THE "OLD GANG" IN GOLF

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 282, 25 August 1919, Page 6

THE "OLD GANG" IN GOLF

J. H. Taylor—the oldest unless; wemistake of the "Old Gang of golf una won'tho first professi(iys over seventy-two holes awe »« (« the Londou ''Times ). ~°™ r ® h „ n iV elder statesmen of-the link, brilliant writer and player called * other day "these terrible old „cnl> men," were close behind But Mor woti Everyone knows him fot a n,n " er of the supreme secret of golf, couMlitiaand .ndom. aWe. Now and then, being aftei aH onlj m man. ho has revealed to incredulous spec l!!' om h n m f a°tmfdi C oj ironic detennina"£dal UIS, in I' nil- the talents, were a stern '"> d dl "ur ful business, and that, or the lour I was the last that would try hem all out and leave tho veteran to win For there is that spice o devilry in ,T H. Taylor which, controlled and dominated, proclaims porsonahty. Othei veterans have personality in other forms -Braid with his unspealung determination: Vai'dou with his artist perfection of fitvle find bis human charm nf sunny temper i'Hay with his reckless abandon of swing that defies the most Median laws of eolftng pcrfcction. Personality, •„ one form or the other, these veterans have, as none of the younger school yet have it.