Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-02
JESS WILLARD JR. HAPPY TO FATHER THE
LATTERS BATTLE WITH MORAN

lions? Each year we have been ia
vored with accounts of the best drives
which have been made, the longest
brass shots, the holing in one or the
holing of some very long shot. such as
Walter Hagen pulled off at Greenwich
early last year, or some fine puts
which meant the winning of hard
fought contest. writes John Anderson
in the New York Sun. 1t Will be re-
freshing. therefore. to dwell for a mo-
ment or two on the bad features of
play which stand out as being pre-
eminent from this peculiar standpoint
The one worst shot which figures most
prominently in my mind was not made
by duffer. Far from it: it was the
former five times open champion of
lGreat Britain. James Braid. and the
occasion was the open championship of
France in the year 1872. Braid he'd
been playing well for the first three
rounds, but his last effort was far re-
moved from even his fair form. The
chances to finish i'll the money dwln-
died away a each succeeding hole. yet
Braid never stopped trying. which is,
las know, one of his finest charac-
Iteristics. The drives found the rough
and the puts would not do other than
slip by the hole. till the spectators left
and he was without a gallery when he
played the last hole. There was a
Icrowd of over a thousand on hand. all
wondering what the tall Scotchman
was doing for the round, and all the
lFrenchmen who did not know of his
poor play were anNiously awaiting the
returns, for Jean Gassiatt had Just
handed in a score of .S9. and seemed in
a fair way to win the title
| Brad's second shot left him five feet
from the hole. His third shot, putted'
iof course. left him five inches away
| In his usual deliberate manner ne
stepped up to the ball, took the ordi-
mary preliminary wiggles. hit the pan
seemingly, as usual. and missed the
Ihole altogeth her, the ball coming to rest
a few inches the other side of the hole.
IA grin spread over Braids face, ana
Iremained until he had putted oNt ana
| walked off the green into the crowd,
where Harry Eardon, J. II. Taylor and
others were nearly doubled up with
Laughter. | was standing with j. j.
lMcDermott who finished fifth that year,
with a score of 293, and his mouth was
wide open with astonishment AT ihe
sight of such a great player completely
missing a putt which was not frac-
ton over five inches.
| Others of the great and well known
| golfers have made shots which border
ed on the ridiculous. Harold II. Hilton
/ In his match with Heinrich Schmidt
In the champion ship when last played
| at St. Andrews. while on the seven,
teenth green. putted for the h"ie' ano
| the ball ran over the green and INTO
the road. which is SO noted for It's
troublesome nature. loss woula nave
meant the loss of the match, undoubt-
eddy. and it was only by the following
up of one of the worst shots which
Hilton ever played by one of the most
| brilliant that the hole was halved.
Then there is that shot which was
played by Chick Evans In the SEMI
final round at Garden City three years
! ago on the fifteenth green. he was
| down with to go in the cham
| pionship and had putt of three feet
with which to win the hole and square
the match. After consulting with ms
| caddy and trying to make up his mind
| what club to play he finally decided
| upon one of two Dutters and bent over
the ball. After what seemed an inter-
| minable time he hit the ball. but only
| with enough force to send it Il couple
| Others have made worse shots, OF
| course. by far, but when the time and
| the circumstances are considered, then
| the effort becomes doubly feeble
|
There is such a chance of a mistake
| creepjne in on almost every shot if the
| player is not on the alert that it is on
| the putting green when the ball is
| very near to the hole that we find our
| best examples of the worst shots One
| which comes under that head mainly
| because II had the worst results han
| pened at Myopia few wears ago
! There the green's are very keen and
| especiallv the first one where the
! green is on A slight angle and the ball.
III pa.e VIII IaSh lui H. hIee
% tne pc nau noteu out anu tnt
| .oui 81. "as ieit I'm .s?s :Iai d 100.
" Jul nc ot..Is > hlhs ma, ~
was mere mater OF FORM ior me
pa p,asel 70 no.e Tue nai', started toward
| .ne '.t tpse'n Win me tauoIes' eA
- ~ ' tne uos VIZ w, was lloloins ;he nag
an" III eaiiinS " .he money "hich was
| NJ ~ oe hls Nleh the louiiu was over,
~ sentie,iaI putteu anu hlsSeu'
| eupoi nc iooheu up anu cfieu 10
| ii .1 .1,' @
,, sii, "na, W YOU .iimh oi 'hat
.en ne Sa,t. ~. ioIuer "a ~, ! lhlS ,s.
nc, ,.a' , tass pu'.. ne pall mean" me
ia" peeh u a'e-inS WIN QUICKER ana
| I Ne spu en,t II disappeared De
NV .he 1'est u Tue siopihs green anu
stIlhIhs PAN never stopped uhtii II
was INJURED sards away at the ioot
y, the mn leaoins 10 the second hoie-
ne payer loohlhs down ana seeing
nothihg put green grass. was aston
lsned beyond WORDS ms caddE could
AGO nothihe TO the Information, ana
a1ter search OF hFe minutes the eoii-
ers hah 10 give up. mat night caddy
iouhd the peii at ire Ioot or me atofe-
mentioned NH anu MS caddN friend,
recognizing II TO be ms employers,
took 1t back and told where il had been
round II IT had been in media i-play
competition and such an experience had