DAVE COLLINS BEATEN IN THE BRITISH AMATEUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 120, 24 May 1939, Page 19

DAVE COLLINS BEATEN IN THE BRITISH AMATEUR.

Independent Cable Service. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, May 23. The New Zealand competitor in the Briti.-h anrurtrttr «olf championship. D. C. I'uliins, was defeated in the second round 3 and 2 by W. M. Robb. He played well, but was one down at the turn. Then there was an exchange of wins and loeses, but when Robb took the fourteenth with a hirilie four he wan two up again. Robb also won the- fifteenth, when Collins was bunkered, and the game finished at the next with a half. The Irish champion, James Bruen, defeated L. Crawley 4 and 2. C Yntee. America, the title-holder, defeated J). Cameron 2 and 1, and Hector Thompson, winner in 1936, beat A. ilcNuirn 2 and 1. The entry of 167 is the smallest since IK."), when'l3l players competed at Westward Ho! Only four time* since 1914 has the entry dropped below 200. There is, however, quality about the entry, for most of the beet-known British. players, including the four "Home" champions, are entered, says an English, critic. The overseas challenge do«e not appear to be formidable, and Charles Yatee, last year's winner for America, must ibe iegarded ae the chief stumbling-block to the British effort to regain the title.