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TOUCH OF TRAGEDY

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 19, 1988

halves in 35. Neither crowd nor occa- sion makes him turn a hair. He ap-

The calmer conditions would have pears to enjoy the presence of the made the seventeenth a good 4 for spectators, but when he addresses the anybody, and there Whitcombe did not ball they are evidently not there so far get up with what he told me were two as he is concerned."

‚ W. SWEENEY'S LEG

INJURY

London, July 8 (By Air Mail)- A. W. Sweeney, the Amateur Athletic Association' 220 yards champion, suffering from an in- jured leg, will be unable to run for Britain against Norway at the White City on Friday and Satur- day, or in the A.A.A. champion- ships on July 15 and 16. **

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the favourable weather, and he himself felt that he had not just cashed in so to speak sufficiently on his

of the best with wood he ever hit. At As a specimen of his remarkable general form. A poorly hit drive and a bun- the home hole he put a brassie stroke power, I may instance the seventeenth up on the green, and gave him ker on the way out and one or

Altogether, in the rough to the left of the green hole, of 423 yards, where he was knock-in putt for the 4. two other slips coming in, left him after and, rain battered and soaked, he fail- through the green against the wind however, his play was astonishingly a topped spoon through a bunker at ed to run three strokes from there into with a low flight iron stroke, and then erratic, and certainly did not augur the eighteenth with a seven-yards putt two.

chipped-back dead for his 4. On the well for the next three days, but there for his 72, and he got it down.

"FALLON'S, ACCURATE IRONS home green he had a ten-yard putt for is always the consolation of getting Perry

out in 34 with

Fallon, he 25 years old Scot, who a 3 and 69. It was downhill, but he as that sort of golf out in the first round at the short eighth, where he now holds Sandy Herd's former post nearly as may be ateered it into the so long as it is cut out in the others. pulled his tee

We shall see.. A 8 at the thirteenth stroke, but he at Huddersfied, kept his qualifying hole, amid applause. had hardly such a smooth

form going, and he rained such a se- LOCKE HAMPERED BY WIND helped him in the last stages of passage home for he made rather a hash of the quence of accurate iron strokes round Both Locke and Cotton were later, thoroughly disturbing round. There fifteenth, hitting his third through the the flags that only a touch of luck but neither was able to operate any he holed a tonic putt the whole length green, had to pull out a specially good with his putts would have given him eclipse golf. The South African was of the green, A low flying second recovery at the short sixteenth, and the leadership. He repeatedly struck right in the market, and a large crowd with his driver to the long fourteenth then took a 4, a putt across his own the putts with a silky fluency, but the watched him build up what looked like caught the top of a bunker and was ball mark made by the bunker stroke, ball persistently stayed out, and he a leadership prospect, for with twelve trapped, and a 6 resulted, but a score picked up a beauty of a 8 at the long holed only two putts in the round that holes played he was two under ds. Then that at one time after 37 out and two seventeenth against the wind with an were outside what may in a general the wind, which was making the ap-over 48 at the twelfth, looked headed eight yards putt, and holed a stiff one way be called the safety zone. After proaches harder for everybody, began for 76, ended no worse than 74. for his 4 on the home green after a doing 84 to the turn, he had, for ex-to get into his strokes, and they made DALLEMAGNE'S DISTINCTION chip from the rough.

ample, putting chances for 3s at the just the vital little bit difference to the Now a postscript about one or two next three holes, put a picture of an figures at the finish. At the fifteenth, others in the day's news. Dallemagne The distrust of the early morning iron ten feet from the sixteenth pin, sixteenth, and eighteenth holes he was in his 70 had the distinction of doing weather which we felt in our bones and a glorious cleek stroke, four feet off the line, and could not save himself the second nine holes in a splendid 34 after yesterday's treacherous

from the hole at the seventeenth, and with the putter. His drive to the and Cox, had six 3s in his 70, four of exper- ience was well founded, and the luck did not pick up a stroke at any of eighteenth was hooked into thick grass, them at holes parred at a stroke more. of the swiftly changing conditions was them.

from which he could not make the Jack M'Lean's round of 72 brings him. exemplified with a touch of tragedy in These low 70s kept tumbling in un-green, but, after a fine forging-reco-to the front better on the biggest oc- Ernest Whitcombe's round of 70. My til the scores began to remind us of very, he laid a lovely pitch five feet caston than he has been on some of the memory went. back to Hagen's year at the leaves in Vallambrosa, and expec- from the flag, and, as I have already minor ones, and there was a chance for Hoylake in 1924 when this same Whit-tations rose that the stars timed to recorded, failed to hole, it.

him to set the pace, for six times in combe was on the verge of taking the start in the later part of the draw Cotton had the largest crowd of the the round, be took three from the edge title when he was edged out at the last would "larn" those who had not made day, and it was a big crowd for out-of the green. minute by the American, who played an immortal half round in 36 when

BRUEN'S BIG CROWD every fraction was vital. Whitcombe, Bruen was the first of these, and now 48 years old, with a son also com- the meteoric rise which this boy has peting in the Championship, was on had to international fame was again the point of taking the morning glory testified by the big crowd that wait- to-day. With two holes to play he had ed for his appearance on the tee. used up only 60 strokes, and there Though it was just about the middle seemed no reason in the world why he of the normal lunch hour, hundreds should not break 70.

went off with him. They did not see the putting surfaces in 8 at the par 4 no means the steepest fall of the day. His details to the turn make a well-him get under 70, but they did see a holes, and, generally speaking, his play M'Kay, the Australian, went out in 36 nigh perfect row as follows 4 3 3 4 truly wonderful exhibition of golf. was even more mixed than to-day's and was three times out of bounds and 43 4.84--82 and he kept on hitting Gifted apparently with the tempera-weather: The twelfth was a conspicu- took 34 for the long fourteen hole, and the ball faultlessly right to the six-ment of a seasoned veteran and a mar- ous instance of how he more than once completed a card in 86. Erl Watson teenth hole. Just at that moment a vel of power and science, this sturdily had to fight for his figures. There he had a remarkable 76 with two 78, one sharp and severe thunderstorm broke built Irish boy marched these fairways was bunkered from the tee, put his of them at the short eighth, where he over the links.

Rain came down in with a supreme confidence, proved no- second into a bunker in front of the had four strokes in a bunker, with steel-rod fashion, and

Whitcombe, where more than on the greens, and green, and played a 100 per cent. ex-ball coming back to his first explosion fighting through it, finished with two hit the ball so well that he did both pert stroke from the sand which pulled mark.

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more of their chances.

of-the-way Sandwich, but they, like him, were disappointed with the golf he pro- duced.

He was connecting poorly, and the feature was that he could not get the greens and his seconds into any sort of harmonious arrangement.

MORE MIXED Several times he was getting on to

M'Lean told me that the chip strokes from round about the greens have been troubling him since he arrived here.

Hector Thomson had an odd flop for him. After getting to the turn in 34 his game suddenly underwent an al- most complete eclipse. He actually collected six (5a'and ́a'6"and took 43′′ to finish in 77. That, however, was by

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