Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-07
GARDNER AND TRAVERS HAVE HAD
CAREERS SIMILAR IN GOLF WORLD
Both Men Took Walter Travis Measure Early in Their
Careers-Present Titleholder Is Favorite Among
Club Wielders Throughout Country
BY GRANTLAND RICE

The careers Of Bob Gardner, the new
amateur golf champion and Jerry Trav-
ers, open champion In one way at least
arc alike. Travers was the first Eastern
younsster to beat Walter J. Travis. back
in the days when the veteran was crush
Ing all opposition with consummate ease
From the year that Travers beat Travis
the youngster began to rise until he had
achieved more golf glory than any other
amateur In the land.
In tho same way Bob Gardner was the
first Western youngster TO defeat the re-
doubtable Travis, proof OF rare golfng
nerve, even when a mere broth Of a lad,
as Sandy Mcpherson might say. Gard
ier beat Travis seven years ago at Glen
View, Chicago. 4 youngster OF only rs,
he came from behind and squared the
match with the veteran on the 36th hole
and won on the 37th Shortly afterward
Gardner won his first amateur cham
pionship and Walter J. again fell before
the Yale stars brilliant play
WORTHY CHAMPION.
There were upsets galore at Detroit,
but it was no freak turn that put Bob
Gardner on top. He belongs with those
who sit with the mighty. He has the
skill, he has more power with both wood
ana iron than any other amateur-and
no one has a stouter heart under fire.
Any man who can consistently carry
over $50 yards from the tee or who can
play half iron from $50 to 200 yards
without effort must have unusual power
in his wallop.
Gardner has this beyond any man in
the game. 1t is more than probable that
TINS tremendous leverage came from his
pole-vaulting years, whore he was able
to lift his body over 10 feet His arms
work as if each had steel spring i'm
bedded from shoulder to wrist, and the
power that comes in the stroke is amaz-
ing.
POPULAR TYPE.
Ouimets successor is one of the most
| popular golfers i'm the country. He is
fine. clean type in every way, as fine
n fellow and as fine sportsman as any
one would ever care to meet.
! Being in business, he doesn't get TO play
/ much golf never over once week and
| so enters only one or two tournaments
! each year. This makes his victory all
| the moro commendablc, for his game had
| not been developed into machine CON
| sistency through hard practice and
| great deal of play.
THE RISING WEST.
! The West made a clean sweep in golf,
| Wlrnlng every important competition
staged. The East was overwhelmed.
! Now it remains to be seen shortly what
| section will produce the new lawn tennis
! champion, and IL the West wins here il
! VIII be a red-starred year for the vast
! oNpanse that rests under the setting sun.
II might also be remarked that the
! West is furnishing both sections Of the
| biz battle TO be staged in New York on
| Saturday, when PaclScy Mcfarland. Of
! Chicago. meets Mike Gibbons, of st. Paul.
! There will be no intersectional stun here.
! as the West claims the winner howsoever
the tide OF battle goes.
! At present the Western front is doing
better than the Eastern front in America
| just as it is In Europe.
WHERE THE EAST PREVAILS.
| But there is one place where the East
prevails this gay and giddy year.
The world series remains along the At
lantc seaboard You can figure the Red
Sox already in so far as the American
League race goes, and now it is mainly a
| question as to whether the Red SoX will
| face the Braves or Phllies. Or, If you
live in Brooklyn, you can add on the
Dodgers.
At this stage last fall the Braves were
| neck and beak with the Giants, but It was
| a foregone tip as to what would happen.
| The Braves were coming and the Giants
were going.
Nineteen hundred and fifteen presents a
different problem. The Braves are COM