Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-06

nROVE GOLF BALL MILE AND HALE
AND THEN FELL 5000 FEET. YES?
Cleveland Recalls Minor Incident During His Golf Plan in
Aps-Efort Made to Notch Trauers and Oujnet
OUer Merton Course

two weeks he had had Of continuous golf.
During that time he played 80 holes
every day and one day he journeyed
down to Pine Valley and played over
that course
ouinnet has been bit off his game
OF late, but is anxious to play Travers
as soon as he can come back"
II the match can be arranged II should
do great deal TO stimulate interest IN
this city In the gntta percha pastime
Louis NJ. Washburn, who was only
beaten out for the city championship on
the S6th hole, played while he was In
college on the Princeton team. And like
all collegiate golfers he is very slow.
Eut that doesn't mean that he doesn't
play fast game.
Hugh willoughby OF the Philadelphia
Country Club, thoroughly deserves his
new laurels as city champion. He was
runner-up last year. This year he had
to win from the favorite, Walter Rey-
nolds, who made a II for a new amateur
record over the course in the qualifying
round. He also had to wade through
Howard Perrin, considered one OF the
best players in the city, and the one who
put out George Crump. N II. Maxwell
was another able golfer who fell victim
to Willoughby's skill.
Willoughby led washburn all the way
through tho 96 holes on Saturday except
for a few minutes now and then when
the match was squared But Willoughby
always quickly won the next hole when
ever this happened
Many OF the gallery on Saturday won
dered what kind of Juice II is that Will
loughby injects into his wrists. He used
his irons almost exclusively He has a
jerky half-swing which in truth is
scarcely more than quarter-swing, and
he gets phenomenally long ball out of
the stroke He uses his wrists entirely.
His shots look as II they ought to travel
about 30 feet
And then, after every shot, Wnloughby
always takes a practice swing and 1t ls
invariably fine full swing. One wonders
where the ball would go IL he unloosed
one of them.
The best one-shot hole In the world is
the 'Redan hole" In Scotland. II is
at North Berwick, which is the golhng
resort OF Europe and which is considered
in the same light on the other side as
Atlantic City as a pleasure resort Is re-
Rarded in this part of the map. The
"Redan" hole has been duplicated twice
in this country. It Is the seventh hole
on the east course at Merton. 1t is 1876
yards in length and everything is at diff
ferent angles. One drives on the bias and
then generally plays his second lying on
his back and sighting the ball from be
hind a tree or to the heights from the
depths of the trenches. He drives for
NICE long putting green, so 1t is best to
be straight and not too hard or too soft.
After he gets on the green, which Is
even harder than the foregoing sounds,
he has to be n fairly good putter to hole
out In the formal two. For the green
slopes toward the traps there are few
h,,v,, 81 ,I,A1 hn ~ ar
is said to burst into song II he gets six
which is Walter Travis idea OF poor
score for one hole.
Another European fancy at Merton is
the third hole, which is reproduction
of the famous road hole" the nth hole
at St Andrew 's-Across-the-Pond. Many
a famous championship has been decided
on the latter. The hole at Merton ls all
crooked.
It's almost like a Ions u" only that
looks much too easy to describe it. On
the right are the thistles and the crickets.
II one try just a trile, 1t Is easy to go out
of bounds. Anyhow one has to carry
over an elbow of fence Either do that or
go to the left where there is plenty Of the
rough stuff. also a few trees and here and
there a quarry. Best play 1t and carry
the ball up to the green. There one can
shoot a few at the green, but here, too, 1t
is best to be careful, as the green Is we'll
surrounded with traps. II one Is easily
annoyed, the best plan is just to avoid
these holes, take par and don't say any
thing about them.
A laugh consists. according to the best
psychologists. in q contraction of the
diaphragm, followed by violent explosion
through the mouth, and accompanied by
vigorous contortions of the face. Two ex-
plosions make a merry laugh. while three
explosions are hearty laugh and so on
Along the same cold lines, psychologists
aR1lre that a good drive in golf is accom-
plished easy when the human humerus
and the motor molecules collapse in col
lusionistic concentration. The humeri are
pointed true to nature and the mind is
keyed in pitch There are also the same
contortions of the face, only different. and
there are also explosions, only these gem
orally follow the effort.