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GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. ENGLISHMAN'S SUCCESS.

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bitterend. I feel confident, that the Anierican would have won for the second year had it not been for the great dis dator that befel him at the short eighth, a hole of 120 yards, known as the "pust ags stamp" because of its tiny greenl The green is perched on a high plateau,

The Right Hon. the Earl of Birkenhead, with a big sandhill on the left, a banker Chairman of the Appeal Committee of the TROON, June 15th. in front, and another on the right, with British Olympic Association, has published Arthur Gladstone Havers, the young a drop into a valley below. Hagen hook in the London papers an appeal for finanical professional now attached to the Coombe ed his maxhio shot on to a path between assistance in aid of the British competi.rs Hill Golf Club, Malden, Surrey, has won two bunkers, where there was a heap of in the Olympic Games. These will be held HONGKONG CIGAR STORE, LTD. the British Golf Championship, after the blown sand. He hit the shot nat very at Colombes, near Faris, in Jane of next cup has crossed the Atlantic for the past firmly too firmly, in fnet-for the ball year. two years. His score for the seventy scuttled over the green into the bunker. His lordship says:-Very great efforts two holes totalled 205, made up of four down the hill on the right. He then tried are being made wontierfully consistent of fo, world to h

that it 73 70 Walter Hagen, the American rad incline with a putter. In this way he certain that all these countries will be re- hader of the championship, came second took a fer a 3 hole. At the very next presented by the fower of their athletes with 290. Another American, Macdonald hole he did something which have never and that these athletes will be drawn from Smith, was third with 257, and Kirk-seen him do before. He mixed a puttr in this connection must it be for

social class in the State. wood, the Australian, fourth with 298, of a foot.

The new champion is 25 years of age,

Now came the turn for home. He did the most over ft. ip height, with a golfer's build,

ars by the poorer cette dark, powerful, sloping shoulders, as where he cut his drive and took five. He and swimming are very strongly repre not improve his position at the tenth, ning, walking, cycling, wreathing, boxing, poorer classes-run-

and wrists of steel, and big, muscular had now to accomplish the remaining sented at the Olympic Games. You hands Havers's career as a golfer has sight holes in 31 strokes. A 8 at the fam sure, agree that it is of the first i been remarkable. He commenced to play Karious golf when he was ten years of fifteenth, where he pulled his second shot, portante that the poorest man in this 138, at the Royal Norwich Club, where placed him in grave peril. He had now country, if he proyes in open competition 67, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL En accomplish the remaining three holes is up, Grest. Britain in the Olympic Games should be able to re- his father is steward. At the age of 14 he "broke the record of the course with 43-4 A 4 was too much to expect at present Great.

anbarassed by financ

financial a the long sixteenth, a hole of 330 yards,

anxieties the astonishing score of 68, and two years against a wind which, unfortunately for Great Britain in international sport is not At the present moment the position of later he entered for the Open Champion-Hagen, had increased in violence, He ship at Prestwick and qualified "with scores of 80 and 81. That in itself showed now required a couple of 3's to tie. A high as it has been or as it ought to be. that we had a golfer in Britain of great met him at the seventeenib. Hagen's

surging mass of people, 25,000 at least, We have never completely recovered from

our losses in the war: Perhap

we have CO., LTD., promise. His art notable triumph was brassie shot was cut dangerously near the

censed, in organisation and prevision, al- the winning of the Northern Champion-base bangers eut dangerously near the together to keep pace with the time.

British Olympic Association intende ship two years in succession-1921 and 1927. There is a very interesting little hole and secured his 3.

a perfect run up to within a foot of the to do all that is humanly possible to ensure that Great Britain is as well represented ax story connected with the golf of the new

Games, and champion. On the very eye of the event,

A3 at the last would now, de the trick it can be at next year's Olympic bo was labouring, as he has been doing a big thing to hope for at a bunkered that its representatives compete under the (Shanghai). Mr. T. W. BOWERN, Fallow of for a considerable time past, under a sad hole of 30 yards. The American's second best possible conditions. Incidentally, the the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, Incor affliction-pushed-out driving. So his shot was sliced into the bunker on the committee is so stranging matters that it porated by Royal Charter, Landon. old friend Wingate, of Sunderland, a right of the green. He had now to hole will be able to ensure that the British physician of some note in golfing diseases the shot if he was to save his neck, competitors are all able to do themselves

justice and will appene

the of of this kind, took him in hand with a Twiew he walked into the bunker and thea

struggle in the highest possible training. view to prescribing the proper remedy out again before he could settle down to

