Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-04
PROFESSIONAL GOLF.
GAME IN ENGLAND
Vardon and Braid in "a Great
Contest in Youngsters.

Harry vardon and James Braid are en-
gagged with George Duncan and c. H. Mayo
in a four-ball foursime golf match for $500
a side. The first half was played last week
at Walton-Heath England, and the way in
which the younger prOfessionals-Mayo is
only twenty-five years of age and Duncan
twenty -three-played up against their ex-
perienced opponents created great excite
ment, and in the afternoon the SPECTATORS,
who by this time numbered nearly 1900,
proved very difficult to manage Ropes
We're useless. and a large staff of stewards
could not cope with complete success with
the crowd There was. for instance, an I'M
fortunate incident at the seventeenth hole,
bunker. Mayos GIVE hit coat carried
by one of these :t,ectators, and dropped
down against the face of the bunker. De-
lfghtful weather favored the match and
the course was in very good order, in spite
of the recent rains.
Mayo played game completely different
from that which he showed against A.
Herd in the final of the 924O tournament
at HOllinwell last month. On that occasion
he was drawing the club across the ball
and failed in consequence to get a long
ball. Yesterday. on the whole. he showed
very fine form, and in the matter of individ-
ual skill he may be said to have shared the
honors of the day with Braid. Mayo, how
ever, did not show his true form in putting
on the outward journey in the morning
Had he done SO; the younger couple might
down at the end of eighteen holes. Mayo
drove finely, and in this respect was at least
the equal of Vardon, who, however, did not
show his best form. Duncan showed ten
dency to slice from the tee. but. taken
all round, he played good golf.
Braid and Vardon were very hard pressed
from the beginning to the end Of the day.
Before the start the general impression
was that they would win easily, and when
by winning three holes in succession they
became 3 holes up in the SIXTH there
was an idea among many of the spectators
that 1.-The procession had begun. But by
very plucky golf Duncan and Mayo got
their rivals back to holes up at the end
of the first round. and squared the match
on the second green in the afternoon. They
could never secure the lead. but on the
other hand. they never allowed their OPP
ponents to get far ahead.
Details of tbs Match.
Going to the first hole. Mayo made
slightly longer drive than Vardon, but on
the green the former failed to get up with
his put, with the result that he left Dun
can to negotiate a dead styme for half.
The latter tried to loft it. and failed, SO
that Braid and Vardon at once became l
hole up. At the second Duncan consider
ably outdrove Braid. Vardon sliced his
brassie shot into the rough. and Braid
could not get far with the third shot. Dun
can and Mayo were almost hole high in 2,
and, winning the hole inf5 to 6. they squared
the match. Duncan mfde good approach
to the third, but Mayo was short with his
eghty-foot for 3. and the hole was halved
in 4. Braid outdrove Duncan by twenty
five yards from the fourth tee. and Vardon
put a splendid brassie shot to the
green. A good approach by Duncan gave
his side a chance of halving. but Mayo
missed a Vineyards put. and Braid and
Vardon won in to 5. The next two are
short holes. and the older couple won
Doth Braid and Vardon might have be-
come 4 up at the seventh. but after Mayo
had missed a yard put. Vardon failed 1T
one of less than two feet. and the hole was
halved in 6. On the eighth green Mayo ran
down a seven-foot put for the hole in 4.
Going to the ninth Duncan sliced his bras
sic shot far into the b:acken. The ball
could not be found. that his side lost
the hole. Braid and Vardon thus turning 3
holes UP.
The tenth was haved N 8, and the elev-
enth in 4. On the twelfth green Duncan's
tee shot stopped six yards beyond the hole,
while Brads was sixteen yards to the
right Varden put the ball dead, but then
side a dead stymie. Braid could not "cut''
round it, and Duncan and Mayo reduced
their opponents lead to 2. They lost the
thirteenth, however, Mayo missing a four
foot put for half in and became 4
down at the fourteenth, where Duncan
Sliced" his drive into the bunker. The
fifteenth was halved in 5. Playing the odd
at the sixteenth, Mayo holed his shot from
just off the green, giving. his side the hole