New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-26
Vo'don and Ray Opposed
Ire Matches on RIVE Links
Each Star Wins One Con.
test Playing With Anna
tours; Vardon Gets a 90
BY Raw Mccarthy

Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, Eng
lands star golfers, split as a team and
prayed against each other on the Apa-
wants club course yesterday. They
were scheduled to play together but
the opponents selected to meet the
britons-Findley S. Douglas, former
national amateur champion, and Roger
fapham of the Apawamis club, would
nave proved no match for them, so
at the last minute it was decided to
play the Englishmen on opposite sides.
IN the morning Vardon paired with
Douglas and lost to Ray and Lapham,
the score being up. The same score
decided the afternoon contest, except
that IN this game, Lapham played with
Vardon, these two winning from Ray
and Douglas.
A large gallery that hocked to the
grounds for the matches was some
what disappointed in not seeing the
brltons play as best ball team, in
which they shine, and in which they
are practically without peers. To
have the Britishers appear together
against two stars, would undoubtedly
have been much more interesting, but
as 1t was the visitors gave a fine ex-
hibition and showed the folks some
shots to talk about at the supper
table.
Weather to Rays Liking
For instance, the day being con-
siderably cooler than any the foreign
crs have experienced since their arri-
val here, the brawny Ted Ray felt
more comfortable and more like put
ting his strength into his swing. On
Saturday the heat bothered the big fell
low so much he fell away from his
true form
"The club kept slipping in my hands"
Ray remarked after the struggle with
Barnes and Kerrigan.
Yesterday. as stated, the day was
comparatively cool, and the manner in
which Ray laced out tremendously long
drives caused the crowd to gasp with
establishment. Moreover, every one Of
these long clouts hung TO the main line
all the way. Had his short game and
hi3 putting been as good as his driv-
ing, Ray would have gone around in
something like 60. In the morning his
card of II, two strokes better than
par, was sufficient to give his side q
victory Of 2 up.
1t was Vardon's turn in the after
noon. He didn't tear off any ex-
traordinary drives-he swings too
easily and gracefully to get great dis
tance-but he did play some of the
most wonderful iron shots ever brought
on on this course, and he topped off
his splendid short game with some mar
nltlcent putting, which aided materially
in capturing the victory and scoring
remarkable So Ray continued his
long driving in the afternoon and also
turned in some fine puts.
Vardon Puts Well
Both Douglas and Lapham played
well, particularly in the afternoon, de-
spite several poor shots In the morn
ing Vardon won the first hole with a
long putt for a birdie 4. Ray and Lap
ham took the third Ray doing the
long putt trick, one of ten feet. AT
the sixth Nardon came back with an
other long roll on the green, and when
Lapham and Ray both fell down ON the
next green the others went to 2 IN.
Ray won the eleventh with putt Of
twelve feet; also the thirteenth by
parking his second shot on the green
This squared the match. He then won
the fourteenth, getting home in tive
9liot", WINE inc otnerS took three, anC
the eighteenth with a long putt.
In the afternoon Ray and Douglas
got off the line and lost the first hole
Vardon sank putt of twenty feet on
the third and was 9 up. He also
dropped one of similar distance on the
next green, and was up The sixth
Douglas won. playing a beautiful iror
shot that landed dead for his second
Coming home Vardon won the eleventh
with putt of twelve feet.
The next three, however, went te
Douglas and Ray. Ray was the only
player who drove the twelfth, and or
the thirteenth Douglas ran his secone
to within two feet of the pin The
fourteenth Ray played in par figures
while Vardon drove a brook, the other.
the rough. Vardon got nifty eagle Z
on the sixteenth, his drive landing
within three feet of the pin, and also
won the eighteenth, sinking a putt Of
eight feet.