ENGLISH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 21 May 1914, Page 10

ENGLISH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP.

(By Cable.—Pioss Association.— . LONDON. May 19. Tho-firet round of the English Aiaaiicur Golf Championship >va« conclud'cd in a. blaiins auc. K«sult8:~ J. JecTjrc3 t-cat Castie, 8 up and 0 to play. " John Ball beat McDonnell, 1 up. C. Aylmcr beat Lord Cha:!«>s Hope, -2 up and 1 to p"ay. . Captain beat A. May, 2 up and 1 to play. H. Webor (Ansor:ca)-beat J. Ketner, I un. SECOKD KOUXD. . 'A: Liockwood ■ (America.) beat E. Crumrnack, 1 .up. . J. Hilton beat Thesigex, 6 -up and 4 to play. Harris beat S. Chrystal. S up and 7 to play. Edward Blackwell beat Sydaoj- Fey, 7 up and 6" to play." Carr beat Palmer at the nineteenth hole. Appe:ley (Australia) beat Baltour ilolrille, i up and S to p>ay. Erio Hambro beat Chadwick, 4 up *nd 3 to play. ■F«tgason beat Barker, 1 up. Evans (America) beat Brotherton, 2 up and l-.ta play. v ■ > Whitton . (Auetralia) beai • Hak, 4up and 3 to pley. Read beat P., May, 3up and,a to p!ay. W. Murray beat J. Murray, 5 up and 4 to play. Lockhaxt beat Kill, 1 up. •Gillies (Xew • Zealand) beat Darsvin, 3 up and 2 to play•John Ball mado a poor etart, and teas down at tho ninth hole, but the veteran made a. ?characteristic' recovery, and though overdriving -to . the laet Wo W jc excitins aiatch.»bya brilliaut -putt. Evans, whom. Whitton defeafed, is tha American inter-collegifti-o' champion.. Ho •was only .'American defeated' duiins the day. ,■ , ■'~'•■.

*Of ' Ouimet, • the. American champion /whose participation 'in the English championship is "arousing so much in-, terest,' , an English writer says:— J ' i Ouimet's,: photographs • arc misleading. One. thought of him as a youth, with' a slight*and supple body .'vrhercas ac lias the frame of, a powerful man, and as he , crouches to,address the bali thero is I every suggestion' of much .physical strength. ! His-stance, .'for , anything " like a-full shot is wider than tlie-aver-ago,; and in/his address .ho drops much lower than is customary. Curiously enough, on the greens Ouimet goes to the other extreme, for, in putting his stance is almost upright. , He holds the clvb —it is of the, ordinary wry-' necked type, with a. narrow blade—-al-most'at the-top, ■ and "in striking he appears to do the whole wofk with his wrists. Both elbows are pushed .wide out in, the, line of the ■ putt," and he stands l well \ over and square.with the ball. • Ouimet. has one ot'ier rather noticeable characteristic-of style.". We have i all been taught" that our' c'ubs'in the address sHould'stand on their natural lie. In the case or the young American however, his hands are drop-ped-so low .that his wbodea as well as his iron clubs rest on the heel, with the toe pointing upwards. The effect of this' , is. to make one think, tliat theclub will dig,intr the turf instead of hitting th«;ball clean.'y, but Ouimet sees that nothing, of the sort happens. Ido not know that be has .adopted this style with 'any special object or. nurposft, but in carrying puthis own ideas he has broken more than one golfing law. ,1 . t Speaking of one of his Sandwich roundsj the same critio says:—"Aβ usual, he drove ivifch- an i ivory faced" braKsie and used a cleekfoj most of his full second shots. With both ha attempted "to hit a plain straight ball and get the utmost carry. There was no .suggestion of t'e. hook that is so greatly favou'-ed by A*^eT ; can players. Yesterday's visit TcmTlnlcJ one tliat Sandwich is not a course on which it is possible to striko a low ball arid rely on run to get the necessary distance. One would have liked to ask Ouimefc, who, in his quick, observing: style, had grasped the difficulties of the links wfcat would be the prosnec' of Jerome Trayers in the championshi if he were driven to fake an iron oP the tee, as he did to win the America ,, ' amateur cbianpionsHp last yea - ? Clear ly his position would be aTmost a hope less one. You at practi " callv every hoe at Sandwich, and you need length, too, and to get both witTi an iron is, one imagines, beyond the capacity of either Travers or anyone else."