Show 1 British Golf Stars to Tour A America meric J The Tho golf world New oW York Dec announced vis- vis visit the today I is lI it Il or of the tho greatest group ot of golfers England has over sent ont to America This group croup Is to como come to the United States next The men mentioned mentioned men men- for tor the tho trip are Edward Edvard nil Ray Harr harry ardon James and J. J II 11 Ta y I 0 1 Brilliant us as arc the prospects ot of the I corning coming season the advent ot of these four cracks will vili give pre prestige to the tho thoI I I me In its American history Matches already are re beIng hooked booked or the tha four by Meek Duncan tho ho Chicago Chi Chi- cn cago o professional In additIon to the best men America can put forward tho visitors probably will enter the national championshiP and may compote In tho western open championships a as well Their playing play play- their ent ad ing records alone mako most Interesting to lovers hovers ot of the ancient an- an dent Scottish sport while their International International Inter Inter- national reputations are Ioro certain to bring out record galleries wherever they ma may swing n. n club or of the tour four Harry Vardon Is abl ably the best known on this side of the ocean Just before the tho start or of ortha the tha great reat war Vardon accomplished th the unprecedented h by taking for th the sixth time the British championship cham- cham nn an event considered the star feature ot of golf the world over No pr previous winner ot of this classic ever er hold heM the title moro more than five lve times Ume In his sixth victory Ictor Vardon John Henry Taylor who has hns hold tho title five times only other player play play- er CI to hold n a record equal to Taylors Taylor's was sas James Braid So It Is easy to seo that In the invading In quartet there will appear the tho three players who bovo all others stand pro eminent In I I i I I I h t i toe game This same open championship which brought such fluch honor to Vardon was the tho downfall ot of our OWn American o open on champion Francis Ouimet This ster- ster hing player was WIlS only able to finish sixty fifty a moSt lowly place for tor a champion Back In 1916 James Braid Bral the tallest tall tall- est cst or of all British golfers had the dubious du- du dubious bious pleasure ot of reading his own obItuary All the sporting world mourned his death 8 10 ot of which like Marlc Twains Twain's was slightly exIl ex- ex Il Braid last Won the tho lInt lInt- Ish championship In 1310 1110 The Tho trip next year ear will bo be his first to this countr as ho ha always has had an aver aver- slon to ocean travel Braid Is n a typical Scotsman having hn been born Jorn In In 1870 and having lived practically all his life In Scotland Ills His drive ot of yards ore off a 3 tee teo h by Itself Though h well ell over six feet teet Braid Drahl uses uses- a driver Only fort forty Inches long asserting ho gets moro more accuracy with the tho short club than ho he would gain aln In distance b by usinG a longer one Ell Ed TIa Itay fourth or of the coming Invaders In- In aders Is best known t to golf tame amo for tor his victor victory In the tho British open championship championship cham- cham In 1912 played over the farnous ta- ta course His homo home club Is the tho widely known tion America will tm be hard put pUl to It experts ox- ox say to meet this great invasion inva- inva sion though In golf olt circles the tho comIng corning corn com Ing visit iti Is looked forward orward to as 08 beIng beIng be- be Ing likely to stimulate the game to toan toan an unusual degree With championships champion champion- t tt ships abandoned four years ears because or of ortho t tho he great war some Bomo such stimulus Is s adly n needed eded Although Ouimet disappointed all so bitterly In abroad It was hero here In 1 that ho he drew tho attention ot of the world to the American golfer by his v In the tho national open champion champlon- s hip over the tho Brookline links Here ho he was pitted n against a famous amous international International Inter Inter- national field that included the tho match match- Jess cs Vardon flay nn and Wilfred Reid neld ot of I Great Britain and Louis Tellier ot of France Ouimet then was only 20 O years old and an amateur nt at that But the tho drubbing drubbing drub drub- bing ho he gave o the seasoned veterans ot of this his countr country and to the thc stars from Overseas will go down don In golf history or Of the tho other amateurs entered the tho veteran Fownes only was able ablo to finIsh fin fin- sli Ish twelfth and the crack red Fred shott s- s hott hoff was sixteenth What hat mado Ouimet's victory really great aside from his youth and amateur nina ama cur standing was the tho tact fact that the tho Championship first came to a triple tic with and Ra flay having ha t 30 strokes each as did Ouimet and and the tho Frenchman being only three I strokes behind 4 g 77 a I J 44 I A L I ri i iI I 4 ji d r y E I I S w 1 4 A J t r I V P A i Edward Ray at left and Harry Vardon I I |