The New York herald., 1922-05-25
John G. Anderson Sole Amer
lean to Survive in British
Championship.
DIV BERNARp pARMIN.


Special Gable to THE NEw YosK HERALD
Copyright, 1922, by THbxNEw YORK HERALD
PREsTwIcK. Scotland. May 24.-The
only remaining American Is Anderson.
rounds. beating Whigham and Hum.
phreys. V.-h Week won his way through
the second, beating Foster by excellent
putting. but after hard struggle In the
third was defeated by Wilson. 2 and 1.
Everything I'm the play paled. how
ever. before the match between Roger
Wethered and Hodgson Hodgson. an
artisan player from Yorkshire. played
in a very professional style, with pro-
fessiolal neatness and crispness. though
he has not the power of some of the
modern school. Last year at Hoylake he
was responsible for the downfall ot
Ouimet. and to-day for long while II
seemed likely he was TO hang another
giants scalp to his girdle.
He was up at the third. when he
he holed from off the green after Weth-
cred had played two magnificent Ions
shots and had all the best OF the hole.
Wethered squared at the fifth, but
then struck q rather poor patch. ana
With seven TO go was once more Down.
The twelfth is long hole. all IN hid
favor. but Hodgson halved 1t and
good chance was gone. The thirteenth
Is another long one, and here Wethered
did get back by holing beautiful putt.
The fourteenth went the same way. and
FINALLY Hodgson's stock began to fail.
Two breathless halves in four fol.
lowed: and then at the seventeenth
where the mighty Alps have to be car
ried in two, Hodgson topped his second.
Wethered played 1t perfectly In four and
was dormie one.
Wethcred's Great Finish.
The last was intensely dramatic. 1t Is
a hol, made for Wethered. who, with
one of his huge drives. can reach the
green. which hardly anybody else can
do. Sure enough he reached 1t. and the
match seemed as good as over, when
Hodgson, from fifteen yards. holed ous
for three.
Now the circumstances were not so
pleasant. for wethered himself was a
dozen yards or so from the hole. He hit
the ball beautifully, however-perhaps 1t
may have been just little strong-blt
it was dead straight ball and hit the
back of the tin bang in the middle, and
fell in, so he won by two holes. To do
such a crisis, was indeed an achieve
ment.
Hunter had another exercise canter
against Denys Scott, who could do Moth
ing right, but many things wrong, and
lost S and Z.
A really close and good match was
that between Harry Braid, son of the
illustrious James. and Robinson. the
new star from Lancashire, who put out
T1lI nii iu ,af 1o,zr
powerful as Braid--indeed. he isn't very
long at all-but he is eminently sound.
vary sturdy match player and q reliable
putter. II was his short puts that de-
stroyed Braid. just as they have some
times destroyed his famous father.
He missed two or three of them. one
al a particularly crucial moment at the
tenth, just after he had played wonder
fully fine cleek shot right to the pole.
Robinson was dormie three and Braid
made gallant squirt and carried the
sixteenth and seventeenth. but Robinson
kept his head. playing the last hole
steadily in four, and won another capt.
tai victory.
Anderson and Humphreys.
When this was over there came news
of the might battle between Anderson
and Humphreys. The latter was In the
Cambridge University side before the
war. He was a tremendously long
driver and on the whole a very fine
golfer. though sometimes erratic. Since
the war he degenerated till just before
this meeting. when he had begun to play
in his old form.
Anderson won by single hole after
fine golf on both sides. In fact, the
winners score was just about an average
of fours. Anderson seemed certain ia
win on the seventeenth, when dormie
two. and apparently dead at the hole
side. while Humphreys was fifty yards
away. But Humphreys holed out boldly.
while Anderson nodded. and, for once,
missed tiny one. He made no mistake
at the last and got the necessary halt
in four to pass him into the next round.
In the afternoon he had an easier
time with Whigham, winning 3 and 2.
He seems to me to be playing very well.
He is not yet creating an American
terror, but he will. think, tsNe some
beating.
Your correspondent himself was elm
mated in the third round by Manford,
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