New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-06


| Cyril Tolley and Lord Charles Hope
| visited this country and participated
| in the national amateur tournament
held at the Engineers Club at Roslyn,
l.. /. Last year team of students
| from Oxford and Cambridge universe
! ties journeyed to this country and com
| peted in the intercollegiate champion
| ship meet at the Greenwich Country
Club. But this is the first official team
of amateur players chosen by the Royal
| and Ancient Club ever to be sent tc
America.
! Nine men make up the British team.
They are Robert Harris, Roger Weth'
| cred, Cyril j. II. Tolley and Bernard
Darwin, of the Royal and Ancient Club;
W. B.. Torrance, Edinburgh Burgess;
c. " L. Hooman, Burnham and Borrow;
Colin c. Aylmer, Ranelagh; John
| Caven, Cochrane Castle; W. B. Willis
! Mackenzie, Mortonhall. These golfers
are coming to the States primarily and
principally for the international con-
test, but of course they all will play
| in the national amateur champi onship
at Brookline on September 4, just as the
American team members played in the
| British championship last year follow
| ing their team match.
Trophy for Annual Match
Although there will undoubtedly be
more interest in the showing of the
visitors in our national championship
than in the team contest, nevertheless
the match itself is of great importance,
1t is hoped, in fact, that in due time
these matches will have as much signif
cance and Importance as the Davis
| Cup matches in tennis George H.
| Walker of ST. Louis, former presi~
| dent of the United States Golf AS
ISOLATION, has donated a handsome, sill
yer trophy with the hope that inter
national golf matches between United
States and Great Britain will be hence
| forth an annual feature of the golf
calendar.
Despite the absence of c. W. E.
| Holderness, the present British anna
teur champion; Willie Hunted, ex-title
holder, and Captain Carter, the team
representative Of the best of Great
Britain's amateur players. Holder
ness, it is presumed, was unable to
make the trip because of pressure of
business. His absence will be felt
keenly. Neither Hunter nor Carter
was named for a place on the team,
although both played in the amateur
champ onship with the sanction of the
Royal and Ancient Club.
Hope were here two years ago. to the
great CONSERVATION of all British golf
ers and to the surprise of Americans
each failed even to qualify for the ma
tional title, At that time Tolley was
holder of the British amateur cham
pionship. However, it is a foregone
conclusion that nothing like that will
I happen this year. In fact, it is expected
that Wethered in particular and Tolley
and Caven, aided and abetted by Willie
Hunter, will give US great concern be-
4 fore the meeting is ended. Hunters
| playing a lone hand at st. Louis last
year created quite a stir.
Wethered, it is reported, has i'm
proved greatly since his last visit to
the States. Indeed ne must have i'm
proved to have done so we'll as he did
in the British open championship last
spring, when Jock Hutchinson beat him
in the play-off of the tie for first place.
Only an accident prevented him from
winning that tournament, for unknow-
ingly he stepped on his ball and suf-
fered penalty stroke.
Better At Medal Play
Wethered has already proved that he
is better medal player than match
player. However, that does not neces-
sarily mean that he is not dangerous
at the latter kind of game. This Brit
ish youth has all kinds of possibilities
with his tremendous driving powers
He rivals our own amateur champi on,
Jesse Guilford, in this respect, and it
will be interesting to compare the long
hitting game of this pair when they
meet.
Wethered has improved his game in