THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 13, 1939.
AMATEURE GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP--3RD DAY
Fellow American Knocks Out Yates At Hoylake
Thomson Falls To Royal Liverpool Backmarker
BRUEN'S VICTORY; MARCH CONTINUES
Hoylake, May 25.-With the of this sort. As the Americans say, defeat of both Charles Yates, the he has what it takes.
That is assuredly looking ahead,
since we have still 32 competitors
THE FATAL STROKE
resem-
GOLF
NELSON WINS
AT LAST!
Philadelphia, To-day.
United States holder of the title, Thomson stepped up to his ball on and Hector Thomson, who came the fairway, and deliberated lie and the first five holes to bear a
Byron Nelson, returning a 70 South as the spearhead of Scot-length. Spectators fully expected him blance to the more fearsome examples to lay the ball somewhere close to the of American golf. They took their land's challenge in the Amateur flag, but, to everybody's utter amaze-three putts like you and me: got into against Craig Wood's 73, won the Golf Championship here to-day, ment, and the consternation of the bunkers, and behaved in a thoroughly the query that now governs spe- Scottish "fans," he unexplainably got human fashion. But immediately after American Open Golf Championship culation to-night is
under the ball, and bludgeoned away with that putter, and the Yates hone the turn Chapman turned on the heat
on the second play-off. Who will
his winning chance by knocking it no meet James Bruen, the brilliant more than forty yards.
simply curled up before the fiery blast.
Chapman holed four putta between Originally Nelson, Wood and young Irish player, in the final? I shall not spin out the agony of
this hole. Thomson was well past the the tenth and fifteenth, which ranged Shute tied for first place. First hole in three; Timmis chipped
from five yards to fifteen, and that is play-off resulted over
in a further tie the bunker neatly with the story in a nutshell. Yates strove the half and the inside him, and with hard to ward off what was coming to between Nelson and Wood-Reuter. for him as
the Bank of England, he him. He nearly holed a chip at the eventually holed his five yards putt eleventh, and he parked a beautiful tee for a 4. It was a big putt, but it was stroke at the short thirteenth, but he was beaten, 4 and 3. The laughing Thomson inclines to be a slow star-campaigner took his defeat in the sport- ter, but to-day at the beginning of this ing spirit that was expected of him. commented match he gave his steady fighting Hoy- "That's how it goes," he
win this title lake opponent too much rope. It all "It's mighty hard to began with a bad self-inflicted jolt by twice, and it's not easy to win it once.' The winner of this match looks like the Scot, who putted poorly on the first green, and finally knocked Timmis's going forward with plenty of confid. ence, and the draw may bring him and
Douglas (Isle of Man), To-day. ball into the hole, and so hecame one
Peters together to-morrow down. He was two down at the third. Gordon
Stanley Woods, driving a Velo- and though he fought back to the all-afternoon, and if this match even position not on his best golf,tuates, and Peters loses, the American
A Bruen- cette, won the motor-cycling Junior Scottish hopes were that, having got may pass on to the final.
Chapman final would restage their Tourist Trophy, covering 264 miles on terms, he could make his way
Sandwich match, which the American through.
in 3 hours, 10 minutes, 30 seconds an average speed of 83.192
in the field, but Bruen further con- solidated the position he holds as favourite by the exhibition of pow. er with which he overwhelmed E. D. Hamilton, the Scottish champion, to-day.
an easy one.
The
the
So far, this 19-years-old prodigy has impressed himself on the event with something of the inevitability of the old-time heroes,
and now that Yates and Thomson have gone, his path to the title, on paper at any rate, appears to have been appreciably opened out.
One opinion I heard to-day em- phasises the Bruen possibilities. Henry Cotton, who is watching the Championship, says that the Irish youth must be the best amateur in
Royal Liverpool golfer hitwon. the world, and expresses the view heavily, however, by winning that if he competes in the Open twelfth and thirteenth holes; the short Championship, and keeps his head, one with a 2, and the Scot was left to he will line up with the best there fight through to the climax also.
described. His golf, however, was de Bruen told me to-day that he is go-fiuitely sub-standard. At the sixteenth ing to St. Andrews for the Open in he only half hit his brassie, but pulled July, and that he is feeling ever so out a very accurate chip, and holed a much fitter and better able to stand] two yards putt to get a hole back. the racket of these big occasions, after the systematised training he has put in under the doctor's supervision dur- ing the past winter. He is most of two stones lighter than he was last
- year.
too.
doom.
CROONER GOLFER
I
have
even.
STANLEY WOODS WINS JUNIOR T.T.
Bruen, like Chapman, won his match to-day before a large crowd of specta- at
Hamilton m.p.h. tors. who saw him outgun completely. The little Ralston player held him as well as he could, but this disparity was bound
ago.
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to come down H. L. Daniel, riding a Norton, sooner or later on the side of the Irish was second in 3 hours, 10 minutes. player.
