New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-14
ENGLAND SEES NO
RIVALRY IN GOLF
Critic Says America Can
not Match the British
on the Links.
From The Tribune Correspondent. J


London. June 6-That the erect Oh 'he
American defeats at Sandwich will be 70
shut down for the present on all AMER
can golf rivalry is the opinion eXpresSeu
:, ,ho columns of The Daily Telegraph
nv Henry Leach, one OF the best known
ou.borities Of the game in Great Britain
NJ Leach finds that the poor showing
% the American golfers here means 'ha'
tbore is little inducement LOT bii'iS"
amateurs to take part in the Amer va II
-,,,,to,.r championship at Ekwanok- lie
LEO insists that England has twenty goou
golfers for every good American player
His article is as follows .
eft is a rather melancholy return "
.boir own country for the American goli-
and Mr. Evans. with a laugh re-
,,orted IN one Of his cOuntrymeh thd'
they would have to go in at tiie C"'N
door when they got there-but Il tieii
neonle at home who did not know SO
r,,,cb about the quality OF British golt as
those uIavers do sadly overestlmated
their nrorpects and expected far too much
from them it is still the fact that theS
are better than their very early uelea''
have made them out to be
III Mr.. Evans could putt more surely
than he does-and the worst oil II Is tHde
he has now almost completely lost conn
dence in himself-he would be nearly d
match for our best amateur players anu
in his most spirited moods Mr.. TraVers'
as we saw him at Westward Ito! can
nlav 81 cffectively-if not in the proper
eolfing sense so perfectly-as to give
anybody a very hot time in match WIFI
them.
81 have seen these and other Americans
play in their own country, ana kho"
that they can do very much better imam
they have done in England. AT the out
set of their expedition, however, pro-
tested strongly against the suggestion that
was being promulgated here that British
golf had anything to fear from it. and all
that has happened in the last Few Gays
has more than justified the protest.
."rhe Americans-not meaning partcu-
larlv the players who visited us, but the
American gofing public generally-stili
seem to believe that within five years they
will be on top, both as regards number OF
players and their quality In numbers
they may be, but they are still clearly
much behind in quality. and / do not see
how they are going TO make up the dif-
ference in such a short space OF time.
Their courses at home will need to be
altered considerably to test and cultivate
their driving very much more, and the
whole OF golfing America has still TO learn
the possibility and niceties OF iron play
In the matter of iron play nothing was
more marked at Sandwich than the failure
OF the Americans in this all important de-
partment Of the game. At betting the ball
along with full bang and an iron they
can do wonders they play their iron CLUBS
in much the same way that they play their
drivers. But that kind OF a stroke is no
use in that real iron play that is called
for when a toierably well guarded green
Is within easy range and the ground is
fast and undulatlng. The American de-
fciencies in this respect are not realized
when they are playing among themselves
and on their own courses, but the contrast
between them. and. say. Mr. jenkins In
iron play is simply enormous. for the little
Scot is a real master OF 1t, and can angle
for the hole, as one might say. in the
manner of the most perfect craftsman.
THE weakness in this point Of our
visitors game was most strikingly ex-
emplified In their play 10 the last hole at
sandwich: in fact, II might very well be
argued that II was their lack OF control
over the ball with an iron club at a
crisis that cost two of them their place in
the championship.
"Mr. Travers tells me definitely he will
not compete here again next year, and
probably not for long time, II ever. lie
secmed satisfied enough at Sandwich
with the aluminium putter to which he
trusted in place Of his barred Science
,adv. but at Versailles he was attribut-
inc his disasters to the prohibition
against his favorite. The real truth is
that he is a sadly disappointed and dis
u,usioned man. and the strong fighting
spirit which carries him forward to his
great successes in America is for the
fine being broken. Mr.. Evans also says
he will not come next year. Mr.. Ouimei
will nrohahiv come