Evening star., 1935-06-03

- TILL wondering where the whirl-
wind struck ana why, several
local golf professionals today
were pointing toward oakmont
and the national open golf champion
ship, determined to make a better
showing than hey did yesterday In
the Japanese team matches at Ken
wood, where the nyaders licked them
by TO 4.
It must have been quite q shock
for the team captained by Bobby
Cruickshank of Richmond to find that
six of our better exponents OF the
art of mauling a golf ball couldn't
whip a group Of men who have been
playing only q few years and who
never had seen The battle-ground be-
fore. And to And that the most bril-
liant Of the japanese. who played the
course twice in 10 blows, has only
been at this golf thing for four years.
They split even in the morning
fcur-ball matches, each team win
ming IL points and late yesterday
afternoon as Crulckshank and Al
Houghton won their matches s1d Bob
Barnett halved his contest, in came
Benny Loving, Leo Walper and Al
Trader, all beaten men at the hands
Of the japanese.
Rotund Robert Harlow, who Is per-
sonally touring with the Japanese,
dug down In the record books and
told the world tnat the Japs will
enter the national open with record
OF eight wins, seven losses, and one
tie In their circuit Of the Nation.
They have about IA more matches
to play and if they do half as well
as they did at kenwood yesterday
they are going 10 win most of them.
with Leo Walper Of Bethesda &C.
companying them, the team members
left late last evening by bus for Pitts
burgh. Al Houshton and Cliff Spen-
Ger, pros at Ksnwood and Beaver
Dam, were to join Roland Mackenzie
at Oakmont today. Roland mas been
at Pittsburgh for three days. He
shot q 10 on Saturday and "a yes
terday.
1t must be a shock to our leading
pros to find that the japanese at
man-to-man combat are as good or
better than they are, but shock or not
the fact Is that The Japs stayed in
there and pitched when the going
got roughest and won.
Here are the cold facts On the
match: -Four ball matches, Cruick-
shank and Loving al even with Miya-
moto and Chin; Houghton ami Bar
nett defeated ASami and YaSuda;
Treder and Walper lost to Nakamura
and Toda.
Singles -Cruickshank defeated Asa
mi, 8 and 9: Houghton defeated Chin
S and 4: Barnett and Miyamoto all
square; YAsuda defeated Loving, S and
4: Nakamura defeated Walper, 4 up;
Toda defeated T-sder, S and 4.
WHAT will the boys do at Oak
mont?" we asked Harlow.
"Oh, they won't win and they may
not finish in the money, any OF them,
but they viii make q good showing"
They hit the ball too hard, don't
you think, for 4 narrow course?" we
asked again.
Sure they do" he answered. "But
they explain that by saying that be-
cause Of their weight and size they
have to hit IL hard"
Today, the baby Of the team, j,ist 81
years old, played Kenwood In 140
whacks yesterday, considerable golf by
any man. He is the one who has
been playing for only four years. Take
'em by any yardstick and you viii
flnd that these Japanese are going
somewhere In golf. But it burned
Harlow UP to find that o city the size
Of washington was 50 casually inter-
ested in these international matches
that the affair crossed less than $500.
Last night oil the players from both
sides and q group Of Kenwood mem.
bers were the guests OF Ambassador
Saito at the japanese Embassy, where
the Ambassador spoke Of the good
sportsmanship Of golf. TT makes no
difference who wins" he said. Sports
manship is the aim Of al these af.
fairs"
QUITE a fiock Of Warrington folk
" are going up to Pittsburgh this
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