The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-22
dan TOPPING WINS
CLOSE MATCH BY
One HOLE MARGIN
Football Magnate Out in
34-TOlIey Becomes
Gallery Choice
BY HENRY Z. PERCY

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st Anne's-on-the-Sea, England,
May 11.-(UP)-Daniel A. Topping
of Greenwich, Conn.,, millionaire
owner of a Brooklyn professional
football team, played q thrilling
round OF golf today to beat .. G.
Willard of Royal Wimbledon and
gain the third round of the British
amateur championship.
The score was / up.
Ideal weather prevailed. There
was q brilliant sun and only the
suggestion Of a breeze.
The program called for compile
ton Of the Is second-round
matches left over from Tuesday.
and for play OF the entire third
round. Thus the field will be re-
duced to 80 by night.
Champ Meets Youth
Lawson Little of San Francisco.
the defending champion, original
betting favorite, and now an all
but unanimous choice to win, will
meet j. p. Zacharias, q cookbook
ing, slim youngster from the Liver
poor club, In the third round. They
were to tee off at 1:4s p. m. (s:4S
a. M, E.D.T.).
Results of today's play in the
British amateur golf champion
ship:
Second round.
Daniel Topping, Greenwich,
Conn, defeated Ernest c. Willard,
England, UP.
Harvey Shaffer, New York, de-
feated Erl Watson, England, ] up.
Slick Work
Topping played magnificently in
going out in par 81. He missed par
by two strikes at the 461-yard third
hole, but a brace of brides made
up and he was two up a the turn.
His finesse left him on the back
stretch which he carded in 43,
eight past par.
Topping putted like a champion
on the first nine. He ran down
one from so feet on the second
hole, and laid all of his approach
puts dead. His best shot was his
iron on the 1S6-yard NTH which
left him with three-foot putt.
Willard laid down an almost per-
feet stymie, but Topping ran
1t for his deuce.
Topping's trouble started on the
eleventh where he dubbed a chip
shot from the rough, and took S
and was then but two up. He bun
kered his tee shot at the twelfth
and his lead was cut to one hole.
He put his second into bunker on
the 22S-yard, Spar 18th and the
match was square. Millards errors,
costing z, but Topping one up
at the 14th, but Dams bunker Sec
ond shot at the 18th sent the match
back to level. The 18th and 18th
were halved, Topping winning with
q on the home hole after Mil
lard missed a four-foot putt for a
half.
Tolley Popular
One Of the popular choices for
the sems-finals, big Cyril Tolley, of
England defeated Gordon Taylor Of
Montreal. 3 and 2, in the second
round.
Meantime Lindsay Riley, former
ly Of the United States, registered
from the American Country club
Of France, was losing to F. s. Hig-
ham Of st Anne's, 5 and 8.
Another expatriate, Robert
Sweeny, formerly Of New York and
entered from. Princes, moved into
the third round by beating P.W.L.
Risdon of England, A and 8.
Easy Progress
Richard Chapman Of Greenwich,
Conn. who drew a first-round bye,
and who advanced through the Sec
ond round by default Of Bernard
Darwin, who leading w. H. Elkins
Of the Federated Malay Straits, q
up at the turn of their third round
match. Chapman was out in 81
and Elkins in 80.
Elkins, who has a reputation as
a giant-killer, was not on his game
today.
r. s. Higham, st Anne's defeated
Lindsay Riley. America and France,
s and 8.
Rex Hartley, England defeated
II. L. Archibald, England, and 3,
Cyril J. II. Tolley, England de-
feated Gordon Taylor, Montreal,
and 2.
Robert Sweeny, New York and
London defeated p. w. L. Risdon,
England, 4 and 8.