New Britain herald., 1915-09-06

play themselves out pe1oFe IHe IiIle stuff begins.
 The two features We refer to in- volve Bob Gardner, of Chicago and John Anderson, of New York. All through this summer Gardner has been playing very little golf, most Of it embracing a Sunday round. He made no preparation for the tourna- ment, got to Detroit only one day ahead. and in his first practice round, which he played with Jerry Travers, was at least 7 or down.
 Anderson played his last round of golf at Baltusrol back in June. Im- mediately after that he took charge of a boys camp in the Maine woods, and had no opportunity to play g. round from June to within a few days of the championship opening when he arrived in Detroit. For nearly three months he had gone without any golf at all.
 Tn his first round over the Detroit course Anderson took a 90. Yet An derson and Gardner, who have played less golf this summer than any of the. other contestants, went smashing on through the field until they clashed in the Saturday final.
 This may be freak of fate of it may prove something. If it proves anything it is that both came to the tournament fresh anl keen for the weeks outing, and that it is far better to reach a tournament in this frame of physical and mental being than it is to overplay-as so many do-and become Jagged after the start.
 One of the main features of the golf championship was the work of Sherrill Sherman. No one had even figured him with a chance in his first match against Albert Seckel. Yet he continued to step along until he upset the conqueror of Ouimet and reached the semi mi-fnals-merely by playing steady, consistent golf with out any particular thrills.
 The time has passed in American golf when any one or two men, or even any three or four men, can rule the field. There are now ten or fifteen golfers who may beat any of the champions at any time, and as each season comes it is going to be harder and harder to win cham pionship.
 "A year or so ago. said Jerry Travers, you could always figure only one or two men to beat if you happened to meet them in the draw. About one hard match was all that I ever worried about-knowing that in the other matches I had only to play steady golf to win. But those days are gone. You can't loaf on any match now, and this means that the golfer who wins must start in fight ing for every hole from the first day.
 Any one of ten or twelve men is liable at any time to move around in 72 or 73. and you can't loaf any against any such chance. This means that to win a golfer must be in fine physical condition to stand the strain The one who isn't will never go through, for he can't stand the burden of fighting hard for six days without chance to loaf"
 This same condition will soon exist ill tennis There are now two tennis players rated we'll above any others. They are Mclaughlin and Williams. But the youngsters are coming along, and in two or three years there will be at least a dozen who will give either Mclaughlin or Williams all he can handle, and make lawn tennis championship as uncertain as golf which is now edging toward toss up.
 The West has now given up hope of seeing a world series set on western soil. The Red Sox are con- ceded the pennant ir the American league, while only three Eastern clubs have a chance in the National Through the West among leading fans and ball players the opinion is gen. eral that the Red Sox and Phillies will be the two ka1e-gathering clubs which, if it should so happen, would constitute another so-called worlds record.
 Last year these same two cities were represented-but by different teams. Boston sent her National league entry to the scene, while Philadelphia was represented by the American league. To have the same two citadels on the big map with the leagues reversed would be something that has never happened before in the game-about the only thing that hasn't happened that we can think of just now.
 In Detroit recently we seemed to have a sudden hunch one day that football was approaching. We could not fathom or discover any particu- lar reason for this, but the hunch continued to grow. Hooking around, we found the answer. There stood Hurry-Up Yost,
 Yost says that Michigan will have as good an eleven this fall as last l year, and probably better. He ex-