New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
crilford Also Passes Out
Of Britis $ In Amateur
Championship Match
on Links at Hoylake
Jones One of Four
U. S. Players Left
Three English Aces Also
Go Down TO Defeat {:
AmericansDis
By Crantland Rice
Snecial Cable 20 The TribMste

Cceyright, 1871, New York Tribune Inc.
LIVERPOOL, Eng, May 24.--Golf
Hll works quaint wonders sounding
ID uueanny depths of mystery. Before
.rsls crowd, arrayed in a riot of color
he United States amateur champion
Charles "Chick" Evans, of Chicago;
as brilliant Francis Ouimet, OF Bos.
.ss. and the slugging Jesse Guilford
,lso Of the Hub, passed out of the
British amateur championship. tourna-
nent to-day, while Bobby Jones, the
a.lanta youth, on his morning round
escaped by the combination OF a
niracle and the utter collapse of his
opponent at the moment when ap-
ayently he had the match won.
While these stalwarts were being
dispersed and cudgeled out OF further
eompettion, Captain Bill Fownes. of
Pittsburgh; Fred Wright. of Boston,
snd DR.. Paul Hunter, from far Los
Angeles, were playing fine golf to re-
main with Jones to uphold the Ameri-
an play.
British Stars Fade, Too
The defeat of Evans and Ouimet was
hard smash to American dreams Of
British conquest along Hoylakc's
incens green, now burnt brown as
Esll paper. But Harold Hilton,
Tommy Armour and other British
stars have faded with them. The first
to 90 was Guilford, the mighty Bos
tor walloper, who went to the way5idc
sad was decapitated by the matchloss
putting blade of the English champion,
Cyrii Tolley. The end came peace
fully on the seventeenth green, wnere
FOLEY sank his final twelve-foot 9utt.
Guilford, in a great match, held a
'as hole lead through the eleventh
iairway, but thereafter began fading
sut Of the picture with both wood and
lon, BY hooking q tee shot, slcing an
kon, or by blowing putt as Tolley
ane steadily forward. Guilford made
sgood, game fight of it, but was un-
aae to Eoid the champions steady
pace and really brilliant putting in
tie pinches.
With Guilford gone. word arrived
nHBohby Jones was down and 5 to
'g against Hamlet. an Indifferent
Filler, who would be ranked as an
ag1t' or ten. handicap man in America
cant hit a shot with any club in
ay bag, remarked Bobby moodily as
aSla butchered the fourteenth, Jones
anne three puts from within eight
lsat Of the cup. This youngster. who
nad me worst round he could remember
Ins last six years on any course.
sgadeniy rallied at the seventeenth.
'asr sasre ne was l down and to play,
SINKING ten-footer to square the
snsteh. and then won out on the final
aole with fine golf.
0uimet Defeated
With Jones barely pulled through.
ne ne big gallery saw Ouimet tackle
onaries Hodgson, an artisan golfer,
sao runs a tobacco shop and who
sands as Yorkshire champion. Hodg-
Mn started slowly, but soon began
maklng eight and ten-foot puts with
Vuimet eight and ten feet short on
every approach putt.
:, H1odgson took the lead at the sixth
s snd won the seventh with a fine 2,
hereafter never being headed. and
msying with rare confidence as Ouimet
@atinued his ragged putting of three
paas I on every other green. At d down
Sa sis. % 70 play, the Boston star rallied
ssa .. me courage, winning the four
zen MMentn' iifteenth and sixteenth holes.
"Is oelng only down and to play.
VII mere Hodgson stopped the charge
In IN superb finish, saving the day
'Hi Stn fine iron shot on the final hole.
sJIsa hst landed close against the pin.
NJ aiter beating Matthews on the sec
U Uho round, Evans fell before the steady
pay OF Captain Fownes. The late aft
,ns ,,a0n found Fownes getting the Jump
srS. srS winning three of the first holes.
~ Uaiek y! struggled vainly to cut down
hsId dOllg gap but Fownes's fine putting
lela him up, and he beat the American
Hampton by one hole.
tionai1ght mPlght and Hunter, playing excep-
noaaliy we'll, won both Of their
joa"As jLa'caes, moving into the fourth round.
'S' aIter playing poor golf against
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