Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-31
u AND GOLF, TOLD
OF BY MR.. HASKIN
Daily Letter by Frederic }. Haskin

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.--Go.f
may have been an Did mans game
at n time, but recent develop
mcnts in this greatest of outdoor
sports indicate hat the youngsters
are rapidly taking possession of it.
Youth will be served, as Grantldnd
Rice insists when he chronicled the
Waterloo of a veteran in any sport
from baseball to boxing
Since Gene SaraZen captured the
title OF pen champion of the United
states in the tournament at Stoke
and followed this up by carrying OF
the crown of the Professional Golf
ers' Association at Pittsburgh, it re-
mains only for Bobby Jones OF some
one oil his years to win the amateur
championship at Brookline, Septem-
Der 20, to demonstrate the compete
supremacy of youth in golf. Sara
zen has barely passed his majority,
while the Atlanta prodigy is a year
his junior. Johnny Farrell IS an
other professional and Jesse Sweet
Ser another amateur who ranks
close to SaraZen and Jones'; and
there are hundreds of boys daily on
the golf courses of the country de-
v%eloning form and experience that
will make them contenders for tne
championships of next year and the
year after that.
Sarazen's triumph at Chicago was
at the expense of ali the veterans of
golf, professional and amateur, who
could be brought together, from
England, Canada and the United
States. Black, the oldtimer from the
Pacific coast, who is a grandfather
and old enough to be Genes father,
had the prize almost within his
grasp, but he slipped in the final
heart-breaking test. 1t may nave
been merely the break of luck. out
the fact remains ihat it was a con-
test OF age against youth and youtn
won. At Pittsburgh in the last
round Sarazen was pitted against the
veteran Emmett French who had
defeated him in a score of matches
in DAYS gone by. 1t was a gruelling
struggle and again youth was going
strong at the finish with age slip
ping.
The amateur championship at
Brookline will bring together proc
ably the greatest aggregation of golr
rotables ever contesting for a Prize
that means nothing but glory, and
the experts who follow the sport
closely are predicting that again
youth, in the person Of Bobby Jones,
will, carry off the honors. Jones led
the amateurs in the open at Stoke
and is at the top Of his game. Eng
lish professionals such as Mitchell
and Duncan class hin as one oil
the greatest golf players i'll the
world. His only weakness hereto
fore has been one of temperament
or temper-and it is said hat he
has succeeded in overcoming THAT
Until he is now capable of playing
at tHA tA,, 90
his game and if he does that it vii
take a miracle man 70 stop him.
Why Youth Challenges
There are two reasons, at least
why the youngsters are challenging
the tradition that golf is an old
mans game. The first of these is
that the boys have learned that the
game has more Vaccinations thar
any other ever invented and that
proficiency in it calls for all the
Qualities of mind. heart, skill and
strength that ear be put into any
sport. 1t requires study. patience
persistence. se~lf-control and perfect
coordination of brain and body
And anyone who thinks hat goli Is
not a test of nerves and physlc2
Endurance has never played through
the finals of a tournament.
Fol- many years. in this %countr.
especially. boys and young mer
looked upon golf as a game to be
taken up when they were too ole
for any other sport and would Dt
content to dodder around the oper
fields in pursuit of health and senile
pleasure. They were inclined to bt
Isupercilious and patronizing Ther
told that there was more to tn
game than they thought. They were
cocksure. They didn't think-the,
knew! Unfortunately, too, it hap
pened almost invariably that wher
one of these youngsters took a COL
club in his hand and essayed hit
ting a ball he had the novice's inci
and slugged it a mile. A perform
ancs of that kind usually set hin
back about ten years in develonins
!, his game, for the inevitable result
would be that he was confirmed IL
} his judgment that anybody could
play golf and nobody would unit
, he had nothing else better to do.
One such youth yielded to persla'
' sion and condescended to try a round
> on a Washington course a few year.
ago. True to tradition, he got of
: exceptionally long drives from thu
first three tees. He was not so gcot
lin approaching the green's and get