MEMORABLE MATCH.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2141, 6 May 1914, Page 8

MEMORABLE MATCH.

OX THE SANpWIOH UKKS, 1804,

A .London: writer* in commenting on. : the English amateur golf ehainpiahs'hrp, which corntiveiwes t'itb urolith pp. tlio links of tiro lloyal St, George's Club, at Sandwich, says i—lt must ho said, bowever, that. the qrack golfer .at tho top of Ins form ■has'.a way of .doing Scares Sandwich which would, bo almost iih■pti'ssible at most other places. Possibly tlio explanation is that the groon's are fro true, and altogether so favoufebly ■cfisp.osed towards the player that tho ■plan who ns chock full of confidence is •likely to need rather fewer than tho accepted allowaiico of thirty-six 'ptiSfi .per .round. I'o.r all-round loffncss of 'seoiv ing this ■Saud-wich nieet'i.i'ig of iSOA deserves first place., sefiMJg that ' jack White proved successful \viih 296 3 wlijlo Brakl and Taylot were only oil* etfoko worse. Tho. extraordinary scoring in, the ■■event. (Taylor did a 08 .and and Braid <>ae'h had a (>9j Was uiidoflbte'dly ■attributable l in. no small measure to the fact that tho'niit.tmg was o;asy. For ■<»> sltcment ; I cannot' remonthc*' anything Jifco that chani.pionsilii'p. White .'finishett early in,tho afternoon, ahd.fl.ob.d.dy.iirjafthied te a moment that his aggregate ] would he appEoaeheil. Alter a spoil ■which liad alforded plenty of time to tho publication of life .nauie in tho (Veiling papers .as the victor w.Uh ah aggW" gate of 2£5 : , Braid arc*yb& : oa the lasts teeing ground needing a 3 to tic. l:t I was his misfortune that soinebody told i liim that lie wanted .a 3 to win and a. 4 to tic, and I do not think ho has ever forgiven himself for. being is few iftchfta short with" his teu-yar4" putt for tlio. lesser figure., But it ivas pot his fault Ho did 'not tfy t<i We.tlio putt; ho thought that a tie. would be sufficient for .the'day, What-'he salii to himself when somebody told h : iui as ho walked .off the. grcoii that ho was beaten, Provsd'eueo alotie knows.. I fane? Braid Ilias iie've? siilere trusted to. promiscuous gossip dnv~ ing a. championship. 'That period of agU tat'ion at an end., peace was just settling over the 'p'roSefidiog&i.'aUd' White Was .trying to breathe again; when the .news' arrived that Taylor, in spite <rf th.o fact that lie needed a, 67 to tie> had a eh.awec> It seemed incredihlo, f«.i:, although White and Braid had do.no '68% tho fdba. of anybody kjioeki-ng two strokes off their pheporteW totffttis .appeared to ho 'fan* tastifl. fiowcVcr, .it nearly bo* cafno mi accomplished fact, Ta.ylof kiwiv t-hai. he had to cQifl« ■hflmo in .33 in ofder to achiovo his pltf* ■pose, itiid his golf ; wa.s so wondevful that thcsFO tan bp do doubt that ho wnijid hsvo succeedeja hut for the. fact that lie took 4 foi= ths> siswentti. !fho Slioti was then a, full -awe to the green, and lie had to wnit. sn-m'o time, hefbr* plSiyiaft an approach from the foot of it. Jio Mt ItttnseTf with :a p'utt of ilireft j-axds for a 3 (a .rftthcr ilithcu'lt one, tea), *ivd j.usfc rnissod it, So it eanio..iibout that, on the* ■eighteenth teeing .ground ho was left with 3 f<j'r a fie-, The home Wo. shofter then thap it is td-day.; a_f'd after (V gosd drive Tajriof duly fo.ok ids ninsliio tor tho ■scerrad;" tho h.oi'o was rot at tho baso of a rise on tlio gvcen, and Tajlpv tried to work the Shot' so that it wosM ifiif-.t-liafe stepe with plenty of. *'',to.p" b.n tlio hall iiW roll down toiwirds the h.pfc. &hit it just ii trifle tod hard,, mi it ■fffint ovef tho brow ttf the slope and frnfehed eight ..y.a:'rt)s hoyo'hd its goal. There -n-as' at Jbtvst on<s gpojl. featij'fc of his putt';, ho pf'siyed it 'so : iivmjy ther'o could he' .no danger of Iris, heiiig .short. B'nt it was pot on qu.itg the right line, apd it ran eighfe-eta inches past tlfe ho'W. SHlh his lasUvj'u'tid <j'ft6fti wsi, . one of tlio finest tiling's- :in golf,