Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-17
NUDGE is COMING GOLFER
Eli Lad Who Was Medalist at De-
troit is Master of Half Iron
and that is Enough.
TRAVIS ENTERS LUsTY KICK

NEW YORK. Oct i6-"who is this
fellow Dudley MudgeT' This was the
question some of the newspaper writer's
asked each other when the qualifying
round OF the national amateur champion
ship was run off at Detroit a month age.
Nudge had won the qualifying medal.
leading the cream OF American golfers.
Tho youthful Nudge is a taciturn lad.
not given to advertising himself In the
least. He plays golf and otherwise de-
votes himself TO his studies at Yale,
where he is In his Junior year. How
ever. easterners will not readily forget
this monosyllable cognomen-Mudge.
There IL something so quiet about the
name. and the boy himself
4 "Dud" Nudge came east after his De-
troit adventure to resume his studies at
Old ELI. He had a day or two TO spare
and entered the intercollegiate cham
pionship at Greenwich. Francis r. Bios
som was too much of bud to permit
Nudge TO advance very far. Then 'Dud"
came back to Greenwich for the annual
! invitation tournament of that club
Thereby hangs tale.
There were, among others. Francis
Ouimet, Max r. Marston. etc, in the
field. but II mattered not to this col
legiah. He went about his business and
beat both OF the aforementioned with
more or less alacrity. Who is Mudge7
A darned fine golfer. a driver of rather
modest length. q superb iron player, a
mighty good putter, possessed with nerve
and self-control and, above all, master of
/ the half iron. What golfer in the anna
teur ranks would not give half his fortune
for that half ironf
II Is yet too early TO predict that this
cousin OF Archie and John Reid. jr.. viii
develop into another ouimet, Travers,
ct al but this much is certain. that
the youthful ''Dud' will bear watch
ing. He has two more years at Yale. and
possibly will play in eastern tournaments.
The name Is odd, but paste It In your hat
for future reference.
Travern Has n Kick.
Walter ]. Travis. the metropolitan
amateur champion and former holder OF
the British and American amateur titles
has come out fIatfooted In favor of a
change In the conditions governing the
national amateur championship. He gives
vent to his views In the current issue
OF golf magazine, OF which he Is edi-
tor.
Travis declares that the introduction
OF an extra day in the American classic
Is "a terrible grind" He further de-
clares that the mere thought of Il Is
appalling. ana asks II II Is necessary.
Does Il not make, more for a question
Of endurance rather than skfllG And II
must not be forgotten that II really
means for the finalists more than seven
solid days OF exacting golf, for two, three
OF four days are usually and necessarily
spent beforehand in preliminary prac-
tice-getting acquainted with the course, .
says Travis Speaking further on this
the veteran player says IN part as fol-
lows;
care we not In imminent danger OF
making our amateur championships toe
burdensome. too time consuming9
In the early days the object was not
wholly to ascertain who was the cham
pion. There were other considerations
The conditions were so arranged as to
encourage as many entries as possible e
promote general interest-in short. 20
spread the gospel. And we have never
quite gotten over H. 1t is true that in
recent years there has been a tendency
TO restrict the entries. but the playing
conditions have remained unchanged
Are these conditions susceptible OF Inn.
provsmentf
Need Improvement.
I'VE cannot help but feel that they arr
without any sacrifice OF Skill and with a
great saving Of time. Our idea would be
20 have an eighteen-hole medal round on
Wednesday the best sixty-four scores
to qualify for thirty-six-hole round on
, Thursday. the four lowest aggregate
scores TO qualify FOR the match play, each
, contestant 70 play an individual round
! against the other three. IN tho shape OF
: the round robin These matches would
be az eighteen holes. On Friday morning
J A would play n. and would play ID,
on Friday afternoon A would play c, and
b would play ID; on Saturday morninl
A would play d, and d would play c
, thus comnleting the series. the winner
! Of the greatest number OF matches 20 b,
, the champion. In the event CT tie be
4 - a. -. a.