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AUGUST 21 21 Keeping Cases on Vardon and Ray HE National Open Championship they lost, 3 and 2. The match fur- Tat Toledo Broke in on the itinerary nished further proof that the Britons of Harry Vardon and Ted Ray some- are a wonderful pair for team work. what when the visitors gave up the In all of their matches one or the program of edifying the golfers of other has managed to play golf bor- many cities to take a hand at pulling dering on the sensational, in case his down the American championship. running mute was not going any too However, they did not step from the good. roles of exhibition performers to those The morning round proved the tell- of championship aspirants until they ing chapter of the story. And this had run their western schedule into a time it fell to the lot of Vardon to record of two wins and a tie in three set off the pyrotechnics. The great starts. veteran brought home a round of 67 WHERE THEY WILL PLAY After the very brilliant showing of Ted Ray and Harry Vardon at Inverness, the resumption of their exhibition tour will be marked by added interest. Additional dates have been announced, rounding their schedule out for the following itinerary: August 21—Skokie Country Club . Chicago " 22 —Lake Shore Country Club . Chicago " 23—South Bend Country Club . South Bend " 24—Glen View Club . Chicago " 25—White Bear Yacht Club . St. Paul " 27—Park Ridge Golf Club . .Winnipeg " 28—Elmhurst Country Club . Winnipeg " 30—Sioux City Country Club . Sioux City " 31—Minikahda Club . .Minneapolis September 1 —Omaha Country Club . .Omaha " 2 —Mission Hills Country Club . .Kansas City " 3 —Wichita Country Club . .Wichita " 4 —Hillcrest Country Club . Kansa. s City " 5 —Sunset Hill Country Club . .St. Louis " 7 —Birmingham Country Club . .Birmingham " 8 —Capitol City Country Club . .Atlanta " 9 —Chattanooga Golf and Country Club . Chattanooga " 10 —Cherokee Country Club . Knoxville " 11 —Nashville Golf and Country Club . Nashville " 12 —Louisville Country Club . Louisville " 13 —Audubon Country Club . .Louisville " 14 —Kokomo Country Club . .Kokomo " 15 —Scioto Country Club . .Columbus " 17 —Somerset Hills Golf Club . .Bernardsville, N. J. " 18 —Morris Country Golf Club . .Morristown " 19 —Englewood Golf Club . Englewood " 20 —Cherry Valley Club . Garden City " 21 —Trenton Country Club . .Trenton " 22 —Huntingdon Valley Country Club . .Philadelphia " 23 —Merion Cricket Club . Philadelphia " 24 —Aronimink Country Club . Philadelphia " 25 —Scranton Country Club . Scranton " 26 —Northampton Country Club . Easton " 28—The Country Club . Brookline " 29 —Woodland Golf Club . Boston " 30 —Newport Golf Club . Newport October 1 —Wannamoisett Country Club . Providence " 2 —Upper Montclair Golf Club . .Upper Montclair " 3 —Century Country Club . .White Plains " 4 —Inwood Country Club . Far Rockaway, L. I. " 5 —North Shore Country Club . Glen Head, L. I. " 6 —Garden City Golf Club . Garden City " 7 —Knickerbocker Country Club . Tenafly, N. J. " 8 —Essex County Country Club . East Orange, N. J. " 9 —Shackamaxon Country Club . .Westfield, N. J. " 10 —Woodmere Club . .Woodmere, L. I. " 12 —Baltimore Country Club . .Baltimore " 13 —Columbia Country Club . .Washington " 14 —Country Club of Virginia . Richmond " 17— Mohawk Golf Club . Schenectady " 18 —Bellevue Golf Club . Melrose, Mass. " 20 —Albany Country Club . Albany, N. Y. " 21 —Amsterdam Country Club . Amsterdam, N. Y. After making a dead heat of their on his own account, which is two engagement with Emmet French and strokes under par. On one lone hole Herbert Lagerblade at Youngstown, Ray came to his rescue, when the the Britons ran over to Detroit and opposition was crowding, so that their hooked up in the third exhibition in best ball was 66 for the eighteen which Walter Hagen has furnished a holes. half of the opposition. At Shenecos- In the afternoon Hagen and Ross sett and Hollywood Hagen and had slightly the better of the argu- Barnes opposed the visitors and hon- ment. Though the match ended on ors ended even for the two engage- the sixteenth green, the bye