The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-06
So Says "The SUMS" Expert
Despite Absence Of Inter
national Journeys.
CHAMPIONS FAvORITEs
Travers, Evans, 0uimet and
Gardner Are Consid-
cred Best.
NJ JOHN g. ANDERSON.

golfer who plays down South there are
hundred who stay In the North. and
the opening OF the links In annually
greeted with demonstrations of pleasure.
TOOK tor golf to have the greatess
year in It's history. International con-
| tests win not bs played. but next year.
according 70 recent authoritative sd-
vices. We may expect visiting back and
forth by the best players OF the land In
| competition for the two most honored
omateur championship titles, those of
the United States and Great Britain
There 10 In prospect for golf q carni-
val which win rival In class the ath-
lttic sports soon TO be INDUCED In under
| the auspices of Gen. Pershing. but the
| tndenniteness OF details make II neces-
ssry. for . fortnight at least. TO with
hold further Information. Sufiice to say
that . good start has been made look
Ing toward . tournament which will
surpass anything the golf world has yet
! seen.
What Of the players of this land who
will strive for the titles this Year, All
information seems to show that there
are no new golfers who will take q fore
most place In the ranks: that history
will repeat itself In almost every event
OF Importance, and that the winners OF
That has been the way previous titles
have gone. Mr.. Travers wins the New
Jersey championship once. and then pro-
ceeds TO capture the title on other oc-
casions; Travers wins the American
amateur title once and gains II on four
occasions, and does the same with the
Metropolitan amateur title, adding still
one more win TO the totals.
Evans captures the Western amateur,
the Western open. and then proceeds
to get the two greatest honors In the
amateur and open events Of the country.
Ouimet wins the Massachusetts, title
| more than once. secures the United
States amateur and open championships.
| a. we'll an the French amateur. and IL
| now ready for new worlds to conquer.
Bob Gardiner wins the amateur title
| twice and like the rest Of the quartet
Is ready to play hard In defence OF past
recordA
Fownes Broke Through.
II may surprise some to know that
only two golfers. "Bill" Fownes In 1910
| and Harold Hilton In 1911, have broken
through the stonewall guard of the -four
| first mentioned since the year 1905. And
II IL quite likely that the men who Sc
iected these four against the field In any
amateur event would have to give fairly
good odds. This gives an idea OF wha,
the secondary offence have got to DO In
this year 1919. No sxpatiation 10 neces-
sary at all on the abilities Of Messrs.
Travers, Ouimet, Evans and Gardner.
We become interested. therefore. this
season In wondering what the play of the
| chaps Just outside the front rank will
show In the way Of results. Since II
Is only those players with low handicap s
who figure. based upon past perform
ance, a shot review OF their chances.
therefore will aid in making preseason
predictions.
We take the year 1907, as being the
date when the Big Four first took
command OF tho chief titles and II we
begin and take the semi-hnalists from
that period We may assume. that they
stand as good a chance OF repeating
victories until they arrive at another
semi-nnal stage. for II has been truth
fully said many times thai golfer up
to forty-tive years will often play a
game equal to his best. and in match
contests repeat former near triumphs."
We have as names in this secondary
list, therefore, the following, leaving out
! of calculations those who may have re-
tired: z. NJ. Byers. Archibald Graham
w. c. Fownes. Jr.. Fred Herreshor.
Max Beh~. II. c. Egan. Mason Phelps.
Warren Wood. W. r. Tuckerman, C. w.
Inslee, Hamilton Kerr John @. Ander-
son, Maxwell r. Marston, Sheriff. Sher-
man. Jesse Guilford. Clarke Corkran.
OF this number Herreshoff has cached
the semihnals three times. Fownes,
three times. Wood twice. and Anderson
twice. Therefore the opposition of at
least q secondary nature is assured when
the strength Of the golfers who have
been semi-inalists once also Us added.
In this later group are golfers who may
some day be champions
Byers and Fownes playing on their
home course at Plttsburg will surely
provide a test TO the redoubtable quar-
, tet who have for ten years out of twelve
swept back opposition. To some golfers,
such as Messrs. Guilford and Marston,
past records will be as nausht. for they
have confidence in their own abilities to
meet any opposition. The same holds
true in smaller sense with a few others
whose names we have not as yet mem
toned.
Claims. of Outsiders.
Admirers OF other golfers may put
forward the claims OF their favorites,
but when they make definite statements
OF their prowess in national events they
are challenging the history OF golf win
ners MS regards repeating" successes
on both sides OF tho water not only in
the amateur but also In the professions al
field. I would much prefer TO select one
name from all the lists which have been
given. including the winners OF our
titles, rather than to rely upon the out
slider coming through. Somehow or
other II Is too rare an occurrence 10
provide forceful preseason prognostica-
lions.
There are many star golfers who are
as clever as many who have reached the
semi-flnai rounds, and these are also
needed In the struggle II our title play
is TO have new hnalists, Kirkby White,
Sawyer. Jones. Adair, Dyer, Hammer,
Heron. Allis. Bond, Bush. Whitney,
Buxton, Carter, Douglas, Edwards,
Egan. Schmidt. Gorton. whlttemore.
Lovey. Hunter. Jscoby. Knowles, Lee.
Legg, Maxwell. Nudge, Ormiston. Patton.
Perrin. Rautenbusch, Rotan, Schlotman,
Seckel. Sherman, Stearns. Topping.
Styles. Timer. Waldo, Ward. Webb,
Wild, Wilder. Worthington and a few
others possess brilliance or steadiness
which wins.
Some OF these are dangerous as long
as they stay IN the competition, others
wear out on the third day before the
confident plugging of tho quartet, but
every man Is capable OF producing a
brilliant squirt which will beat the best
At Detroit on the same day fell Travers
and Ouimet, In the second round the
day after Ned Sawyer had beaten Chick
Evans by and 8.
WALLACE OUTPOINTs MASON,
Special Despatch 10 Tar sux.
CLEVELAND, April 5.-Patsey Wallace