The Washington times., 1922-05-29

For some years he was profes
sional at Royal St. Andrews. Sand
wich, and then he went to America,
where he is now attached to the
White Bear Club, White Bear Lake,
MINI.
1t was a bitter disappointment to
him that he never won q champion
ship In Europe, but II can scarcely
be wondered at. for during his
career in this country his brother
Harry was at the very zenith of his
rema rkable power and practically
lnvincible. Then there is Ted Ray,
the very antithesis in style and
method to the two Vardons. He
has achieved fame in a different
way and by a different route. Ray
first hit a golf ball at GrouVille
with the classic example OF Harry
Vardon before his eyes. But it has
been given no other man to swing
a golf club so gracefully, so per
fectly. and SO effortlessly as
Harry.
Next in rotation came the broth
ers Gaudin-five of hem, all first
class golfers. John, who is forty six
years OF age. recently figured in the
final of the match play champion
ship at oxhey, having previously de
teated Ray, a school cham Of his. J.
w. Gaudin finished fifteenth in tine
! open championship at ct. Andrews
In June. nine strokes Lehini Roger
Wethered and Jock Hu:chison.
Most of those. nine shots were dis
sipated in the very first round,
which cost him S6. The next thu ee
a. a..fu ~
but not good enough-76. :6. AMI IS.
Phil, who is now professional at the
Skokie Country Club. was proba bly,
the best golfer OF the five brothers
He was chosen for England against
Scotland on seven occasions.
Before going to America, where
another Grouville boy had gone Da-
fore him, Phil was profas sionSl at
Camberley Heath and prior to that
at Fulwell. When John Gaudin was
asked whether he and Ray had play
ed much together in their boyhood.
he answered very little, as they had
no clubs to play with except those
made out Of the black.tnorns which
they cut from the hsdge-rows.
another Of the Grouvilie boys
who has achieved distinction is
Tom Renound, now Of the Man
chester Golf Club. Last year he
won the Northern championship
and apart from representing Eng
land In five international matches
has occupied high positions In the
open on several occasions.
Next come the brothers Beck.
both exceptionally good players.
and last OF all young Aubrey
Boomer, the present French open
champion. and son Of the village
schollnaster at whose tiny little
school the Vardons, the Gaudins.
Ray and the rest Of this select
band OF professional golfers at
tended In their boyhOod.
1T Is a wonderful record for so
obscure a place, where the facilities,
no far as the caddies are concerned,
for developing golf are no greater
than elsewhere. In fact, the op.
portunities are not so great II com.
pared with Monifieth, Carnoustic,
Montrose. Prestwick, st. Andrews
and other Scotch nurseries where
golf is practically the sole occupd-
tion Of the majority of the towns
people. Which brings the question
back to the original point-what is
the secret Of Grouville? Vardon
cannot explain II. At the tender
age Of eight he was carrying clubs
for the men who came from England
to play this strange and fearsomo
game. That was the beginning of
the Royal Jersey Golf Cub, and it
was only after years that the boys
lost their supreme and lofty con
tempt for the game and finally mai
aged to lay out four holes, each
about fifty yards in length"