| Show ENGLISH GOLF OOLF ARTISTS MAKE FINE SHO SHOWING WINO Campson Massy Sign for Many Contests In America By Br RAY Rn M C TIO- TIO I II Corr Correspondent of TIme The StD 1011 Examiner Copyright ht 1926 ConsolIdated Press A on ST AUGUSTINE lla Fla Jan 9 1 Archie Compson England England's great great- great t eat professional proCessional goiter golfer and Ar- Ar Arnaud Arnaud naud Ar-naud I naud Massy the French champion have ha been the center of or interest among goiters sInce line their arrival In Florida a 0 week ago Already a match between and Walter Hagen the th American pro pro- pro cham champion plon Is I being I seri seri- seriously seri seri- seriously seriously discussed Both these foreign players player have made mado a 0 groat t impre for tor the Quality of the golf golC they ha have hav 0 dis- dis displayed displayed played dl-played played and also al o because been use of the praise they have bestowed on 01 the two young oung American players Bobby Jones and Walts Gunn have hav expressed the tho th belief that Bobby Jones Jone J ones will win the British amateur championship If Ithe he carries out his Intention of competing In that vent c-vent next I spring They rby also think Gunn will make a good showing in mu the Brit Brit- BritIsh Brit British ish amateur although they doubt whether he lie has the experience necessary to win the event Cyril rolley lolley Is Id the only Brit 1 lh lab goiter golfer whom Compon Compson re- re re regards gards as an being capable of ot stop stop- stopping stopping stopping ping Jones Jonc U Tolley lolley olley Is a great m match play goiter said aid Compton to the writer today but he Is not near near- nearly nearly ly Iy us skillful as a Jones Jone Jones Bobby Jobby noar-I noar Is the nearest approach to harry Vardon I have ever ner seen e n His Ills swing Is ia perfection Itself lie IS ISa Isa a finIshed golfer goiter In every very respect respect re- re S IH JONES Massy will not even admit admit that thal Tolley can stop atop lop Jones Jonc Bobby Is too straight said Massy and his Iron shots shots-oh shot oh th they y are won won- wonderful wonderful wonderful Jones will wilt win The two European stars st were quito quite as much s d with the tho play of Watts Watt Gunn n their op- op opening opening op opening ening ening- match here l si Sunday as they were with that of Jones Jone What I 1 like about Gunn Cuna Is his fine tino nOl nerve said HaitI alJ Com Compson lIon lie will rattle them on the other side lie Is one of the finest long Iron players plas I ever saw aw lie has the abIlity to do well In l and andI I think he will be bo a sensation over there Massy was equally strong In hIs praise praille of ot Gunn In five e years Gunn will be bo as WI good as a Jones Jone said ald I 1 expect to see so him crack In the British but buthe buthe buthe he will not blow ui Ul up lie He gets better the further he goes goe He HeIs HeIs HeIs Is a good one A fine tine 1 boy 0 Compson and Ma Massy Y are the most colorful golfers golfer who have visited this country since tince Vardon and Ray came over years ago Compson Is certain t to 1 be a sen- sen sensation sen sensation In the states Ho lIe is 13 a sInk sInk- strikIng sInkIng ing Ing figure on the links link standing Ix ix feet tour four He lie has great power In 11 his wing and yet ho he isery Is la very ery compact For a ten ter- terrific ter terrific yetI I hitter he Is th the straightest the tho writer has lIas seen een He lie also has i tine fine shot hot making ability His only weakness Is In his ni- ni although al although though on occasions occasion he h- putts pulls quite well Messy Massy Is the putter He ia I Li Is In Intact tact fact the h finest putter the tho writer ever saw aw not even cven excepting Hagen The Tho Th French star never tak takes three putts and he h holes putts of 20 feet felt or noro regu regu- regularly regu- regu regularly Wilfred Reid Held predicted the Frenchman would have at least I I II greens with Jones Jone and Gunn and on each ch round that Is exactly what Sir Ar Ar- Ar naud Ar-naud had Massy Maisy had only 64 54 putts pulls In last Sunda Sundays Sunday's match or 14 less lc s than average of two putts to the green for tor 3 34 holes He picked up on two holes hule hul In lL a British a-British British open match some years ago Massy had only ten putts pulls on the first nine nin greens crocus UNIQUE FEATURE IK It If Bobby Jonel Jone should succeed In winning the th British amateur lie be would be the first native born AmerIcan to turn the trick Waiter Valter Travis won the th event cent some 20 years ago afro but Travis was born In Australia Francis OuImet Chick Evans Bob Gardner and other ether American stars have had bad a x try at the British amateur but none non succeeded Gardner carried Cyril Tolley Toiley to the thirty seventh hole hoi several everal years ago but finally lost Bobby Dobby Jones competed in the Iho event some ome four years year ago but the Bobby of today Is a much more finished player I The great army of prof professional golfers who are on the wing will leave California tomorrow and head for tor the Texas tournaments They will come orne to Florida later This contingent Is I headed by Rut Bill and Mac line Smith Hagen H Barnes Farrell Mac Mac- Mac Mac-Farlane Compson and Massy are aro remaining In Florida no nn |
