James Ockenden Approaching the Tee to Slant Out One of His
Customary Long Drives.
!:i Then they battled along on even terms for three holes, halving in
par figures. Then came the fifteenth and Havers holed his chip
shot for a two from twenty-five yards off the sand, and the British
pair held to this lead to the end, the remaining holes being halved
in par.
It was a splendid victory for the British champion and his
partner. They never saw a sand green until Saturday or drove
off dirt tees, or played their irons off Bermuda grass. Ross and
Capello have had years of experience with Pinehurst golf. When
they jumped out in front with a five hole lead it looked as if they
would walk in, but the Britishers stuck to the job and pulled the
Vv match out.
. / CAPELLO PLAYS WELL _
Capello, brilliant youthful Bangor professional, was respon
sible for most of the Englishmen’s troubles in the morning
round. He played a* 71 for his own ball, and as Ross aided him
.on two holes the Pinehurst pair had a best ball of 68 against a 69
for the Britishers. Havers and Ockenden took 37 to go out, but
were home in 32 and but one down at the luncheon hotfr. Havers
^pissed three tee shots in the morning and was in a number of
traps. His individual score was 76.
The British champion improved greatly in the second half of
the game. He had an individual card of 39—3*1—73. Ockenden
helped him on the eighth and seventeenth.
^Havers proved to be the longest hitter of the fQur players.
While the hard dirt tees troubled him somewhat, he usually caught
hold of the ball well and got some tremendous carries. His two
at the fifteenth was duplicated by Capello, who holed from off
- the edge of the sand, to obtain a half at the thirteenth, during
the afternoon/ Havers pleased the gallery when he played an
explosion shot from a deep trap at the fourteenth, close to the hole,
and got his par four. " ,
The British champion convinced the caustic critics who gather
ftere of his ability. They were especially impressed by his well
, . controlled swing and the drive he gets into it. On account of
being unfamiliar with the rolls about the sand greens both Havers
and Ockenden were not as bold in playing for the greens as they
- a^t have been, and this left them often in need of good chips
k f§gi$ain their pars. They putted well. '
The cards: .. ^
) MORNING ROUND v
Ross AND CaPELLO
Out .. 4 3 4 4 3 3
‘In .................. .4 4 544 3
Havers and Ockenden
Out : . .. 4 4 5 4 3 4
In .. 4 3 4 3 3 4
AFTERNOON ROUND
Ross AND CaPELLO
Out .......... m... .4 5 3 4 5 4 3 5
In ........4 5 4 4 4 3 4:3
Havers and Ockenden
Out ..4 .5 4 3 4 5 3 4
In . 4 4 4 4 4 2 4 3
3 4 4-32
4 4 5—37—68
4 4 5—37
2 5 4—32—69
4—37 -
4—35—72—140
5—37
4—33—70—139
4?'
Harvard Crimson vs. Sandhill Green
THE HARVARD POLO TEAM, under the management
of Capt. S. F._ Clark and comprised of George E. Kent,
G. J. Farelley, James W. Tufts and John Pell, made a
visit to Pinehurst during the Christmas holidays for a series of
games with the Sandhill Greens, and were well rewarded for their
visit by winning two games out of three.
The first game played resulted in an overwhelming victory for
the local team, 10’ goals to 1, and the prospects of the crimson
four mastering their hosts seemed gloomy, but they soon regained
their good riding and stick tactics and with the assistance of John
A. Tuckerman, a Harvard graduate but now a member of Pine
hurst’s Winter colony and a star player of the Sandhill’s first
team, they romped away with the second game by 10 goals to 0.
In the third game, the students confined themselves to their
own players and again scored a decisive victory over the Greens,
9 goals to 3. James W. Tufts, who played number 3 position fox
Harvard, was a tower of strength to his team in this game and
scored six of the nine goals and was indirectly responsible for some
of the others. Kent and Captain Cowgill collided in the fifth
chukka in which Kent’s pony went down and the player sustained
a hard fall but he remounted and finished the game. Both players
escaped with nothing more serious than a severe shaking up.
John W. Latting scored two of the Sandhills goals and Capt.
Cowgill scored the third. Both teams played without handicap.
_A notable foursome snapped at the home tee of the Mid-Pines course.
They are left to right: S. B. Chapin, New York; Homer H. Johnson,
Cleveland; John Bassett Moore, the Hague, and J. F. McGuire, of Boston. t