The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-17
RAY AND VARDON
SHOW THEIR SKILL
Display Fine Wooden Club
Play in Defeating Hagen and
Farrell at Quaker Ridge.
by KERR n. PETRIE.

Those golf enthusiasts in the gallery
at Quaker Ridge yesterday who had be-
gun to believe that Ted Ray. the English
holder OF the American open champion
ship. and his team mate. Harry Vardon.
six times winner of the British open
crown. had played themselves out by
their strenuous campaign must havu
been agreeably surprised at the work
Of the two In their match with Walter
Hagen, former national champion. and
Johnny Farrell the brilliant young
Quaker Ridge professional. Vardon and
Ray won both morning and afternoon,
took the thirty-six holes tilt by 4 up and
to play, and in addition carried off the
special prize of 500 offered for the
player making the low card on the after
noon circuit.
Getting off to a fine start, the British
pair won the morning match by l up,
They had been up at the sixth, and
only brace by Farrell on the incoming
nine kept them from carrying over
bigger lead for the second eighteen holes.
Vardon and Ray held a lead of 4 up at
the tenth, but, practically unaSsisted.
Farrell cut this down with delightful
flashes of golf until on the home green
he sank the only OF the group to clip
the lead of the Britons to a single hole.
On that round Ray was credited with
70, which is within two strokes of the
par OF the course. Farrell was only one
stroke worse, while Vardon required 80
and Hagen SO.
1t was, however, on the second round
that the gallery received its greatest
treat This time Ray and Vardon made
best ball Of 81. five strokes under the
morning total, while the American pair
had Y. against the "a made on the
first round. This round Vardon and
Ray won by 3 and e.
Regarded as a separate match, the
afternoon round was brought even at
the eleventh after the British team
had rolled up a lead of up at the
seventh. Farrell getting 2 at the ninth
and with Hagen at the eleventh.
At the fourteenth Hagen allowed the
opposing pair to assume the lead again
by missing a putt of two feet and taking
three altogether from distance of
about. twelve feet when he had been
the only one of the four to reach the
green on his second. On the fifteenth
Ray laid a magnificent shot from the
rough within little more than q yard
from tho cup. easily making the and
giving his side lead of 2 up, and at the
sixteenth. a hole of 43s yards. vardon
laid up grand second that enabled
him to cut par by a stroke and to
finish the match by and e.
Fine Wooden Club Play.
While the wooden club of the British
experts has been feature Of their
tour, it is doubtful If in any match they
have shown such a succession of daz-
zling brassie and spoon shots as they
disclosed to the wondering and admir-
ing eyes of the Quaker Ridge folk Ray
hegan the fireworks by laying his
brassie second on the 472 yard sixth
within six inches of the hole and cut
ting no less than two shots from par
On the next both Ray and vardon
found 1t necessary to resort to an in
territorial slice Ia get around the corner
OF the woods.
Playing first, Vardon made a stroke
that made the onlookers gasp in aston
ishment, for the ball went curving
around the trees and up between the
line OF bunkers like bird soaring to it's
nest. Being a bit longer from the tee
than his side partner. Ray had less OF
twist to give his ball. However, to
make sure OF clearing the trees. he also
gave his shot a decided slice. Vardon's
ball was fifteen feet short of the cup,
but Rays lay within a yard. enabling
the open champion to make an easy g.
Vardon got his 4.
Hagen and Farrell had started out
after that special prize of 800. but their
race terminated at this seventh hole.
Farrell was down with Ray and Var
don toward the corner OF the woods, but
he had a heavy lie, and instead of
duplicating the magnificent shots Of the
British stalwarts of the links the young
Quaker Ridge expert sliced out OF
bounds. With Ray and vardon up there
Farrell did not deem 1t worth his while
to drop another ball.
Meanwhile Hagen had hit a long ball
from the tee straight out so that II
brought UP in the rough. The metro
politan champion made a poor second,
played his second into n bunker at the
left OF the green, and. falling to get
out in one, also picked up. Thus Ray
and Vardon were left TO fight 1t out
between themselves for the extra money.
Ray Makes Low Score.
Up TO that point Ray was leading Var
don by no less than five shots. With
a "a against 49, the open champion
still was four 10 the good at the turn,
but on the inward journey Vardon came
TO life. and had the latter not had the
misfortune to get hanging lie for his
spoon shot for the eighteenth, this caus-
ing him TO pull into hedge and lose a
stroke on n chop out there probably
would have been a tie. As ii was. both
missed a short putt on the home green,
Ray taking and Vardon g.
Ray was credited with a. 70 and Var
don a "a, while Farrell had 20, with |
a Appropriated for the seventh. where |
he sliced out Of bounds. and Hagen got !
a rs.
The scores OF the match:
MORNING BEST BALL.
Ray and vardon--
Out ........ Is a-3T