New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23

In the morning fdtuous Wuo Is just
rsovering the use of his left thumb
!, Is not sound as yet-reeled off SO.
par for this course is rs. Then in the
ss,eruoon the man with the injured
5y;t. sort of hung back and allowed
his partner, Ray, to shoulder the bur
asp Of the work Ray not only is big
srouCh but is quite equal TO such a
ak and it appeared not to tax his
liabilities or stamina much to shoot
AZ the end of the morning round
.hs Britishers were up. Rays
Tound OF s. in the afternoon didn't
;co,ardize their chances OF victory at
III. in fact. it enabled his side to pick
VI three additional holes.
Ray Hurries Approach
Actually Ray should have had 66
Ar nossibly a 65. On the last hole of
ne match lightning was shooting its
hal.s about in q careless manner, and
large drops of rain trickling from the
blsck clouds indicated that a heavy
shower was in the immediate vicinity.
Raw accordingly toek the hint, hurried
his approach after his quick. drive,
which left him short of the green, and
finally had to take to get down.
The course record of Sc is in the
nossession Of ore A. F. Hammer, of the
Fox Hills Club, who chalked up this
mark some years ago. Since then the
course has been altered somewhat.
vsrdon and Ray can be beaten, as
individuals, as was shown at Shawnee
On Tuesday and Wednesday when
Barnes led Ray home by six strokes.
But as a team they will take some
beating" as they say in racing par
lance. Only one pair, Mcdonald and
Alec Smith, turned the trick when the
visitors were here on their last trip.
Il isn't that cur golfers fall down
when they face these fellows, but that
tie Englishmen do so we'll. Their line
Of strategy, if such it can be termed,
is for one to collect the pars while
the other shoots for the birds"
Yesterday, for instance, Vardon be-
iug right in stride did most of the
birdie shooting, while Ray contented
himself with par igures-actually he
did a little better. In the afternoon,
matters were reversed. Vardon came
home in par figures tone over TO be
exact while his brilliant partner was
knocking them cold"-one after an
other. This kind of play successfully
blocked all the desperate efforts of the
locals to overcome their lead.
Losers Win Four Holes
Fotheringham and Boyd, particularly
the Richmond County pro" played ex-
ceedingly well, but it made no differ
euce how low score either made for
hole Nardon or Ray was right there
TO make a similar tally. The Staten
Island pair won only four holes during
the match - one in the morning and
three in the afternoon.
Ray, as is his wont. was driving q
tremendously long ball from virtually
every tee. His iron shots were gen
orally accurate and Yesterday he was
the same demon on the greens that he
was at SIwanoy on Sunday. The way
his puts rolled in, it seemed that
each cup had a magnet attached to it.
Vardon played well also in every de-
partmenr Of the game and was I'M
usually steady.
The Britishers jumped into the lead
on the third hole OF the morning round
when both took par IS, while their
opponents missed their puts and had
to take IS. After that the visitors
were never headed, nor did the local
players ever get on even terms with
them. The hfth hole went to Nardon
and Ray when the latter got a g.; also
the sixth Vardon getting birdie +
with beautiful approach.
The first and only hole of the morn
ing round the Staten Islanders won was
the eighth, where Boyd holed a long
putt for birdie g. The Englishman
got this back on the next hole, Ray
getting birdie g. At the tenth Boyd
sank putt Of twelve feet, but Vardon
was equal to the occasion, and holed
out, from the edge Of the green for a
have. He then won the eleventh with
birdie 4, making another nifty ap-
roach after a good drive.
Nothing further happened until the
seventeenth. when the visitors each got
Is TO their opponents As, and on the
eighteenth each of the Englishmen got
another birdie 3, which left them up
going to luncheon.
In the afternoon they began where
they had left Of in the morning, Ray
making birdie on the first hole
fotheringham won the second, but the
locals lost the third; also the fifth
and the sixth After that the outcome
was never in doubt.