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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 11, 1937

SCOTLAND'S NOTABLE GOLF RECORD UNBEATEN FOR SIX YEARS IN FOUR COUNTRIES'

CHAMPIONSHIP

MEMORABLE FINISH: VICTORY OVER ENGLAND

Dublin, September 9.

COTLAND, unbeaten in the National Unions Championship for six years, retained the Four

Peters and Dawson, like Jamieson and Patrick, had their opponents taped from the start. Their control in the wind was superior, and the Jamieson Patrick putting was as good as that of the Welsh leaders to-day, and that is no small praise. Two bad drives and a missed four-foot putt afterwards by Crawley had the English leaders three down at the fourth," and they

were

mo-

SCOTLAND in their attend of England for never in sight of a win from that me

So the Scottish

marnock course to-day by eight matches to fire, with two matches halved. Union's new flag, the St. Andrew's Cross, substituted by the order of the Lega King of Arms for the Standard formerly used, has been well and truly inaugurated, and will continue to fly at the peak of the flagstaff.

To-day's interest centred in the conclusive Scotland-England contest, for the battle between Ireland and Wales had merely become one to determine the lower places in the meeting, and a good many Irish golfers kept more than half an eye on Scottish fortunes while keeping in touch with news of their own countrymen..

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FINAL STANDING

It was a thoroughly exciting matamuk day for Scotland, one that, in a golfing sense, blew hot and cold for her chances, and ended in a fighting and successful rally worthy of the Scottish record and more of the Scottish team spirit. The Scots

the five foursome four of

and should

have won the other, and we went out expectantly to see the win- ning process neatly, quickly, and effectively completed.

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The final table is as follows:-

P. W. D. L. 3 2 1 0 3

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Scotland England Ireland Wales

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after the turn, and the Scots more or less merely walked in. They took five, for example. to reach the thirteenth green, and a half at the next headed them for the clubhouse.

BEST GOLF SEEN -Jamieson and Patrick played the best golf of the contest. Their 37 to the turn was first-class travel in the high wind, and Pennink and Scott were so lost against it that they were then five down.

The

spitch, which finished inside three yards range of the hole, and believe

An early English lead against Thom- it or not, the Scots contrived to take

son and M'Leod was lost through mis- three putts from there. Wemyss hit drives by Bentley at the fourth and sent the first putt, about two feet fifth holes, and after Thomson had past, and M'Inally missed the short missed a four-foot putt for a half, the one for the half, though, in the match was all even at the sixteenth, where the English ball was lost by an- Biyorida the put of two feet was other wild drive by Bentley. nothing like so easy as it looked match was still even with the seven- teenth played, and then M'Leod opened from the side-lines.

out on a very long drive, after which This was a disappointing give-away Thomson pulled out, one of his class teenth, and then lost the last two holes of the lead the Scots had carved out iron strokes, which finished three yards The sixteenth hole seemed to have got for themselves in the difficult condi- from the flag. The English pair. who thoroughly misplaced for an internations. At the eighteenth, Minally were in the rough on the left in two, tional contest, for after sundry wall hooked his second into the banker from use their fate sealed by that Thomson Before, that happened, how-derings by both sides. Tolley inter alia ever, Scots both in the team and putting the English fourth stroke into which Wemyss failed to lay the ball effort on the side-lines, had as exciting a banker ten yards in front of him, anywhere on the green, and though the THOMSON WINS ALL SINGLES

Thomson, gaining his 100 per cent. England were dead from just off the Edinburgh player followed a nicely-

outmatched and anxious an hour as they green in 6, with Scotland lying difte touched pitch by M'inally by holing & marks for the singies,

four-foot putt, Tolley had no difficulty Pennink the English close champion have ever spent on a golf course. in a stroke fewer. Wemyss, however in getting down a shorter one for a 4 and Walker Cup "tip" for next year. The Scottish mercury took a was fatally short with the run on,

after they turned against the wind at the tenth hole. Here, I should say. steep drop, for, with nine holes a half in 7 it was.

GUILTY AT 17TH.

GOOD CONTROL played, we were up only in two But the Scots were still

About the other matches, there were that the wind to-day set up the hardest matches, all even in two, and guilty at the seventeenth. Wemyss, only two doubts whether Thomson and conditions of the three days, for while through and it was stiff from the south it had more actually down in six. All this playing safety with his second, was M'Leod would squeeze

whether M'Kinlay would last his match weight, and blew with a gusty varia- was rather like a bolt from the rather sparing, and M'Inally, from whether wer in both cases, was the one tion that demanded of the players skill

(Continued on. Page 22) blue, and the dramatic change the top of a bunker, hit an effective Scottish camp followers wanted. made spectators, Scots officials, and other fairway hustlers and rough-trotters clamber in anxious point to point effort tó see how things were going.

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Scotland had to win four matches to retain the crown, and though Hectori Thomson banked the first point with a bit to spare, we were left guessing and calculating where the others were coming from; but with the successes of E. D. Hamilton and Andrew Jamieson in that order, and eventually that of S. L. M'Kinlay, the triumph, which was a matter of more conjecture this year, was accomplished.

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The role played by M'Kinlay is the more notable, because he began the day! with a temperature and feeling unwell; so much so, that he was in doubt whe ther he would be able to finish his four- some play; but with some improvement in his condition this afternoon, he stuck it manfully, got keenly after his man, A. L. Bentley, and won by 3 and 2.

PETERS' SURPRISE DEFEAT The defeat of Gordon Peters Stowe, the Penn ex-miner, out in the country, was both surprise and blow for Scottish sentiment, for we thought that the West of Scotland golfér might the use the opportunity to redress Stowe victory which put him out of the at Sandwich Amateur Championship this year. Then followed four desper- ately close finishes, with Hamilton M'Inally, after a fight back, slicing out of bounds at the eighteenth to lose: Hamilton fighting with a doggedness that the biggest physical specimen in the meeting could not have surpassed, and getting a one-hole verdict against Harry Bentley; Andrew Jamieson beat- ing Crawley on the home green; and Dawson staving off defeat at the hands of Timmis, of Hoylake. These were all passages that will make the 1937 inter- nationals memorable.

-The foursomes, which provided a pretty solid foundation for victory. gone completely might easily have Scottish but for the rather weak finish by Minally and Wemyss: This pair were 1 up with three to play, gave Tolley and Lyon a half in 7 which they could hardly have expected at the

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