Evening star., 1923-04-24

MlCndel SCOtt ana w. u. OTrdnCe.
In III" next section John +. New
file of San Francisco will meet Wis
count Maidstone; Francis Ouimet will
oppose Arnold Read of Sunningdale;
Reginald Lewis. the Connecticut
state champion. is paired with Leslie
Schon, a noted local player; II. 5.
Lake of Hartford, Conn. will pit!
his skill against Robert Hunter of
Claremont. Calf; George V. Rotan,
Houston. TEX. is drawn with J. \.
Board. Home Park. and Guy NJ, NJ
II. l.. Lebas. Jalton Heath. This sec
tion also includes Cyril Tolley, Allen
Graham and Maj Henry Boyd, the
British army champion.
Champion i'm Fourth Quarter.
T. W. L. Holderness, the present
British champion. falls into the next
section of the draw, in which also
will appear nearly half the Americans
-Douglas Grant, an American of
london, belonging to the Royal st.
Georges Club, and who is former
California champion: II. K. Johnston.
st. Paul, who meets II. l. Holden or
Bowdon, Cheshire; Robert Gardner.
captain of the American international
team. who will play against G. b.
Forester, Woking: Jesse Sweetser'
Siwanoy, who will oppose b. Noel
Layton, an English internalI Io.t 1ol.a ! !
player of the Royal Cinque Ports
Club; r. ]. Wright, jr., Los Angeles
who will meet Commander Banner
man of Sussex. w.,
In this round also will be John VIII
son. we'll known Priestwlck scnool-
master: Mr.. Gillies. an all-rC und New
Zealand athlete. and w. y. Murray
Scottish international player.
The only American in the last quar-
ter is s. Dawson HERON. oaknont'
who will meet J. Il. Beddard, Soutn
Midland champion. In this section
also is Godfrey McCallum. described
as wonderful boy golfer of Sonnlns-
On-Thames.
BritOnk Arc Pessimistic.
The vanguard of the American golf
ing expeditionary force-amateurs-
arrived Yesterday They found the
games ancestral Homeland most pen
simistic regarding the chances TOT
victory in the approaching battles, the
first CT which will take place at REe
Saturday, when the Americans VIII
meet the OXford-cambridge Gol1l1lS
Society team. composed or T.. w. T.
Holderuess Cyril Tolley, Roger Weth-
cred. &. V. L. Hooman, f. II. De Mont
1norency and Ellis, Briscowe, Darwin
GiIlies and Mellin.
The early seasons competitions,
played in the chilly late spring weath-
or which is unusually uncomfortaple
even for England, has resulted in the
widest discussion of the question or
paucity Of British professional Eolft
from the viewpoint OF lack or ne"
and potential talent. while the ANA
teur prospects, considered more dim
cult to analyze, seem equally dark
Saturday a team of the leading
man players was nearly defeated by
woman players in the annual COM
petition between women ana men
at Stokepoges. Tolley was the star
Of the day by halving a match with
Miss Joyce Wethered, the women's
cham pion. after giving her haif a
stroke. But Tolleys feat was coun-
terbalanccd by one member of the
mems team losing by seven up and
six to play to u woman opponent.
Old school Triumphs.
Both the early season professional
tests, the northampton tournameht
and the qualifying round for the
Daily Mails thousand guineas tourna-
snent, resulted in a triumph for the
old school, Alexander Herd. the nfty-
five-year- dean Of the game, ana
George Duncan. who has been playing
in championships for fifteen years.
carrying off the hOnors. Abe Mitchell,
.lpon whom many depend TO turn
aside the attacks of Gene Sarazen
,nd Walter Hagen, and who is the
leading star TO join the professional
ranks since 1913. now seems to be
q, distinctly rcceding luminary, after
g. dazzling existence on the highest
T,innacIe Of the game for two years.
All the trouble is with putting.
Every day the professionals get
shorter and shorter in their green
ehots. ant tho fear is everywhere
expressed that the British game is
suffering from IL malignant recur-
renee OF the oldtime malady, put
ting paralysis"
Last weeks competition at Purley
has been characterized as the worst
exhibition Of putting ever seen at
A. gathering OF Professionalism of
Them. Strong men like Edward Ray,
Harry Nardon and James Braid drove
straight as arrows down the fair
ways, sometimes 500 yards with two
powerful swings, and then ignomin-
iouslS crepe up to- the, cup with puerile
puts measurable in inches or feet.
Varlon took four puts on the first
green and Ray needed three for
Two yards at one hole, while Mitchell