Evening star., 1939-05-26
Kyle Defeats Holt,
Last American
In British Amateur
Duncan Beots Stowe
To Meet Scotsman in
Final Round
Bv the Associated Press.


HOYLAKE, England, May 26.-
Alex Kyle, Scottish cloth designer.
today eliminated Bill Holt of Syra-
cuse in the semi-final round of the
British amateur golf championship.
Anthony Duncan, Welsh cham
pion who eliminated Americas Dick
Chapman in the morning round.
was one up on Charlie Stowe.
miner, at the halfway mark of the
other semi-final match. Ducan went
on to whip Stowe, 3 and 2, and
gain the final round.
Kyle knocked Hollis ball into the
cup for a four at the first to send
the American off in front in their
sem-nnal match. Both were on
the green in two, Holt 40 feet away
and Kyle 20 feet Holt ran four
1eet past and missed coming back.
Kyle then putted past the cup, laid
himself a half stymie and knocked
Holts pail In trying to putt around 1t.
Kyle squared the match with a
4 at the second when Bill hooked
his drive into the rough and hit his
second into the sand. Holt seemed
TO be little upset by the large
gallery which lined the fairways and
he hooked his drive out of bounds
at the third to go l down. Both hit
perfect tee shots to the short fourth,
Kyle Is feet from the cup and Holt
IL feet away. After Kyle slid his
putt past the cup, Bill rammed his
down to square the match again.
Bad Break at Fifth.
Holt, ambling along slowly, got a
bad break at the fifth, where his
18-foot putt, around a half-stymie,
ducked into the hole then rolled all
the way around and stopped on the
front edge.
Big Bill jumped all the way
around himself when the ball came
out. but he marched over to the
sixth tee, got a perfect 4 there, to
tie the hole, and then went ahead
again at the seventh, where he
chipped to the lip of the cup, while
Kyle hooked his drive into the deep
soft sand and took 4.
Holt, who in the broiling sun was
having trouble with his grip slipping,
hooked his drive at the eighth and
was still in the rough after his sec
ond. Meanwhile, Kyle hit beauti-
full chip out of the rough and canned
5-footer for birdie to square the
match.
But at the ninth Holt jumped up
again. Both drove badly, Holt get
ting another quick hook into the
rough and Kyle slicing into a pit
However, the American hit full
niblick on his third Is inches past
the cup and sank it for a par as
Kyle went l over regulation figures.
Holt: Out 456 244 354-37
Kyle: Out 544 344 445-37
Troubled by Hook.
The game turned against Holt
starting home.
Still troubled by quick hook off
the tee. he put himself in a hole at
all-square again. After Tipping the
cup for deuce at the 11th he went
one down on the 18th when Kyle
struck a beautiful 18-foot side hill
putt which hung momentarily on
the lip Of the cup and then disap-
peared.
Holt missed an opportunity at the
short 18th, where Kyle, driving first,
hooked a No. iron shot into the
sandpit. Holt, after changing clubs
twice, followed him into the bunker.
They halved the hole in fours, and
the American went to the long 14th
still one down.
The Briton took a two-hole lead
at the long 14th, where he holed
a 6footer for birdie four. Then
he canned a 25-footer to tie Hollis
fine four at the 18th to remain two
up going into the last three holes.