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Died. Samuel Ryder, 77, head of Ryder " Sons, seedsmen, donor in 1926 of the Ryder Cup for biennial competition between British and U. S. professional golfers; of pneumonia; in London...
...summary: HARVARD, 3 WORCESTER, 1 Williams, g. g., Leary Bradley, r.f. r.f., Ryder, Oben Sheridan, l.f. l.f., Karle Macneil, Brown, r.h. r.h., Simonds Jacobsen, c.h. c.h., Sanderson Phillips, l.h. l.h., Bullock, Goodrich Wittkin, Hammond, r.o. r.o., Pino (Capt.) Johnson, r.i. r.i., Johnson Lewis, Manning, c. c., Adams, Varney Johansen, l.i. l.i., Jackson Sinnott, l.o. l.o., Edmands...
...last hole of the last match of the biennial Ryder Cup Tournament between U. S. and British golf professionals. Inches from the pin, sure of a four, lay the ball of British Open Champion Alfred Perry, one up after 35 holes of play. Thirty feet away, lying two, was the ball of U. S. Open Champion Sam Parks, noted when he won the championship last June for deliberateness approaching the fidgets. Deliberate now, while some 5,000 watchers held their breath, Sam Parks finally tapped his ball, rolled it squarely into the cup for a birdie three and a tied...
...Samuel Parks, who won the U. S. Open at Oakmont last month, Perry belongs to that army of able professional golfers who are often near the top in minor tournaments, usually lack the poise rather than the ability to win major titles. No nonentity, he played on the British Ryder Cup team two years ago, admitted last week that his golf in the Open was the best that he had played for two years. A onetime caddy who learned his game at 6, an assistant to famed James Braid at 14, Perry plays with a quick stroke which looks...
...novelty, night baseball was first tried at Fort Wayne, Ind. in 1883. In 1909, the first night game ever played on a major-league field took place on the same field as last week's, between Elks from Cincinnati and Newport, Ky. Wrote Reporter Jack Ryder in the Cincinnati Enquirer: "If the attempt is a success it is likely that every ball park in the major leagues will be equipped with lighting apparatus." In 1927, it began to look as if Ryder's premature prophecy might eventually come true, when minor leagues began to experiment seriously with night...