The New York herald., 1921-08-14
BRITISH GOLF PAIR
IN 18TH VICTORY
Duncan and Mitchell Defeat
Mcnamara and Bowling
at Scarsdale.
TAKE MATCH BY 6 AND 4
George and Abe Give Brilliant
Display-Are 3 Up in
Morning.
TAKE MATCH BY 6 AND 4
by KERR n. PETRIE.

BY KERR n. PETRIE.
BY defeating Jack Dowling of Scars
dale and Tom Mcnamara Of Siwanoy
by up and 4 TO play in thirty-six
hole best ball match over the Scars
dale links George Duncan and Abe
Mitchell, the British professional golf
stars, yesterday accomplished what
Harry Vardon and Ted Ray were un-
able to do last year.
Until George and Abe paid their visit
10 the picturesque course at Hartsdale
Bowling and Mcnamara were in pos
session of an untarnished record for
best ball matches there. They had
won in Red Cross best ball contests
from S. Davidson Heron and Grant
Peacock and from Bobby Jones and
Chick Evans. and when they took Ray
and Vardon into camp by 6 and it
was considered that they must be we'll
nigh invincible on the Scarsdale
course. Evidently this years invaders
pect from the little home bred pair.
In any event they settled down TO play
at top speed right from the start and
never once did they let up all day
long.
Ecarsda,e is not a long course. Be-
cause of this 1t was felt that Dowling
and Mcnamara would be able TO at least
keep up with their far driving oppo-
nents, as they had done twelve months
before with Vardon ane Ray, and that
what they lost on distance from the tee
they would more than balance with their
accurate approaching and putting. AS
it turned out. Duncan and Mitchell did
not have their long hitting to thank for
their victory, not against Dowling at
least, for. although slightly built Jack
many times outhit even the mighty Abe.
But as a team the visiting pair
showed such all around excellence as to
be practically invincible, and IL concrete
proof of such statement Is required 1t
will be found in their best ball figures
of 66 for the morning round and So FOR
the afternoon eighteen holes.
Fine stand by Homebreds.
To such wonderful golf Bowling and
Mcnamara did not lay down by any
means. Starting out down as result
of the morning play, they put together
- WOuueTlul DtSl pdll III VI OF AOi eAiS
first nine holes in the afternoon. Even
this was Of no avail. Where 1t probably
would have swamped nineteen out OF
every twenty teams 1t made scarcely a
dent In the standing of Mitchell and
Duncan.
with twenty foot putt for a at
the first the former British open cham
pion had raised tae lead of himself and
Mitchell to up. Then came the rally
by the homebreds. At the seventh
Bowling holed twelve foot putt for a
8 to make the disadvantage OF his side
only three holes again. At the eighth
Mcnamara chipped in from off the
green for another 3. That left the
Americans but 2 down.
The ninth was the feature hole and
the turning point of the match. This Is
an affair of only 125 yards Downing
and Mitchell holed H. In the par of 3.
Mcnamara, however. ran down an
eighteen foot putt for 2. and with
Duncan lying fifteen feet away Toms
feat seemed likely to leave the Amer
lean pair only down with nine to play.
Il was a trying moment for the former
British open champion but George was
equal to the CALL Stepping Quickly for
ward to his putt. he gave the ball
tap and down 1t went to the bottom of
the cup.
After that stand-off Mcnamara and
Dowlng appeared TO weaken. They
could do no better than n pair of 5s
AGAINST the As of their opponents on the
461 yard tenth. and at the next, hole
of 446 yards. Mitchell sank the only 3.
That left the British pair up and
Mitchell made II dormie when he holed
his putt of about IL feet for on the
2os yard pond hole. On the sos yard
fourteenth the Brltons chalked up As
against their opponents IS, and thus
took the match by and 4.
Duncnn's Fine Spoon Shot.
Playing out the bye noles Duncan
and Mitchell both reached the 235 yard
fifteenth green from the tee. Dowling
and Mcnamara both hooked away up
among the trees near the elevated tee of
the sixteenth. Mcnamara picked up, but
Dowling proceeded to demonstrate how
in such circumstances ii still is possible
to haive hole with an opponent who
is only a few feet from the pin at the
outset
Jack played from the rough and the
trees to the edge of the green and then
holed a thirty foot putt for his 3. De-
spite the fact that Duncan had laid his
spoon shot within five feet of the cup
from the tee he could not improve on
this. Dowling and George had adopted
entireI different methods. but the net
result was the same.
Duncan played the first nine In 32 In
the afternoon and the other three In %
each, allowing for approximations at
several holes. particularly In the case OF
Dowiing and Mcnamara. Coming back
Mitchell made Il In 81, so that Abe had
q Sc to his credit
on the last hole Duncan's caddic failed
TO mark the ball and. as Il was raining.
George did not trouble to look for the
hiding sphere.
The score.
MORNING BEST BALL.
Duncan and Mitchell