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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
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Veterans Show .Way in Yfar Full
of Golfing
By D. C. Pulver
Looking backward through the year
now closing, it only takes a glance to
show that in a golf way, at least, 1915
accomplished little toward developing new
championship material. This more par
ticularly applies to the three National
ments the amateur, open and women's.
All these were won by seasoned exponents
of the game.
Jerome D. Travers, the Upper Mont
clair player, won the open title at Bal
tusrol, and if his success came as a sur
prise it was only because of his being an
amateur. These National open titles
are as good as conceded beforehand to
some professional, the only other instance
of an amateur gaining he coveted honor
being in 1913, when Francis Ouimet de
feated Vardon and Eay in that famous
play-off at Brookline.
Before Travers teed up for the open
he had won the amateur title on four
diffierent occasions. In the opinion of
many he had seen his best days as a golf
er, yet with characteristic pluck and deter
mination Jerry led one of the strongest
field ever assembled in America. It takes
concentration and study to triumph over
the mental as well as actual hazards en
countered during seventy-two holes of
championship medal play where every
stroke means so much.
When the last putt had been holed and
the winner carried off on the shoulders of
his friends it was found that the ama
teur's margin was only a single stroke
over Tom McNaamara, the Boston home
bred whose tseadiness has earned his at
one time or another nearly all the im
portant open titles except the National.
McNamara, however, like Walter Ha
gen, the previous winner, Francis Ouimet
in 1913 and John J. McDermott twice
prior to that, did his share toward keep
ing the homebred talent to the fore. The
fact that for five consecutive open meet
ings the resident ' ' pros ' ' have been beat
en off by the native born players speaks
volumes for the standard of excellency
attained by the Americans.
When the Amateurs gathered at the
Country Club of Detroit the latter part
of August for the amateur tournament
Travers was fancied by many to add to
his laurels. Even so, Francis Ouimet and
Charles W. Evans, Jr., had large follow
ings, and the fact that all three were
brushed aside by players who in turn
were eliminated ere the final round was
reached illustrated still further the uncer
tainty of this elusive game. Evans took
his medicine in the first round at the
hands of his old rival, D. E. Sawyer,
while Travers and Ouimet fell the follow
ing day, Jerry losing to Max Marston
and the Boston man to James Standish, Jr.
In the mean time Robert A. Gardner,
the erstwhile Yale player, had been going
along in a manner that had gained new
followers with each succeeding round.
When he defeated Sawyer everybody took
notice, and when he downed Marston in
an extra hole match in the semi-final
bracket his hardest task had been accom
plished. Gardner's exceptionally long
game proved too much for John G. An
derson in the decisive test. It was back
m 1909 that Gardner first won the ama
teur title. Before the Detroit tourna
ment he had changed to the Vardon grip,
and it may be this that had something to
to do with the general improvement in his
game, which was better in all departments
than at any previous time in his career.
From the moment she won the medal
in the testing circuit down to the hand
shake with Mrs. W. A. Gavin after the
final round, Mrs. C. H. Vanderbeck
played like a champion in the women's
National tournament at the Onwentsia
Club. The Philadelphia Cricket Club
woman's hardest match was with Miss
Alexa Stirling, the Southern champion
from Atlanta. This was carried to the
fourth extra hole. Mrs. Vanderbeck ear
lier in the season won the women's East
ern title, thereby duplicating the per
formance of Mrs. H. Arnold Jackson the
year before.
Although he did not go West for the
National, Walter J. Travis, the Garden
City veteran, showed he still had some
thing left by winning the metropolitan
championship at Apawamis. Ouimet also
found a certain amount of consolation in
retaining his Massachusetts title, while
Evans had to be content with again win
ning the Western. Max Marston, besides
gaining the New Jersey crown, gathered
in several "chief cups," as did his for
mer Pawling School comrade, Philip Car
ter, leader of the metropolitan juniors.
CLASSIC TIIAANLITIOI
Enropa'n Hide
(Not by Moskus)
Europa and her maids one day,
In field with daisies pied,
Was picking posies, so they say,
When Zeus her beauty spied. .
Straightway he from Olympus high,
Came down a bovine fair,
Europa winked the other eye
And kissed him then and there.
Ere scarce the maids had heard the smack
Or guessed what it might bo
He took the princess on his back
And fled across the sea.
To keep her seat she grasped a horn
And squeezed it 'till it hurt
But with her other lily hand
Held dry her hobble skirt.
The Nereids blew their merry shells,
The whales came up to blow,
The dolphins rolled; the mermaids belles
All shouted 1 See 'em go ! "
And now poor Zeus was tired and hot;
But she in highest glee
And as she plied her heel he thought
' 1 This sure is one on me. ' '
At last he gasped "I've bourne you now
To Crete. Pray be my bride. ' '
She said, "No thank you, Mr. Cow,
But 'twas a bully ride."
Clyde Davis, Pinehurst, N. C.
The Master Uje in Coif
Very few golfers are aware there is
such a thing as a master eye. About 75
per cent, of human beings have the right
as master eye, which is as it should be if
the player turns his head only slightly.
If he turns more his master eye vision is
obscured by the bridge of his nose, and
the difference between the view he had in
the address and the view at the top of the
back swing is about two inches, quite
sufficient to lead to chronic inaccuracy.
Canadian Golfer.
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