£17,400 FROMISED. It was found that Havers was gripping holed the putt of five yards for a wonder the shot. And he did not hole it, but he too. lightly and that in the upward swing the left wrist was going outwards ful. But Hagen, had lost the champion and that at the top it was locked. Com ship by a stroke. Naturally he was dis- ing down with the wrist in this cramped appointed, but he said: "I felt all along position, Havers was inclined to jab at is not my year, but I am perfectly the ball as if he were playing a shot from satisfied to be end, I shall try again." a.baf lie in the rough. Wingate advised Whitcombe came straggling in, having relaxing the grip at the top of the swing, broken down completely in the middle of so that the shaft should lie mostly in the

the round.

The third round, always the most cri fingers. In other words, it was the fin- ger grip ever again. The advice worked tical in a championship, provided some

(1) to return the hospitality of our over- like a charm, and during the two days amazing golf. It was now or never for

seas Dominions and of foreign nations, those who had wriggled themselves into of the championship he has driven longer the foremost place. Really it all ro

which we have hardly hitherto succeeded and straighter than he has ever doue solted itself into a fierce combat between

in doing; and before. In fact, the outstanding feature

(3) to reader assistance where essential of his game has been his colossal length two Englishmen-Charles A. Whitcombe

to the poorer governing bodies and Arthur Havers-two Americans!

of our from the tee, which has enabled him to

national sports. reach the greens at the long holes with and an Australian-Joseph Kirkwood-sapport of those who might reasonably be Walter Hagen and Macdonald Smith--

Every effort is being made to enlist the iron clubs where other people were taking with Mitchell, Duncan, Ray, and the rest axpected to sympathise with the desire that wood..

struggling hopelessly behind. Macdonald Great Britain shall be worthily represented. Smith and Kirkwood improved materially His Majesty The King, the Prince of Wales, As the scores indicate, with only one their positions by marvellous rounds of and the Duke of York have given genomous stroke between each of the first four 60 each. It. is a rare occurrence for two phon

The members of the men, the golf in the fatal last round was players to beat 70 at this stage of a of

have promised £3,000. Lord of a particularly exacting and thrilling championship, and the only occasion I can Rothermers has given £1,000. Oxford and SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE character. For & long time Macdonald remember of a similar fent being accom- Cambridge. Universities

promised £400 Smith was ahead of everybody, but plished in modern golf was when Jack between

en them. The sports goods

trade Havers, coming along in the far distance White, Braid, and Taylor were chasing given £1,000, the Football Association £250, surrounded by necrowd of 15,000 people, one augther with 68's and 09's in the last

Consideration for your space makes it un- everhauled him. For six holes the new round of the championship at Sandwich,

reasonable that I should in this letter include champion played convincing golf; the when White won. The winning of the kind of golf that wins championships, highest honours becomes stern, gen But there was the suspicion of a break horrible business when you must knock ! from the seventh, which, fortunately, did round a links in the 60's with thousands not develop into anything dangerous, of people tramping at your heels. Well, At the seventh ho missed one of those the first of these protagonists to accom annoying putts of less than a yard, and plish this feat was Macdonald Smith, the at the eight he played a bad mushie shot American. He started everybody, straight into the bunker on the right of the green-another shot last. Again, a the ninth, he rather scraped at another yard putt and missed it, and at the tenth he hooked his drive, and, of course, could not hope to reach the green with his second shot. So four strokes had been frittered away, and with Hager the ro lentless following immediately behind. this was not good enough.

Havers made amends by holding a putt of ten yards at the eleventh for a three, a dozen clear shots in front of the next did it, but the margin was of the nar This piece of good fortune set him going best. Smith then disappeared from golf rowest a single shot. Havers should again, and his only slip to the end was for nearly eight years. In 1917 he joined have done better than a 74. He dropped his heavy iron shot to the fourteenth, the American army and went out to a stroke at each of the two short holes long one shot hole of 175 yards, dead in France with the artillery. Two years ago going out. For instance, his iron shot at the teeth of the wind, which he cut away he came back to golf, and last year he the fifth, a hole of 185 yards, was out a to the right. He had to be content with tied with Kirkwood and John Black, the little too fine, and the ball dropped into a four. Havers hit two full driving shots old Troon player, for the Californian the bunker in front of the green. The to the fifteenth, a hole of 435 yards. Championship. Smith lost in the play feature of his game was his driving, Even then he did not reach the green off. He is now on his honeymoon, having which was extraordinarily long and very It can be imagined what the force of the married three months ago.

