Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1917 — LONG DRIVERS OF AMATEURS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LONG DRIVERS OF AMATEURS

Bob Gardner of Chicago and Jesse Guilford of Massachusetts Given Most Credit. ■ > Who’s the longest driver among the golfing amateurs of our perfectly good United States? The question has been hashed and rehashed by the golf critics, yet no one has settled it as yet. When the amateur championship toUrney was held at Philadelphia last summer, Jesse Guilford. Massaehusett s state champion, and Bob Gardner of Chicagowere touted as the best drivers among the amateurs. In the semi-final round, when these two players met,

Gardner got greater distance out oi his drives, but it was pointed out that he was hitting a low ball with a long roll on a baked course, while Guilford was hitting a high ball with comparatively little roll. And then the unprejudiced railbirds bobbed up with the assertion that among all the players in the toufney D.. Clarke Crokran of Baltimore was driving yards beyond both players. So the amateur long-driving championship is up in the air.

Bob Gardner.