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THE NEW GOLF CHAMPION
A BRILLIANT DISPLAY.
HISTORIC FINAL
[BY GEORGE W. GREENWOOD.]
DEAL. May 12th.
Mr. Roger II. Wethered is the new British amateur golf champion. After one of the most unazingly brilliant dis plays ever witnessed in golf, he defeat Mr. Robert Harris, the distinguished Setish goller, and captain of Great Britain's team, of the Deni buks today by the overwhelming margin of and Mr. Harris has nothing whoever to be
much
TENNIS CHAMPION......
COVEY RETAINS HIS TITLE.
[AYER SOIL.]
G. F. Carey, the holder, Crabbet Park, again won the Championship of Tennis at Prince's Club on May 12th, when in the last. stage of the best of 13 sets match he won the two sets necessary for victory against Walter Kinella (New York), the challenger. The final score was 7 sets to 3 in Covey's favour-exactly the same margin as he won by last year, but the course of the match was very dillerent. This sengon Kinsella won the first 3 of the 4 sets, and never got another set afterwards, Covey winning is words of Ulampionships such
seven succession.
On the last two days of the present match Corey was obviously the better player, and once again it was proved that attack on the floor is the foundation of tennis. The over- head railroad service is a great asset, but it is not everything, nal ay attack which rests, as Kinsella's does, very largely on forcing for the openings must fail against an attack with length and eat on the floor.
KINSELLA A TRIER.
nshamed of. for 1 declare that no golive. amateur or profesanal, in Britain or a fent Auserien. would have stood a chame to it beindientes, the nearest an
in when C. "Punch Fairs against the smashing, and, indel, coldly (England), aft fter being leleets to i by setife type of golf that Mr. Wethered Ferdinand Gargin, the great French player, produced in this historie final. The only won sets off the reel. thing comparable to it was his astonishing display at St. Andrews two years ago, when he tied with Jock Hutchison for the pon Championship. I have heard it Saift that the best golf ever witnessed in al Amateur Championship was that Between Mr. Robert Maxwell and Cap tam Cecil Hutchison at Muirnel in 1909, when Mr. Maxwell won by a hole. The! winner's score on that occasion was about an average of funts. But it should invi
Kinsella had given a wonderful display remembered that Muirfield is n
of his own stanip of game on May 7th, shorter course than Deal, that the condi- when he worked tremendously hard and Lions were ideal, and the weather perfect showed a power of return that has seldom Yow.nt Deal the weather was atroci, been excelled, while his forcing was full of aus. When the links Warn Bot
But it could not, and did swept by violent rain and hai, storms, which cut and slashed the face like whip more beat goal attack in the air. Kinsella Ford, the wind was sufficiently strong and struggled gallantly he is a determined blustering to make the players think tighter and he never gave up trying, but shrewdly and hard before making the Covey after the first day was his master. shot. To hit high, sopring drives, wat On that day, Kinsella had won & sets to very bit as dangerous as striking mat. On May 9th. Covey changed the whole ches in a gunpowder ' factory, Just to complexion of affairs and finished up with illustrate the sort of conditions that the a lead of 3 sets to 3. He won the first players hail to face, it may be mentioned; two sets on May 12th, to give him the vic- that on one version the game was stop. tory, and won them in no uncertain fashion. pet for nearly ten minutes while a blind. There were many fine rusta, but i ing stafin blew itself out.
Kinsella who was struggling in defence. He get many most difficult balls back, but without any real sting
PHENOMENAL PERFORMANCE.
being rip and l attack on the floor once!
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In these circumstances, quite apart from the great physical and mental strain separabic from a championship final Mr. Wethered's performans was phew menni. His score for the thirty his played was only three over 4. No wond r that Walter Hagen whose prediction, By the way, was completely falsifed, itted with perfect frankness that
ng golfer could have beaten the new champion. So Mr. Harris can sleep in his bid without suffering the panga of rrors. Morever" his was the kind of golf that would have won four out of five Championships. From his point of view it was distinctly unfortunate that he should happen to run full-tile against a fellow who could scarcely do wrong who seemed perform miracles a
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This is Covey's third championship win. At his first essay in Brighton in 1910 Fairs just beat him by 7 kets to B. Two years later he turned the tables on Fairs by 7 sets to 3 at Prince's M, Jay Gould beat him at Philadelphia in 1914, and then have followed his two victories against Kinsella
The challenger in the present match has, by is sporting and determined play, mado hiraself most popular with tennis lovers in England. In America he devotes most of quash." but he expects in the year to future to be able to give more time to tennis, and all supporters of the game will hope that he will come over again to dispate the championship,—Morning Post.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
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At the early age of 21 Mr. Wethered bus, like his golfing friend, Mr. Cyril To'ley, attained EËS life's ambition. It is a very remarkable fact that in the four years since the war two enptaing of Ox- ford University should have won the championship. Mr. Wetherod, and his sister, who travelled by motor all through the night from Buruham, in Sanerset, w see her brother retrieve the family for tunes, learned their golf at Milford, wear Godalming, under the watchful ere of Fred Robsan. The boy showed the greater the hole is the better one.
