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JANUARY 5 , 1924
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Famous Foreigners Make American Debut.
ARTHUR HAVERS, British open
golf champion, and James Ocken
den, holder of the French dpen
title, who have come to the United States
£or a series of exhibition matches that
‘will take them all the way to the Pacific
coast, made their initial bow to an Ameri
can gallery at Pinehurst on Monday,
December 24, in a 36-hole match against
Alex Ross, a former winner of the^
American open and at present the Detroit
Country Club ace, and Joe Capello, one
of the younger generation of profes
sionals who have forged to the front in
recent years. . -
The famous foreign golfers made an
auspicious debut and when the smoke of
battle had cleared after their trying
session over the dfficult Number 2 and
Number 3 courses, they stood 1 up* and
v strode away victoriously after one of the
greatest uphill matches ever witnessed at.,
this place.
A birdie two scored by Havers, when
he holed out from twenty-five yards off
the sand at the fifteenth hole in the after
noon, when the match was all square
and the gallery all excited, was the exact
point at which the Britons took the lead for the first time, and they
held firmly to it until the end.
When the Englishmen had played their first nine holes of
competitive golf in America and were walking to the tenth tee
of the No. 3 course they were not filled with the Yuletide spirit.
Nina Wilcox Putnam, Who Delights the
American Public With Her Pen, Was a
Recent Visitor to Pinehurst for An Outing
of Golf and Recreation.
America did not seem to be the friendly
sort of place they imagined, after viewing
the tall buildings and the “Follies’’ in
New York. They were 5 down with only
nine holes played on a foreign battlefield.
There was a terrible silence as these
champions walked to the tenth tee, the
gallery following faithfully behind the
masters of British golf and the local op
position thought That they were about to
witness a complete rout of the enemy
forces. It was one of those situations
when the leaders imagine they are giving
their opponents too bad a beating and feel
abashed.
A STARTLING RECOVERY.
Then the lion started to roar. At the
eighteenth hole, the end of the morning
round, Havers and Ockenden, by coming
home with a best ball of 32, had cut the
American professionals’ lead to a single
hole.
From 5 down to 1 down, they were
able to digest their luncheon. The fog
had cleared. in the afternoon over the
No. 2 course, the Englishmen, fighting
hard to set up a victory in their first
match, struggled with the strange hard
dirt tees and stranger sand greens. They squared the match at
the fifth hole, only to lose it again at the sixth. At the turn
of the afternoon round they were 1 down.
Ross and Capello both missed the par 4 at the eleventh, and
this gave the British team a chance to square the match once more.
A Portion of the Gallery Following the Famous Havers-Ockenden-Ross-CapelloJMaUh.