Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-13
VARDON AND RAY
LEAD GOLF MATCH
Five Up on Mcleod and
Hutchinson at End of
First Half.

Harry Vardon and Edward Ray of
England were 5 up on Fred Mcleod
and Jack. Hutchison at the end OF
the first half of their thirty-siX hole
eHhibltlon golf match at the Column
bia Country Club today.
Nardon and Ray played steady
game throughout the morning. while
Mcleod and Hutchison were rather
| erratlc and did not team well to-
sether. The scores for the morning
round were as follows:
Nardon. IS: Mcleod. 20; Ray. II. and
Hutchinson. 7S
Fries have been donated by two
members of the Columbia Country
cub for the best scores both morn
ing ana afternoon, and for the thirty
six hole total.
British Stars Play.
Harry Vardon of Totteridge and Ed
ward Ray of Oxhey, probably the best
known professional golfers in the world
are playing today in an exhibition match
at the Columbia Country Club agains,
Fred Mcleod, professional at Columbia
and Jock Hutchinson of the Glen View
Club Of Chicago, the western open and
+. q. A. champion.
The peerless Britishers arrived ir
Washington last night and saw the Co.
lumbia course for the first time this
morning when they stepped out on the
flrst tee to face their Scottish America
opponents.
Today's match is by far the best ex.
| hibition match that has ever beer
staged in or about Washington. ever
transcending the match in 1917 wher
Chick Evans and Fred Mcleod defeated
Jim Barnes and Walter Hagen on the
thirty sixth green in a Red Cross bene-
fit match.
The British visitors have never visited
Washington. and on that account the
match should prove a great drawing
crowd for the hundreds of golfers in the
capital who have never seen the ma
chine-like game Of Harry Vardon and
the superbrilliancy of his ''hefty'' part.
ner. Ted Ray. Local golfers are famila,
with the game put up by Fred Mcleod
and they have seen Hutchinson in actor
before, but the two famous Britisher!
have never played here.
The games of the two crack Eng.
lish pros are the exact antithesis o.
each other. Vardon, graceful and {
stylist to the extreme. makes the
game appear absurdly easy by the
rhythm of his stroke and his uncann,
accuracy. Ray, on the other hand
appears to expend a great deal o,
pure lSGysical energy in single
round, literally hurting himself at the
ball on the tee. His game, however
lis not whit behind that of Vardon
who has held the professional cham.
Ipionship of Great Britain seven times
Ray held the British title in 1912
His latest feat was in winning the
United States professional champion
ship from the finest field ever gather.
ed for the event last August over the
course of the Inverness Club neal
Toledo, Ohio. In this event he lee
Harry Vardon, Hutchinson and Lee
Diegel Of Detroit by a single stroke.
Mcleod "AnchOr Man."
The British professionals appear tt
have worked out a very successful
method of play in their matches. Ray
is usually to be found far down the
course ahead of his steady partner
trying for "birdies'' or eagles" Il
he misses a shot Nardon can be re.
lied upon to hold the opposition.
In today's match Fred Mcleod will
be the anchor man of the opposing
team, his. steadiness, particularly over
the course of the Columbia Country
Club, being a big incentive to the
hope that he and Hutchinson may de-
feat the British pair.
A committee of about $50 members
of clubs about Washington is man
laying the exhibition and assisting the
committee in charge to keep the gal
lery in order on the course. Vardon
and Ray have expressed disapproval
with the manner in which American
golf galleries are handled, and the
Columbia Country Club is doing
everything in its power today to COM
bat this impression.