The evening world. Newspaper, September 29, 1921, Page 22

—~ i ; ae . hampion of Great Britain, and Abe * greater number of shots “in,his bag. TOUR OF GEORGE DUNCAN AND ABE MITCHELL MOST REMARKABLE IN HISTORY OF GOLF During Three Months’ Trip Engish Stars Have Played 91 Rounds Over Courses They Have Never Seen Before—Duncan Has Averaged 72.05 for Each 18 Holes Played, While His} Partner’s Average Has Been 72.16—Bobby Jones Has Best Knowledge of Any American Golfer How Shots Should Be Executed—Woodway Country Club of Connecticut Picked as Best Course by British Te By R.R. Batson. { Goprright, 1021, by the Press Publishing Co, ' (The New York Evening World ) George Duncan, former open golf Mitchell, who many experts consider he greatest player in the world, have ‘all but completed a three months’ ex- Bibition tour in this country which, fn point of low scoring, conditions @onsidered, is probably without par- allel in all the history of golf. During this three months’ tour Dun- an and Mitchell played 91 rounds over fourses they had never seen before. Yet Duncan was able to register an average score of 72.05 for each 18 holes played, while Mitchell's average was 72.16. | Gtated differently, they played 1,638 holes, Duncan with an average of 4.002 strokes per hole and Mitchell with an average of 4.008 strokes per hole. And what makes the perform- nce more remarkable {s that, on perhaps a majority of occasions, ex- hibitions had to be played under far inore torrid conditions than they had éver before encountered in thelr golf- ing experience. ‘Then, too, in appratsing this phe- pomenal performance, there must be tuken into consideration the fact that Mitchell and Duncan played an aver- age of more than five 36-hole matches B® week, and because of long train trips often had to appear on a course without sufficient rest. Views on American golf, golfers and wourses held by these players are no less interesting than the record tiey have @stablished, Not only are their | opinions refreshing because they are | among the foremost players of the | game but because it is Just ten years | vince Duncan’s last visit, while | Mitchell has never before played in| this country. | BOBBY JONES BEST PLAYER, » WOODWAY BEST COURSE. Both Mitchell and Duncan are of the opinion that Bobby Jones has bet- ter knowledge of how shots should be | executed than any other player they | professionals; that he is the best| American stylist and that he has a| o| Incidentally, the same opinion was given by both Vardon and Ray at the plose of their exhibition tour last year. | |, The dest ‘constructed golf course! they say they have played on in this) country is the Woodway Country | Club, Inc., at Springdale, Conn, It ts | interesting to note that this is a com- paratively new club, and became an active member of the United St Golf Association only two and a ha years ago. The course they found in the best condition was Hollywood, near Deal, NN. J. Vardon and Ray named Holly-| wood one of the two best constructed jturned In to the ball. THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1921 WHAT IMP — os ¢ am. or direction, was not one of the first Oftentimes our opponents would hook or slice a drive to the rough while we would have fine dis tani straight down the course. Yet, in spite of superior ‘tee shots, we did not possess the advantage we earned, for our opponents, with all the con- fidence born of the goft putting greens to which they were shooting, would strike boldly for the flag from the rough and be able to hold the green. It could not be so on the otner side As an ter of » it was the lack of knowledge of how to approach to hard and fast greens that ruined the chances of the Americans winning the amateur champiousnip in England this year, and is one big nandicap Amer- ican professionals will always have to overcome when praying there. Have faster greens, and tne American standard of golf will be improved. It is my opinion that our course: , on the average, are from three to five strokes harder than American courses because of the difference in putting greens.” Hardly less striking than their crit- feism of the conditioning of putting greens is the fault both Duncan and essentials, Mitchell find in the