The New York herald., 1921-07-12
BRITISH GOLFERS
3 UP ON AMERICANS
Duncan and Mitchell Lead
Hutchison and Kerrigan in
Match for ST, 900.
ARE 1 UP IN MORNING
Present and Former British
Open Champion Tie for Low
Score Prize at Pelham.
BY KERR N. PETRIE.

BY KERR n. PETRIE.
Dv taking lead Of up on the first
half of their seventy-two hole match
for a purse of $1,000 at the Pelham
Country Club. George Duncan and Abe
Mitchell. the British professional golf
stars, appeared to be in fair way last
night toward getting some of their own
back from Jock Hutchison of Glen View.
Chicago, and Tom Kerrigan of Siwanoy,
for what these two did in the British
open championship at st. Andrews In
that classic Jock and Tom were the
first two professionals to finish. the
former taking the title.
The course over which the celebrated
quartet are playing is perhaps not the
most ideal test In the world as IT stands
at present Nevertheless there Is no
doubt about the interest the public has
in the conflict. A real championship
gallery was out yesterday. and 1t was
only by the hardest kind Of toll that one
could see all the play
In behalf Of the course It Is necessary
to state that In some ways 1t is
wonder. There Is nothing wrong with
the length or the layout. However as
some Of 1t was seeded down as recently
as last September 1t Is not to be wond-
cred at that it was found to be a trife
shaggy through the fairway and all OF
that on most of the green's
But there were Mitchell and Duncan
the celebrated British pair arrayed
against the first and second In the
British open championship prize list.
both of them American professionals.
The crowd just could not resist such an
attraction, the more especially as they
knew that in addition to their regular
playing fees the players were striving
for cool $1,000. which the Pelham
Country Club had put up as an added
incentive for the experts.
Low Score Prize offered.
In the afternoon after Duncan and
Mitchell had assumed lead of 1 up it
was announced that purse of 500 had
been added this to go to the quartet
making the lowest medal card on the
afternoon play of both days. At the
end of the second eighteen holes Duncan
and Hutchison were tied for this, each
with card of IT. Kerrigan having two
strokes to make UP and Mitchell being
no less than five in arrears
If all the members of the Pelham
course were Mitchells they probably
would close their links until they had
made a more equitable distribution Of
the distances. Holes Of about 800 yards
are not much more than a tap for Abe.
Moreover his hurricane wallops are
mostly all carry
Take the case of the 294 yard ninth
or tho 274 yard eighteenth. When
Mitchell Is not on these from the tee
it is because his direction Is at fault
No. That is not strictly according to
fact for the chances are that he has
carried clean over the green He did
this on Sunday at that 294 yard NINTH
much to the surprise of Howard Davis,
-, ell officials who having
gone out to await the Britons as they
took a whirl over a few holes by way
Of getting rid of their sea legs, was
awaiting the party beyond the green
when he heard thump at his feet.
Carries Three Hundred Yards.
For the moment Mr.. Davis imagined
some one was having some fun with
him. but 1t turned out to be Mitchelrs
tee shot. By actual measurement that
drive was 900 yards and 1 foot. More
over II was adj carry. as the ball finished
In the bunker.
Sea legs and everything considered.
all four players having arrived from
England only the previous day. the golf
was not so ragged when one discounted
the extra puts necesstated by the new
ness of the green's When one hoied a
mutt of any length It was more by acci-
0enL IndD Qcsi6hs WifiAS ~-fS
missed were legion.
II is a significant fact that the British
pair never once were down. They took
fhe lead at the third in the morning,
and lost 1t again to a by Kerrigan at
the fourth. On the fifth both the Wis
itors had As to the Americans 5s, and
they repeated at the eighth. to stand
2 up at the turn. .
Coming in Kerrigan holed the only 3
IL I,,t 0ttn ~
back with a at the twelfth after ker-
r,gan had made n wonderful shot from
the rough. The next hole on which a
half was not declared was the ffteenti,
Kerrigan being the only one here to
have any success with the putting. The
seventeenth was won In by Duncan.
and on the home hole Hutchison mace
a winning 3.
With approximations Duncan and
Mitchell were found to have shaved so
very closely. while Hutchison and his
partner hovered around that mark.
Jock Uses His "stoppum."
Duncan made a brilliant TO win the
Is4 yard first hole in the afternoon and
an equally brilliant exhibition was given
by Hutchison for a 3 on the next. Here
Jock used his "stoppum' with deadly
effect and almost holed for 2. The
ball hit the bottom of the flagstaff.
Becoming up again at the third,
where both of the home players were In
trouble, the British team lost the sixth
10 Kerrigan's 4 and turned with lead
of up.
A lone 3 by Mitchell on the tenth
green won that hole and another BY the
same player made the men from over
seas up. Hutchison annexed the
thirteenth in 4. but Duncan holed six
foot putt for the only on the four
teenth.
A pair of As gave the Americans the
Il fifteenth. but brace OF IS by George
and Abe put the match back where u
was. II finished In this position. Dun
can playing from trap after overdrv-
Ing the ga yard home green 70 score
the 3 that tied Kerrigan.
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