The New York herald., 1922-09-07
TOLLEY ENGLAND'S
HOPEAT BROOKLINE
Darwin Expects One Remain
ing Invader to Beat Knep-
per If Right.
BY BERNARD DARWIN.

BY BERNARD DARWIN.
BRooKLIsE COUNTRY CLUB. Mass.
Sept. s.-Another days play at Brook
line has whitfield away the number of
players down to eight and our British
hope, Mr.. Tolley. still srtyiyes. The four
matches for tomorrow are; First. Mr..
Guilford, the champion, against Mr..
Sweetser: second. Mr.. Bobby Jones
against Mr.. McPhail. formerly Boston
caddie and good neat player. but hard
ly heavy metal enough for Mr.. Jones !;
third. Mr.. Chick Evans against Mr..
Godchaux, slashing and powerful
young player from New Orleans fourth,
Mr.. Tolley against Mr.. Knepper.
Mr.. duilford and Mr.. Evans passed
on easily to-day without stagger. Mr.
Evans is playing his iron shots up to
hole incomparably well. There are
many here who can get very near the
hole. but Mr.. Evans gets nearer than
the others and since the course Is not
long and he can afford to be outdriven,
he is terribly dangerous.
Mr.. Sweetser. too got through easily
beating Mr.. w. I. Hunter by and G.
Mr.. Sweetser Is a young gentleman
from Yale who Is capable to win out
right for he Is very straight and very
strong. He is rather restive in temper
ament and does not suffer even moder-
ately bad shots very gladly. but when
all is well with him goes ahead at
an unbeatable pace.
Ouimet Loses sting.
Mr.. Knepper. another young American
hope, played the sternest. steadiest,
straightest kind of golf against Mr..
Oimetf and beat bim fairly and square
ly by and 2. IT was sad to see Mr..
Oimet beaten before in sown folk and
on the scene of his historic triumph, but
/ think they were right who said he
COULD not last. The sting had gone out
OF his game and he was like beautiful
piece of mechanism beginning to run
down.
Mr.. Jones and Mr.. Gardner had a
great match in which the boy beat the
man by 3 and 2. 1t was a right hard
going match. I do not know what the
scores were and what is more, do not
care. This was a match. Mr.. Jones
started very well and was three up at
the eighth. Then Mr.. Gardner won a
hole and then another and another. He
had the very long eleventh In and the
short twelfth in 2. 1t was intensely
thrilling. Soon he was one up with a
glorious 3 at the fifteenth but twice he
took three puts and the match was
square at lunch
The first hole after lunch was halved,
Mr.. Gardner missing a very short putt,
but he won the second easily and for a
moment I thought Mr.. Jones was gone.
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Is at this moment the best in the world,
but ] thought that he was going to be
swept away by the sheer strength and
character and fighting die-hard quail
ties of his opponent. He was not. how
ever, and all credit to him.
Mr. Gardner made slips on the green
which he could not afford. Mr.. Jones
recovered the leisurely rhythm which he
had seemed in danger Of losing. He
got his nose in front once more and
kept itNthere. He was outdriven, but
he did not press and won in the end a
fine victory by 3 and 2,
Now last but never least Mr.. Tolley.
He had a very hard run against Mr..
Aulbach. local public links player who
Is not an engaging golfer. but a very
difficult one to beat and miraculous
holer of puts, even for an American.
ToIIey Erratic with Wood.
Mr.. Tolley had comparatively err
ratio day with his wooden clubs. the
first day he has drivens anything but
straight since he went to the National
Links. He made some great recoveries
and one in particular al the eighth hole,
where he hooked his second into the
woods. He was so deep in that ell one
could see was a black head in the dis
tance embowered in green leaves. Sud
denly there came thunderous crash,
leaves and underground hurtled into the
air and the ball whizzed out OF the
woods to lie dead at the hole. This was
hard on Mr.. Aulbach. but he, on the
other hand. holed some cruelty long
puts and he kept on doing II.
Mr.. Tolley was ] down at lunch, and
though the horrible weather of the after
neon was just made for him, he was stll
l down with eight holes played. He
played the ninth perfectly to get all
square and then at the tenth Mr.. Aul-
bach. who had been previously warned
by the referee, was penalized by him
for an obvious breach of the rules. Mr..
Aulbach played out the hole under pro-
test, but he was shaken and for two
holes could do nothing right. 1t was not
pleasant for Mr.. Tolley, but he took a
firm grip of himself and played on. first
calmly and steadily and ultimately with
overpowering brlliance.
Mr.. Aubach recovered his nerve and
showed great courage. but nothing could
stand against Mr.. Tolley's shots up 10
the pin. One. a long spoon shot from a
lie from a hillside waist high ! shall
never forget. Mr.. Tolley became dormy
4. missed one short putt and finally
txsitad HI. yAn neatly and efficiently on
tie sixteenth green. If he can eliminate
those one or two crooked drives he
should, I think, beat Mr.. Knepper. but It
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