The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-31
BY FREDERICK :. HAsKIN

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-Golf may
have been an old mans game at one
time, but recent developments in this
greatest of outdoor sports indicate
that the youngsters are rapidly taking
possession of it. Youth will be served,
as Grantland Rice insists when he
chronicles the Waterloo of a veteran
in any sport from baseball to boxing.
Since Gene Sarzen captured the IT,
tie of open champion Of the United
States in the tournament at Skokie.
and followed this up by carrying off
the crown of the professional Golfers
association at Pittsburg, it remains
only for Bobby Jones, or some one of
his years, to win the amateur cham
pionship at Brookline, Sept. 20, to
demonstrate the complete supremacy
of youth in golf. Sarazen has barely
passed his majority, while the Atlanta
prodigy is a year his junior. Johnny
Farrell is another professional and
Jesse Sweetser another amateur who
ranks close to Sarazen and Jones, and
there are hundreds of boys daily on
the golf courses of the country devel-
Cping form and experience that will
the luck, but the fact remains that it
pionships of next year and the year
after.
Sarazen's triumph at Chicago was at
the expense of all the veterans of golf,
professional and amateur, who could
be brought together from England,
Canada and the United States. Black,
the old-timer from the Pacific coast,
who is a grandfather, and old enough
to be Genes father, had the prize al
most within his grasp, but he slipped
in the final heart-breaking test. 1t
may have been merely the break OF
the luck, but tn fact remains that it
was a contest of age against youth,
and youth won. At Pittsburg 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 grueling
struggle, and again youth was going
strong at the finish, with age slipping.
The amateur championship At
Brookline will bring together probably
the greatest aggregation of golf no.
tables ever cOntesting for prize that
means nothing but glory, and the eX-
Derts 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 Skokie, and is at the
| top of his game. English profession
ais such as Mitchell and Duncan class
him as one of the greatest golf play
ers in the world. His only weakness
heretofore has been one of tempera-
mentor temper-and it is said that
/ he has succeeded in overcoming that
until he is now capable of playing
through a tournament at the top of his
! game, and if he does that it will take
a miracle man to stop him.
Why Youth Challenges
in Popular Sport
There are two reasons, at least, why
the youngsters are challenging tn ira
dition that golf is an old mans game
! The first of these is that the boys
have learned that the game has more
/ destinations than any other ever in
vented and that proficiency in it calls
for all the qualities of mind, heart
skill and strength that can be put i'll
to any sport. 1t requires study, pa
! thence, persistence, self-control ant
perfect coordination OF brain ane
body And anyone who thinks tha'