The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-27
1900 SEE MATCH
Atlanta (Ga.) Star Will
Meet Cecil Ewing
Tomorrow
BY THOMAS C. WATSON
international News Service Staff
TnRraSnnniont

correspondents
TROON, Scotland, May q Il.
IN.SD.-In two thrill-garnished per-
formanceS, tow-headed Young
Charlie Yates, walker Cup ace,
of Atlanta, Ga, today eliminated
a pair of former champions of
the event and entered the final
round Of the British Amateur Golf
championship to be played tomor-
row, when he will meet Cecil
Ewing, a Briton. Four thousand
fans lined the fairways.
Yates first blasted Cyril Tolley,
of England, out of the meet in a
forenoon quarter-final by 3 and 2,
then took a ding-dong 19-hole bat
tie from Hector Thomson, another
Briton, in the afternoon, one up.
Meanwhile, Ewing was beating
John Stevenson, fellow-country-
man, by l up and Ross (Sandy)
Somerville, of Canada, by 2 up.
DEFEATS TWO STARS
On a rain-drenched course,
young Yates, of Georgia, gave the
natives something to prattle about
today as he knocked over a pair
of Great Britain'S leading club
Wielders. Tolley was champion in
1920 and again in 1929, while
Thomson held the title in 1886.
Yates started his two rounds IN
the early-morning rainfall by fir
ing an eagle 2 at Tolley with a
Iholed-out, 120foot mashie-niblick
shot on the second hole and went
on from there to a 80 on the first
nine.
Against Thomson, he ran down
a 24-foot putt on the very first hole
and wound up the first nine with
another Subpar card, "a.
UP AT TURN
He reached the turn three-up on
Tolley and held the same margin
over Thomson at similar stage
of their match, but where he put
the former-a 41-year-old veteran
out on the sixteenth, he blew his
lead against Thomson and had to
assemble all his golfing resources
in the stretch to avoid elimination.
Thomson had a one-up lead
going to the eighteenth and
needed only halve to wind up the
match and bring about an all-Eng-
iSh final, but with defeat seem
ingly certain, Yates took that last
hole to square the match and
force it into extra holes. He then
won on the first extra one with
out further ado.
And he did it with a dramatic
and game touch, carding a birdie 8.
INTERNATIONAL BATTLE
Thomson had reached the semi
final by eliminating Leonard Craw-
ley, a fellow Walker Cup team
mate, l up in 20 holes, in their
morning quarter-final, while Som
erville advanced to the next to the
last round with a PUP victory over
H. w. Hattersley, of Australia,
only to fall before Ewing.
Thus, tomorrow it will be an in
ternational battle over the long
route of SO holes, with Yates al
ready established as the favorite
and expected to again establish At
lanta as the British golfing CAPT
tai, as it was during the reign OF
his fellow townSman, Bobby Jones.
With his outgoing "a against
Thomson, and a Sup lead at that
point, Yates added what amounted
in some ways to another spectacu-
lar dash of golf to the game he
has been playing here all along.
SEVEN VICTORIES
In all he has won seven matches
and only two of them were even
close-the one in which he elimi'
mated Johnny Fischer, the Gin
cinnati Walker cup, by 1-up in
10 holes, and the second today,
which ended the same way.
Yates went one up on Thomson
with that long putt on the first,
where he earned his birdie 3,
increased his margin on the sixth
with anothe-c birdie, the result OF
putt of 30-odd feet, and canned
a 10-footer for a birdie 2 on the
eighth.
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