that their method of getting the ball into Hitherto Mr. promise, and when about 14 years of #50 Wethered had been inclined to crouch, and he won his first gelling prize. At the age with legs apart played the putt off the of 10 he wa cratch player, and now,
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along with Mr. Tolley, he labours under left foot. All that has been changed. He a plus throu handicap at St. Andrews, now stands fairly upright, with fet close Bwings the club smoothly There has never been anything haphazard together, and
about the golf of the Wethereds; they and easily in the correct Americas pendu haye gore about the game in a sccientia la fashion. The putts now go in. To spirit of inquiry, Ms Withered tells show how the charm has worked, Mr.
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shot, his invariable answer was that it was no use telling her anything, and that she would never be any god at the game until she found out things for herself. And the sister became a champion firsti
right shots. That alone was sufficient to bring him victory. He has also discover મે ball from the front, which is the univer a new trick. Instead of addressing the
sal way, he obtains the line to the hole by first grounding the putter at the back 'A DIFFERENT WETHERED.
of the ball. This may be a valuable tip The 31r. Wethered at Deal was, into those, and there are many of us, who inary respects a different Mr. Wethered go through the torments of the damned from the one we knew. He has played when the putter is placed in their hands. through the beat and turmoil of this And it may be useful to follow the new championship, as regards the hitting of champion in another particular. He the ball, with a splendid restraint, which, it was imagined, he was hardly capable of. He has been visualised as one of the world's longest drivers, which he is, and At the same time as one of the crookedest. Although this is not a wholly accurate
DEADLY PITCHING. description, there is a certain amount of
But his potting was helped materially truth in it. I have occasionally stool aghast at some of his efforts. But there by deadly pitching with the mashie-ziblick another compliment to the American was nothing of this at Deal Quite my vanished. Here was Mr. Harris, who we Wethered did, the putting becomes mere steriously his vaunted long driving had style of golf. When you are continually dropping the ball at the holeside, as Mr. thought would be putdriven by the length child's play. In this way all Mr. Harris's of a street. not only keeping up with Mr. superhuman efforts to keep on level terms Wethered from the tee, bat several times with his opponent were neutralised. outdistancing him. But the least con- cerned person in that vast crowd was Mr. was a brartbreaking business,
Wathered himself; he did not care iwo straws whether he was outdriven or not.
never lonks at the other fellow when put- ting, in case he may be mixed a to strength and direction. Mr. Wetbered prefers to make his own plant and do bis own thinking.
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I do not propose to go into any lengthy details of the match. It is sufficient to What a difference from his Oxford days say that Mr. Wethered jumped off with Then he would hara
fying start-three up in the first four considered it boles and was mover caught. He went insult if anybody butdrove him. All lo was saying to himself today, when the and proceeded to pile on the agony by into lunch four up-a wonderful aperitif wird buffeted the players, was, "Is my winning the first hole in the afternoon. ball on the course?" That was the only From this point Mr. Hartis was a beaten thing that really mattered; the ball wie
and battered man; but he struggled game- on the coura, and he was happy. Mr. Wethered bas learned the lesson that mere bring his young rival to a proper sense ly on,fighting with teeth and clawa to vid slogging is as ridiculous as it is ineffective.
of the docencies of golf. But Mr. Weth- and the inevitable end came at the ered only dealt further shattering blows. twelfth hae with a long, low, perfectly played iron shot that few like a bullet through the narrow gully leading to the green. So arose new golf champion, and none worthier hna even trod the links-Daily Telegraph,
No greater compliment, I think, could have been paid to the methods of the American school of golf than Mr. Weth red's adoption of their putting style Since his return from the States laat au- tumn he has been forced to the conclusion (Continued at food of nexb column.)
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