GOLF.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14972, 20 May 1914, Page 12

GOLF.

ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIP.

(By Cable.— Frtssa Assooiaiion.^-Copyrielit.)

LOIvDON, May IS. Thoro are 232 entries for the English Oolf Championship. Tho weather is brilliant, the course- very faat, and the £ieena well watered and caey.

Following are come of the results oi the first round: —

Hilton beat Boyd, 8 up and 7 to play. Robert Harris beat Croomc, 7 up and 3 to playPalmer beat Travers, 2 up. Michael Scott beat Brown, 3 trj> and 2 to" ployChamrick beat Knapp (America), 5 up md i to ployEeid bent Lasscen, the 19CS champion, 4 up and 2 to , Hale (America) beat Wighaia, 6 up md 3 to play. Barker beat Torry (Australia), ft up afld 5 to play. Evans (America) beai Cranston, £ up and i f.o play. Whit ton. beat Stewart, 7. np acd 5 to' play. J. Murray beat In=Jce (America), 2 up. Apperley (Australia) beat -Weaver, 3 ap REd -2 t- play. Gordon lockhart b«ai Csa'.'.e 2 tip and 1 to play. Giilios (JCew Zealand) beat Yeomang, S up and 1 to play.

J. Graham boat Charles, 5 up and i to play. OuJmei beat Macgregor (Manila?, 7 v? and 6 to ijlav.

Herrcschoff (America) beat St. John, 4 up and 3 to play-

Over 1000 persons foliowod Hilton and Palmfrr in theft- rounds.

The laitor is tho Irish champian. Hβ ie 56 years of agj.

Travors'a outward journey coet Virm 4<. Both he and Palmer at the turn were all square. Travera was 2 up at the twelfth hole, and nil square, at tho sixteenth. Travers played poor -golf, and he w&3 often buukercd.

The crowd followed Ouimet, who played good, steady golf, his approaches beinj; beaatifully judged.

The following interesting not«e on the ■meeting appear in tho "Sydney Sun";— Next week will eeo the British smatejr championship contested on the faTnoua Sandwhich course, and the occasion will bo of coneiderable interest out hero by Tooson of tho fact that Ivo WhittoD, who for the. laet two years hat been the open champion ot Australia,, will be taking part—and w-> all hope that it will ba a prominont part, although a week or two ago b.6 not fulfil expectations in the competition fnr the "Golf Illustrated" Cup. But, in a wider field, th? ovent will attract g-cneral attention, chiefly bocauso the candidates will include a contingent of th* American goiter?. Jerome Travers and F. Herreahcff arrived irt England two uionthe ago, in order to become acclircati&cd and to prre ])lenty of practice on the course. Sxich a thorough preparation baa never been undertaken beforo, cither by Americana in Britain, or by Britishers in America, and it is evidont that the visitors mean business. It ts ten years ago eiaco an American won this championship, and tbe winner thon, was "Walter Travis, en this eamo Sandwich. He, too, took tho precaution to get acclimatised, but noi to tho same exte-nt as TTavere end Herreahofll It is difficult to over-estimate the value of acclimatisation. "The average golfor," one authority writes, "has experience continually of the necessities of acclimatisation, though ho'coretantly disregards it. Ho will not learn that golf is not a haphazard frame that can be played well by tiro i pocplo and under any circumstances of inconvenience and discomfort, but that to play H properly ar.d at a- man's b«st there needs to be the moat perfect adjuetment and exact liarmony among ail tbo physical, nervo «a, ned tettjperar.'ental pigments -*-hich make u>> the. s°'fi2?T system. The very cligltu-st disturbance throws tho polfing balance wronj? and mnkc? all the difTcrence. Tho smallest change in habit?, in djet, little variatiore in tbo eystems and manncre of life ie eEOUsrh."

Travor« v though, only 26 yrars of ace. h»e •won the United States amateur championship four time?, and, in the opinion oi many, he is ope of tho finest inatch-playins; golfers alivo. He is said to posacfe an int*ns« individuality. Hβ is not tall, ire are told, and he ie somewhat elight in build, but he is physically strong euoneh. Ho has an iron nervo, and an equable temperament." His , chief weakness is rriih hie woode-n clubs, and in America ho plays nearly all bie tee ebote and lonj seconds w;*h a. bi;- driving iron, from which h« ?et« an extraordinary length. As for HerreshofF, ho was two yeare ago the runner-up ■when" the Englishman Hilton pained the' United States amateur championship, and in tho fina! he wae ben-tsn onjy at the thirtr-eeventii hole after Hilton lion had a piece of hick with hie drive. The ball was 'nadly sliced, end : t sailed away to the right over impossible conntry. Herreshoff, meanwhile, had drivm a long, straight ball, nnd th© match lookad to bo all over. Bat Hilton's ball fell on a. convenient rock, and bounced back well into the fairway. This was followed by a good eeeand, and Hilton took tho holo* and the match.

Tho America*! invasion, however, is not confined to Travere and Herreshoff. Francis Ouimet, who beat Vardon and Ray in euci emazing fashion in the> open championship of tho TJnitrd States a year »S°. '"'ill I , ? another candidate, and he> also has givan himself timo to get used to the conditions. Heinrich Schmidt, who did co vrell last yeai in this event at St. Andreure, wae on the epofc early; and other visitors include John Anderson, who -was the finalist -with Travora in tho American amstenr chamnionehin it Garden City last September; and Charles— or "Chick"—Kvane, the mcrt stylish jolwr in th>; United State?. Both of theso have met with some success before dw in tKe British amateur championship.