Evening star., 1938-05-26
YATES ONLY j. s.
GOLFER SURVIVING
Defeats Mcclure, 7 and S in
Rainstorm to Reach
Quarter Finals.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROOM, Scotland, May 26.-Happy,
excitable Charley Yates of Atlanta
today became Americas sole survivor
in the British amateur golf champion
ship as the combination of a wild wind
and rainstorm and some stubborn
domestic opposition drove United
States Champion Johnny Goodman,
Charles Chuck Kocsis of Detroit
and Fred Haas, jr., Of New Orleans
to the sidelines.
S, this morning and followed up with
a 6-and-5 decision over DR.. w. M.
Robb of England, conqueror of De-
Tending Champion Robert Sweeny yes
terday.
Kocsis Goes to Pieces.
But Kocsis, who had whipped Good
man, 3 and 2, in the morning round.
fell apart in the afternoons storm and
was put to rout by local favorite
Johnny Stevenson, a native son, and
S, and Haas was beaten, 2 up, in the
morning by Sam McKinlay, Glasgow
golf writer.
Moving into the quarter finals with
Yates and Stevenson was c. Ross
(Sandy) Somerville, present Canadian
and former United States titleholder,
who picked up one hole on the back
nine to beat R. C. MacGregor, jr., 3
and 2, and H. w. Hattersley of Aus
tralia, whom Somerville will meet to-
morrow.
Goodman's defeat by Kocsis marked
the third time United States Walker
Cup player had been put out by
teammate, for Omaha Johnny elimi-
mated Ray Billows of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, in the second round, and Yates
put out Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati
in a 19-hole f1rst-round encounter.
Yates opponent in tomorrow morn
ing's round of eight will be veteran
Cyril j. H. Tolley, champion in 1920
and 1929, who defeated Sam Roberts
of Britain, and 2.
Stevenson will play Cecil Ewing,
burly Irishman and 1886 British
Walker Cupper, who eliminated Alex
Kyle, member of the 1888 team, and
l. Ewing yesterday disposed Of Francis
Ouimet, American Cup captain.
Ouimet remarked at the end of the
days firing:
This is the worst golf day we've
ever had in this country for the anna
teur championship"
Kocsis Beats Goodman.
Playing magnificently through a
bowling wind and rain storm, Kocsis
defeated Goodman, his Walker Cup
teammate, and 2.
Joining Kocsis in the round of 16
was Somerville. Sandy eliminated
Walter S. Mcleod, Scottish Walker
Cup candidate, up.
Kocsis built up his winning margin
on the first nine holes, as Goodman
continually got into trouble. The De-
troiter, former intercollegiate cham
pion, was out in 36, even par.
Favorites Eliminated.
With Goodman's defeat, the two top
ranking advance favorites were out of
the tournament, both eliminated by
Walker Cup mates. Before Kocsis' VIC
tory over Omaha Johnny, who had
been quoted at 8 to l, Johnny Fischer
of Cincinnati, second choice at 10 to
/, was knocked of in f1rst-round,
extra-hole match by Yates.
Yates, who continued his string Of
remarkable approach shots and kept
putting well despite the miserable
weather conditions, breezed into the
round of 16 with a smashing lands
victory over Mcclure. Yates went out
in "a, two under par.
When the Kocsis- Goodman match
ended on the sixteenth, both were half
drowned. Johnny, who had stripped
off his rubber suit bit by bit, walked
across the green, shook hands with
Kocsis and said mice going, Chuck.
You sure hit them"
In the clubhouse the American
champion had no alibis. He merely
said: II didn't have it, that's all. You
can't win here unless you're hitting
your tee shots and I didn't hit them.
Conditions didn't have anything to
do with It," -
In early fourth-round matches DR..
William Anderson of Britain beat
James E. Dawson of Britain up in 10
holes; Hattersley beat Robert NeiI of
Britain, 2 and l, and MacGregor elm
mated M j. Ryan of Australia. 2 and