accepted Ameri-} can method of playing iron shots. It Is in this department of the game, they assert, we have most room for improvement. It is an almost invari- able practice here, according to the English professionals, for players to “cramp” thelr irons, Instead of play- ing them in “open face” fashion; that 1s, when an American player strikes into the with th shows a pronounced tendency to have the face of the iron lean forward toward the ball, and at the same time to have the nose of the tron slightly The result ts, they say, the chances'of making an accurate shot are lessened. There 1s bound to be a tendency to “pull” the shot. “HIT BALL A MILE” AN AMERI- CAN CHARACTERISTIC, The desire of most players to “hit the ball a mile” ts found by Duncan and Mitchell to be an American golf- Ing characteristtc, although there seems to be consciousness on the part of the player that tn order to punch club he or she ouf the much desired tong wallop direction is being sacrificed, “This characteristic,” said Duncan, “is like- wise conspicuous in your baseball The home runs of Ruth are aeclaimed with wild énthusiasm, rsonally, I would rather watch a player who could rap out hits more though they be for mes. consistently~even only one base—and who possessed greater science in placing his hits.” In spite of this criticism there re- mains the fact that Mitchell and Duncan are two of the most prod ous wallopers that golf has eve known, Mitchell, taciturn and uns assuming to a marked degree, con fesses that he never has measur one of his record WhatYou Dont’ Know AboutGoli eoe© DUNCAN anda ADC WHO ISTHE BEST GOLFER IN AMERICA? WHICHIS THE BEST AMERICAN COURS le t | CElMellll To ROVEMENTS COULD BE MADE TO LINKS OF UNITED STATES CLUBS? | the paims of both hands, Rolfers know as the Bip. My fingers a not overlapped ‘1 interlocked. When I come into th ball, both of my feet are ¢ linching the kround with weight evenly distrib- uted, At the moment cf impact I am able to put my full muscular power IT use what d fashioned ‘V* into the blow. ‘The reason why some rellows weighing only 110 or 120 pounds, and without any noticeabl muscular developmant, are able to get off long drives 1s that they long: aiins ind therefore have big leverage A man without large muscular devel- oy ment and with short arms, lacking secessory leverage, can never become | long driver, no matter how perfect his timing may b It has long been thorles of American golf that the Dower back of a | thy drive is im- parted by the left hand and that the right hand ts primarily the guiding hand of the stroke. Yet Abe Mitchell, everywhere recognized as the longest driver the game has ever known, grips his driver more firmly with his ‘ight hand than with his left. It is an astonishing fact that his clasp on is drivers is » tight that after a half dozen or so rounds the leather grips cf his wooden clubs are worn to rib- sons and must be changed, And George Duncan, who drives pract eally as long a ‘ball as Mitchel}, al ; believes that it is muscular stre ngth, \ properly applicd, that gives distance And Duncan and Mitchell explode another long standing theory on the methods of long driving, It has al- M ‘® heen instilled into the student of the game that he or she must Sweep the ball cleanly off the. tee. When Duncan made his wallop of more than 383 yards over ne of the pet level sur face at Colchester his driver first hit the tee slightly back of the ball, which had the effect of giving a slant to the face of his driver and which, in turn, resulted in a low ball with a lot of “nose" or overspin, Mitchell and Duncan both agree that to get | the longest distance this method should be en Yet, as shoek- Ing as this m: m to American stylists, it should be pointed out that when James Braid, one of the most famous players England has ever produced, made his memorable lop of 400 yards at the fifteenth 1 at Walton Heath this identical | method of hitting the ball ap- plied BOTH VISITORS STICK To OLD ST. ANDREWS RULES. Both Duncan and Mitchell, with an | inborn respect for the rules of gole | 4s laid down by the Royal and An. clent Golf Club of St. Andrew find it difficult to understand the lack of | respect accorded these rules in var- fous localities