Evening star., 1933-06-27
co INTO 5 SINGLES
CLASHES ONE DOWN
Great Finish in Foursomes
Saves Loss of All Four
Opening Matches.
BY BERNARD DARWIN,
British Golf Expert.

COUTHPORT, England, June
27.-At the end of the first
~ days play in the Ryder Cup
matches, the United States
was one down in foursomes with
eight singles left to play. This
may not sound particularly good,
but it represented fine comeback
for the Americans nevertheless,
for at the end of the morning
round total of three down
seemed likely enough.
think they will do better today. for
they did not strike me as at their best
yesterday, partly because they have
hardly yet had time to be acclimatizec
and partly because the fast bare green's
were not what they are use to.
There was an enormous holiday crowd
VINO enjoyed themselves tearing up and
down hills and cheering anything and
more familiar with foot ball than golf,
but they meant well and were, hope,
polite TO their visitors
Here are the results in order. Sara
zen and Hagen halved with Whitcombe
and Alliss; Dutra and Shute lost to
Mitchell and Havers, down and to
play; Craig Wood and Paul Runyan
lost to Davies and EaSterbrook by one
hole and Burke and Dudley beat Padg-
ham and Perry by the same margin.
Lunch Time Status.
"A T lunch time the first British couple
~ were up: the second and fourth
English pairs 4 up and the third
match was all square. So you see there
was some courageous making up OF lost
ground by the American players.
The outstanding matches were the
first and the last Whitcombe and Al
hss began sketchily and were 2 down at
way home they had fine burst Of golf
and won four holes in row, added an
other at the home hole, and were
around in 72 to become 3 up The
American pair did not play badly. but
failed where they usually are so good.
in boiling down three shots into two
near the green.
The afternoon round began badly for
the American pair with prodigious
slice by Sarazen on the short first hole,
but Hagen recovered with wonderful
pitch and the hole was halved. Gene
soon made amends with great brassie
shot, but still England stuck to its lead
and even added to it.
After eight holes Whitcombe and
Alliss were up and seemed on easy
street At the ninth Hagen, seemingly
having the worst of the hole, ratified in
a long putt against the back Of the tin
cup. That was the clarion call and the
Americans cfa rrpd
A bunker cost England the tenth and
Whitcombe missed tiny putt at the
eleventh, and thus In the twfnkling OF
an eye the whole state Of battle had
changed.
For some time, however, another hole
would not come back, and there were
three halves in a row. 49, Esfx$eenth
the American players MefEtu trouble
from the tee and England pught to
have rubbed IL in to become dormie 2.
Instead, they pottered and Gittered and
lost the hole, s to 5, amid dismal fore
bodings. However, fate and Sarazen
were kind, and hooked drive cost
America the seventeenth.
Missed Putt Costly.
II NGLAND could not lose now and
it ought to have won when Whit
combe played great shot out of
the bunker to within feet Of the pin.
But his partner missed the putt and
Hagen and Sarazen survived with a
halved match. They deserved 1t, for
they had played with dour and sus-
tanned courage. and I have the feeling
that Sarazen is getting his game and
confidence back again.
The second match merits no long de-
scription. There came bad spell for
Dutra and Shute In the homecoming
morning round when for four holes
things just went wrong for them, and
Havers and Mitchell pitched and putted
like angels. That meant four holes.
These became five after lunch, and
though they still fell as low as up,
there was no real thrill.
The third match was great struggle
both morning and afternoon. Runyan's
graceful game particularly pleased the
crowd and he sent them into ecstasies
at one point by pitching most cour-
ageous stymie.
There was little In 1t all afternoon,
but one long putt Of Davies put his side
ahead at a crucial moment and they
became dormie 2. Wood and Runyan
won the seventeenth and Runyan made
a great recovery at the last hole but
they could not quite square the match.
Burke and Dudley, however, could, and
did 1t.
In the morning their puts would not
drop and they were 4 down. The
Englishmen ought to have become S
up at the first hole after lunch but
they missed it and lived to rue the day.
Burke and Dudley played so well that
they had got all those four holes back
at the sixth