GOLF

The Ryder cup was presented, for competition between British and American professional golfers, by that famous " seedy " gentleman, Mr. Samuel Ryder, of St. Albans, It is a nice cup, a silver cup, but it is too full of conditions.
Obviously, the man who pays the piper has a right to call the tune. But Mr. Samuel Ryder does not pay the piper, he only gives a group of pipers a reward for
their playing. There is no endowment and quite a lot of expense bound up with the Ryder cup.
It costs the Professional Golfers' Association £3,000 to send ten players to the U.S.A. for the cup competition, and they have to scrape that £3,000 from anywhere and everywhere they can. The players themselves do not get any pay for the event, all they get is a share in the receipts of the exhibition matches arranged in connection with the tour.
Those receipts and the receipts for the match itself would be considerably enhanced if Henry Cotton was a member of this year's team. He is the most colourful golfer of to-day. He is what Hagen was, and Bobby Jones, the best box-office attraction in golf.
HENRY COTTON'S WORTH Nor is he barred from participation by any rule. British golfers resident in America are barred from playing for Britain because they are presumed te have settled down permanently in the land of the brave and the comparatively free Golfers engaged by Continental clubs are not so barred.
The American P.G.A. do not consider them barred; they have gone out of their way to tell the British Association their opinion.Cotton is worth his place in any side in the world. Cotton is as British as the Maiden or the Swilcan Burn. America wants to see Cotton and America will pay big money if they get the chance.
On form Cotton is Number One golfer in the world; Cotton is British and available. The British P.G.A. wants to win the Ryder cup in America for the fri-st time, the P.G.A. also wants money. Cotton is the answer and a far better answer than sending round the hat.
CITY HEN'S RECORD An average of about two records an hour over twenty-four hours was set up by three London city men at Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. They had a British Napier-Railton car to help them, and the dried-up bed of the famous sail lake.
Thanks to their efforts, Britain has now avelled 3,235 miles in twenty-four hours, and got back to the place from which they started. They travelled at an average speed of 1341 miles an hour. They broke all the records from one hour to twenty-four and all those from 50 to 4,000 kilometres. The temperature was 116 in the shade. So what?