The Washington herald., 1915-05-09

Gus as the mon. All this we may have
To do for self-rroteCtion. The wives of
Saturday and Sunday PLAYERS don't care
10 remain at home RS golf widows. nor
do they care TO ii: idly by in the club
house and wait To catch glimpse OF
their husbands between rounds. A
woman who is physically able wants to
play. and a great many of them can play
the game along with their husbands and
score equally well.
The discussion which has arisen owing
20 the mystery attached to the presence
Of the name of Walter h. Whigham on
the handicap list OF the United states
Golf Association and the Metropolitan
Golf Associate is not the only question
OF the accurasy of these lists. The golf
ers OF Massachusetts and the Western
Golf Association have made some sharp
criticisms of the arrangement by which
Travers and Ouimet are placed together
at scratch and Evans is at one. The
former insist that Ouimet should alone
be at scratch while the Western players
hold that Evans is entitled to place
at scratch. Moreover. Golf Illustrated.
of London. edited by Harold II. Hilton.
the former amateur champion Of Great
Britain and the United States. agrees
with the. Massachusetts, golfers that Oui-
met should stand in solitary glory at
scratch. On this point Mr.. Hilton said
in a recent issue:
1T is ratlN a surprise to me that
Francis Ouimet does not enjoy the dis
tinc&ion of being on the scratch mark In
solitary loneliness, as on his general form
OF last season one would be distinctly in
clned to consider him the outstanding
player of the past year. as he won the
amateur championship and put up quite
"A good exhibition in the open event Mr..
Travers was runner up in the amateur
and this was the only big event he took
part in, but IL is quite within the bounds
of probability that the handicappers have
been little influenced by his great deeds
in past years and in consequence are
little loath to play him back one until
there is every evident reason for so do
ing"
One cannot form an idea OF the way
Massachusetts golfers think on this Ques-
ton of Ouimet and Travers at scratch
until they arouse Statistician A, -Linde
Fowler of Boston, on the subject. Then
Mr. Fowler will emit words faster than
a French 15-millmeter gun will discharge
shot. They say that even the rapidity
of speech of Rev. DR.. Phillips Brooks, the
noted Boston divine. who long held the
record for speed in talking. were eclipsec
the other day when an unlucky Gotham
golfer happened to run across Mr.. Fow-
Ter on Boston Common and congratulate
ed him on Ouimet getting on scratch with
Travers. They say that the way Mr..
Fowler poured out figures on Ouimets
1914 performances made crowd gather
in the belief that he was a lightning
calculator giving exhibitions of his skill
Mr.. Fowler's point is that Ouimet did
better than Travers in the British anna
teur. being put out in the second round
with his medal score of 81. while Travers
went out in the first round with a score
of 90 In the British open qualifying
round Ouimet led all amateurs and was
only a few strokes behind the leading
pros. Then in the French championship
final Ouimet beat II. J. Topping. of the
United States, who had defeated the man
who had beaten Travers.
Coming back to the United States. Mr..
Fowler dweIls on Ouimet's capture of the
Massa chusetts champion on the long
and difficult Brae Burn course with all his
rounds under so, and on his taking fifth
place in the national open at Chicago
Then in the national amateur he was one
stroke worse than the IA of the leading
score of Fownes and Gorton in the quail
flying rounds, while Travers was about
half a dozen strokes worse. In the final
he overwhelmed Travers, and when they
met few days later in the Lesley Cup
matches at Baltusrol. Ouimet won again.
although the course was new to him.
while Travers knew the links like a
book" When it was pointed out to Mr.