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Show THEN HIS PIPE WENT OUT) I BIT TED RAY WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP FIRST I BY HAL COCHRAN. . EX A staTf gpSOial. TOLEDO, Aug 20. As usual there I was a lady' In the tSSSl She soothed his nerved She quieted quiet-ed his strain of cxcl'emeni Tn- man In the case vas Ted Rsy. English golf Hrlsard, Mid foi 1 1 trying try-ing hu!' of th. opi n golf tournament 'at the Inverness club here, the lade WSS With him, aiding in a quiet l,nd unnotkcd ' She was ' Lndv Nicotine." LADY Ml OTINI '.,t OnCS durlnjc his play In the open golf championship did Ray re-! n ii. s ,et, long-stemmed pipe from' heiwcen his te'th SXCSpt, possibly, to relight It. or refill it With "Lady Nicotine. ' And on the SSVettty-SSCOnd green, where Ray made the final putt that! mad him th- open golf champion I for 102". iad. Nicotine1 made S Instl and spectacular jday MAGIC PIPE. Ray made an approach shot that dropped his golf ball within about eight feet of the hole He sauntered up tO It and Stopped Me tucked ln golf club undorncath his arn and' reached down In his coat p.ckrt for! his lobacco pouch Close to 7,000 people wen. grouped about the great open space surrounding the green. Ray calmly took his pipe out of his moUth, filled ll with tobacco Lei Nicotine' struck a match on his trousers puffed a few times and then stooped over und made the shot ih.it proclaimed hlin tho host golf pluyet In the Country. And, as he walked to! the clubhouse, his long briar pipe1 ceased to imokc it had pluyed us part it died out. RAY'S GRIP, Ray, as a golt. r, Is not unlike many other famous followers of the game! in tho way he holds his club. A 1 great man Of the hading golfers, if not all of them, bury the thumb of their left-hand beneath the fingers of the right hand Ka does this too, but also more. He gets a more secure se-cure grip on his club h drooping I ho little finger of hl.s left hand over the outside two finders of his right hand In other words, he practically locks the fingers of his two hands His left hand acts as the real grip hand He secures the tight hold with it and then directs the cwinq- of his club, as well as adding to his left-hand grip,1 lth his right hand. His grip is the same In putting as in driving. , HOW Hi: STANDS. As to his stance, there is a difference dif-ference between the new champion's driving and his putting. When teeing off or in the open fairway, Ru stands I ' (Upper left) How Golf Champion Ted Ray stands when hr Is Making : a putt. Till- pi turc was suipKHl n-i Ray holed for n par 4 on his 72nd hole at Tde-de, and e-opjx-d the gulf crown. ( I ppi i rbthl ) Ray'S position when ilrivlng. fjUOt pictnrc-i show the- e'hamplon'.s giip mi lu.s club. with his feet about two feet apart i When putting they .ir drawn to wlth-i ih about eight inches of each other.! Many golfers bend the loft knce when making a putt. Ray keeps both knees practically stiff. Ray's golf game is one of deep concentration con-centration He hellc-ves a man can play his best game when he thinks ofl golf, and nothing but golf, when on j the courve, nnd forgets it when off thei course. TAKES FULL SWING. The new champion, In driving off, take.s a full sw In tarrying his club all the time back of his shouldor. His drives, as a result, usually average aver-age around 3u0 yards. His play. In nil angles of the game, 1; deliberate. He wastes little time In making a shot, but usually steps up to a fairway shot and Biri&iCkx the ball hs soon as he has sized up just where his net swing .should miry him. It was Rays ability to place the ball in Just that spot, his coolness on the greens, and his endless consistency consisten-cy that won him the prized title in the golf world-open championship |