The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-19
THIS PAST MASTER
NOT MASTER PAST
England May Have Her Hilton
and Ball--We Wouldn't
Swap for Travers.
NERVE CONTROL SUPERB
nv JOHN q. ANDER son.

England has her John Ball and her
Harold Hilton, but the good old U. =
A.. would never swap her Jerome Trav-
ers for either, or both.
To he amateur champion for four
years. then to be considered by many
not as q past master at the game. but
as a master past hope OF equal or
greater glory-and then to display such
tremendous golf vitality. such superb
control of nerve, mind and mus
Gle TO come back with volcanic
abruptness n decisive surety and win
the open championship OF America
this by a man considered fairly I'M
skilled t medal play, though n King
az match-of course this could never he.
But jerome u. Travers ~surmounted
the seemingly impossible and to-day
stands at the pinnacle Of American
golf. No longer will II be necessary
to look 10 Great Britain for the heroic
wins by the amateur OF professional
events. The last three open champion
ships have prescribed bitter pills Tor
the professionals to swallow twice nave
amateurs htnn the t4lstUllfllllSs Nv lhSN
wear an amateur missed by a stroke.
Now indeed will b" dreary twelve
month. for the professionals must strug-
gle along with smothered revenge In
their hearts. for they re bereit OF a
leader. but It must he confessed that
they took their medicine well.
Visions Of what happened at BROOK
line two years ago ni;ted through the
minds OF the spectators as. at lunch
time. they scanned the bulletin board
and saw the amateur hopes resting in
the hands Of that grand fighter, the
idol Of the metropolitan district, jerome
II. Travers.
There were many opportunities in Mr..
Travcrs's final round for the gallery to
give vent 20 feelings that were strug-
r'ing for expression AZ AL moments. IL
was with groans tina an occasional badly
played shot was received. but as a gem
eral thing the groaus were but the fore
runner OF cheers 10 follow when the
four times amateur Champion n no"
open %titlis;. made one OF his brilliant
fecover.es \ start OF :. I. 3 was good.
but nothing exceptional. but when Jerry
took three puts on the fourth green.
thereby dropping the stroke with which
he had led Brady and the field up 10
that point, there were some admirers or
Mr.. Travers who were just weakened
enough 20 think that the strain was be-
ginning to tell on even such p stort
rearted golfer as the Upper Montclair
man.
But there we're others, lots Of them.
who never wavered FOR a moment in
their belief that the amateur was TO be
the ultimate winner. These stanch
ones were rewarded for their faith when
Mr.. Trlvers. after hooking into A bunker
a; the NTH. right after taking his three
puts. played a great shot out OF the
sand on to the green and nearly secured
e 3. Three more puts for Mr. Travers
on the seventh green We're a lt'le dam
tgiug to Travcrs's own feelings. to Judge
from his appearance, but they really
only served to make him set his teeth
together and produce one OF those
masterful mashie approaches AZ the
eighth on which the bail hardly moved
two feet from whore u landed.
The earlier enthusiasm became as mere
whispering when Jerry. after driving
the first ,all out of bound At the tenth
and pulling his second Into the rough,
PLAYED "A marvellous shot out OF the long
grass. over the water hazard. landing
q few feet from the cup. and then
ran down the putt for "A par 4 But that
was not all after topping his drive to
the eleventh into the rough and playing
from there into more OF tho same. the
king OF rccoverors poked the next on
the green and proceeded to hole "A long
putt for another par 4
What must Brady's feelings have been,
seeing an amateur aspiraut for the title
pull off such extraordinary doings and
got fcures as good as II the hole were
PLAYED perfectlyH can easily imagine
the WoIlaston professional saying to
himself: "This man isn't human what
chance Is there against a chan who
can spot you n shot at every hole and
then halve II"
one OF the great shots NJ the roui-
namcnt was Mr.. Travers's iron second 10
the fifteenth. which did not devia'e n
hairs breath from the lire from the mo-
ment OF impact to the moment the bal.
came to rest close 20 the green. Then n
delicate chip shot. one OF Jerry's own,
and he was left with an easy pu:;
for n 4.
That 4. 70 my mind, was the po'n.
where tho title was settled, II WAS tina:
!. one under par. which LEFT Travers fac
ing nothing but par figures for the re-
naming three holes to clinch the title,
for II already was known. almost beyond
question, that a 10 was all that was nee
essary FOR him n win
can any one imagine Mr.. Travers not
doing those holes in par? II never was
In douh'.
OF the other brilliant performances
James ponaldson's 20. NiCholls's l47 frr
the day and EvHus's . at the seventeenth
mention may be made, but only one
name now Is on the golfers tongue.
Jerome u. Travcrs.