Emphatically th" American golfers have asserted their supremacy on British soil where hitherto no visiting team in competing for the Ryder Cup had been successful. Piquantiy. enough the heaviest defeat was the outcome of the duel between the pective Open Champions, the Amei can. Ralph Guldahl, having the satisfaction of winning by eight up and seven to play. On the score alone that victory seemed ta relegate Alfred Padgham to the ranks of the rabbits—but that is an unthinkable development although it will be noted that in the depression of the moment Padgham declares that he will not defend his title at Carnoustie next week. It is not for the layman to attempt to discuss the mysteries of the golfing mind. but in other less esoteric sports it would be considered that Padgham had all the greater inventive to prove that Guldahl avaller treatment of him was thoroughly unjustified. Still the heart knoweth fts own bitterness. The fact remains that Great Britain's golfing professionals will have to wait until the Americans have recrossed the Atlantic before they can without discomfiture resume the task of teaching their feckless compatriots how t overcome Colonel Bogey.
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