Golf

Canadian Open. Clinking their shooting irons, winking covertly at one another, a band of U. S. marauders crossed the Canadian border. At a given signal, the wooded hills and dales of the Lambton Country Club (Toronto, Ont.) rang with shots. Staunch Canadian pars dropped on all sides. In the first nine-hole skirmish of the Dominion open championship, defending Champion Leo Diegel (of Great Neck, L. I.) so ventilated his scorecard that it totaled but 32 shots. A 37 in and he tied the course record, led the field. Brazen-faced Walter Hagen, chin higher than ever, touched off a spoon shot at the treacherous 250-yard 18th, holed a 2, stood second. After 18 holes more, grinning Diegel still grinned. Another 18, played in a high east wind, and Hagen still padded along in second place, four strokes behind Diegel, The two played together in the final round, Hagen suave but erratic, Diegel now scowling but still accurate. Final scores: Diegel 69 75 73 78--295 Mike Brady 72 75 76 74--297 Hagen 71 74 76 80--301 Andrew Kay* 71 77 75 78--301 Willie Macfarlane 74 78 79 73--304 Cyril Walker 74 77 76 77--304

Canadian Professional. Dominion professionals played their trade championship as the usual curtain-raiser to the Canadian Open. Leading U. S. professionals seldom mix in this affair. Last week it was won by Percy Barrett (Lake Shore Club, Toronto), 145 (36 holes) ; Dave Spittal (Savannah, Ga.), 147; Nicol Thompson (Hamilton, Ont.) and Fred Miles (Mississagua), 148 each.

New England Professional. At a quiet little affair on the Sandy Burr course (Wayland, Mass.), Herbert Lagerblade (Bristol, Conn.) became champion of the New England professionals with the modest score of 302 (72 holes). Tied for second: Jose Stein (Nashua, N. H.) and Jack Stait (Hartford, Conn.), 304 each.

At Dallas, Tex., Professional Harry Cooper scorned the 36 putts that par allows a man on 18 greens. He putted only 23 times, scored a 60 over the Tenison links. This shattered Walter Hagen's "U. S. low-score record" of 62, hung up in Florida two years ago. The "world's record," a 56 credited to George Duncan of England for a round in the Swiss Open Championship of 1913, still stood.

Shenecossett Invitation. Battalions of babbling women assemble annually on the cool porches and breezy links of the Shenecossett Country Club (New London, Conn.) for an invitation tournament. Among them there always moves, subdued, almost morose, a Foregone Conclusion. Last week the Conclusion won the qualifying round from the babblers with a 78. Up stepped lank Dorothy Klotz of Chicago; the Conclusion settled upon her 4 and 3. Up stepped Helen Payson of Portland, Me., a nervy novice; the Conclusion finally rested at the 18th green, 1 up. Along came pouring rain and sure-putting Mrs. H. D. Sterrett of Hutchinson, Kan. The Conclusion wavered before those pitiless putts that streaked for the hole over yards of squashy turf. Near the tenth tee grew a four-leaf clover. It was picked, pensively. Near the 18th cup lay Mrs. Sterrett's ball, only a short span to go for a birdie, a tie, an extra hole. The putt was missed. Then the Griswold trophy was presented to its winner, for keeps, since it was the third time she had won it, and the babbling battalions wended their way, murmuring: "That Glenna Collett!"

At Chicago, Boy Scout Fred Lyon, 15, of Pontiac, Ill., did himself two good turns a day until the final round of the Western Junior Championship.

Among others he eliminated Donald Carrick of Toronto, Candian Junior Champion. Emerson Carey, of Hutchinson, Kan., put an end to these actions, trounced Scout Lyon 6 and 5 for the title.

*Canadian; Lambton C. C. professional.