Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-18
GEORGE ROTAN BUILT UP HIS
4 COLE ON WACO SAND GREENS
ECen Hagen Didn't Shine There Approach Sho-Rotan
Has Shown Remarkable Talent in Four Days.
Notes OF Journeys
BY SANDY McNIBLICK

4 sCEORGE ". ROTAN built up his
VI fine golf game on sand green's For
fifteen years he has played his shots to
the hole onto the sand, and those ia
n,iliar with that kind of golf know there
IL 4 lot of difference between 1t and the
turf of the green in the North.
Rotan's development is all the more
remarkable when his record, just for
instance, Of the last week is considered.
First the tall star, who is from Waco.
Tex. and is entered here from the
Houston Country Club, won the Lynne
wood Hall cup for the second time on
Wednesday, against about as good
field as could be desired. Rotan then
looked over the Wilmington course for
the first time and played the medal
score of the invitation yesterday.
Coming North and performing like
that In the short space of four days is
what you might call hauling Goals to
Newcastle" Rotan grew very fond
Of his home course and likes the sand
greens first rate. In fact. he wishes
they would play the worlds cham
pionship" down there.
IL believe the pro there and ! are
the only ones that know how to play
the COURSE" smiled Rotan, for it calls
for peculiar brand of approach shots.
The idea is not to land the green, but
keep strictly off that is, play your ball
as near as possible to the green. The
nearer you get the better, but if you
land the green you re gone. From the
edge of the green you ought to be able
TO hole out every time in one, II you
can putt on a floor
Rotan recalled that Walter Hagen
and Jock Hutchinson had dropped off
there for "howdy do game, and
were beaten only G and ).
''It was killing" laughed Rotan,
''as they were utterly at sea as to how
to play it,"
Rotan stated that he would not play
In the Philadelphia amateur next week
and that he would only be here about
fortnight longer. Most of this time
he will spend at Pine Valley. as he is
immensely fond of that course. On the
way back to Texas he is going to drop
off at Oakmont to have game with
8. ID. Heron. the national champion.
II cant stay long up here. said
Rotan, land besides | have "A big fam
ily.'
He hopes to make real Texas golfer
out of his son, husky yOungSter OF
ten years. who weighs l2j pounds.
"He's just taking up the game, said
Rotan, 80 | cant tell yet how well
he promises.
Rotan won the Texas championship
from 1912-1915. inclusive. and again
last year. This year he was beaten in
the finals. He first won the Lynne
wood Hall cup in 1915.
Rotan said that Texas Is AL for
golf and that they're now building the
fifth course at Dallas. Houston is a
center but Galveston has had hard luck
with its efforts. A clubhouse burned
down, or course had to be abandoned
and so forth.
man golf team. was expected to appear a
. the Wilmington invitation tourney yesterday
hut didn't. There was much interest ,,i1 II hoy hoy
against the fine field.
J. Simpson Dean. PrncCton's golf team
skipper, had par on the last three holes :
make yesterday in order to figure for n
seventeenth which flew out Of bounds put hir
rather out OF II. shot to the trap at tn
sishfeenth settled it unanimously.
iS4J
IRotan's score was somewhat remarkabl
= thai hs was ing for biz DsSSer SprS %h
said Rotan. I'm fact. I believe he is OF
the greens committee. think the size OF
place ! took one out a couple OF feet Ions
which couldn t be helped nor put back, as II
new all to pieces
Robert Weir. Wilmington. showed lots ot