The New York herald., 1921-05-23
AMERICAN GOLFERS
OVERWHELM BRITISH
ON HOYLAKE LINKS.
Capture Nine of the Twelve
Matches in international
Preliminaries.
SWEEP In FOURSOMES
Bobby Jones Makes Great
Impression by His Grace,
Power and Ease.
YANKEE PUTTING PRAISED
In Battle of Champions Chick
Evans Is Beaten by Cyril
Tolley 4 and 3.
YANKEE PUTTING PRAISED
BY BERNARD DARWIN.


Special Cable to THn NEW YonK HnnALp.
Copyright, 1881. BY THE New York HERALD.
HoYLAKE, May 21.-The international
golf match here to-day resulted In
a complete triumph for American golf.
We knew how good your big Three"
were, but we thought our team
was stronger and would just pull us
through. We thought we knew more
about foursomes than you did and that
this would help us. We thought that
such defeat was too bad to be true
and that we might yet make up some
leeway in singles, but we lost five out
Of eight singles, SO there is no more
to be said than that your men were
unquestionably. better than ours. and
hope they may have taught US some-
thing, especially about putting.
The contests to-day were prelimi-
nary to the international champion
ship matches which begin on Monday.
Putting was the extreme merit OF
the American team. One and all of
the Americans hit the ball quite true
on CLASSY and difficult green's. 1t was
the story Of Walter Travis at Sand
wich over again, and If there were not
eight Travises. there were eight very
fine putters.
The finest individual efforts Of the
day were the foursome play of Bobby"
Jones and "Chick" Evans against J. c.
L. Jenkins and J. Gordon Simpson in
the morning. and Cyril H. Tolley's vic
tory over Evans In the afternoon.
Jones and Evans were eight holes bet
ter than perfect. Jones holed one putt
Of fve yards for a two. Otherwise
they holed no long puts. but they had
no need to. Every shot was ruled on
the pin and they left themselves moth
ing to do. They were six up at the
eighth and then at last came a mis-
take Chick" missed a short putt for
four at the ninth, and even so they
were out in thirty-four. The Scots
carried Off three holes running and
were three down with seven to play.
Then the Americans reasserted them
selves and won by five and three.
Their score was two under fourB.
Granting that the weather was fine
and still and that Hoylake needs wind
was tremendous golf.
In the afternoon Tolley played al
most as we'll as these had done In the
morning. He began with wonderful
three, and after that he strode along
like an unmistakable conqueror.
Evans played neat, accurate golf. but
IL was not quite big enough golf to re-
sist Tolley In this menacing mood.
Tolley went out In thirty-four and.
never relaxing. won on the fifteenth
green.
c. c. Aylmer and T. ID. Armour
beat DR.. Paul p. Hunter and ]. Wood
Platt and that was the end of our
success. Francis Ouimet overpowered
y. C. l.. Jenkins, our champion OF 1914.
and beat him six and Ave. Ouimet's
playing was very fine, especially his
putting, which was as good as he ever
did at Brookline. His elbows don't
look very pretty. but the way in which
the putter heads passes ever SO
smoothly and true over the line is
really a dream Of golfing beauty.
thought that Jesse Guilford was a
very good putter. We were told that
hts drives were terrific and that he
His drive was long, but It lost as much
as IL gained. His real strength seems
10 me to lie in his delicate touch. He
reminds me of Ted Ray. He is al
most as clumsy a man, with bcauti-
full. subtle touch.
Capt w. G. Fownes and Fred
Wright, Jr.. both played admirable.
steady golf. They we're not enor-
mously brilliant, but they kept the
ball going down the centre. or course.
they avoided all the grosser forms Of
golf'ng vice, and they. too. pu,ted ad-
mirably. I need scarcely say that
your players made a great impression
here, and Bobby" Jones most of all.
The grace. power and case of his game
was dazzling. How well he can play
when he Is very hard pressed has not
yet been seen, but. first OF all. very
few people can push him hard, and.
second, I see no reason to think II
would worry him II anybody did
The two teams ,',ed together with
IL. tot, rfs ut1l~