Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-26
GOLF
BY LONDON STARS
With One Leg Players Give
Record Match Exhibition in
Benefit Contest

London. Oct. 27.-A remarkable ex-
cap. was recently shown at the Sun
bridge Park course during a foursome
in which the leading English profess
sionals were the contestants. Previous
to the match in which Edward Ray
and James Braid were opposed by Harry
vardon and J. H. Taylor. in play for
the beneht of the Lord Kitchener Ma
tional Memorial Fund, Ernest Jones.
balancing himself on one leg. repeated
ly drove the ball for distances well over
200 yards.
Jones. who was the professional OF
turned from the firing line where he had
lost his right leg at the knee. 1t was
generally assumed that his golfing days
were over. immediately he was out
of the hospital, however, Jones was
back on the links.
Drives EalI Straight
In the khaki uniform of a lance cor
poral and on crutches he made his way
to the tee from which vardon and the
others were later to drive and gave one
OF the most remarkable exhibitions the
golfing world has ever seen. Balancing
on his left leg, Jones drove his first ball
straight as the flight of an arrow 235
yards down the course. Not one ball,
but dozen, all flying as far and as
true as the first. And never once did
he lose his balance. All the rhythm
and timing OF the perfect professional
swing were there, and many amazed
golfers discovered that form" is really
the thing after all. whether you are
standing on two. legs or one.
Jones naively remarked that he hop
ed to do much better after he gets an
been able to make a SO on his home
course.
The spectators also witnessed some
wonderful play in the foursome which
followed. The match demonstrated
that whatever may be its other vicissi-
tudes war has not taken a single ounce
from the tremendous driving smash of
Ray. nor has it dulled in the slightest
degree the keen edge OF Vardon's won
derful machine-like play.
Fought Wonderful Match
These two masters of golf fought out
n wonderful match. Vardon made a
6S, ten strokes under the standard for
the course, but Ray was a miracle man
that afternoon. The witchery of his
niblick play finally set at naught the
wizardry of Fardon's woods and irons,
and he rounded out the eighteen holes
with a 66. Baird and Taylor were more
or less eclipsed and 1t is no ordinary
golhng contest when players of their
type can be all but forgotten
The foursome had not moved beyond
the third hole when the big gallery,
which included a host of Americans,
began to realize that what they really
were to see was duel between Ray
and Vardon. Yet Braid and Taylor were
playing magnificent golf all the way
through. Taylor was a trife handi-
capped by sore hand and had most OF
the bad luck in the match. Braid did
some remarkable putting. He was con-
stantly down in three or four, but Var
don or Ray were always on hand 20
halve the hole and share the honors
Once Baird sank a 30-foot put for a
two, but Ray with an air of supreme
carelessness ran one down from fifteen
feet away and took a similar score.
The driving was always wonderful
Taylor and Baird were seldom more
than couple of yards apart. Vardon
generally was ten yards in advance of
these two, but Ray, a little off in di-
rection. always had from ten to twen-
ty yards the best OF the cannonading
from the tee. 1t was a foursome in
which 1t took 5 to win and often
times two. Ray made on a asa
yard hole after driving well into the
rough.