The sun., 1916-12-17
NBW GOLF STARS a/
N HELPFUL TO GAME
delegation Of Leaders to Back.
ground Excites Interest
in Sport.
MAXWELL PROVES ADEPT

W0Bo tnen ten years ago walter j. Ira
vts was looked pom AZ the country's
per at golf. and America was not tho
enly nation which so honored the genius
g Garden City. Now the grand old man
g Golf b satisfed TO be one Of the gal.
1ory. He has retired from competitive
clay not because his game has suffered
TO any great extent In the years since
- was rated No. I or because he 10
unable to compete on even terms wi.h
~ mighty army OF high class golfers
swinging into the limeiight Of American
O0af. but rather because ne, like MANY
0ehsrs. sits back and wonders at the
achievements Of youthful prodigies of
the game.
F1ndiay g. Douglas. national champi IN
IN 1888 and runnerup In the two follow
sng years. no longer considers It imper-
otive to play In tic chief tournament "
the year. In fact he IL glorihed II he Is
oble to match strokes with the young.
seers crowding his home links. He stu
turns In Q card which would satisfy sew
esol thousand ambitious players. but he
tke Travis. u content TO watch the re-
Markable ability Of the young.
COLI 10 no longer q game for the ma.
tufe. No lonyer can the business man
Sxult In . sport which he though, was
for him. because boys and girls are lea J.
ing the way with such rapid strides the
elder persons must take . back seat.
Rson for Star On TOP.
Even Chick Evans. Jerome Travers
n Francis Ouimet are beginning to eye
lobby Jones. Perry Adair. Norman II.
MAXWELL and a few others askance,
wondering where tire genius Of thess
yUungsters Is to stop and II some other
~ still unshaven is to occupy the pc l.
eoeal % long thouoht the property Of the
thsse above named. Young Bobby. from
Atlanta, more than threatened to ,btair
possession this season and Maxwell b"
ats recent display at Lakewood makes Z.
imperative that the leaders brush up on
their game II they hope to further ho,i
~ youthful America.
No less an authority than Gardiner w.
White OF Flushing. who bowed before the
prowess Of Maxwell II Lakewood, pre-
.Stcts that the young Philadelphia will
- . champion. Maxwell. who IL only 10
vars old and Is a freshman at the Uni.
versity OF Pennsylvania, has only to be-
ZONE . bit more efficient In his short
game to astonish the golfng world. His
wood and iron shots are the delight Of
e0jookers. At Lakewood In his four
rounds Of match play Maxwell was in
- SSos ostsy hbhCS NiIItNS vi tIhC W.
and almost every time his ball came to
reet In . dead line with the iaE. He
Duued n drive Of the seventy-two
Of bounds. and then he was facing q
strong wind and smashing up hill.
Maxwell plays with wonderful conn.,
1encs. He knows what to do as soon as
he 10 called upon to make a shot. He
does not waste a second Of time worrying
Over what club to use. the direction Of
he wind. the force needed or the dis
tancs REQUIRED. lntu!tively and instantly
1ese problems are solved.
Maxwell Becomes Famous.
While Maxwell In quite unknown to
most metropolitan golfers, he Ia a celeb
1tty around Philadelphia. He halls from
Aronimink. where he twice has equailed
the course record of 70. He holds the
amateur record Of his home course
n has tied the best professional mark.
His greatest achievement at home was
the defeat Of Max r. Mars.on OF Baltus-
roll In the Shawnee invitation tourDa-
ment, which he won. He was one stroke
oct Of qualifying In the amateur national
a. Merton. his first big event.
Maxwell Is q powerfully built young
ster with shoulders which should delight
any football coach. He IL short but
UVOCBy duu nus tTttncUuOur pOWCT III TiS
legs and shoulders. He gets unusual
distance In his drives. which was proved
IN his match against Gardiner White at
Lakewood. when on almost every occa-
sion he was from twenty to fifty feet
3urther on his drive than White.
A local critic who does not make state
ments about the ability Of the golfer
unless certain of his ground insists that
a. present Bobby Jones Is a better golfer
than Maxwell but that the Philadelphia
shows more promise than the Atlanta
boy. Most golfers will agree with this
critic, Notwithstanding the insistence
that Bobby 10 being too much petted for
his wi good az well as the good Of golf,
Some argued hat the fare Of Bobby a,
the nationals would die out. but when
Chick Evans and Ned Sawyer visited
Atlanta and played against Bobby and
Perry Adair Bobby not only beat ths
national champion and his Chicago part
ner single handed but proved to all con
ceened he was equal to any emergency.
Bobby IL Real Player.
Atlanta's youthful star has few short.
comings. He gets great distance to hi
drives, a. Bob Gardner. former title
holder. will attest. Bob was an inter.
estsd spectator at Merton when Bobb,
was ~slappiLg the ball a full $50 yardi
from tho tee. His iron shots were mar.
wells of accuracy. Seldom does he fail "a
make the green on an approach. and
usually his ball will lie in close proximity
10 the cup. His putting IL much more
accurate than that of Maxwell. Bobby
seldom misses "A putt inside ten feet anC
no U n down many OF twice that dis.
lance. At Is years Of age he Is one OF
the best golfers Of the nation. and again
notwithstanding comments to the con.
trary. he undoubtedly will improve with
age.
Perry Adair. who Is II, and also from
Atlanta, Is another prodigy who threat.
Ems to dim the br!lliance OF Travers
Evans and Ouimet. In fact Adam al
ready 10 rated among the few stars OF
the game, However. Atlanta does no,
look upon Adair as equal to Jones. Adai,
plays a careful game of golf, which
reaches brilliant heights occasionally
but usually is Just short OF top rating
However. Adalr 10 young yet. II that old
expression means anything as far a.
golf u concerned.
Yoangsters Play Well at Pinch ars,
There Is some promising golnng ma
tertal amons the youngsters who attend
Eric Parsons School at Pinehurst. Lam,
bert Splane. the fourteen-year-old con Of
w. q. splane Of Pittsburg and a nepheu
OF Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, played
y $50 yard par four hole the other da,