VETERANS IN FORM

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 18

VETERANS IN FORM

HERD AT HIS BEST

Alex Herd, the veteran professional, who .won the open championship 31 years ago, and Lieut-Colonel J. T. C. Mooro-Brabazon, tho senior partnership in 42 couples entered for the big foursomes tournament, provided most of the excitement at Addington, near Croydon, recently. Tho ages of this pair aggregate 114 years. ; Perhaps experience was the deciding factor, but tho combination was so harmonious that twice during the day they literally snatched victory when matches appeared lost. To win their two mutches they had to play 41 holes. They beat *E. F. Storey, an amateur championship finalist, and A. Dailey, after 21 holes, and then beat - Captain G. B. Stevens, a back-marker at Sunningdale, and George Gadd, at tho twentieth hole. Storey and Dailey appeared to be one of the strongest partnerships, and it was not surprising that they were 3up with eight played. But their opponents remained imperturbablo even when either partner played a bad shot, and won four holos quickly. Storey and Dailey squared at the seventeenth, but their team work failed at the eighteenth. Here Herd drove into a bunker, his partner just got clear, and Herd played a glorious brassie to the green. Then Dailey hooked a spoon shot into a bunker, and his side only halved the hole when they should have won. They were not given another chance, for with a favourite old mashie Herd played a beautiful shot from the rough to win the twenty-first and the match. Herd was again the hero of the sec-

oud-round match.' Stevens and Gadd u-ero 3up with sto play. They were brought back to one, and Herd bolted a 15 j'ards putt to halve the sixteenth. They squared at the seventeenth, and in the end Gadd hit his tee shot into the, face of oi bunker at the twentieth hple and enabled Herd and Moore-Brabazbn to reach the third round. •