New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-06
Jerry Was Suffering from
Bad Cold While PIayinc
in Golf Tourney.
A SIDE HILL PUTT
LOSES FOR MARS1W
Showing of John Andsr,
Against Fast Clip of Gardns
Deserving of Praise.
By GRANTLAND RICE.

We should say ofFhand that II. \,
most striking features Of the r,...
amateur championships lsar (.
Eastern golfers would centre ar,,
Jerry Travers and Max Msrston
While Marston's golf against T-.
ers was super-brilliant, almost =
canny in its spin below par o. Il,
after hole, the battle that Jerry IA,
against such odds will never b, "a.
gotten by those who saw this matt
Trayers entered the tournams,,
poor physical shape. suffering froz
heavy cold and bad cough which 4,
pulled him down 70 shadow. n,
was an especially heavy handicap w
the long Detroit course that reqsisl
stamina even above skill.
So in his match against the tall j..
sey champion Trayers. knowing be hi
a lard fight on. was rot physicaiy . /
mentally fit to GO cut after his mar a |
ne usually does in such a match Eel
was content 10 take things easy a. Il, |
start, and 70 offset this Marston W
putting poorly. So either would han
hal a chance 10 be many up before Z.
twenty hole was reached
Finally, at the twenty-fifth mole, 1
the afternoon, Travers set his jaw AZ.
got started. Precisely at the ssmsr,
ment Marston cut the leash. F.|
twelve holes Travers played as s.ss:.
lily consistent golf as We have Gg
seen. He never missed a shot Es|
neither beat par on any hole or lost b
par. He waI just Par. And jet VI
these last twelve holes played in IrI
he lost five holes and yet, with Nat.
ston beating par on hole after hoe
Travers never quit-never brcke-
never lost for a minute his grip upo,
his iron nerve. And il took nerve q
the finest type 10 play that sort Of gut
against the miraculous work Of Mar.
ston, especially when the open chan.
pion was almost too weary 70 stand OF
his feet. To those who follow sport
an. know golf Jerry acquired NOR
glory in that beating than he eye
earned in a victory. II was almost "
yond all believing he fought /
hopeless fight as brayely as ne eve
fought a winning one, or with evs1
create: courage.
Marston's defeat at the hands 4
Gardner was the hardest luck thu 81
will ever know. The Jersey boy plsyt
fine golf and game golf against ore d
the best golfers and hardest hghitn
Of the game. Don't imagine that MAJ
ston lost mis- nerve and slipped. Whc
Gardner played his iron 70 With
eight feet of the cup on the thiru-
sixth hole Marston played ono slmox
as good to a green 1875 yards swrl
banked with trouble on every SD
His approach putt was a thirty-foe'
side hill, affair, along a fast, Slipper
green, but only a steady hand ecut
have hit the putt as he dld-trIs ?
the line and the proper distance.
For a moment It seemed that b
would hole his ,. But the ball sliru.
ty the cup and rested some two feet
or maybe thirty inches. to the lsi
Apparently he had an easy putt !
llt EdllrAf NhOA H. bNA any INV -
figures that a thirty-lnch putt on
side hill, with the cup resting on s
mound putt 20 win a championship
is an easy putt has never plaft'
much COLI.
Marston did the proper thing in 0s'
opinion. He promptly stepped ~ ar
tapped the ball without fussing o7s
the shot or giving his nerves a :biEn
10 get the best of the situation. i'oe.
ably nine times out of ten he woSA
have made it, But this time i ~
away. and it isn't likely that he VII
ever forget that thirty inches OF Nieai'
gan soil.
The showing OF John Anderson =
this tournament was also !eadlni
feature. The Slwanoy entry proTee
again that he is one Of the games oes
fighters. for he stuck 10 his JOB wits'
cut a slip until Gardner. the chsmploi.
hit such a clip in the afternoon thr
Anderson much shorter game LETT 's'
big a handicap TO meet.