New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
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By Grantland Rice
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Hoylake course, hard as granite,
~ lightning fast putting green's
t~t orange and brown tore raw nerves
,s,jr. America triumphed over
81. .ysitain to-day in the first big
tnstionai golf test by the wide
ss{ns nsrriu Of nine matches to three.
fifteen thousand British golf fol-
lowers with q few hundred Americans
tramped the asphalt fairways and blis-
szered heather to find eight hard play
Wing Americans rolling up big majori-
ties, both foursomes and singles bring
ing the worst defeat that British anna
taur golf has ever known upon home
sod. The Americans ritted a high
bsckspin pitch to fast green's against
tie British pitch and run and by
sounder iron play with surer putting
wen an astonishing triunph.
Americans Lead Fine Play
The Americans. led by the brilliant
playing Of Evans and Jones, got
off to a rushing start in the fore
noon foursomes, making clean
sweep of all four matches md
blocking any chance of British
victory. This result was astonishing,
as the British were conceded an edge
in the foursome play. In the after
noon the American team continued the
driving assault, winning five out of
eight singles.
IN foursome play Evans and Jones
went out in 34 and ran away with Jen-
kins and Simson, winning 5 and 3, with
both Americans playing wood and iron
perfectly Jones was doing remarkable
putting en- the cast-iron greens.
This is one Of the greatest foursome
sores ever known in international
cr.u petition, getting in no hazards in
tie entire round.
Ouimet in Great Form
Steady team play by Ouimet and
Gsilford stopped Tolley and Holder
rcss, Ouimet being in great form and
putting with superb confidence,
Fownes and Wright conquered
Armour and Aylmer, and 2, by better
work around the greens.
ttunter and Platt, with three down at
the eighth hole, played the next five
taking lead and the victory.
One British consolation was the de-
feat of champion Evans by champion
Tolley in the afternoon singles. Tolley,
starting with three at the first long hole,
was out in IS: He played fawless golf
sinking eight and tenfoot puts with
out culver Evans was unable to
keep the pace on the keen greens and
was beaten and 8,
Tolley's even fours finished the
match He made no mistakes and
looms as a formidable opponent for
the championship.
British hopes for a recovery were
quickly dashed when Ouimet's sepsa-
ti5nal dash won the first six holes. Ex-
champion Jenkins and Ouimet started
". th and went out in 35, with two
holes under fours and six and five
5--4-4-3-4--3-3 and in
G-3-4-2. It was the finest golf of
the entire day, leaving Jenkins bad
ly slaughtered.
a great crowd, following the Jones'
Montmorercy match, was rewarded by
the brilliant play of Jones. who used
wood and iron magnificently, but was
not quite so sure of the elusive green as
in the morning round.
ones IS extremely popular over hers.
he had the match welf in hand all
the way, playing high backspin pitches
boldly to the granite greens with fine
effect.
Wright in Star Rally
Young Wright made the star rally
OF the afternoon. With down and s
10 play against Holderness, the crack
player won the last five holes by superb
golf and nerve that were the astonish-
ment of the big gallery attending.
Guiiford had hard match with Sim
son. He settled the issue with two
tremendous wallops on the long six
teenth hole. beating par and taking the
lead with 2 up. The Boston siege gun
played soundly throughout, hitting q
long ball and putting we'll throughout
the ding-dong contest.
Captain Fownes's steady, heady golf
and good putting were too much TO be
weathered. Armour's better golf beat
Platt, while Aylmer's sounder putting
stopped Hunter in two hard fought
matches.
Evans's and Jones's phenomenal
score of playing one ball out, z-4--
2--4-4-3-4-5, is still the talk of
excited groups of spectators, who also
are busiiy discussing the brilliant
play of 0uimet, Tolley and Jones, and
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