The New York herald., 1922-08-30
OAR WIN PRAISES
YANKEES PUTTING
Says American Amateurs Com
peting at the National Tour
ney Are Uncanny.
ny BERNARD DARWIN.

| Americans won five out of the eight
three single matches at the national to-
day and so won by points to 4. Writ
ing as the acting captain in the field
owing to the illness OF Mr.. Harris. l
am thoroughly proud OF the British side
They did all that anybody could expect
of them-anybody that is to say, who
knows how very good these American
amateurs are
| There is no mistake about it that they
are truly magnificent golfers. Up to
the green they are fully as good as our
ter. but their pitching is surer and
heavier. When it comes to the green
there is only one side in 1t. The lesson
that Hagen taught us at Sandwich.
where Mr.. Walter Travis had taught US
similar lesson seventeen years before.
was rubbed in yet again. Our men did
not putt badly. judged by British stand
ards but we do not begin to know what
good putting is.
These Americans really can putt.
They stand still and they hit the ball
truly and with apparent ease. But to us
1t is intensely difficult to think over and
over again.
1t would be invdious to pick out par
ticular putters when all are so good. l
believe that / played against the man
| who is at least as good as any and by
the irony of fate he could not quite hole
the ball. Mr.. Fownes was the exception
4 to prove the rule that Americans can
| always putt well.
Two Uncanny PutterS.
Mr.. Ouimet and Mr.. Guilford were both
uncanny. They putt in the same style
with rather consp:cuously bent elbows,
| the club held at the very end of the
shaft and beautifully free confident
action of wrists. Mr.. Ouimet is the old
master Mr.. Guilford, his apt and ador-
ing pupil. and the way in which these
two putt is lesson In what can be done
in this damnable and seductive art.
! i am at some disadvantage in de-
scribing the play. | had to take Mr..
Harris's place and l was so fully cc-
cupied with my friend and opponent,
| Mr.. Fownes, that / had very little
chance of looking at other people. How
ever, kind people have told me a little
of what happened. At lunch time each
side was up in four matches. Mr.. Tolley
beat Mr. Guilford by 2. Mr.. Hooman
was l up on Mr.. Sweetser. Mr. Mac
4
holes, was 2 up on Mr.. Marston. and |
just had my nose in front of Mr.. Fownes,
wonderfully lucky position, as l had
lost the first three holes.
The other four Americans were up
and their leads were larger than ours.
| 1t was a desperate situation and we
could not quite relieve it. Three OF us
won. Mr. Mackenzie, who had never
before struck his Scottish form, justified
his selection 70 the hilt. He got back
his driving in the nick of time and
fairly trampled on Mr.. Marston, "A golfer
whose rather loose, long swing conoeals
an amazing capacity for winning
matches.
! l played far better than ! ever hoped
and just got the better OF Mr.. Fownes.
/ Mr.. Hooman played absolutely first class
golf to beat Mr.. Sweetser. who has all
the makings of truly great golfer.
Mr.. Hooman's Gallant Victory.
| Both were low down in the seventies
| They halved the match and refined
terms were that a halved match should
| be a halved match. However, the two
were full of fight and still wanting to
| fly at one another's throats decided to
| put it to the touch and win or lose
! for all. Personally / think 1t was a
1
| rested in peace However they went
on. Mr.. Sweotser was badly bunkered
and Mr.. Hooman won gallant victory.
| Now for the American victors. Mr..
| Gull.ord fairly and squarely out-putted
Mr.. Tolley. That Is a difficult thing TO
do. For once Mr.. Tolley had an off
day on the green's. He has been putting
| beautifully. but to-day he was apt TO
be short and as at Prestwick could not
take the club freely enough away
from the ball. And so small wonder
+ that he lost TO as fine putter as ever
I saw. The driving contest between
the two was interesting and in this Alr.
Tolley had shade the best of things.
The match between Mr.. Bobby Jones
and Mr.. Wethered was a great one. Mr..
Jones was at his brilliant best, but he
could not shake off his adversary. On
and on they went. Brides, to use this
now familiar Americanism, were fire.
quent There were whole aviaries of
them. II was superb golf in which Mr..
Jones had always just the inside turn
which is his due as the finest amateur
player of golfing strokes In the world.
Evans Mt His Best.
Mr.. Cavan began well against Mr..
Evans but had bad bout in the middle
said yesterday that Mr.. Evans would
probably show In to-day's play his real
work and so he did
Mr.. Ouimet overwhelmed Mr.. Aylmer,
fine and courageous golfer that he Is, by
terrific putting. j am told that he
missed one three yard putt In the course
of the day There is no more modest
golfer i'm the world than Mr. Ayirner
and yet he has justifiably deemed him
self good putter. Tonight he admits
that there IL a standard OF putting un-
dreamed OF In his philosophy.
When MIR. Ouimet is in a bunker II is
the rule for him to get down IN two
shots. Three is the exception.
Mr.. Gardner. who had been beat yes
terday, was brilliant to-day against Mr..
Torrance. who played his game and was
overwhelmed.
That Is really all the story. We
played we'll but the other men played
better. There is a difference OF OUT
look which means n difference Of class.
Personally when very rarely / keep
close TO the par score / expect the other
man to break up. Not so with the
American golfer. He take the par score
| in his stride. IL Is the brides, the holes
done under par, that he thinks about.
In short. the British amateur must aim
higher when he comes up against such
golfers as these.
Excelsior must be his motto.