exact. At the eleventh, the railway hole, wind was like. A three at the seven

Cariously enough, Hagen is also on his which measures 315 yards, his drive was teenth, where he put his brassic shot on honeymoon, having married a New York so far that be only needed a little chip the middle of the plateau green, gave us lady just before leaving for England. It shot on to the green Again at the Kreat heart. I forgot; he did make

whs Macdonald Smith who taught Jock twelfth, a hole of 385 yards, he played another slip, and a very serious one a Butchison, the famous back spin shot just a wrist shot with his mashie to mistake that might easily have coat him with what the Americans call the spade within three yards of the pin, and holed and Britain the championship. It came mashio-niblick. And if you saw these the putt for a three. at the very last hole. where 20,000 two men on the links you would immedi Nearing home Havers committed two cited folk were gathered round the green ately think of Tweedledum and Tweedle fatal errors. At the fifteenth, a hole of to witness the Englishman's final "effort." Havers pulled his drive and hooked his doo. They dress alike, they look alike, 436 yards, he put his second, a half mid- sround into a deep bunker on the edge and, what is more, their golfing styles iron, shot on to the green, and then are identical, with one notable exception spoiled 'everything by missing a two-and- of the arren. He dug the ball out with which concerns the putting. Smith deli-half-foot patt for a four. The six- an explosive shot and took five for the berately stops at the finish of the back teenth, 560 yards, was an adventurous However, Havers had knocked one swing fixes his eyes once more on the hole, for Havers pulled his drive deep into American out and was now leading the ball to make sure that everything is all the rough, and with his third abot was field by two clear shots. Away down the right, and then strikes. There may be in the bunker behind the groen. From something in the idea, because Smith la thero ho put the ball dead, and so ob- inks came Kirkwood, playing brilliantly one of the best putters I have ever come tained his five after all. I have never GREAT CHOICE AVABIETY,

so superbly, in fact, that it looked car across. His 69, was a marvel of accuracy, ret seen Havers find the green at the tain that he must catch the Englishman, This 60 of Smith's jumped him into first seventeenth, a one-shot hole of 230 yards. and even win the championship. Thir place, but he was hot long to remain Orice again be cut his tee shot into the teen holes he was level fours, represent there, for Kirkwood was close on his heels, little bunker in the right of the plateau ing heroic golf. And then a mysterious also playing, what the Americans de green. A four was all he could do. He thing happened-Kirkwood collapsed, just

scribe as crazy stuff." For the seven had a chance of having a shot at the as he did at Sandwich last year. It was holes from the eighth to the fourteenth last hole, where he hit an enormous drive, a catastrophic collapse, in fact. At the his golf was phenomenal. His iron and put his mashie shot a yard from the pin, short fourteenth he slashed about from one bunker to another and took five machie shots were played with such re- and then missed the pait. All through Then at the fifteenth be unaccountably daad easy. When you have only to tap when it came to the short putta. He told markable accuracy that the putting was the round he was shaky and nervous missed the shortest putt imaginable and took 6. But the greatest disaster of all the ball into the hole with the back of me that the long approach putte were came at the long sixteenth, where l your putter how very simple golf be simpla enough, but the tiny ones frighten boomeranged his drive and put his second comes Kirkwood was constantly puted him, ・・・

ting for 3's; in fact, ho might very easily It was now Hogan's turn to chase the into the burn. This cost him & 7-pro-have had seven 3's running. Home in 33 lenders. Playing wth extreme care and gression in the wrong dirretion. To com- plete the tragedy Kirkwood was wild with was enough to make the old Scottish deliberation, he reeled off the par figures all his shots to the last hole, and then players turn in their graves. Kirkwood to the Carit" And then came his first slip, missed a putt no longer than an offer had not only equalled Smith's record, but at the tenth, where, in driving over the ruler. If ever a man throw away a cham had passed him in the great race by two towering sandhill of high, he failed to pionship that was virtually in his pocket shots. The Australian was now loading get under the ball. It caught the top most ridge of the sand dune and was Kirkwood did. The whole thing was in the field with 220 for the three rounds.

stopped in its flight. From a very in comprehensible.

hospitable spot he hacked the ball inte the middle of a gorge bush, He was ex tremely fortunate to dielodge the ball at the first attempt. Finally, he took 6 for the hole, and was a very crest-fallen man in consequence -Daily Telegraph.

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