The New York herald., 1922-02-22
BRITISH AMATEURS
IN GOLF INVASION
Tolley and Wethered Plan to
Play in Championship at
BrOokline.
KERR N. PETRIE.

Robert A. Gardner of Hnsdale and
Onwentsia, Chicago, is authority for the
statement that Cyril Tolley and Roger
Wethered will visit these shores for the
purpose of playing in the American
amateur championship at Brooklne,
Mass. next September. Both as an ex-
ecutive of the United States Golf Asso-
citation and the man who fought out the
hectic final with Tolley In the British
amateur championship at Muirfield In
1920 Gardner is about the first who
might be expected to come into posses
sion Of such piece of information, and
the news therefore can be accepted as
authentic.
Thus is the cycle of pending inter
national golf contests for the season
completed. Until Tolley and Wethered
declared themselves 1t was not known
whether this season the colors of John
Bull would be carried by others than
Willie Hunter and Tommy Armour.
Miss Cecil Leitch had stated that she
would return for the women's national
championship. and a whole battalion of
the British professionals, including
Harry Vardon, Ted Ray or James Braid.
]. II. Taylor and Sandy Herd. George
Duncan and Abe Mitchell have been
mentioned in connection with the open
championship which Is to be played at
Skokie. No matter how the profess
sional aspect does eventually work out
ii is certain that Britain will have rep
resentation full and plenty In the oDen.
While contemplating the coming treat
golfers naturally will find the memories
lingering beside events. both here and
abroad, that are now mere history.
First It was the fighting Tolley holing
out his putt for 2 on the thirty seventh
green at Muirfield to hold intact the
prestige of British golf when Gardner
had battered his way to square match
after looking like a hopelessy beaten
man coming down the homestretch on
the second round. Wethered and Tolley
had been sharing the same shaft of
calcium prior to that championship.
Now 1t was Toley who stood forth.
Together the pair came to the United
States. to pass ignomniously out OF the
picture when they failed even to qualify
In the national amateur championship
at North Shore and the Engineers.
Notwithstanding that II wss generally
recognized that the two Oxonians had
been tricked In part by the American
climate and the soil and turf of the
inland courses over which they were
asked TO play they returned to England
under quite a cloud. That was wnere
jolt The splendid achievement and
near victory of Gardner at Muirfield
had pointed It's moral.
When Tolley Wethercd and Lord
Charles Hope, also golfe: Of conse-
quence in British circles. went down and
out. unable to qualify in thirty-two.
flowers for British amateur golf were
ordered forthwith The King was dead
II was in this spirit that the American
tfoTr Ioe
year. 70 receive a setback ,-s complete
as II was unexpected. all the more so
that Il came tumbling in on top of
magnificent American victory In team
match preliminary.
In that forlorn hope stand Of the
Britons there was a rattling Of dry
bones such as the old game rever be-
fore had heard or seen. Tolley i'm the
team match defeated Chick Evans by
4 and 3. and In the championship proper
he eliminated Jesse Guilford In the sec
ond round by and 1. thereby atoning
In large measure for his failure In
America and convincing all that his sue
cess in the British championship at
Muirfied the year before had been no
flash In the pan.
Wethered meanwhile was doing moth
Ing to speak of. save TO get beaten both
In the team match and the first round
Of the title event. However, week or
two later this tall oxford student
amazed the world of golf by his dis
play In the British open championship
at ST. Andrews. where he tied JocK
Hutchison for the crown and found n
necessary to play off only because Of
the worst streak OF luck that ever bese'
mortal man In a golf championship. since
on the last day he had sacrificed the
shot that would have made him monarch
Of all he surveyed in the reaim OF the
cleek by accidentally kicking his ball
an he