in this country, par- Ucularly in territory recognizing the rules of the Western Golf Association When they first entered Western ter ritory they were told that the estab- lished rules of that section, among other things, permitted them to pick FI up their ball on the putting green and wipe off any mud that might be on it. Thelr astonishment was in- a ed when this practice was ad- ed to in the Amateur Champion- ship, recently held at St. Louis. This Was only one flagrant infringement of Royal and Ancient rules, and they foresee that unless there is more per- fect accord regarding s betwe governing golf } ru dies in this country and St. Andrews, — international matches, both amateur and_ pro: mal, will b more diffleult to ar- range, and that the development of golf as an international sport will be greatly retarded. And by no means the least impres- old Scotch sport, mainly because of ability, a brilliant shooter like Jock Hutchi- son. \lumbia, lay eet y wae e . Miss Cecil Leitch Greatest European Woman Golf Star Mnea§ Tn dee a oe Mss C&canm LEITCH © eNCERWOOR UNDER WoOR Miss Cecil Leitch, the famous British golfer, is paired with Mrs. Gavin in the qualifying round of the Women’s Natfonal Golf Tourney, which opens Monday at the Belleclair Club. Miss Leitch is te cham- pion of Great Britain and France. She recently won the Canadiaa title. Among the stars she beat this summer for the British title was Miss Alexa Stirling, the present American champion. Miss Leitch’s sister is also entered at Belleclaire. Edith Leitch is said to be a wonderful golfer too. Great Driving and Putting Of Twenty- Year-Old Golfer Defeats Jock Hutchison aii Le ate e Sea yan, | defense Hutchison made of the asso- Match Is Surprise af Second) sire eke ne won inet year at eect | Chicago, but his showing was simply Round of Professional — | inother’ reminder of how quickly & Tournament. topnotch golfer can go wrong. Sarazen, short and stocky, is one of \the most’ promising of the many young professionals that are popping up all over the country like corn in Kansas. Only a few years ago Sura- zen caddied at Apawamis and be- came a prodigy of Bill Potts, the club By William Abbott. * all sports, form changes sauickest on the golf links. Within a few minutes a cham- professional. ‘The youngster plays all pion can slump to the level of a|his shots with the usual crispness of a novice, Nothing is certain in the| professional, but his style is notable because of the tendency of the player's body to go forward with every kind of a stroke. The last two years Sarazen flashed a brilliant round in every tournament, but lacked the steadiness to assemble a low average for four rounds. At Inwood Sarazen did bet- ter at match play and in two days eliminated two dangerous opponents, Harry Hampton of Detr it and Hutch- ison, the varying conditions of playing No one js exempt, not even Last winter and running to the British champtonahip at St. Andrews, Hutchison reeled off victory after victory with golf that was remark- able, The pace was too rapid and| Other matches yesterday ran true Jock began to skid when he fared|to form. Jim Barnes, national cham- poorly in the American open at Co-| Pion, experienced considerable trouble subduing Bob Cruikshank of the Essex County Club‘at the outset and at one time the match was even Then Long Jim applied more speed The climax of Hutchison's down- | ward flight came in the second round ie 4 itera’ aseoei,. {and won &ix holes in a row, which of the professional golfers’ associa- | torced Cruikshank on the defense for tion championship yesterday at In-|the remainder of the encounter. wood when the holder of the British| Walter Hagen, who should be a le was Ignominiously defeated 8 up| finalist. along with Barnes, had an title was Ignomintously defeated 8 up| finalist along with Barnes, had an by Gene Sarazen, a twenty-year-old star from Pennsylvania we Hills. Hagen without extending him- self won 6 up and 5 to go. se trimming the Chicago veteran| Hagen in the third round tackles {ved. Yet little Sarazen was|Jack Golden of Buffalo, who came H aud ~|through after a hard-fought battle just as strong a@ his famous oppo-| with Laurrie Ayton of Chicago, that nent was weak was not decided