holes were ments. played out, and the home players In Detroit Hagen paired with Alex emerged 1 up for the afternoon round, Ross to meet the advance of the over- though the official ending of the match seas entries on the two courses of the showed them 3 down with 2 to play. Detroit Golf Club. Both he and Ross Hagen's golf was hardly as good as played good golf, but not good enough it has been in some of his late to win under the circumstances, and matches, but it was very brilliant in 22 THE AMERICAN GOLFER spots. For instance, a special prize Lorms was the more effective per- of fifty dollars was hung up for the former of his team, shooting the player registering the largest number round in 72, which tied with Ray for of "birdies" for the thirty-six holes. individual honors. On the other hand, Hagen bagged this extra money, when White polled a 78, which tied Vardon. However, the homebreds failed to he holed out five times under par make their best work dovetail in prop- twice in the forenoon and three times erly to attain the best results. Both in the afternoon. Lorms and White lost a stroke on Here are the best ball scores for the first hole, taking 5's to their the two teams, with par for the two opponent's 4's. Ray won the fourth courses: with 4 to put his team 2 up. White had a birdie 3 on the seventh to cut MORNING ROUND the lead to one hole, but Ray got it back with a 2 at the eighth, and also Par— won the ninth with 5, allowing his Out . 4 4 3 4 4 3 5 3 4—34 team to turn 3 up. In . 3 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 5—35—69 Ray ran down a birdie 3 on the Vardon and Ray— eleventh for another win, but Lorms Out . 4 4 2 4 4 3 4 3 4—32 dropped a birdie 4 at the twelfth. In . 3 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 4—34—66 Lorms also had a birdie 3 on the Hagen and Ross— fifteenth, cutting his handicap to two 3 holes. Ray faltered on the sixteenth Out . 4 4 2 4 4 4 4 5—34 and seventeenth, but the reliable Var- In . 5 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 4—36—70 don was on the job with par golf at both holes, and saved a half, ending AFTERNOON ROUND the match on the seventeenth green. Par— This match afforded Vardon and Out . 4 4 4 5 3 4 4 4 3—35 Ray to take their first look at the In- In . 4 3 5 4 5 3 4 5 4—37—72 verness course, and both were very well Hagen and Ross— pleased, indeed with the layout. They were especially impressed with the Out . 4 4 4 5 3 4 4 4 3—35 condition of the putting greens, Var- In . 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 4—35—70 don stating that with such wonderful Vardon and Ray— greens the difficulties of putting were Out . 4 5 3 4 3 4 4 4 3—34 reduced to a minimum. In . 4 3 4 5 5 3 4 5 4—37—71 Here are the scores for the round: Win at Inverness HE show at Inverness was con- Out— Tfined to an eighteen-holes match, inasmuch as the two visitors wanted a Par . 4 4 3 4 5 4 4 3 5—36 bit of rest before plunging into the Lorms . 5 4 3 5 5 4 4 3 5—38 task of hurdling the preliminary test White . 5 5 3 5 4 5 3 4 5—39 for the championship which began on Ray . 4 5 3 4 5 4 4 2 4—34 Tuesday after their exhibition match Vardon . 4 4 3 5 4 6 4 4 5—39 on Sunday. Charlie Lorms, the In- verness professional, and D. K. In— White, who holds a similar job at the Par . 4 4 5 3 4 4 4 4 4—36—72 Sylvania Club of Toledo, were lined Lorms . 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 4—34—72 up to battle the invaders. White . 4 4 5 3 5 4 4 6 4—39—78 The homebreds succeeded in mak- Ray . 4 3 5 3 4 5 5 5 4—38—72 ing the match quite a contest, though Vardon . 4 4 5 3 5 6 4 4 4—39—78 they were eventually forced to lower their colors in a 2 and 1 defeat. Best ball: Again the excellent team work of the Vardon and Ray— visitors prevailed. On the preceding Out . 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 2 4—32 day at Detroit it was Vardon who In . 4 3 5 3 4 5 4 4 4—36—68 delivered the groceries. But at In- verness Ray took up the burden, Lorms and White— though Vardon lent valuable aid. Out . 5 4 3 5 4 4 3 3 5—36 In . 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 4—34—70.