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Crimson victory hopes must be based mainly upon the ability of a well balanced team to score points in every foursome, but standing head and shoulders above the rest are two Seniors, Captain Ace Cordingley and Bob Graves. They provide balance plus at the top of the lineup, because they can match shots with any intercollegiate golfers in the United States. Every team opponent must reckon with that due and realize that it will be hard to take any points from them. Graves has never lost a Varsity match in three years of play...
...Cordingley is probably as long off the tee as any collegian in America, outdriving his teammates by 50 yards on the average shot. Graves, kingpin of the New England college linksmen, is much shorter with woods but is a scrambler par excellence. Both he and Cordingley, however, are good iron players who rarely miss a green badly. They will both be three year men, sneaking into the number five and six jobs as Sophomores and working their way to the top as Juniors. A third returning letterman on this year's team is Junior Watty Dickerman, teaming with Don Elbel...
...Cordingley and Watty Dickerman lost their matches and the best ball in the first foursome, but Bob Graves, Gerry Davis, Don Feddie, and Pete Macgowan carried off the last six points for the team victory...
Graves was the individual star of the win on Friday with a sub-par 71, while Cordingley, in defeat, was the low Harvard man Saturday. A driving rain all Saturday morning had turned the course into a veritable swamp...
...Cordingley won his match from Graham, two up; Watty Dickerman won one up over Brown's Paine. Harvard won the best-ball two-some composed of Brown's Graham and Paine one up, while Bob Graves took Patterson six and five...