Evening star., 1951-11-01
briefsU. 5. Team
Carefully Before
Play Tomorrow
Poirines Considered
Excellent; British
Choices Due Today
By MerreII WhittIesey
Sior Stuff Correspondent

coming out in his position as cap
tain of the American Ryder Cup
team.
Sam is as careful with his 10
man squad as he is with his
money in preparing for the ninth
renewal of the series between the
top pro golfers of the United
States and Great Britain here to-
morrow and Sunday.
And captaincy of a Ryder Cup
team is more than an honorary
position. Snead has had to pair
off eight players carefully for the
Scotch foursomes tomorrow and
now must designate which should
drive from the odd holes and
which from the even.
All of the par S holes on the
famed Pinehurst course are even
numbered. They are the 4th, 9Th.
10th and 10th. Thus the players
who hit the longest ball on the
team probably will drive from the
even holes in the alternate shot
play.
Long Meeting Held.
Snead and the other nine squad
members held long meeting here
in which every phase OF the
matches was discussed. Sam is
anxious to please everybody and
still field the best possible team
for the Scotch foursomes and the
singles Sunday. Two men will be
left out of the play each day. as
there are four Scotch foursome
teams and eight singles matches.
When Ben Hogan was captain
in 1949, the year the heavily
favoreda Americans won by only
7-5 in England, Ben did not hold
any such meeting. but took more
upon himself.
Skip Alexander, still not him.
self after the plane accident that
almost cost him his life. and
Dutch Harrison, inactive in tour
nament play since the Tam
'O'Shanter in August, will sit out
the Scotch foursomes.
Pairings Announced.
Clayton Heafner of Charlotte
and Jackie Burke of Houston will
meet Britain's Max Faulkner and
Dai Rees in the opening match.
Faulkner is the British Open
champion.
Pairings for the four team
matches were announced by
Snead, playing captain of the
American forces. and Arthur
Lacey, non-playing leader of the
British.
The first match begins at s:45
am. (EST.
Other pairings, which leave the
first tee over the Pinehurst No. 2
course (Americans listed firsD
are:
Ed Oliver of Seattle and Henry
Ransom of ST. Andrews. ILL.,. VS..
Charles Ward and Art Lees.
Snead and Lloyd Mangrum OF
Niles, Ill, VS.. James Adams and
John Panton.
Ben Hogan of Fort Worth. Tex,
and Jimmy Demart of Ojai, Calf,
VS.. Fred DAILY and Ken Bousheld.
Learned Lesson in 1949.
The American team learned a
lesson in the matches in England
two years ago. The Britons led
81, at the end of the Scotch
ffoursomes. which meant they
needed only three victories in the
eight singles matches for a tie.
That's a tremendous handicap
Ito overcome, and as result Sneao
will play his eight top men in the
alternate stroke play, or the eight
who are playing the best golf al
Ipresent.
Harrison and Alexander prob
ably will play in the singles. unless
the highly unlikely happens that
the Americans should trail 81 OF
40. In that event, Snead prob
ably will play his eight top men
IOtherwise he wants everybody tt
play one day or the other.
The British team clings to the
hope that it will win, but 1t ap-
pears to be mostly wishful think
ing. Some feel the visitors will be
fortunate to escape a shutout
which almost happened in Port
land, Oreg., in 1947 when the
Americans won, ILL. Herman
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