
noticeable exception Is his grip. which
~ quite peculiar Co himself Al least
l nave seen 40 player who holds his
clubs iu this way. aud MI. Ouimet
knows Of none 40 the states. The
club is really held hy the first three
fingers Of thc right hand aud the
last three fngers of the left Instead
of the little finger ui the right hand
overlapping the first finger Of the
left, as Boz the su-called Nardou grip.
" actually lutorlockS with %, $50 that
neither OF these fingers ts iu com
plric contact with the shaft. a Is
not "a style pi grip which would suit
everybody, but Nj. Duimct's muscu-
lar "a rather large hands seem 20
make 10 wonderfully effective ia his
case.
His stance b. rather a square one.
but neither in that nor boz his swing
ia there anything u~unTthoduN. ON
the putting green he usually fufors
the heels together stance. which
most OF American visitors have
adopted. but his style is very easy
and unronsrtaiucd Ia short. De ape
pcared To possess that most valuable
asset FOR "a holes tournament "a
|F NH"'N MINIMUM W NNH
portuultN for going or
After all however, 10 seemed to
me that the greatest STRENGTH uf MI.
putmcts game lies boz an Infinite ,n-
pncity Tor playing hls own game,
Here d. AN Instance of what / mean
A. was natural iu a four-hnn match.
u frequently happened thai the dcsti-
nation Of the hole Was decided before
an the players had putted out. hui
II MT ouimet were one Of those who
had not putttd he always tried the
putt even though IL We're only 90
yard on so, for practice. The effect
Of this Was, however, that he was
playing these puts as the other three
players, their cuddics aud ne handful
ut spectators were moving on the
green. Fhe te 4ptatlon a. play hur-
riedlN or carclessly would To- most
men have proved Irresistible. and
even the movement OF the little
crowd wouid ave distracted many "a
hrst-class player. But moi 50 with
AR. ouimet. He holcd out these
puts with great steadiness and care,
and with "a concentration II purpose
which rose superior 0t an outside
considerations. The same sort OF
thing was observable once or twice
when he got into difficulties. Hs
! ntruc one as q player Nho would
never play wildly when things were
botns wrong nor carclcHsiy when