The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-11
Rating on Season just Ended
Puts Open Champion ut
Top Of List.
ROBERT GARDNER SECOND
ny JOHN q. An

peneTally ABOUT tniS tlTHe Ot tHe year y
selection Is made Of the country's lead
ing golfers. All the big tournaments Of
the yea are now history. and the
achievements OF the various players who
would have a chance 10 be ranked In
the first dozen or 50 of amateur experts
have been set down In black aud white,
from which exhibit we may draw our
conclusions. confident all the while tina
few II any will agree In every detail
with the group as prepared. | must say
that II has been a harder task selecting
sixteen names this year than ever be-
fore. The levelling OF play must as
suredly account for this. and I believe
each year the task will become more
and more difficult.
No. I. Jerome u. Trivers--I found IL
no hardship naturally to pick the golfer
who should rank first among the anna
teur players of. America. To win the
open championship OF the United States
from a field Of great strength gives
him the honor without going further.
But there were other events where the
peerless golfer OF the year shone. In the
Metropolitan championship his match
with the ultimate winner. Walter j.
Travis. went to the last hole before a
decision was reached Mt Detroit defeat
came only after Mr.. Marston played bet
ter tina par golf on four successive
holes, gaining "A lead which II was almost
impossible for any man to overcome.
BESIDES there were two victories Mt
Philadelphia In the spring. just after the
open championship where MIR. Traveis
played golf of his own unbeatable sort.
and his recent play In the Lesley u
contests. where he won from that fine
fighter w. G.. Fownes. Jr. There is no
dlsputing Mr.. Travers's position.
No. >. Robert A. Gardner-.In some
other years II might have been possible
to place even the amateur champion Of
tNc United States la a position further
down the list, The game shown b. such
golfers Az Evans. Ouimet and Fownes,
for example, might In the whole seasons
play have overmatched that Of a win of
"A week, but that condition does not oh
tain this year. No golfer outside of Mr..
Travers has played s0under golf when
needed than Gardner. Fownes. Evans
and Ouimet have been of as never before.
and both from a medal play standpoint
and match play as well Gardner de-
serves the runnerup position. In Chicago
Gardner finished third in An open t)urna-
ment of seventy-two holes medal for pro-
fcssionals and amateurs. the same event
he won the year before. and he was
beaten by only two strokes for the low
score at Detroit. His play after the first
day needs no eulogy. IL Is quite fitting,
too, that the honors OF the frst two
places should go to the open and ANA
teur champions OF the country.
Last year I remember that there were
four golfers named in the leading group.
and then groupings by tours were made
for the Others. ! am inclined To group
together this year two golfers whose
play has been erratic, sometimes medic
ere and other times brilliant in the ex-
IRENE. but whose general standard OF
play Is not on the same plane AS last
year.
In deciding upon a bracket for Messrs.
Ouimet and Evans. removed by a dis
tinct space from the first two places.
attention should be drawn to their per-
formances for the whole season and
not wholly. as some delight To do. to the
championship open and amateur events.
Evans won the Western amateur from
a good field. and in so doing played fine
golf the same player has shown some
good medal rounds this year. but not
owe first class courses as a rule. with
the exception OF his one round at Bal
tusrol, where he had a II. His work In
the two open championships which he
entered-the national and the Western
Was distinctly disappointing. In the
former he was far down the list. while
in the Western "A score Of 32+ gave him
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