New Britain herald., 1924-09-13
AMERICANS HAVE '. SLIGHT ADVANTAGE
U. s. Golfers Lead in Three
 Matches, British Two
THREE CONTESTS ARE EVEN
This Country Needs But Three Vic- tories Out of Today's Twosomes To Keep Walker Cup--Ouimet Is Down In Morning Round.
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 | By The Associated Press. Garden City, N. r., Sept. IS. - American golfers had slight ad. I vantage as the result of the morning rounds of the eight singles in todays Walker cup competition with Brit ish golfers The Americans led in three matches, the British in two and three were even after IS holes had been played in the Ss-hoie matches. The Americans need only three victories to keep the cup. Max R. Marston of Philadelphis and Cyril Tolley were all even after | playing IS holes of their 36 hole match in the Walker cup golf series | today. Chick Evans of Chicago was up after playing IS holes with W. A. Murray. Francis Ouimet of Boston went to lunch two down in his match with E. F. Storey, Cambridge champion.
 Jesse Guilford of Boston and T. A. Torrance were all even after fhe 18th.
 Bobby Jones of Atlanta, and Nfa- | jor Robert O. Hezlet went to lunch all even. Jones at one time was three down. Jess Sweetser of New York former amateur champion caught a tartar in the Hon. Michael Scott, who fin- ished the morning round five up. R. A. Gardner of Chicago was ] up when he finished the morning round with ". L. Hope.
 pr. o. r. Willing of Portland, Ore, finished the morning round two up on D. H. Kile. Tolley Plays Better
 The mighty hitting TolIey putted much better today than he did yes- l terday when his misses of short puts | caused him to lose 8 foursome match. He started with two birdie threes in the first three holes as the result of sinking long puts, and was | even with the American amateur champion at the turn. Marston did the first nine in 3s, one under par. lSyfng two brides as the result of idod butts and chips The only time he went over par was at the ninth when he took three butts. Beth were cratic on the way home Tolley hav- ing two sevens. and each player having a seven on the long seven- | teenth hole. Toliey usually had the longer drive. The cards: 1 Marston--
 Out .... 434 434 545-3s
 Policy
 Out .m. 533 555 544-s7 Marston-
 In ...... 55S 545 57S-42-7S Tolley--
 In ...... 4s4 TIA 47s-4S-sO Jones-Hezlet Match Bobby Jones started erratical1y with two topped drives in the first three holes and was three down after | playing five holes. At the turn he was one down. He usually outdrove the major by ten yards and the ma jor had nothing to approach Bobby's backspin pitch shot. The major put ted better, however, sinking & S0- footer at the home green to halve the hole and keep the match even. Bobby squard the match at the eleventh hole and took the lead for the first and only time at the twelfth cnly to lose 1t at the next hole. The cards:
 Jones'
 Out ...x 5s5 545 544-4o
 Hezet-
 Out :. .ss 4S4 535 s54-Ss
 Jones'
 In ...... AS 645 54s-SS-7s Hezlet-
 In ...... 454 545 45S-Se-7s
 Evans Keeps Advantage.
 Chick Evans won out two holes going out to one for Murray and the Chicago star kept this advan- tage as the round finished as the result of a birdie at the long sev- enteenth. Murray squared the match at the thirteenth. At the home green a 150-yard pitch over water, Evans made an excellent mashie shot to within six feet of the cup and then missed sidehill putt for birdie, This enabled Murray, by virtue of a fine ap- proach putt to naive the hole. The cards:
 Evans
 Out .... 4S4 54s 55S-S9
 Murray
 Out .... s84 446 555-4s
 Eyans-
 In ..... A s45 44s-SS-77 Murray
 In ..... 54S 555 363-Ss-s1
 Swcetser Erratic.
 The Hon. Michael Scott. whose drives nearly equalled those of the amazing Tolley supplemented his tee shots with good irons and butts in his match with Sveetser. who was cratic. A 3S to the turn, one over par, was good enough 10 give Scott lead of two holes. He won thres holes going out to one for sweetser On the way home Sweetser won only one hold, while the Hon. Michael took four The cards:
 Scott
 Out .... A 544 544-Ss
 Swectser-
 Out , 4s6 545 554-4i
 Scott
 In ,., 45g 564 S54-Sa-7F Sweetser-
 In .., 4S5 645 4S4-l2-ss
 Gardner Gets a.
 A 7s by Captain Bob Gardner of the American team was good enough to give him a lead in the morning over Hope. a newcomer in the tcur- nsment, Hope was one-up at the (Continued on Page Eleyeul ii
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