GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 20

GOLF

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BRITISH OPEN ECHOES

"TOTE" ON U.S; OPEN BARREfe

J. L. BLACK STEADY

Hutt players ,are due to ; visit, tht Wairarapa this-week-end. The Doughfjr Memorial is being, played at Miramar to-day.... . , .:. .; ~, . ~.. , . Sarazen's British Win.' -". . V ~. •' With, rounds of' 70 and 69, Gen« isarazen led vthe field' oh the first-day of the British open brilliantly,! Havers's 68 in the third round, .where Sarazen did another; pretty .70, brought '." him within four" strokes of the American. Havers's 68, a. new record-for. JPrjnee'i course at Sandwich', is .well worth reproducing,- and;it is,to be recorded'that in.it he missed yard putts' on theithirteenth .and fourteenth greens.. ' Th'« card (bogey in parentheses) reads:—

He' drove .magnificently,'as was evidenced by Ms taking three-putts rat the seventeenth/(516 yards);' 'There I was evidence that Sarazen's last'rbundl where he. t00k"74,,was influenced,'bjf ".:: the possibility of Havers catching hini' up. He went out in 35,- but*at'-the tenth he hooked his drive, put. his •■:• second iiito a bunker; and.was -fortunato to escape with nothing worse than a .5, (says, George Greenwood). , There was another astonishing piece of. lupk at the next, where his" drive struct the top, of the\Himalayas Bidge. 'in this vast sandy waste the.ball found the one patch of. grass 'on; the 4 ana from the giddy height he crashed ifon to: the ' green .and got ;his,U.\.At ;th e twelfth!' he was "again off- the ■ coui'ss with his- driye,;a'ud if ever' a man appeared on ■ the. verge' of cpllaps'e .it was. Sarazcn. .He. was losing' colour, aiiS appeared in a. desperate, hiirryj to \play. the shots, a; sure, sign ■of nerybW. ten-v sion. Though, missing the" gre^en with hist second shot' .to'the/thirteehtli .tip scrambled a 4, and as he picked the bail out, of. the - hole lie' brushed', the: hair from, his forehead ;and;.heaye;d a' sigh, at relief. , The. tide, of fortune" had,turned, for at the fourteenth .he ran down, a putt of ten yards for a .2.'; 'But" it wa's only a fleeting respite,, as he dropped a shot at each, of .the1 next two! holes, at one because, .envisaging a 3, he wu overbold with his first putt, missing 'the return, and at - the other 'because' of over-cautiousness. • Afraid to "take the risk ;of carrying the buhkers iat :'th» seventeenth with; the second- shot, ha played short with an iron;' then 'pitched on to the green and.was. content tojget . a 5. .Whatever other ; people may think of his tactics, they,werecorrect ..in the particular circumstances. -: A; 4 at the last hole gave' hinv a! round' <of 74, leaving Havers to accomplish a • score of 69 to'win.. Havers,wouldliave been. ■■ in at the death if'his' putts . in th« middle of the round, instead of. hanging tantalisingly onthe lipof the hole: had condescended to. drop. At four consecutive holes -the ball, played thi« tragic .prank and r prospective- 3's.became : 4's.- Havers; however,; had stiM a chance, if-not-of winiiing,- of mating atie of it, with, a 3, 4, -3, for the last three, holes,., but his- effort not only fizzled out,like/a. damp squib, .but he was'robbed of second place.-by. another " American, >Macdonald-, Smith.. ' ', ' -•■'' :--:lt.-.isi. a remarkable, ffi-et;' a- circum- "' stance. I think,-almost^tKovit-'prece' dent on a course of ; nearly; 7000 yards, • thatL Sarazen- should -have, found it . necessary to ( take> a .wooden club ,ti>t a second shot-on ;;only. T ;one. occasion. .•■ This was at the' seventeenth, and ;the - : implement; was a .spoon.: Further, he ■'* never had occasion,to take; the > No. il ; iron. from., his. bag, the !second: shots ' where length.was required .being play-. !:- ed with a Ko.. 2. The power.; of, his .'