until the home green In the first round Sarazen, outdriv- | Wa8 reac Golden was one down ing and outclassing Hutchison at both | COME to the thirty-ffth, but he won that hole and the match on the next approaching and putting, finished|one when Ayton plugged his second with with a lead of eight holes. shot into a pond guarding the green. Bagging seven birdies, Sarazen had a It was the ever rec Barnes for an opponet will draw medal score of 69 to Hutchison’s 81. | the open tournament. Long took an extra putt. a BRITISH GOLF STARS TO Freddy McLeod, a little veteran, who Jock won only one hole, the second, neh, Yet the match was only half over. MEET BARNES AND HAGEN. tied with Hagen for second place in here the stocky little Pennsylvanian | J!" so here remained time for Hutchison i |states that to the be sive feature of their three months’ courses In the country. Mitcheli has) tiles thal to the best of his recolle« euifeature (Ob tiie tree ombnthey high praise for the manner tn which 7 i nas Ser ne in this country, the great en- the Garden City Golf Club is laid out, |™ade was at the tenth hole of the siasm displayed, the lavishness ut {s of the opinion that the con. | North Foreland course in England, f expenditures on golf courses and | which is tly down hill. ‘This|the unfailing democracy and good struction of the putting greens ts) "hich Is y ae h This | felowship shown. They say that | somewhat antiquated and could be | le tap was estimated by on-| when they Rail for home on Oct 45| baie lookers to have gone 420 yards, On| ft will be with a feeling of thankf ater ally improved. "1 pray ‘ mm te impressive, and to Dun-|8eVeral occasions, while playing on|*ppreciation for the courtesy a The most impressive, leer salca ateoave ie aie |thoughtfulness everywhere show can and Mitchell, the most discour- | ked fairways in this country, | them aging feature of golf course up- ularly in the Chicago district, —_————_—. he practice |he confesses to have made drives of keep in this country is the practice |h 2 of | and putting greens to such anextent| Duncan has measured only one ot| AT THE NASSAU CLUB BY » 1 player | his lenghty wallops off the tee. This| that they are soft, enabling a player | his to boldly shoot long iron shots ne waa made at Colchester, Englar BEATING STEARNS IN FINAL. rectly for the green with every as-|and measured 3 yards. And] Pay ores sere surance that they will “stick.” The) this was on a hole where the ground |,,% ‘efeating J ha N ats ms oh t) vekemence with both Duncan and) was perfectly flat and when there | {ye jones oa? In | be. fipal round of] ehell criticize this practice 1s most | Was no favering wind jthe invitation mee at the Nassau! Mitche M Ae cine P | These tamou sh professionals ;Country Club yesterday, Thomas Ar- | gpa py P |who are everywhere admitted to mour of Scotland won his second| “in England and Scotland” Duncan |iwo of the longest drivers in the | ¢ ment of the season, Warlier in| stated, “greens are seldom watered, world, explode A “ns' pet. th Mian sensor. Bevllar {a ‘Almost invariably they are hard and |ories on how to male long drives the year the Scotchman won from a fant, One cannot shoot boldly for | 24% awa Irilled” into the | fino field at Srennecossett. Although the pin in hit or miss style, with altiming the sh 1 not physica] [Armour and Stearns played a great) Yegsonable assurance that they will Kth was the sideration, |mMatch, It did not compare with the| not be ceverely penalized for a too) THB Is a theory that hoth Duncan fMeeting between the former and John | old and badly played effort. Ap-| ind M et hell states | M. Ward, the baseball veteran, in the eet sree: eau ane |} A! semi-final round of the tournament, mmonenen 1 Our grosna require fine) in mal is Al |” Ward knows every blade of grass on | Judgment and delicacy of execution in MGs har yori nace tetas making approach shots. Here, this) | 0! Pe bie Ls won BAD best he de-|t ough and throus he Fhe anne tows te not the cuse, and approaches do not Soa) |” re He | colfer who "wing aftor standing. th furnish such ® good test of golfing) "When Twas a young man Thad ay | CONN, With fve hoirs to, play aqainst a | ability.” ao) Secu pn HOD a ne and | ""A’gainst Stearns in the