Evening star., 1931-06-26
AMERICANS LEAD
RYDER CUP PLAY.
Sarazen and Farrell | Up at
Ninth-Hagen and Shute
Are 5 Up.


COLUMBUS, Ohio. June 26.-Setting
the pace under a blistering hot sun,
Gene Sarzen and Johnny Farrell, United
States, led their British rivals, Archie
Compston and Billie Davies, up.
at the ninth hole Of their two-ball
foursome in the international Ryder
Cup competition today at Scioto Coun-
try Club.
Capt. Walter Hagen and Densmore
Shute whirled around the FIRST nine
holes with q dazzling 81. two under
par, to gain far more commanding
edge over George Duncan and Arthur
Havers. up. They lost but one hole Of
the nine-the seventh-winning six
and halving the third and fifth.
Leo Diegel and Al Espinosa rallied to
reach the turn all square with their
British rivals, Abe Mitchell and Fred
Robson. The American pair captured
the seventh and ninth holes to wipe
out the early lead Of the invaders.
Huge Galleries Follow.
In the fourth and last match to get
away, the American pair, WHY Cox
and Billy Burke, stood up at the third
hole with figures of 4-4-5, rs COM
pared with 4-5-5 for Ernest Whit
combe and sgd Easterbrook
Despite the heat, which was ofiicially
80 in the shade at 10 am. &c. s. T),
and going up several thousand perspir-
ing enthusiasts were in the galleries fol-
lowing the quartet Of two-ball four
somes on today's program,
SaraZen and Farrell, partners in
into action against Compston and
Davies.
Gene and John were lucky to halve
the first hole, 410 yards, in 4. Johns
drive was In the rough and Genes ap-
proach a trifie short. Farrell rolled the
next one dead and Compston's 3O-foot
bid for q 3 missed by inches. They
halved the second hole in 5, one over
par, after Farrell and CompSton both
put the second shots into sand traps
bordering the green on this 430-yarder
and halved.
HaIve Third Hole.
After q half on the third hole In
par 4, Davis sinking q 12-footer to
save the Britons, Farrell and sarazen
went up on 5 the 180-yard fourth.
Gene negotiated . partial stymie for a
par to win after Davies putt trimmed
the cup.
Farrell and Sarazen went 2 up at
the nth with par (. Davies pushed
his second shot back of q tree, Comp
ston was unable to 60 for the pin and
the British took three more to get
down for q 6. They halyed the 500
yard sixth in regulation flves despite
the poor second shots by Compston and
Farrell.
Gene and John went 3 up at the
seventh, their par being good enough
to win although Farrell missed an g.
HRAfAR tRAt lA~A
eighth, where Compston laid Sarazen
stymie, also the ninth as Compston
hit his tee shot within feet Of the
pin and Davies holed out for the birdie.
The cards:
Par,
Out ....... +4[34s4 $50
Farrell
sarazen. Out 4 54s454 3-3s
CompSton-
Davies Out 4S44s565 40
Hagan Play Watched.
Hagan, the American captain and
Duncan, the keeneSt pair of rivals in
the tournament, hit the tee shots for
the next foursome. Hagan teamed with
Shute. the slim Ohio star. and Duncan
with big Havers, former British open
champion.
Fuliy $500 spectators galloped after
this feature match, eager to watch the
Hagen-Duncan duel, even though 1t
meant they only hit alternate shots.
Hagen and Shute, despite q poor drive
by the former, jumped in front with q
par on the first hole. Duncan split
the fairway with q 300-yard drive, but
Shute made O brilliant recovery for the
American side to the edge of the green
while Havers' shot faded well to the
right, from where the Britons took three
more to get down.
Hagen sank q 25-foot putt for 4 on
the second hole to send the Americans
up IS the British lost shot in the
rough.
They halved the third with IS.
Hagen's putter sent the Americans
up at the short fourth. where the
home captain sank 15-footer for a
birdie 2. On the 445-yard fifth. Shute
almost reached the green from the rough
with spoon, but the Americans took
more to get down and stymie pre-
vented Duncan and Havers from doing
better than . half in IS.
Four Up on Sixth.
A birdie 4 put the American 4 up on
the 500-yard sixth, where Duncan put
his second shot into q trap and the
British wound up with q 6. Duncan
seemed to be bothered by the heat and
was hitting his shots very poorly.
The Briton stemmed the tide tenn
porarily at the seventh, due to q fine
recovery from the rough by Havers and
O 6-foot putt by Duncan for birdie 8.
Hagen and Shute won the next two
holes to round the first turn up. On
the long eighth Hagen spanked beau
tiful spoon second 200 yards, within six
feet of the pin,. while Duncan and Hav-
ers we're in trouble all the way. HaverS'
second landed on the side Of the creek,
while Duncan sent 1t over the green.
After two futile puts, the Britons con-
ceded the hole and an eagle 8 to the
Americans. Duncan missed flve-foot
putt. on the ninth for par 4, while
the Americans were on in and in
for q par 3.
Cards:
Par, out..... 4544345 5 $50
Hagen-Schute. s444254 5 3 3-34
.