."' driving was such that. at mostvof - the :' holes the Nd.;4'-heavy ; mashie and ,the series^of mashie'-niblicksi were -the xlubs ■■■•'■ on which he mainly relied for the.approach. shots ,up ,to. the. flag. •'' .What :" inspired me .most," said Sarazen:after- " wards, : - "was the , , sportsmanlike ' behaviour of.: the . spectators. Never once did they, get in .the. way,, and." T : played throughout the championship <* with the feeling, that they only wanted -< • the best man-to ,win. 'Irhappened-to '■'■ have won,-and they cheered me just a» ■;'".- if I had been :v& Englishman. It"i«i» .1; wonderful spirit; and'l feel I owe a lot ,*.i to the crowd."l ' ■ ■ . ■■ A Creditable; Win.-: -.- ■.-■'.;'■.: '..■:■ \ -, :".i. : By. winning the Prince ■of Wale* Cuf this season, E. H. Liddle put wp * ste'r* . lin^ performance. In the; first rpiindj' giving C. Q. Pope ten strokes, he just managed to beat' him -2 up.: In '• th» ■ second' round E., W. Scott went 'Sown " by 2 and 1, and in. the third round C. V W. Palmer, rcceiviag four strokes', was ■*> beaten by 2 up.' lithe semi-final, fe. '■' E. Mills, with the good handicap !©f "'■■ eleven strokes,-lost' by 6 and 5, and vjii '-'7 the final, over thirty-six'holes, Liddje, t!" giving his opponent, ,L. A. Greig; one ,J;. of .the' best of the C grade players,J» j^ total of ten strokes, beat him 3 and 2. -.irs Gamblers Threaten Links. - - • -! v ]" _• Life in the United' States never lacks '"-: interest. A golf championship Yiiere' is '!". apparently commercialised to th^t extent ,i of a race meeting, here.' Racketeering ," methods, according': to: the -Montreal .;; "Star," were made use of by gamblers -V' on the Fresh Meadow. Club's course, where the United States' open was: held, where police had.- to. stand .guard - over the carefully ,prepared -course. ■' i The gamblers, said>':to be- frojitt,-Bos'tojt/ threatened. to ruin the.velvety putting; surfaces when their demands .for. permission to .install a' battery, of'-.'pari* mutuel betting machines forJthe'tour- ::'!: uey were indignantly refused' by cljib' l r _ officials. The gamblers) it* was said, had offered to pay;the «lub!a certain-per- :=>- centage'of'the amounts, bet-daily on. •-: the field, whicli included'some of the ■"--? greatest golfers' in the worid.' "After '•".. the refusal, Milton' Hertz, chairmaaiof > ; . the club's championship . committee, was warned that the gamblers would '"■'.- take some action, that would interfere ''' with the tournament'if the' club' failed .C !tb reverse its decision' against the' v paii- :.-.' Imutuels. Later^Hertz was-wa'rried that -lall.of the greens on the-course:.would' '■■'• be ruined unless thecliib paida.certain' :::.: sum. .The gamblers, who appeared well1 "*. posted on golf; had ■ .evidently; • givem. Z* their betting plans, great-thought. They ~ „ had prepared a long list of odds, in- ■'■■■ eluding combinations :in,which .Billy .' Burke, defending, champion, and Gene ■■•■ Sarazen, new British open' ■ti'tleist. were ■■-. joint 6-1 favourites. - ■■■;.•■••• Wagg Recovering. . • ~= " Hana Wagg is getting over the bad spell which assailed hini across !tWa Tasman. . At Heretaunga;recently;io '"" did a. 72 and. a 73. •'... ... . . J. ii. Black in Form. ;- - t -.'■ '■■• "' Though not. niuch hap been,heata-.!oJt -'a" v J. L.. Black recently,, he. showed 'up well in the Auckland-Hamilton;., match -^t -.- Hamilton recently. .Mjs'sing two putts ~ of under two feet, but lipping the.hole ■ with some long ones, Black completed the course in -71, ■'coming • back 'in '?" 345434444—35. His ' last six ' T.ounds have:been 74, 73,76, 71J 73i':75: ,He-ie J.: obtaining fine length. ..with • a ;t«tl- .. shafted driver. ■' «". ' ■ - , .:',.

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