The New York herald., 1921-05-25
OUIMET, GUlLF0RD
AND EVANS OUT OF
BRITISH GOLF PLAY
Americans Fare Badly in
Second and Third Rounds
of Championship at
Hoylake.
W. p. HUNT ALSO LOSES
Bobby Jones, DR.. Hunter,
z. j. Wright and w. c.
FOWnes Survive-Lat-
,si ter Pair Meet.
FOWNES BEATS CHAMPION
Team Captain Triumphs Over
Chicagoan 1 Up in Afternoon
-Tolley Spikes Siege
Gum in Morning.
BY BERNARD DARWIN.

ESeciay Gable TO THE NEW York HERALD.
Copyright, 1891. bv THE NEW York HERALD.
HoYLAKE, May 24.-This has been q
real bad day for America in the strug-
gle for the British amateur golf cham
pionship. There has been one sad piece
of internecine warfare, for the steady.
imperturbable veteran. w. c. Fownes,
Jr., eliminated one big hope of the
American side in Chick Evans. Francis
Ouimet was knocked out and so was
Jesse Guilford. Bobby Jones escaped
by the skin Of his teeth. However, he
recovered his form brilliantly in the
afternoon and lives to fight another
day.
f. J. Wright, Jr.. of Boston, sur
wives, but as Ill luck will have it he
and Fownes will have to battle one
another TO pieces tomorrow morning,
SO things certainly do not look as
bright as they did.
There was presented very curious
psychological phenomenon day. On
Saturday the Americans were as cold
as ice and the Britons were pal
pably nervous. Yesterday they walked
through with ease, but to-day they
seemed to have a fit of nerves.
Anything so appalling as Jones's play
this morning l never have beheld. 1t
would be generous to him to say he
went around under ninety. He kept his
long game, but his iron shots and put
ting wAre slrocsrtng. His opponent, Z.
A. Hamlet, is not in the least good
player. lie Is very short and not good
iron player or putter. If he could have
played al all Jones must have gone.
But then maybe 1t can be argued that If
Hamlet had been good Jones would have
played better. At any rate he pulled
himself together on the last two holes
and won them manfully.
His lunch did him all the good in the
world, for in the afternoon he walked
all over Robert Harris, one of our best
golfers, who has been a fnalist in tho
championship. In this game Bobby"
was magnificent. Harris never had
chance and lost by pocketful of holes.
After this there was nothing to say
but that golf Is a funny game.
ouimet's Approaches short.
Francis Ouimet lost TO c. Togdson Of
Balloon, the Yorkshire champion. who
Is u good rather than great player.
Hodgson knows the game and has
plaved it since boyhood. He has heaps
OF grit He drove straight nearly al
wavs. but was yards behind Francis
from the tee
But there was something wrong with
the American. He was constantly short
with his approaches. and for once was
beaten on the green. He made great
effort at the end which was character
istic of the great player that he is. He
was down and 6 to play, but reduced
this deficit 10 only down and to play
TIodrson might well have cracked. but
fe remained steady as rock and got
= rather hard half at the seventeenth
and then fairly got the best OF the
eighteenth. playing a perfect pitch well
inside of Ouirnet's ball and holed out at
his ease in A.
He proved TO be gallant victor re
nearly crashed. but didn't quite, and
that is to his credit. Personally
thought Ouinet the best player of the
field and that he would win, However
the best laid plans of mice and men
have been alluded to often before.
cyril II. Tolley. the British amateur
champion. and Jesse Guilford had a
magnificent match in which both parties
earned the greatest credit Guilford
putted gloriously. There was shiver
of suspense every time he struck the
ball on the green. so close did he go.
4 think his driving beat him. That hook
OF his lost two or three holes also.