Evening star., 1933-06-22
SANDY SOMERv|L[E
|: BEATEN BY DUNLAP
New Yorker Eliminates Cana
dian Holder of Ameri-
can Title.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
HoYLAKE, England. June az
George T. Dunlap, jr, of New York,
today eliminated c. Ross (Sandy1
Canadian holder of the
United States amateur golf title. in
the sixth round of the British amateur
golf championship. and /.
The victory Of the slim young Amer
ican. twice holder of the intercollegiate
title while a student at Princeton, put
him into the quarter-final round of the
championship.
1t was his second triumph of the
day. In the morning round he defeated
Lister Hartley. British Walker Cup star,
D and 4, in an uphill struggle.
Somerville eliminated Edward p. Kyle
of Scotland, 3 and 2. Kyle had de-
feated the young Scottish hope, Jack
Mclean, yesterday, l up.
Dunlap did not play the same spec
tacular game against Somerville that
he did in defeating Hartley, where on
one stretch of seven holes he needed
only % strokes, but he had enough
to win.
After dropping the first two holes.
George won four straight to take a
lead of two holes. and was never be-
hind again, ending the match on the
seventeenth green.
Gallery Exceeds 5000.
gallery of 1000 to 1000 persons
stampeded after Dunlap and Somerville.
Sandy won the first hole with
par and repeated on the second as
Dunlap sliced out of bounds from the
first tee and fluffed his iron shot into
a bunker at the second
George played an iron within three
feet Of the pin on the third to take the
hole as Somerville pulled his drive
badly.
Somerville's tee shot found bunker
at the fourth and he then overran the
green and pitched back short as Dunlap
got his par to level the match.
Somerville topped his tee shot at the
fifth to give Dunlap the hole and the
American went up at the sixth as Sandy
went out Of bounds. The seventh was
halved in par IS, Dunlap sinking a
three ee-yarder and remaining up.
Somerville hit two fine shots to the
eighth green to reduce Dunlap's margin
to l up and they halved the ninth.
George was in a bunker on the eighth,
but retrieved his error on the ninth
green as he sank putt from five yards
away to get his half.
Both Play StymieA
Three puts on the tenth cost Somer,
vile the hole and Dunlap again was
2 up. On the next hole George pulled
his tee shot into the sandhills, but cam4
out with a fine recovery to lay Sandy
a dead stymie The Canadian on the
next hole laid his ball In front OF
Dunlaps and when George attempted
to roll his ball around Somerville's,
knocked it into the cup to give Sandy
the hole and cut Georges margin to
up.
The next two holes were halved and
Somerville took the fifteenth to square
the match with three holes to 60.
Both were on the sixteenth green in
3, but Somerville laid Dunlap q dead
stymie. Recollecting his misfortune at
the twelfth, George lofted his ball over
Somerville's and into the cup to take
the hole and again lead.
The end was sensational. Somerville
pulling his second and sending his
recovery to one side of the green. On
in 2, Dunlap sank six-yarder to take
the hole and the match.
All square at the turn with Hartley,
Dunlap won FIVE successive holes from
fourteenth green.
The young New Yorker scored brides
on the tenth and thirteenth and
matched par on the eleventh, twelfth
and fourteenth in the finest exhibition
Of golf he yet has uncovered in this
Against that kind Of play
Hartley was helpless, especially as his
own game collapsed after the turn. He
took % strokes on the last five holes
where orthodox figures are 10.
Drives Ont NJ R0unda
Dunlap was nervous at the start,
going out Of bounds on the first hole,
which was halved in S. The American
q stymie. Hartley won the fourth with
q par to square the match and then
captured the next two, on which Dun
lap slipped over par with IS. Dunlap
played good chip shot to win the
seventh and holed his run-up putt from
the edge of the green to win the eighth
and square the match.
Somerville piled up a lead of up
in the first II holes of his match with
Kyle, but then had to fight off spir-
tied closing challenge by the Scotsman.
Kyle won the twelfth, fourteenth and
with pars to cut Somerville's
lead to up, but the United States
champion ended the match on the six
teenth green when Kyle needed six.
Gets q Flying Start.
The massive Scotsman got away to
a flying start winning the first two
holes in fours. Kyle twice was out of
bounds from the third tee and Somer-
vile won the hole with five and then
squared 1t at the short fourth, where
Kyle failed to find the green from the
tee. The Canadian then marched into
the lead by winning the fifth when Kyle
sliced his drive.
The next two holes were halved, but
Somerville began streak of steady
golf that won him four holes in a
row and earned him the five-hole lead
he later was to need SO badly.
Dunlap reeled off brilliant patch
OF golf once he conquered his early
nervousness. He played the seven
holes from the seventh to the thir-
teenth, inclusive, in % strokes. When
Bobby Jones set up the amateur record
OF 70 for the Hoylake layout in the
British Open Of 1880 he played these
same seven holes in IS. In the same
tournament Archie Compston of Eng
land set the professional record of 68
and had ~ for the holes Dunlap
played in the same number this
Wethered Eliminated.
Roger Wethered, title holder In 1923,
was eliminated by another former
champion, william Tweddell, up in
10 holes, in the fifth round. Tweddel
won the title in 1927
Jack Nash, Somerville's club mate
rom London, Ontario, scored q fine
tctory over Rex Hartley, British Wall
1er Cup player, l up in 10 holes, to
ADVANCE to the sixth round.
A Scotch terrier added some merri,
nent to the Dunlap Hartley encounter
IS he grabbed Dunlap's ball near the
.welfth green and made of. with
George, Hartley and the caddies in
lose pursuit.
Scrambling around through the
'ough, the dog evaded his pursuers,
aut finally tired Df tha and