Ryder Cup

Five years ago, a mustachioed British seedsman named Samuel Ryder put up a cup to be played for at two-year intervals by teams of British and U. S. golf professionals. Since then, British professionals have won once officially, once informally in 1926; U. S. professionals once. Near Columbus, Ohio, where the Scioto River winds through the narrow fairways and tall rough of the Scioto golf course 19 British and U. S. golf professionals played the third official series of Ryder Cup matches last week.

On the first day of play, the heat wave, against which the British had complained, broke in a loud thunderstorm, the British Ryder Cup team lost three out of four two-ball foursomes. Next day, Gene Sarazen kept his trousers pressed and his shirt buttoned up, beat Fred Robson, seven up. He appalled Robson on the fourth hole by driving his ball into a refreshment stand, playing a niblick shot off the floor & through a window to within eight feet of the hole. Bill Burke, Greenwich, Conn., professional, beat erratic Archie Compston seven up. A home-town gallery was with Densmore Shute, who placed fourth in the Open two years ago; he gave the youngest British player, 25-year-old Bert Hodson, the worst beating of all, eight up and six to play. The U. S. team needed one more match and got it when its captain, Walter Hagen, a linen hat pulled down on the back of his thick neck, pursued by a small boy with an armful of American flags to show how far ahead he was, finished four up over Charles Whitcombe after 33 holes. When the last scores were posted, the U. S. had won, 9 matches to 3.

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