The New York herald., 1921-10-16
.BRITONS WIN 81 OF
II GOLF CONTESTS
Duncan and Mitchell. Now on
Way to England, Have Sue
cesSful Tour.
LOSE II AND HALyE B
Walter Hagen Most Successful
Player in Matches With In
vading Professionals.
LOSE II AND HALyE B
By KERR y. PETRIE.

n NGANEA
The day when a pair of British golf
professionals could hope 10 tour this
country and meet with no more than
one reverse In the course of a season
OF exhibition matches is not so very
far back, yet it is speeding fast into
the limbo OF impossible things. it would
seem. Harry Vardon and Ted Ray
did accomplish such a feat as men
toned above when they first came
here together in 1913, but on their
return a year ago they found that an
entirely Different state of affairs ex-
listed IN the realm Of the battle and the
mashie nibiick. They discovered. much
to their surprise. that not only We're
there professionals to take their meas
ure, but that in addition there were
several amateurs fit 10 turn the trick
on an occasion.
George Duncan and Abe Mitchell when
they came here last July to follow the
trail of the "Old Master and the roll
licking Ted realized that their path lay
not altogether in pastures green. They
have not beea disappointed as they
have lost seventeen matches since the
dismal day which saw the hopes OF
Mitchell co badly blasted in the national
open championship Mt Washington.
However. as against this they have won
fifty-one games and halved three, So
that they can claim a big measure OF
success for their efforts In competition
with the golfers of the United States.
Duncan and Mitchell left yesterday on
board the Olympic for home, and soon
no doubt they will be thunbing the rec
ords and comparing notes with Ted and
Harry. Last year Vardon and Ray lost
about twenty-five matches and won
something like fifty-eight. so it looks
as IL the pairs will have to toss coins
to decide the championship or else play
off for it, However, as Ray won the
open championship and vardon was sec.
ond it Is not difficult to guess what Ted
and Harry will have to say on this
point.
Both Have Fine Average.
It took time for Mitchell and Duncan
to become acclimatized but once they
had settled to their stride the pair
gave some fine exhibitions of golf. as
may be judged from the fact that of
$40 rounds played they Were only once
over so, while in fifty-one of the rounds
they were 40 or better. Duncans aver
age for the tour Is 72.7, and that of
Mitchell 1919. while the pair had Il best
ball average of 65.eo OF the matches
lost five were by the margin of ~ single
hole. while only once were they defeated
by more than up. Tho exception was
in the contest against Francis Ouimet
and Jock Hutchison at Belmont Spring,
when the home pair won by UP ana .
to play ~
Duncan and Mitchell are taking home
with them very high opinion 81 Ameri-
can amateurs. This is scarcely surpris-
ing since there were seven amateurs
IN ba iref M i've fnf dcfaat hapr
Max Marston and Jerorae Travers had
the distinction of putting the first black
mark on the recoTd of the invaders In a
match at Meri3h Cricket Club. Phia-
delphia. The Score of that contes. was
& and D. a short while thereafter >-av-
ers and William Patten OF Mohawk re-
peated the dose at Schenectady. The
third setback was administered by
Ouimet and Hutchison, and then came
Patten. once more linked with John @.
Anderson, those two winning UP at
Plttsfield. Mass. Hutchison and John
Cowan beat the Britons up and Walter
Hagen and Harry Hampton took them
into camp, and 3, in a match at
Detroit
Charles Evans. Jr.. and Bob Mac
Donald appear TO have been a thorn in
the flesh Of the visitors, for these two
trounced them and 3. at Bob o. Link.
repeating the dose at Hilicrest Kansas
City
The name of the British open cham
pion. Jock Hutchison. figures many
times on both sides OF the record and
the same Is true OF Jim Barnes. the ma
tional open title holder. Together
Hutchison and Barnes did not hit it off
particularly well. losing by o single
hole ut Belmont Spring and by 8 and
at Garden City. However, in conjunc-
tion with others both have tasted the
Of NtcfnrV
won with George Sargent as his partner
in a match at Columbus. Ohio. and on
consecutive days at the Westchester-
Biltnore and at Belleclaire paired with
Walter Hagen. Hutohison won with Oui-
met, Bobby Jones. Cowan. Leo Diegel
and Hagen.
Hagen Was Never Defeated.
or all the players opposing Duncan
and Mitchell during the season none
has come out with greater credit than
Hagen. who has nothing worse TO show
than a tie for five matches. The tie
game. oddly enough, was played In
Rochester, Hagens home town. Hutchl-
son being the partner.
In the Hagen Barnes VS.. Duncan-Mit-
chell matches the score In favor Of the
American pair was and 3t The West
chester Blltmore and and I at Belle
claire. While abroad a year ago for the
British open championship Walter and
Jim surprised the critics by taking the
doughty George and Abe into camp.
Coming on top OF that victory the results
achieved on home territory stamp Hagen
and Barnes as one OF the strongest best
ball pairs playing the game Nor should
Il be forgotten than in a series OF five
matches with vardon and Ray last year
Hagen and Barnes won three and los;
two.
Dill