Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-01

Craig Wood Hagen or Kirkvood
Byron Nelson sammy Byrd
Jimmy Demaret HAIRY Cooper
Gene SArHIen Buck White
Lloyd hangrum Jimmy Thomson
Vic. GheT1 Bobby Cruicksbank
Al WAtrous Chick Harbert
| jug" AeSpaden While Goggin
OF the country's top-notchers
missing only will be Sam Snead,
Ben Hogan and Horton Smith,
who are in service and unable to
be here.
Walter Hagen will play Satur-
day and Joe Kirkwood on Sunday.
On Saturday Kirkwood will give
his golf clinic. including a roper
toire of trick shots.
AL Watrous of Oakland Hills
will play on the Cup team.
Tickets for the public will go
on sale al Grinnell's, Monday.
Chairman Russ Gnau and other
members OF the committee in
charge anticipate total gate of
approximately $4,000, which will
60 10 the Red Cross 10 buy ath-
letic equipment for the boys in
service.
IT'S FOURTH TIME
II will be the fourth annual
Ryder Cup challenge match be-
tween teams captained by Wood
and Hagen. Four-ball, best ball
matches over the 18-hole route,
will be played Saturday afternoon
with 36-hole individual matches
Sunday. Originated by Gnau and
Sarazen, this is Detroit's own
event, and Motor City sports fans
will show its appreciation by turn
ing out big for this most worthy
cause.
From a golfing standpoint the
Show-and make no mistake, il
will be a show. or a pageant If
you prefer-will be unmatched. 1t
will be something 10 see Thorn
son, Harbert and all those other
fellows sock 'em a mile, wallop
the ball TO the green and roll in
those puts.
Much interest will center in
the play OF White, who re-
Gently was edged out by Nc
Spaden in the playoff for the ALI
American championship at Chi
cago's Tam O. Shanter. Take It
from the Detroiters who saw
White play in Chicago. he Is quite
a golfer and a most valuable addi-
ton to the Challengers who. II
they can win this time, will square
this series with the Cuppers at
two victories apiece.
CRUICKSHANK WELL KNOWN
It will be Whites first start
in this series-also Cruickshank's,
although golf followers here
know that little Bobby packs
considerable of a wallop. They
saw him take an early lead in the
1887 national open at Oakland
Hills, only to be surpassed in the
final standings by Ralph Guldahl,
the winner, and Snead. This
spring he won the North and
South open at Pinehurst, proof
that he's still on his game.
The match promises to be the
most even in this interesting
series, which replaces for the
duration the tussle between the
star pros of this country and
Great Britain. Hagen isn't
making any idle boasts when
he says his Challengers have an
equal chance with Woods Cup
pers. The war has leveled of the
teams and IL is Hagen who has
the pick of the stars who have
come to the fore in the last year.
THEY CAN'T MISS
Plum Hollow is out to put the
event over in a big way and
should succeed. Organized in 1921,
il has come on rapidly, particu-
larly in the last five or six years,
and now takes rank with the dis
trict's leading clubs with a won
derful course. An organization
of enthusiastic golfers, II is spar
ing no efforts in this connection.
II can't miss, say those who
have been identified with previous
Ryder Cup matches, and that is
most cheering in times like these.