afternoon, Are ng igh this wor mour- Was always Up, although s FASTER GREENS WOULD IM- jive t : ork Y pices i ere ue ath NES nee PROVE AMERICAN GAME. , hack. Chop, oe utter belng 2 down at the siath, Wood i: not unlike mak Seen se Stearns had squared the mutch ie “Whe: ere,” Mitch- 1 the arted for h Ar- ‘When we first played here,” Mitch- SAID GUUBCl ie Rok nial ced ve ithe “pair When I drive 1 grip toe club truly in green, the card om being as follows: ever, on the seventeenth |@econd round, and held his early ad- to pull a spirited recovery, Many win out, Thero were no recoveries| {2 forthcoming 36-hole match between against Sarazen, and his confident (corse Duncan and Abe Mitchell, Hegde way of banging shota straight to tho | /i¥ British pre Hanan onteha nee target, Hutchison cunningly tried all|\Weatchestor-Biltmore course at Ry thy old tricks that ¢ fluster a y next With young pl but Sara was like| pen champion, ar duet their successful tour of the yield anyt ‘on yentage to the oud. Lt was a poor country, HUGMEN IN POSSESSION OF WORLD'S CHAMPION MASCOT Eddie Bennett, Crippled Lad of Fifteen, Never Had Been With | a Loser, Being the “Lucky Charm” of White Sox When | They Won in 1919 and the Dodgers Last Season. | dicated i By Isaac Shuman. isn’t altogether the Ruppert- Huston million dollar club's ball the death of his parents in Brooklyn, which is his home. He fell down a stairway when he was three and suf- | fered an injury to his spine which | 7. YANKEES SHOULD HAVE NO TROUBLE BEATING ATHLETICS Pennant Hinges on Hugmen Winning All the Games With Mackmen. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29.—It may not ba a difficult, but it’s an import- playing which has brought or al-| prevented his playing baseball, but most brought the American League! he loved the game and spent ail his| pennant to New York. Nor, indeed, 1s| Uae wither, at Ebbets Field or the | it the mighty clouting of Babe Ruth, | ers personally and they all liked. ld. | nor that of Bob Meusel, nor for that| die. During a slump suffered by the matter the pitching of Mays and|Sox in 1919 Eddie told his friend | “Happy” Felsch he could bring the Hoyt and Shawkey, nor the fielding| of them all, Not at all. These things, fans—and these words are just about as true as any you'll read stating definitely the whys and wherefores of the Yanks’ winning of the pennant—are inciden- tals, Really, They're just parts of a strange and welcome whole, one | large segment of which, take it from | us, who got the dope almost straight, | team luck as a mascot, so Kid Glea- | son took him on at so much per and found it was the best deal the Kid| made that year. The Sox won the pennant. But Eddie didn't like to be so far | from home and he contem plated retirement in 1920. But able men are not allowed to retire nowa- | days, Public interest demandg that continue work until they are weakened by old age. Eddie was just | fourteen then and prime of life! . for a mascot. ( quently when {s composed of—— Uncle Wilbert, whose fortunes at Draw up your chairs. Do you re-|that time weren't the best, heard member, the White Sox winning a|that Fadie was at liberty and ap- proached him to come to rescue, pennant in 1919? And the winning one in 1920? Yes. What has that got to do with the Yanks’ success in 1921? Every-| thing, we tell you; everything. The White Sox won in 1919 and Dodgers | adie couldn't very well al, Brooklyn was his own, Brooklyn w comes the s ography of It pays to ¢ Af- own home n the pennant, and here prt of this short bi- die; but it proves that e clean with a mas the Dodgers won In 1920 because of], "After I helped, the Dodgers pee the same factors that are hard atliwo games trom Clevcland at roti, work bringing about the Yenks'{lyn," sald Eddie, who talks just like| winning in 1921, that, being a first year man at Coim- These aren't, as everybody knows, |mercial High, “I naturally expected the same managerial or playing fac- the Dodgers double-crossed me, ‘They tors: for Kid Gleason le manager of/ wouldn't take me along, so I just quit. ilbe! ner an: I told ‘em they woulea't win the the Sox, Wilbert Robinson, man SE Ea ere REE irra of the Dodgers, and Miller Huggin8|in the seco.d division this year,” manager