GOLF MEMORIAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 4

GOLF MEMORIAL

VETERANS’ MATCH RECALLING DAYS Ol' VARDDN Before the unveiling of a memorial tablet to Harry Vardon, his lour great contemporaries—Braid, J. ii Taylor, Herd, and Ray—played <o a four-ball match at the South Herts Club, Totteridge, recently, when Braid and Taylor, the two surviving members of the great triumvirate, defeated Herd and Ray 2 and 1. On a course which was playing very “long” these four veterans, whose ages totalled 266 years, gave a lesson in accuracy to members of the club and others who were in the gallery of several hundred people. Braid was outstanding, and his personal score of 74 for the full round was liic best. Ray took 79, while Taylor ano Herd, who each picked up once, were both live over 4s. The best-ball figures for the round were:— Braid and Taylor.—Out: 4,4, 5,4, 3, 3,5, 3, 5—38. Home: 4,4, 3,4, 3,5, 4, 3—72. Herd and Ray.—Out: 4,4, 5,4, 5,3, 5,3, 5—38. Home: 5,5, 2,4, 4,4, i, 4, 4—36—74. Every hole going out was halved, the feature being two very line putts from Herd, who holed from eight yards at the fourth, and from six yards at the eighth, to save holes which his side had looked like losing. Then Braid played the tenth and eleventh perfectly to win them botn with 4’s against s’s of all the others, but Ray, who had missed a short putt at the eleventh, holed from 12 yards, for 2, at the twelfth, to even out the arrears. Taylor holed from 10 yards to save the thirteenth, anu then Ray again needed three putts al the fourteenth, where his side became 2 down again. Ray took the fifteenth, being the only one on the green iu two shots, but Taylor sank a fivcyarder, for 3, at the seventeenth to bring the match to an end. “Farmer” White Injured. “Farmer” White, a left-hand bowler, who toured Australia with Percy Chapman’s 1928-29 Test team, and was one of the most popular cricketers to visit Australia, injured an eye when pheasant shooting on his father’s farm in England recently. It was in th : Adelaide game of the 1928-29 series that he did most damage. In Australia's first innings he bowled 60 overs to take five wickets for 130 runs. He improved on that performance in the second innings, when he took eight wickets for 126 runs off 64.5 overs. White was the main wicket-taker for England in the Test series, for he finished with 25 wickets at a cost <>f 30.4 runs each. He retired from first-class cricket early last year.