“OLD FIRM” MAY TEAM AGAIN

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30804, 16 July 1965, Page 13

“OLD FIRM” MAY TEAM AGAIN

("IV.Z. PreSt Assn—Copyright) SYDNEY, July 15, A month ago there would have been no problem in selecting two golfers to represent Australia in the Canada Cup in Madrid, from September 30 to October 3. For the last two years Australia’s team has been Bruce Crampton and Bruce Devlin, who finished fifth in Paris in 1963 and fifteenth in Hawaii last year. And this year Crampton and Devlin have been in great form in America. But the old firm, Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson, who have played together in six of the 12 Canada Cup competitions, has popped up again. Nagle was beaten in a playoff for the United States Open

and Thomson won the British Open, while no team in the world has a better record in the Canada Cup than these two. They won it in 1954 and 1959, were second in 1955 and 1961, and third in 1960 and 1962. Thomson also teamed with Ossie Pickworth for third place in 1953, with Norman von Nida for equal tenth in 1956, and with Bruce Crampton for fourth in 1957. Nagle played with Frank Phillips in 1958 and finished equal fourth. The final decision on Australia’s 1965 team, however, rests with the sponsors, the International Golf Association, which will pick the players from panels submitted by the competing nations.