Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-29

WHEN one mingles with the Romans
w one does as the Romans do, what
ever that is. In the same way. when
the Americans compete for the British
golf championships it is necessary to
compete as the British do. and just how
far accpding to the rules and customs
over there has affected the Yankee
status is q matter of surmise mostly.
Americans, it would seem, are getting
better each start. In the first titular
tilt four American women stars played
for the ladies' championship of Great
Britain. 1t was the law that two
matches should be played a day. 1t is
never the custom for the ladies to play
more than one round per day over here.
Just how much the thirty six hole grind
abroad set back their chances is ques-
tion.
1t is certain. however, that the only
one Of our quartet in the play who ha I
the physical stamina for such test
was Miss Marion Hollins. 1t is mat
ter of record also that she it was who
went the farthest. though day in and
day out Miss Hollins is not always
capable of the golf played by Mrs. G:
II. Vanderbeck and Miss Mildred
Caverly.
Putting
Then came the amateur. The rules
of British golf bar the Schenectady put
ter, the holng out stick Bob Gardner
has used and been accustomed TO ior
years.
II is not the intention here to pro-
nose that Gardner might have, won tne
British title could he have played his
regular putter. 1t Is. however nothing
short of marvellous that he was aoIe TO
20 ns far as the finals with a strange
putter. where only one American had
ever been before.
the British finals, putting with
In the final round Gardner puttcd
hadlv on some holes. it is said. but made
nm for 1t in his uphill fight to square
the match. GARDENERS performance
throughout will ever be credit to
American golf. ?. :
the grand climax of the American In
Harold Hilton. seven times in the
finals for the British amateur, once
winner of the American title, twice
Rritish open champion. figures no ques-
ZION Of number Of rounds, nor putters.
nor other regulations. but hns an inter
esting bit to say in the British Evening
standard concerning the effect OF coats:
II has ever been the custom abroad
To wear a coat while playing golf. Here,
almost never in tournaments.
Hilton Says
'That American golfers are handi-
canned when they come over to this
az and wear coats, | think is more
than A little true. Many can remem-
her Chick Evans when he was playing
the Young Australian left handler,
Rruce Pearce The weather at this
Prestwick meeting was a real boiler,
and Chick bowing to British GUS
tom, had been playing in a coat. and
I know that he did not relish doing
so. Against young Pearce he had to
20 out to the nineteenth, and at this
hole his second shot ran over the green
into a sand hazard. 1t was a desperate
situation for the Chicago boy, and
realizing this he threw convention to
the wind and promptly discarded his
coat for n last dying effort. The re-
suit of his third shot was good, but
not quite good enough, and Pearce won
the hole. Why Chick continued to
wear a coat to which he was not accus-
toned | have not been able to fathom.
In ThiCkest Tweeds
"When little Heinrich Schmidt came
over here in 1913 he wore the thick
est Of tweed suits and it did not seem
to seriously interfere with his game.
In fact, his performance of st. An
drew's was just about the finest in his
career. Walter ]. Travis, the most
thoughtful and logical of all American
golfers, wore a coat when over here