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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 13, 1988.

Yates Was A Worthy Winner

Cecil Ewing's Vital Failure At Ninth Hole

British Amateur Golf Event Was Uninspiring

(By "AIR MAIL")

One down at the end of the mor- ning round, Ewing, who had seen in early lead wiped out, seemed like making a fight of it when he began the afternoon by holing from 12 yards on the first green for a birdle 3 to again level the game.

"REVIEWER'S" SPORTS COMMENTARY

British Curtis Cup Golf Team

'HE ·Ladies' Golf Union have TH

an-

At this time the crowd was on

nounced that the following players the 6000 mark. And they were will represent Great Britain against Curtis Cup

match, to be played at the Essex Coun try Club, Manchester, Massachusetts, on September 7 and 8:—

rushing about like dervishes at the the United States in the London, May 29.

prospect of Ewing making a battle of it. At every hole there were races for vantage points

Instead Ewing disappointed with At the second

a listless display.

Once again congrats, America. We have still to hold our own title when a Walker Cup team come a-visiting. In Charlie Yates, of Georgia, we acclaim a player worthy of such predecessors as hole, for instance, he took three Sweetser, Jones, and Lawson Little. He defeated putts to fall into a leeway which he never after made up. He pushed Cecil Ewing, of Ireland, by 3 and 2 at Troon yester-out his drive a hundred yards to day to take the British Amateur Golf Champion-lucky to have his ball stopped by ships cup back to the U.S.

the fourth. Then, though

the crowd from going over a bank at the short fifth, be chipped weak-

HIS IRISH OPPONENT HADHIS CHANCES EARLY ON. TWO ly and lost that also to become 3 UP AT THE FOURTH, HE HELD THE LEAD TILL THE NINTH | down.

WHERE CAME THE VITAL MOMENT OF THE DAY. CRACK- At the long sixth Yates missed ING AN IRON TO WITHIN FOUR FEET OF THE PIN, EWING from eight feet for another MISSED THE PUTT FOR A THREE-HOLE LEAD THAT MIGHT and at the short eighth he rimmed WELL HAVE SENT HIM SWINGING TO VICTORY.

Instead he swithered into a game that grew slack and fatally slacker. Grimly relentless, the icy-nerved American took every chance. that came his way. Finished 1 up at the end of round one. From then on Ewing's challenge was a flicker and a fade.

was

Mrs. Andrew M. Holm (Troon). Miss Jessie Anderson (Craigie

Hill).

Miss Pam Barton

Surrey).

(Royal Mid-

Miss Elsie Corlett (Royal Lytham

and St. Anne's).

Mrs. Garon (Addington).

Miss Clarrie Tiernan (Co. Louth). Mrs. J. B. Walker (Island Mala-

hide).

Mrs. Wallace Williamson (Gullane)

(captain).

The team will leave for Boston in the Franconia on August 19.

The last match was played at the Gleneagles Hotel course in 1936, and was halved, each side win,

winning four matches, with one game finishing level. The United States held the trophy at that time, and after the match they sportingly offered to surrender it to Great Britain on account of the draw.

the hole for a 2. When he did make a mistake by cutting a long and was bunkered, Ewing could not iron shot over the hill to the ninth take advantage as he pulled second shot.

his

The upshot was Yates ran a long putt dead for a half in 5 to be out in 36 and 3 up with 9 to go.

Ewing unexpectedly got a hole back at the tenth, where Yates, off the green, chipped eight' feet wide and again missed the putt.

America had her grip on yet, The bigger and more powerful another Amateur Cup. Her hands Irishman, as usual wearing glasses, were sinewy this time as ever before.

held a slight advantage in distance from the tee over his loosely-built In some ways the game was opponent, who, despite it disappointing. Yates was a good sunny, wore waterproof trousers winner. But there were no bril-for most of the match.

Apparently some remark passed liant patches. Neither was there

in the crowd had been heard It was really a spell of crocked Yates. When he failed at the an inspiring fight by the loser to driving and misputts by Ewing putt he looked round angrily, raise excitement to any high de-which turned the match in favour vigorously knocked Ewing's gree.

of the American rather than any away. There was one-flicker of a fight, brilliant-play by the latter. however, by Ewing, which died

away all too quickly.

Three down with only four holes

of the thirty six left to play, Ewing stimulated the stampeding crowd, then in the region of 10,000 by lay- ing a great iron shot ten feet from the pin at the fifteenth.

He was accorded a terrific cheer when he hold the putt for a win only to disappoint those who hoped for a home win by playing the next hole badly.

He pulled his drive into the rough at this long hole, and push- his third into a bunker near the green.

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Yates played safely down the middle with an iron for his second shot, and played a picture · third shot to within seven feet of the flag. Ewing got out well enough from the trap, and the ball finished about the same distance from the hole as the American's.

Duncan M'Culloch, the home pro., acting as official measurer, was called in to decide who was to putt. He did so with: a tape measure. It fell to Ewing to play. What cheer he got when he bravely holed the putt.

But that was nothing to the ear-splitting yell which greeted Yates when he maile no mistake with his putt for a four and vic- tory.

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but it was declined.

Five of the eight players chosen for this year's match figured in the contest at Gleneagles two years ago. They Garon, Mrs. Holm, and Mrs. Walker, are Miss Anderson, Miss Barton, Mrs.

It was Miss Anderson who saved that match for Britain when she holed from nearly ten yards to beat Mrs. J. N. Cheney on the last green. America had only to halve that match to win the trophy, but the Scottish girl brought about a halved contest.

Miss Corlett has been playing cham- by pionship golf for fifteen years, while Miss Tiernan, ex-Irish champion, has been prominent in recent champion- ships.

The match is decided by three four- somes and six singles.

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OLD LIQUEUR BRANDIES

B. B.,

FOR

THE CONNOISSEUR

PALE OLD

F.O. V. (Finest Old Vintage)

GODET FRERES 1852

ROUYER GUILLET 1865

EXSHAW'S V. F. O. (60 years old)

NAPOLEON 1814

VOLUNTEERS WIN

AT BASEBALL

The Volunteers continued in winning vein yesterday in the Baseball League wher they accounted for the Indians by 7 runs to 3, at Caroline Hill.

The Volunteers scored four rùns in the first inning. Both sides were sound in their fielding comparatively few errors being recorded..

This win has now placed the Volun teers next to the Chinese in the League table.

With a chance to make up his leeway, Ewing, however, continued to present Yates with chances. At the twelfth he pulled his drive into the heavy grass, could do no bet-- ter than a 5 to become "3 down again. The rest you know.

The morning crowd were shocked to see Yates miss from two feet to lose the second hole of the first round and become 1 down. Yates cut his drive badly at the fourth, and was bunkered to become 2 down.

Vital hole of the day came at the ninth... Here Ewing playing a per- fect iron shot against the Ameri can's wood, only to fail at the four feet putt, which would have given him a commanding and encouraging lead of three holes.

"After that lapse there crept into his play the hooks and slices which are so badly punished at Troon and

On the whole, the golf was only CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD. which proved his undoing in the

moderately good.. Even from the usually deadly Yates there

Was

nothing startling in the putting fine..

end.

Not only was his lead frittered away in the inward half but he. went in to lunch one down.

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