The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24

Britain would stand much of chance
with a championship played every day
II the holes were all In the teeth OF a
wind and Mitchell was contender. To
him, therefore, we are inclined to award
the palm for long driving. To which
we must hasten to add that Mitchell
this year I'm all but three Journeys out
side of the open has led the professional
field. His grand average for the first
thirty rounds in tournaments and ex-
hibitions was II. while his score OF 66
the other week over the Deal links will
stand as q monument to his brilliance
as an all round player.
From driving we win jump to putting.
and there we have a very close race be-
tween Ted Ray and-almost unbelieva-
ble--Chick Evans. A careful survey
of Evans's record and his play shows
a real abiiity TO go down in two putt
as frequently as any other living golfer.
while with Ray more long puts holed
and more ten footers which found the
bottom of the cup give an edge.
1t is not generally known that Ray Is
a billiard player of no mean reputation /;
in fact. last spring after the Bramshot
tourney he took on one Of England's best.
Tom Reece, and beat him with, OF course,
the aid of reasonable handicap This
touch Of the green cloth has carried over
to the greensward 1t would be strange.
indeed, If a person endowed with such
two fine attributes, a powerful drive and
delicate putting touch, did not win
championships.
Evans Studies the Putt.
Evans, we are inclined to think. stud
les the putt with view to comparisons
with former greens of like nature. He
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power, but he has mechanical perfection
which over a long stretch of play brings
about q low average. All the others.
with the possible exception of Miss AleXa
Stirling are good putters, but with suf-
ficient unsteadness to counterpalance
their brilliancy.
Through the green" players find no
one unless 1t be Evans who shines above
dozens of others. Nor is it fair TO put
the amateur champion on a pedestal
when he does not have to stage his play
in conjunction with cross currents,
as obtains across the water Duncan,
with his reliable spoon and midircn, the
two women stars with their chip shots
to the green and Evans with HIS nashie
to our mind outshine the performances
with any particular iron club as dis
played by Ray or Mitchell. But thera Is
little TO choose between any OF the group
when the science Of execution is con-
sidered
When 1t comes to temperamental con-
siderations the group resolves itself into
two sets. with Duncan, Evans and
Mitchell on the one side representing the
nervously brilliant, and Ray, Stirling
and Leitch (and we consider 1t a COM
pliment worth while for the lady play
ers) representative Of cool and collected
nerves and always there" when the
need is present.
It is a well known fact that golf
titles go to the good golfer who makes
the least number of mistakes. He must
not be brilliant on three holes and take
six to the short hole: he or she must
be uniformly straight down the line,
wasting not over two strokes q round.
Golf of this nature stirs the makers at
times to even greater excellence, and
then it is that par gets q beating. No
other players can be named who COM
bine these attributes SO fully or who
back them up with the soundness of
common sense. They are the shining
lights of the golf season Of 1920.