The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-20
When DR.. Willing Defeats
Murray, Victory Of Invaders
Is Cinched
By FRED j. WRIGHT, JR.
Member of the American Walker Cup
Team

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, May 10
The Walker cup contest here proved
!. great victory after all. 1t seemed
to have been lost when we faced the
necessity of winning six of our indi-
vidual matches Saturday. The Amer
leans did the next best thing when
they won five of the matches and
halved the other. thus giving us
bare half point win.
The outlook a t the close Of the
morning round seemerd very, very
black. The Britishers, playing in,
their finest form, were leading in five
of the matches at the end of the first
is holes. Only Gardner Heron and
Willing were able to boast of being
square at the turn with prospects of
victory when they went Into the aft
ernoon play.
However, the afternoon IS holes
told a different story. Only Tolley
and Wilson were able to pursue their
advantages and notch up victories
for England. Ouimet and Rotan
staged marvellous GOMEZ backs.
Rotan, who at one time was six
down in his match with w. w. Mac
kenzie, finally pulled out with SUI
perb golf, beating his opponent six
up and four to play. No less spec
tacular was the come back of the
lion hearted Ouimet. Coming up to
the sixteenth tee he was two down
and three to go, usually hopeless
handicap, but. by holing the long puts
for which he is famous when hard
pressed he notched a birdie three on
the sixteenth and naother birdie four
on the seventeenth greens, and his
three on the eighteenth enabled him
to square a match which had APP
peared to be lost.
I, myself, was very lucky to win
from Holderness, being, like Ouimet.
two down at the end of the fifteenth
hole, with but three to go. However,
my four on sixteen, four on seventeen
and a sfX-foot putt. which netted me
Il three on eighteen, enabled me to
pull ont one up.
Score Evcned.
My win brought the American
score to five and a half against four
and half for the Britishers but our
rosy hopes fell when Wilson came IN
one up on Dave Heron, leveling the
score.
This left excitement over the last
match intensely keen. One of the
players had to win for the honor of
his side. Having the match would
have been no good.
Willing rose to the occasion. al
though the issue was fought out to
the very end. Playing against w. A.
Murray, the Portland star had a
battle royal on his hands throughout
and finished the fifteenth hole of the
second round all square with three
to play.
Huge Crowd Follows Match.
e. huge crowd. which now had
drawn about the players. watched
bre athlessly as they drove off on the
sixteenth. Willing played as calmly
as If it was an unimportant practice
n a
of the series. His third stroke on the
sixteenth founu him two yards from
the hole. but he clipperd the ball into
the cup easily for a par four while
Murray, playing dogSedly, was able
to get only five
Tee-ing off the seventeenth, the
play of the two was much the same
as that of the previous hole. MUIR
ray was unable to. hold the Oregon
ian who, with his one hole lead,
coupled with his superb calm. was
negotiating his shots like a master.
Again willing was left with six
foot putt for a par four to win, which
he did perfectly, winning the match
two up and one to play, retaining the
Walker cup for America by a point
score of six and one half to five and
one half.
Fortunate weather conditions ia
vored the Americans. There was not
mCcn WlnQ ana IL WAS comfortably
warm great crowds-estimated at
six thouand-followe the game and
were wildly enthusiastic.
o O O
Tolley's Great Putting.
The feature of the mornings play
was Cyril Tolley's startling putting
against Sweetser. Tolley took the
first and third holes in three after
holding ID and 22 yard butts respec-
lively in dazzling style. Tol1ey was
four up at the fourteenth, but
Sweetser played up brilliantly and
actually finished the morning round
only one down.
In the afternoon. however, Sweet
ser was very much off color. Tolley
was seven up at the end of the first
nine in the afternoon play ana
though Sweetser. through a great
recovery. reduced his margin of dis
advantage materially, his come back
came too late and he lost three UP
and one to play.
Marston. after splendid morning
round, suffered a surprising rever-