Evening star., 1923-06-08


Almost in the same class with these
three is Sandy Herd, who has won
one open here-a great golfer in MS
day. Sandy has unique faculty Tor
getting holes in one stroke. He has
collected seventeen up-to-date. and
] believe this will stand for all time
to come, as l have played great
deal of golf in the past fifteen years
and never had an ACE" to my credit.
I am not going to predict that any
of these four old masters is going to
win at Troon, although they might
all make a creditable showing. l
rather look for the victor to be
younger man. All four of the old
guard are well past fifty years of
age-an age when big prizes are out
precedent.
l think I am right in stating that
no, man ever won the British open
who was past the half-century mark.
own title who was that age. AL
though there have been some grand
old men of the game. no amateur
past fifty has ever won an amateur
title. John Ball won the British anna
teur championship in 1912, when he
was forty-nine years of age, and he
has played some creditable golf
since, but no new title has come his
way.
We Americans count on the strong
est opposition coming from Duncan,
Mitchell and Ray and some of the
golfer and capable of almost any
thing in the golfing line. He has
won the title once and has always
been a dangerous contender. His
game is well known to Americans
and so are the style and ability of
Mitchell and Ray. Abe has never
won a big open championship, but
Ray has won the title here and in
America.
Ray Is Great Player.
Ray is a golfer to be feared at all
times. He has a long game that is
TO be reckoned with. Ray is always
dangerous, because he has two out
standing features outside of his drive.
He is good at whaling the ball out
of the rough. He has a powerful
frame and can put a lot of force
into shot either from the rough
putter that he is able to make amends
for many slips which would undoubt-
edly cost other players strokes.
Audrey Boomer of France is a
golfer who must be taken into con-
sideration. He has won the French
championship twice and has done
we'll in Great Britain. He is one of
the younger school that sooner. or
later will fill the shoes of the pres
ent gensration of champions. Boomer
HES p'-lly VI NERVE WHICH Is AWAY ,
an asset In fact. it is better to have
nerve in great quantity than to be
a grs, At shot maker without it.
Yeung Jolly, who defeated me at
Lesis. is a capable golfer, who has
this desirable quality of nerve, plus
ability. I would like to wager that
this lad will be heard from sooner or
later. His praises are sung all over
England for the work he did at Leeds
Havers Is Well Liked.
Arthur Havers has been picked for
several years to win the open cham
pionship. He is tall young golfer
with plenty of skill. / had a good
chance to judge his golf recently at
Henningsley and found that he is
all that has been said of him. He
showed up well the first year ] came
over here. think he finished fourth
The second year he was fourth again.
but last year at Sandwich he was
out of the money. This season he ap-
pears to be playing very we'll again.
There are other good ones over
here. George Gadd, who won the
professional championship. is a good
man. Gene Sarazen beat him at
Leeds. but Gadd said that he had not
rounded irto his best form yet. Win
gate and Holland are also first-class
tournament players.