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...Harry Vardon (British...
...play, and spent the afternoon trouncing her 1923 conqueror, Doris Chambers. To her father, who concerns himself deeply in her success, Miss Collett cabled (truthfully) : "Joyce played unbeatable golf." Of Miss Wethered's play up to the finals, able critics said : "Incredible . . . like Vardon [British open champion 1896, '98, '99, 1903, '11, '14] in his most invincible days." In one match, she did the first nine in 33, two below men's par. Of Miss Leitch they said: "She has a great heart." That was the way it was. The schools...
...Modern Golfer, the verve thus suggested seems badly buried in the bunkers of authorship. The garrulousness is there, but the wit runs so low that one joke, about a billiard player watching Vardon putt, has to be pressed into service twice...
Bobby Jones, aged 21, is the fourth amateur to win the open title. Ouimet (at 20) won in 1913 after a play-off with Vardon and Ray. Travers won in 1915; Evans...
...notable feature was the failure of the " Old Guard " of British golfers-Vardon, Ray, Braid, Mitchell, Duncan-to figure even feebly in the fight to win back for England the title that Jock Hutchinson and Walter Hagen had carried back with them across the ocean for two successive years...