Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-21
Our Golf Team
Defeats BritOnS
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away. At the turn Ouimet was q up.
The American was putting well and sci &.
dom missed anything. jenkins was
playing s0undly, but was Distinctly
outmatched by the American.
Ouimet continued TO have the best OF
the game throughout and, playing fine
golf, won by G up and ; to play.
The Jones-De Montmorency match
was good one. They halved the first
two holes in perfect IRIS. The Eng
lishman lost the third through Jones
hitting two terrific shots onto the green
and securing the hole in four, making
him up. from the third hole TO the
ninth the match was fairly close one,
Jones making the turn up. After that
De Montmorcncy did not play any too
well and was beaten by 4 up and 3 to
play.
FOursome Matches
Charles W. Chick Evans and Robert
T. Bobby Jones defeated George O,
Simpson and J. l.. G. jenkins, 8 up
and to play.
Francis Ouimet and Jesse p. Gull
ford defeated Cyril Tolley and e. W.
E. Holderness, 3 up and 2 to play.
DR.. Paul Hunter and J. Wood Platt
defeated K. II. de Montmorency and
Roger Wethered, by I hole.
w. G. Fownes, Jr.. and Frederick J q.
Wright defeated c. G. Aylmer and T.
D. Armour. 4 up and . to play. In
dividual matches will be played this
afternoon.
Evans and Jones played sound golf
and at the turn were 3 up. Although the
British pair made great effort on the
return journey. the Americans won by
5 and 3.
The match between Ouimet and Gull
ford. American stars, and Cyril Tolley
British champion. with Holderness as
his partner, was a much closer affair
Tolley. il not always straight in his
shots. hit a long ball, and Holderncss
was quite steady in his playing.
This with the Americans playing al
the top of their form. made il nip
and-tuck fight from the start, and a,
the turn the game was all square
Eventually. however, the Americans
won rather easily.
In the third match. Montmorency and
Wethered, playing an excellent game
were 2 up on the Americans, Hunter
and Plat, at the ninth hole. After
this. however, the Americans gradually
recovered ground and won the match by
l up.
Evans Sinks Long Putt
In the leading match Jones had the
honor for the Americans and Jenkins
for the British. The Americans scored
| at the frs: hole. Evans running down
long putt for the hole in four, to the
opponents five. The second hole was
halved in four, when Simpsons four
yard putt for a three curled around the
hole
The Americans won the third in four
to six for the Britons. The fourth also
went against the English players in two
TO three, and the Americans became
three up. Bad putting at the fifth lost
the British this hole in four 10 FIVE
and the sixth was halved in fours.
At the seventh jenkins put his tee
shot into the dip az the right of the
green and missed his putt from a yard
distance The Americans won this hole
in three TO four. securing a fve-holt
lead They also won the eighth.
From this point the home pair played
better golf. They won the ninth hole
thus making the Americans five up al
the turn, and also took the tenth ant
eleventh. reducing the British disad
vantage to three.
The Americans won the twelfth. ant
the next two being halvcd, they became
dormie four. Evans won the fifteenth
giving the Americans the match by VI
and 10 play,
Tolley on in Driving
The Ouimct -Guilford w. Tolley
Holderness match was won by tn,
Americans on the homeward journe,
after even play TO the turn. The hom
players began to fall away at this point
losing the tenth. twelfth and thirteenth
holes. They should have won tn
eleventh. but failed on an easy putt.
TOlley had been driving badly am
was bunkered at several holes On tn
sixteenth. with the Americans two up
Ouimet put his second shot into th'
bunker, but Guilford made a magnif
cent recovery to within two yards o
| the pin and Ouimet got the putt 70 VIII
the hole in four to Ave, giving TIL
Americans the match by three up anC
two 20 play.
In the Montmorency- Wethered vs.
Hunter Platt match the former wer'
two up at the third hole. Wetherec
was playing well, but MontmOrenc!
was weak on the green. The Americana
were TWO GOWN ut tH' tuIn' Dut De
cume dormic at the seventeenth afte
some excellent play. The last hole wa
halved and the Americans won by on
hole
The Wright FownPs vs.. Aylmcr Ar
mour match was a somewhat one sidet
affair. Armour played poor golf AM
the Britons were five down az the scv
cnth hole. They won the next fou
hOlcs but lost the twelfth, making tn
pair laid their opponents a stymie a
the thirteenth and got a lucky nalf, bu
the Americans finished four up an
two 10 play.