The New York herald., 1921-05-27
WRIGHT LOSES IN
GOLF PLAY ABROAD
Americas Last Hope Defeated
at Hoylake by Bernard
Darwin.
SCOTLAND TO GET TITLE
Allan Graham and w. |. Hun
ter Survive to Play for
British Title.
SCOTLAND TO GET TITLE
Nv BERNARD DARWIN.

Speciol Cable to THE New York HERALD.
Copyright, 1921. bv TIE New York HERALD.
HoYLAKE. May 26-No Americans
are left in the amateur golf champion
ship contest and the final rests be-
tween Allan Graham and w. Hunter,
son of Harry Hunter, well known
professional at Deal and who has been
the friend Of generations Of golfers.
So far as can see Hunter should win
comfortably, but one never can tell.
He is very fine young golfer, with
lots of strength and an especially fine
pair Of wrists, and l do not think it is
merely the fact that he beat me this
afternoon that makes me say he is a
really fine golfer.
I suppose ] must cast modesty to
the winds and describe my match with
Frederick J. Wright. Jr.. OF Boston,
who was the sole survivor of the thir-
teen American entrants, as 1t was the
match of the morning and we had at
the end of it goodness knows how
many people to look at us. 1t was as
hard match as ever / played and
certainly most surprising way of
getting out OF bad predicament On
the way out Wright played beautifully
powerful golf Certainly he hoied no
long puts, but he did everything else
splendidly, and his playing was with
ease and confidence. I. ON the con-
.rary, was playing very feebly. in
deed. topping tee shots and doing other
foolish things and being generally
made to look very third rate. Indeed. I
was lucky TO be only down.
The crisis. 1 think, arrived at the
tenth hole. Wright had all the best of
1t. but could not quite win 1t. Then came
sudden transformation. He made a
slip at the eleventh and twelfth and L
managed to take advantage OF 1t and
get him down to I. He got two hard
halves at the thirteenth and fourteenth.
but a bad slice from the tee lost MIN the
fifteenth. and we were all square. Then
II was my turn to get hard half and
we faced the seventeenth still all even.
At this hole / got really good ap-
proach to within ten feet OF the cup and
then holed my putt for amid great
shouting and stampeding. Wright how
ever. played the last hole very steadily.
made a slip with my pitch shot, and
off we went to the nineteenth. Here
Wright hooked into the rough and I
went straight, and that just settled il.
True. my approaches we're not good
and neither OF us putted well. but just
managed to get my nose in front for the
last time.
IT was fine match, but as said be-
fore, very lucky one for me to win.
The semi-finals were tame by COM
parison. Alan Graham Just beat II. s.
r. Tubbs. who was Francis Ouimets
conauerer In 1914 but their golf was
pretty bad. as is often the case In the
scmi-fnals.
My match with Hunter was an odd
one ] started well for once in n way
and ran of with the first three holes.
/ might have won the NTH as well. but
didn't, and that did the mischief. From
that point Hunter played magnificently
and faded gradually away like very
tired old gentleman. True, | was still
UP at the turn. but after that Hunter
began to turn out threes and fours mon
strously. In fact, he was q great deal
too good for a rather jaded player and
won easily on the sixteenth green i
very funny one.
sTobody would have chosen these two
fnalists out Of the field.
The Americans. after the way thoy
thrashed us In the team match last Sat
urday. have been Just little disappoint-
ing, but IL is not an easy thing to be
eight or ten men against 2oo-odd, es-
pecially IN eighteen hole matches. where
so many things may happen. Although
the Americans did not win they have
taught us some lessons that ] hope we
may profit by,