The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-11
Ouimet and Evans Placed Third
and Fourth on Their Accom-
%plishments During 1915.
HOW CHOICES ARE MADE

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a place. Mr.. Fownes In the national
amateur lost, II will be remembered. to
Mr.. Standish at the thirty-seventh hole.
Maxwell r. Marston Of Baltusrol.
whose defeats at Philadelphia In the
early spring and at Buffalo. the Met
ropolitan. the amateur. Ekwanok and
Greenwich among others are evened up
by the New Jersey championship n
the general all round play which he has
shown In the many games played In
contests this year, and particularly by
his great victory over jerome d.. Trav-
ers in the amateur event, deserves a
place In this group.
j. II, Standish. Jr.. who seemed to
have a finer game han ever before,
reached the final round Of the Western
amateur, won the Michigan state cham
pionship from n fairly strong field and
reached the third our Of the cham
pionship at Detroit, falling to get into
the semi-tnal round Of the play by the
narrowest margin, 10 still another an
didate.
Walter j. Travis. whose victory as
Metropolitan champion with wins over
such players as kirkby and Travers, de-
serves his ran and praise.
Nelson Whitney, who, although the
holder OF no title at present. deserves
high rank because OF his match and
medal rounds In the play at the Ma
tional Links. at Shenecossett. where he
made IA 20. and In the I'VE defeats which
he gave to Philip Carter, ar wen as the
golf displayed In the amateur cham
pionship. is also ranked high. These six
on the seasons work have the edge over
others. In m humble opinion.
The last group contains u list Of those
whose names al one time or another
have seemed familiar. IL may surprise
many when they see the name OF II.
chandler Egan on the roll OF honor once
again. In past years many writer's who
have picked the best ten or twelve have
put dow the names Of Egan. Wood
aud others when these players have
MT pla! ed any golf nj all. or II they
nave golfed have done so poorly. Past
populations have been allowed to count
for too much. But this wear Chandler
Egan has been back at the game, and
his play In the great Northwest has
shown great power In the California
championships nj the exposition he was
defeated by Heinrich Schmidt. but in the
p~otldtch event AT Seattle. and In two
other open events for professionals and
amateurs he led the field. having one
me round OF n 80 and winning the anna
teur events with the greatest OF ease.
He has not had the competition which
We In the East have had. It il true. but
! am confident that he has performed
A'' taf "tNi INC olh StH. Ill WIN
only this week that ! was talking with
a friend OF mine who saw Egau play
this summer and he confirmed my own
growing impression that the old cham
pion Is a sure enough comeback in the
realm Of golf.
In this list would place Jesse Gull
iord OF Boston. whose mighty driving
mas long been such "A powerful asset.
Iuilford won three big events in the ex-
IRENE East this year and performed at
Wollaston with the power Of a highest
class commander Of shots. With rounds
winch averaged abou; II he played for
FOUR days his defeat at the hands Of
MAX Maiston at Detroit, Will. thor
oughly earned by the latter. was aided
by the formers difficulty in selecting the
ttuo TO use. or In other words. his in
abilIty To judge distances correctly.
II would not he u bad idea for TN.
player who this KS he might well be In
TINS division in place OF Guilford 10 take
MN on Tor "A try II see what abundant
means he has Tor unusual scores and the
many times he makes them
Iherc II room in this list for Ned
sawyer. whose dCfea, 81 Evans was
brought about only through the medium
or almost perfect play and for Heinrich
NJ away OUT on the Pacific coast.
who reached tn. final round Of W Of
NV ''''NN important events neIu there
and IN n OF them defeated Chick
Evans -Four open fell 10
Solilnldis lot this year and he was the
sam" old hard nut to crack when thu.
match play was IN. IN one big event
he led the field with IA for TWO rounds.
and his whole year has been worthy Of
a place IN our golhng hall Of fame.
II would he wrong To leave out the
name "f sheriff. sherman, whose ad-
vance To the semi-final round In the ma
tional championship was gained only
through hard fought victories over nm.
golfers and sturdy fighters. He deserves
II place.
For the last position there are ten
who might All the bill. Roy Webb led
the medal field IN the East on several
occasions. but fell down when IL came
Ia match play Oswald Kirkby los, in
both the metropolitan and the New .Jer-
scy championships, and In an open in
Philadelphia, and his victories AT the
National and at Ekwanok were not in
events where many fine players were
,Irlcd.
Harry B DAVIS, who won the exposi-
tion championship, failed to qualify in
the Western amateur ana was defeated
four times in the pas, three months on
the coast Dawson Heron and Dudley
Nudge, both fine players. have not shonc
Win steady llStr. long enough TO war
rant u fixed position. while T.. N. Byers,
Gardiner White, T.. r, Allis. I'd, and
/, T. Whit cmurc. particularly White,
have good records In general. Perhaps
IL would be M well to leave the names
rs they stand and let others place them
az they Sc" ut.
There will be no national handicap
ping Of players after the usual method
~ the past years. so we are told, which
viii do away with senseless s%Quabbling
about what handicaps Il player should or
should not get. but from the above LIST
may he Inferred II little, II my ratings
are ut All wise, of how the players might
he ranked If only this years perform
ances were taken into consideration
What the new method Of the committee
VIII be ! know not as yet, but all that Is
necessary NJ any rate Is Ia he allowed
To play in the national amateur and
hav" II good lime, which means more
to mo aud to many others than all the
liandicaps and ratings which n thousand
committees might register. Let us hope
that We shall never have to play the
game of golf anywhere else other than
on the good green grass under blue
skies.