Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-21 | Page 8 | European Golfing Stars Please Fans

European Golfing Sta Stars tars s 's Please Please- ease Fans NEW YORI YORK YanK Dec 21 Leaving Leaving behind remarkably I an Impression good sl golfers ol that t th they Arthur are Havers Bavers British open champion and TImmy Jimmy Ockenden holder of ot the French open title leave today for Pinehurst N N. C. C to put Jn In two days of ot practise before meeting A Alex lex Ross floss and Joe Capell In their first exhibition match on this side of the Atlantic Havers Haver and Ockenden shook their sea legs yesterday In a a. practise journey over the championship course of ot the Westchester Westchester-Biltmore club being able to do everything except putt as permanent greens have been abandoned for the win win- ter tel They were accompanied by Cuthbert club pro and J. J C C. C Pun- Pun derford golf secretary or ot the club The British proved himself a remarkably long driver getting yards yards yards-on on his first shot ot off the tee after leaving ship Assuming Assuming As As- suming that he putted as well as ashe ashe ashe j he drove and approached his card for nine holes would have approximated mated 36 Ockenden was not In Havers Havers' I form and had difficulty In Judging I his distance d His Ills play Indicated however that he is as steady a player as h he had been described and In traveling with Havers wilt will make a good combination of ot steadiness eR l' l lf I ness e and brilliance The critics found Havers an orthodox orthodox ortho ortho- dox player a possessed s of a smooth fr fra fth arid and free swing with a slightly I g open often stance and the ball well off oft his left heel He lie uses the overlapping overlapping overlapping over over- lapping grip In a small company Havers na was not as reticent as he was VIlS to the greeting crowds He said he began holding a n golf golt stick when three and anda a a. half years old and that his ambition ambition ambi ambi- tion Lion always was Vas to be a professional golfer At 14 he enlisted In the Royal flying corps and got hi his first Job as pro soon after getting back to mufti