Golf

Professionals. At Pelham, N. Y., 64 leading golf professionals congregated. The early rounds of the tourney proved to be but perfunctory preliminaries to another outburst of the rivalry between Walter Hagen, New York "dude," and Gene Sarazen, abbreviated Italian from Briarcliff (N. Y.) as to which is the best professional match-play golfer in the country. Thousands followed the two to their 38th green, where the Italian with a birdie 3 finally pinioned his urbane opponent and renewed his lease on the P.G.A. title.

During the week Sarazen was obliged to defeat Alex ("Nipper") Campbell, ";Long Jim" Barnes and Bobby Cruickshank (erroneously reported a week ago as not having qualified). Hagen met no player of great repute until the finals.

National Women's. America's golf-women teed off at Westchester-Biltmore for national title play. Among the youngest was Champion Glenna Collett of Providence. Glenna Collett, not yet a voter, hits a manly ball. She has the wrists of a Scotch professional. Her consistency belies the theory that feminine nerves are higher strung than masculine. In two years she has entered ten big tournaments, won eight--including the National, the North and South twice, the Eastern twice, the Canadian.

A Rule. Slotted, corrugated or punched golf clubs are ordered off the links after Jan. 1, 1924. The U.S.G.A. so decreed. This means limbo for all " backspins,"; "dead-stops," " crowflights," " stickums." It is the extinction of a species whose progenitor was Jock Hutchinson's famed " shovel" mashie of nearly a decade ago.

British officials extradited special " cutting " clubs in 1922. Much ruction resulted among Americans playing in British tournaments.