New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
English Stars
Lose to Edgar
And Kerrigan
Foreign Golfers, However,
Win the Second Round
on Links at Greenwich
By Ray Mccarthy

fiaSn-hatteT Was responsible for the
hrst defeAt on their present tour, of
the crack English golfing pair, Harry
Vardon and Ted Ray over the course
OF the Greenwich Country Club to-day.
Ihe original schedule called for a
best ball match of thirty-six holes with
Jim Barnes and Tom Kerriran. of the
Sawanoy Club as the opponents Of the
or1slshers. When the starting time
arrived IN the morning, Barnes was
not on hand and j. Douglas Edgar, the
star pro Of the Druid Hills Club. of
Atlanta, who holds the Canadian open
championship, and who happened to be
out on the course getting in i few
practice shots Tor the metropolitan
meet next week, was called in and
leaned up with Kelrisaa.
Then it became s. case of the papil
ue1eatlng his master, for Edgar, who
was taught all the golf he knows by the
veteran Harry Vardon, proceeded to
shoot his head off, and the best ball
OF has and Kerrigan's game was suffi-
| clent to defeat the English stars 3 up
and to play.
Barnes arrived at noon and played with
kerrlgan IN the second round, but the
visitors, or, rather Vardon, had re
covered his true form by that time and
the Americans were beaten by a tally
OF to 3. SO that on the cay the Brit
ons stood one hole to the good Count
Ing the contest as double header,
they broke even.
Many Thrills in Contest
There were enough thrills injected
into the performance to-day to satisfy
the most exacting Of the 1000 or more
golf fans who ghlioped after the play
ers the whole round, despite the in
tense heat and the tedious and arduous
task of hill and dale climbing.
For one feature there was the
record breaking round of the master.
vardon, who shot 60 in the afternoon
and whose score was the best bal, of
his side for this round. No one in
, this section, even the oldest inhabitant,
seems to recall who the former record
holder was. However, the mark was
II, and the opinion prevails that Mac
Donald Smith was t.le player who made
this score. That was some years ago.
and since then tn. course has been
considerably altered. Par is rated at
70 now, but nobody ever goes around
in these figures.
Next in Importance there was the
brilliant round by Edgar to give the
folks something to talk about. This
short, chunky fellow. who is now sta
toned at the club where Bobby Jones
and Alexa Sterling are members and
who IS helping them polish up their
game for the coming championships,
went around in Y in the morning,
which was the best score of all.
Tom Kerrigan, who won many new
admirers by his fine play to-day, shot
a "a, while the Britons-very much off
the form they have shown the past
week-had II and rs Their best ball
card was 73, compared to their oppo-
nents' SO. Vardon's SO was the best
ball score of his team in the after
noon, while Barnes and Kerrigan. had
II.
Off Game in Morning
1t is not hard to fathom the why and
wherefore of the defeat of the English
stars in the morning. 1t SO happened
that both were very much off their
game, whereas Kerrigan and Edgar
were topping pars in rapid succession
In the morning Edgar outplayed his
master and teacher, Vardon, when it
came to playing iron shots, getting in
side aof his oppoent practically every
time. Both he and Kerrigan were hold
ing their own with the long driving
Ray. In addition both putted extreme
~ we'll. On the first hole Edgar sank
long putt and took the lead Vardon
got home in three shots on the long
fourth and won the hole with 5
while the others were taking 6's. How
ever. Kerrigan and Edgar imme edately
got this hole back on the fifth, taking
As, while their opponents missed their
puts and had to take S each. That
left the local p ayers l up at thu turn
Coming in, Ray drove out of bounds
twice at the fourteenth and Vardon put
his third out, so that Kerrigan and Ed
gar won the hole easily. On the hf-
teenth Kerrigan planted his tee shot
on the green and got down IN two puts,
while the others took As. That left the
home players dormie, and they man.
aged to halve the other holes Both
Barnes and Kerrigan were unfortunate
with their puts in the afternoon. Time
and again one or the other Tipped the
cup, hit the back of the tin or hung
just on the edge. And. with Lhe break
going against them in this manner,
they quickly dropped behind coming in
and lost out.
Vardon. on the other hand, was play
ing wonderfully well all the way. One
fan who saw him play many matches
when he was here in 1913 said Vardon
played as well to-day as he ever saw
him perform. Also he was aided by
several good breaks, which are all in
the game.
See-Saw in the Lead
Going out the lead see-sawed, which
made It interesting and thrilling for
the spectators. They halved the first
hole in As, regulation golf. On the
second, Vardon got the lead for his
side by sinking putt CT about twenty
feet. KerIigan dropped one of fifteen
feet on the third, evening up matters,
and on the fourth the Americans went
into the lead when Vardon and Ray
both failed. Rey drove into trap and
on his second, buried the bali further
into the bunker. Vardon's third car
ried him across the green to a grass
bunker But he played out nicely from
hanging lie and had putt OF two
feet for halve-whIch he missed. He
camo right back, however. on the next
green and sank q putt Of thirty feet,
which gave him tha hole and squared
the match.
In the seventh, yardon again startled
the gallery by holding a putt of ten
feet. Kerrigan barely missed q putt
Of twelve feet for balve while Barnes,
after hooking his brassie, hit q tree
on coming back to the green and picked
up. Ray and Vardon were all over the
course on the next hole, while Barnes
got par four with good out from