New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Tales OF q WQyside Tee
BY GRANTLAND RICE.
Copyright 1921. New York Tribune Inc

It's an old story in golf that youth
must be served. Sometimes the sorv-
ice is appetizlng, nutritious and sus-
tanning; sometimes it consists in a
thorough and complete lacing, calcu-
lated to inspire in the jauntiness of
youth reverence and respect for its
elders.
There is an atmosphere of chummy
familiarity 4round the ancient recitals
OF how Charles Hutchings won Brit
lsh amateur championship at the age
OF hfty-three years; of now John Ball,
greatest of all amateur golfers, spanned
a lapse of twenty-four years between
has first and last championship, the
latter coming at the age OF forty nine
years; of how Harry Vardc. won the
British open at forty-four, and Walter
j. Travis, the American amateur, at
forty-two.
However, it isn't necessary to travel
back among the musty records of the
DIM and misty past to gather instances
OF where the service rendered to youth
consists in few lusty and we'll directed
clouts at the hands of what, in sport
CIRCLES at least, is considered age.
The recent Garden City invitation
tournament fits in notably we'll at es-
tabllshing our case. 1t happens that
the Metropolitan amateur championship
will be played over this historic course
a biz later. The annual invitation
event, which always draws a good field,
pulled several stars this year. who
might have passed it up but for the
chance to renew acquaintance with the
course with view to entering the
coming title contest
Oswald Kirkby, former Metropolitan
and New Jersey champion, won the ma
lor prize In this tournament, but aside
from his triumph the stunts of the
older entrants predominated like the
color scheme of red and yellow in
Spanish fandango costume.
First thing off the reel John M. Ward
won. the qualifying round with card
of rs, where the second best was an
even 80. For the benefit of those who
may not readily identify John M. Ward,
let us add that some forty years ago
he was playing shortstop for the New
York Giants. Johnny Ward was big
figure in sport circles long before
"Chick" Evans, Francis Ouimet,
Bobby Jones and most of the other
golf stars of to-day were born.
But let US ramble a little further
along. Several crack players who
didn't get down to Garden City for
the full three days joust dropped in
for the special medal play contest at
eighteen holes on Saturday, among
them Walter J. Travis and Jerome
Travers. In the handicap list of the
Metropolitan Golf Association, issued
a few weeks since, this pair was rated
at three strokes each. This rating
evoked smiles from some and rbald
jest from others. But Travis came
home with 70, the best of the field, with
Travers just one stroke back Of him.
We don't have to stop even here. We
might go right along and relate that
the man who met Kirby in the final
Of the first fight at match play was
none other than Frank Hoyt, who can
look up and see the threescore sign
post just a wee bit ahead of him. Hoyt
had plodded along unperturbed where
flock of younger players, including
such as Gardiner White, Jack Stearns,
Henry Topping and others, had been
checked out of the fray in the earlier
rounds.
And there have been several other
events of late wherein the service ad-
ministered to youth smacked keenly
of the gnarled knout. Not so very long
since the Annandale Country Club of
Pasadena staged an invitation tourna-
ment Several of the best players of
California, not to mention three or