38 seconds at an average of 83.13 The third hole, which runs to 480! yards, and was against the wind. pro- m.p.h.. vides an illuminating specimen. Bruen
H. Fleischmann, of Germany, rid- At the seventeenth he was bunkered hit a tremendous drive here, one of the
longest of the Championshin. which fing a D.K.W., was third in 3 hours; on the right from the tee, but as Tim outranged Hamilton by fully sixty 12 minutes, 5 seconds at an aver- mis was in the rough twice on the left. yards, and was on the edge of the Thomson was still in the hunt, both on in three and the English player facing green with a No. 4 for his second. At age of 82.51 m.p.h.-Reuter. THOMSON'S STRUGGLE
the longer putt. Thomson's two yards other holes the little Scot was at the has a curious-looking drive. it never Late this evening, Press tent type-putt just missed to win the hole, and same disadvantage, and, though Bruen
to the home writers are beating out a feverish tat- so he went one down
the greens in the early stages. Thrills have piled up late in the green, and, as I have described, to his gives way, and his only faults were on who was champion here twelve years day, for after a dull morning in the
If the champion had to go, America
HAMILTON CRUSHED news sense, though charming and sun-will derive some consolation from the
OXFORD BLUE BEATS VINES ny again so far as the weather was fact that it was another American whe Bruen employed his power to capture concerned, the championship poured
Ellsworth Vines, the U.S. tennis star, John us out a liberal libation of excitement brought the defeat about. This result the eighth and eleventh, and his putting
by Duts Richard D. Chapman, the Newto win the tenth. Hamilton Was was beaten this afternoon this afternoon. “
York campaigner, who is competing for through the tenth green, and, as he Baillieu, an Oxford Blue, all the way Hector Thomson's death struggle to the third time in the British event had done more than once, putting short from the. Antipodes, after both had up the grass in morning the eighteenth hole against C. W more prominently on the championshinwhen he might have forced a half, but burned Timmis, the Royal Liverpool back- map. In previous reports I have indi- the Irish player holed a putt of about matches with averages of three under marker, roused the hundreds of specta-cated his possibilities. especially since three yards for a 4 after being in the 4s. The Australian beat Vines by tors as much as anything, for the pok- he holds an immense potentiality in his rough. He then hit a glorious iron to and 1, and suggests himself, both by er-faced Scot, though putting up noth-putter. Twenty-eight years old, Chap. within a few yards of the eleventh flag his power and skill, as a danger possi- ing showy so far, was everywhere re-man, by his own account, has had a and Hamilton, trying to get the dis- bility. With Ronnie Inglis, who is 18, garded as one of the greatest fighting career of swiftly mixed fortune. tance with a cleek, had to pitch on from two other youths have come through. forces in the championship. But one
viz., Tom. Hiley, who is 19, and Kenneth Son of a keen golfer who was senior the edge of a bunker.
Thom is Essex sensational stroke played by him did, champion of the States, he came over So it went, and Hamilton was slowly Thom, who is 17. I regret to say, rather cut across that here a season or two ago with Joe but ruthlessly crushed; became three champion, and is the "discovery" of the grand reputation the Glasgow player Ezar, the professional, as tutor com- down with four to go, and then was championship, and champion of three years ago has panion, and in the past winter he has beaten. built up.
been acting as master of ceremonies. Bruen now meets Ronnie Inglis, the and crooner in a Florida night club young Anglo-Scot, who beat Johnstone. where he sang for the patrons.
a golfer from India, by putting on the
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Gordon Peters won, but had a close call from Bromley Davenport, and after
One stroke should not mar a golf- er's fame any more than one swallow does not make a summer, but Thom- What concerns us more here, how-screw as he has done in his other son's second to the crucial eighteenth ever, are the facts that he was semi-matches at the end. Inglis won the hole this evening will be remember-finalist in last year's American Chamixteenth for the lead, and then laid a ed as one of the most dramatically nionship: that he has fumped disappointing of his career, and will fourth position in the national ranking perfect iron within five feet of the seventeenth pin. That meant "cur- present an unfortunate companion and that he uses a putter that before tain" for the overseas contender. picture in recollection to the master- the end of a week may be worth its piece pitch with which he brilliant-weight in gold. ly snuffed out big Jim Ferrier, the That putter has made history. It is a match of the dog-fight type he snat Australian, in the championship at of aluminium, and he had it altered ched himself from the jaws of death St. Andrews three years ago.
before his trip to this country twe with recoveries at the seventeenth and Let me set the scene. Hundreds of vears ago, but on his return to the eighteenth. the former to get the lead spectators racing for view-points alone States he gave it away to a young and the other to hold it. Bromley Da- the whole fairway; the Liverpool golf- friend of his. Subsequent putting venport must have had a glimpse of
and er in the commanding position of 1 up: made him regret that gift.
he hope when Peters hit his second nearly Thomson in one of his tightest corners. often sighed for its former magic. Rinto the refreshment marquees at the fighting for his life. Both drives were a happy chance he was able to get the eighteenth, but he came back from well hit, and found their billets in the club back again just before this Bri- there with a fine stroke that made his middle of the fairway. Timmis had to tish campaign, and at the beginning of winning half sure. play first, and when he hit his second this week it began to function for him with a shade of cut into the deep grass at its best.
PUTTER MAGIC on the right of the green with a bun-1.
ker to pitch over, "the door was open- In the fractricidal act that putt Yates od a very dangerous bit more for an out of the Championship to-day, that adversary who, as a rule, is only too putter was the lethal weapon. Neither willing and too able to seize chances Yates nor Chapman did anything in
A. T. Kyle, though not playing uş well as he can through the green, chin. ped and putting in his machine-like way, and now meets Stanley Morrison. Walter M'Leod, who beat Tolley yes- terday, kept on chipping short of the flag, and was beaten by Dr. Tweddell,
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