Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-27
OU|MET MAY HEAD
LIST WITH TRAVERS
Golfers Await With Lively IN
terest Appearance of Ma
tiOnaI Ratings.
GOSSIP OF THE LINKS

For the handicappers of the United
States Golf Association there is this
year a very interesting problem that
will keep the student of form guess
ing until the national rating list
makes its appearance This is the
position Francis Ouimet is this year
to occupy. There is every reason to
believe that Ouimet will take the
unprecedented jump of four strokes
and join Jerome d. Travers, of Upper
Montclair, at scratch.
1t will not be necessary for him to
again win the open championship or
to take the British titles to main
tain his place, which is jump over
the heads of about twenty players.
What he will now be required to do,
however, is to walk step for step
throughout the season with Mr..
Travers, unless the latter shows q
remarkable falling off in form.
Official announcement was made
yesterday that the Woman's Eastern
Golf Association will hold it's cham
pionship tournament and the tri-city
matches for the Griscom Cup over
the links of the Greenwich Country
Club the week beginning June l.
Just how great is the disparity be-
tween the number of good matches
played annually by the professional
golfers resident in the United States
and opportunities for competition en-
Joyed by their brethren in Great
Britain may be realized from COM
pilation of the number of matches in
which the leading British profession
ais took part during 1918. Such a list
has been compiled by a British golfine
writer, and 1t shows that during the
past year Duncan played In 63 COM
petitions, Braid in So, Ray in So, Var
10 81 L..
in 49, When the mere handful of COM
petition in which the professionals
here take part each year is called to
mind, 1t is not difficult to understand
why Ray and Vardon did so well in
this country.
open Champion Ouimet played
hurst, N. c., and then some, leaving
the links only as twilight settled
down, tired but happy. In the morn
ing, partnered with ]. H. Sullivan, jr.,
he played Tewksbury and T. A. Ash
ley, of Woodland, winning up and
to play in best ball play. He made
the turn in al and came back in about
the same figure. In the afternoon
there was an exchange of partners,
Ouimet and Ashley recording and
i win at match play and Ouimets card
of 70 equalling the score he made Sat
urday afternoon.
Ben Savers, for more than forty
years a prominent figure in British
golf, is coming to America for visit
in May or June. Tom Patterson, the
professional of the Knollwood Coun-
try Club, who recently returned from
q trip to Scotland and England,
brings this information with. him.
Savers, instructor to crowned heads,
such as the late King Edward, plans
to first go to Philadelphia to visit his
son George who came to America
last summer. The elder Sayers also
will play few exhibitions and may
take a trip West. Sayers has COM
peted in thirty-three championship
tournaments in Great Britain, finish
ing second once, third once and fifth
three times. He appeared last in the
competition at Muirfield in 1872 Say
ers has been especially successful at
teaching the game.