of the Yanks, and Eddie] And every knows ‘that the Cicotte and “Happy” ch aren't pores 's ale J ast eal SS aReel at where they are now-hopelessly HOw seven: ini basepall: in fifth place! Eddie told ‘em so! | These factors, friends, are the ones ill eBedie: wasn't: soured chitha introduced by the mascoting of Eddie | world or prospective World's Series. Bennett, who is everything a m so when b lend, Waite Hoyt cot should be. He is both the pitched three years ago for E binger and the carrier pigeon of High, told him the Yanks woul cess. Wheresoever he perches, there| to him as their mascot, also ja victory. | moved his luck bag across the br Eddie Bennett is mascot of the|@md took up his duties with Yanks. In 1919 he was mascot of the n White Sox, and in 1920 he was mascot world knows Eddie has mado of the Dodgers, He has never attend- what with the Yanks leading ed the fortunes of a losing ball club. | gue and already making a He js the world’s champion dispelier | ranger to sell tickets for the| of jinxes. | World's ries. Eddie {x fifteen and a professional | So your jand most of the credit mascot. He draws a salary for bring-|to Eile, for the Yanks aren't. by ing ball clubs luck and earns it. a long shot a great ball club. In fact, He isn't merely a bat boy. Eddie] we've a suspicion tf weren't for has two assistants for the manual|him they'd now vbout in labor attendant to the usual mascot-|third place. Eddie isn't saying any- ing job, He spends most of his t!me| propelling psychic waves to confuse thing about it, but Dix Browns remembers we » Davis of the the ti the opposing nine and handtes bats |die culled the turn on him only when he thinks it'll bring the|the Yanks would bat him out of the Yanks more luck. box in the sixth inning. Dixie bet] Like all successfil men, Eddie has| Eddie a suit of clothes he was wrong, | rets of success, but unlike them,|and Dixie still owes Eddie the suit. Eddie isn't giving his away. ‘I can't tell you how I do It,” said | Eddie, “I just do," he added, indicat-| Incidentally, Eddie is the only mas- ling by a far-away look that mascot-| cot in history Who hasn't any ambi- ing isn't a trade to be learned like the|tion to become a ball player. His | writing of poetry, but a gift with| physical disability partially accounts which one must be born. for that, but even more so does his de- Eddie became a mascot shortly after! sire to enter another business. Eddie Also, Eddie is picking the Yanks to win the World's Ser “Man, wh you try i Liccrrr & Myers Tosacco Co, ant series the Yanks enter here to~ day with the Athletics. On the games they play to-day and to-morrow and the one contest against the Mackmen the Polo Grounds Saturday hinge winning of the pennant by the Yankees, ‘This, of course, granting the Indians won all thelr four re- maining games. From past performances the Yank- ces should have no trouble disposing of the hletics. do far this season te New York team has won fourteen the | of nineteen games played between the nines. Like all second division teams, however, the Athletics may jump up their hind legs and cause the New Yorkers all sorts of trouble. In order for the Yankees to gain undisputed possession of the Amert- can League flag they must win three of the four remaining games sched= uled to ayed, They wind the sea- on up Sunday at the Polo Grounds gainst the Boston Red contest » Yanks do win three straight Athletics the flag is In im- f how Clevziand does. The Todians can make it much easier for New York by losins cne game of the four left to be played. Then the Yanks will only have to win two con- e@ pennant. tests to clinch t is planning this winter to go into the movies: “Wesley and when b Ba is a pal of mine, here this winter I'm hoping to work with him in a picture.” said Eddie, who, should the movie makers be fortunate enough to get him, is sure to produce a winner every time of Autumn Racing at AQUEDUCT TOMORROW (Fri $3,000 Stonybrook Stakes Parole Handicap ond 4 Consolation Races RACK AT 2.15 P.M. TRAINS FOOTBALL Princeton vs. Swarthmore Palmer Stadium, Princeton, Oct. Ist, 3 P. M. ecial train downtown 12:40 Uptown connection 12:34 s y don’t ( (al momt The Virginia Cigarette —and for cigarettes Virginia tobacco is the best