RYDER CUP

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 184, 21 August 1937, Page 18

RYDER CUP

. PEEVED AMERICAK3 * V SOME CAUSTIC CRITICISM The cables to Australia and New Zealand only partly covered the com- j plaints made by some of the Ameri- j can professionals after their failure j to gather in the British Open, in which. ! Britishers occupied the first four posi- j tions. Others than Ralph Guldahl had j criticisms to make, and these are'sup- j plied by the London correspondent of ! the Sydney Referee in his last dispateh by air mail. Describing liis match \vith Alfred Perry in the Ryder Cup, Ed. Dudley said, "On one occasion, Perry's shot went over Ihe green. When we got to the green, we found that someone had pushed the ball within four feet of the cup." Tony Manero statea that on at least two occasions in his Ryder Cup match against ' Henry Cotton, Cotton pleaded with the crowd for f-air play for the Americans. "The crowds," said Manero, "were just a wee bit over enthusiastic." Densmore Shute, after his defeat by j Cotton in the £500 'challenge match, !was alleged to have - said that while the crowd did not applaud his missed shots, which was the burden of Guldahl'st complaint, they appeared "resentful" when he made a good one. Describing the foursomes Ryder Cup match in which he appeared against Rees and Whitcombe, Shute asserted that at one hole, the British team's second shot was too strong and a spectator "battod it with a handbag on to the green." j Dudley put the lid on it when he rejmarked, "I think we are all agreed | that British antipathy towards Amerij cans reached a new height during our visit." Some of the replies to these comments have already been published. in Australia, but, according to the Referee representative, there were

others. In stating that ' he- saw nothing wrong with the behaviour of the crowd except when it became a little impatient at the time Manero and Cotton were taking to go round, Cotton added, "But there was no suggestion of an anti-American demonstration." Old-time champion, J. H. Taylor, gave the committee's point of view. He said, "Throughout the whole time I was at Southport, during the Ryder Cup, I never heard a single comp'laint against the behaviour of the crowd. If there were complaints, I, as a member of the committee managing the tournament, should have expected them to be made in an official manner." The Referee learns from its London correspondent also, that Charles Lacey, the Britisher, now domiciled in the United States, was the man who intended to protest to the United States Professional Golf Association, against the comments made by the Americans, as an outcome of whicli Guldahl was asked by that body to apologise, or suspension would follow. ' Finally, says the Referee representative, it is hoped that one of the biggest sporting controversies since "body-line" will fade out peacefully.