GOLF

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21175, 28 May 1934, Page 17

GOLF

♦ / LITTLE BEATS WALLACE MAGNIFICENT GOLF BRITISH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP (OXITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—EI BLECTBIC TELEGRAPH—COPYBIQI3T.) (Received May 27, 8.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 26. In the final of the British amateur golf championship W. Lawson Little (U.S.A.) beat J. Wallace 14 up and 13 to play. Little's margin was unprecedented in the championship. He played really wonderful golf, and was 10 under fours for the 23 holes. "What could I do against that?" ruefully asked Wallace. Little was 12 up at the end of the morning round and went further ahead in the afternoon, the match ending at the twenty-third hole with Wallace beaten 14 up and 13 to play. "All Little's shots were sure as death. He played petrifying golf," writes the golfing correspondent of the "Star." "Examples of Little's phenomenal performance were seen when he hit two immense shots to the Cardinal green, which is 505 yards from the tee. He holed a putt for an eagle three, one of the very few three recorded for this hole. His tremendous hitting and wonderful putting demoralised Wallace. When the Scot played a good shot the American played an infinitely better one. Wallace lost his stance, could not drive, and was repeatedly bunkered. He cracked so badly that he missed a yard putt, losing the twelfth hole in the morning round, when Little was bunkered." Thousands came hoping for a Scottish victory. Extra police were employed. Little broke not only all records for the course and the championship, but also for a golf championship anywhere. Perfect, windless summer weather favoured play, but no external factor could possibly minimise the brilliance of his performance, which recalled Bobby Jones at his best. He was six up at the turn and 12 up at the end of the first round. He won two of the five holes played in the second round and ended the one-sided encounter. Although he had three new putters, he used an old one. Course Record Broken He took only 36 putts for the 23 holes. Little's score, 65, in the morning, was three strokes better than the previous record for the course, hold by Macdonald-Smith. He was in only one bunker and never looked like making a mistake. Wallace made nearly every mistake possible. The scores were:— Little— Out: 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 5, 4, 4—33 In: 4, 3, 5, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3—33 Total .. 6G Wallace — Out: 5, 3, 5, U, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5—41 In: 5. 4, 6, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3—:'9 Total .. 80 Afternoon's Play Little: 3, 3, 4, 3, 3—lG Wallace: 4, 3. 4, 4, 3—lß Total strokes played: Little .. .. ..82 Wallace .. . . . . 08 Little caught the liner Laconia which was waiting at Liverpool, taking the cup. He was cheered by a crowd of 12,000. The Semi-Fina!s Extra police were present and barricades were erected on various parts of the course to control the crowds yestorir-y, but there were long delays while spectators were cleared from the fairways. The sixth round matches resulted as expected, but the semi-finals provided some thrilling play, "Wallace reaching the final by defeating the American amateur champion Dunlap. Earlier in the week nobody dreamed of reckoning Wallace as a finalist, but on his way there he beat five 103-1 Walker Cup players, namely, Tolley, H. Chandler Egan, and Dunlap (U.S.A.), and Eric Fiddian, and J. McLean (Great Britain). The match yesterday was followed by 10,000 spectators. Outward Dunlap was the better putter, and he turned one up in 35 to Wallace's 3G. Homeward Wallace putted extraordinarily well. He led for the first tune at the fourteenth, halved the fifteenth and sixteenth, and then holed from seven yards for a glorious victory. He finished in three under fours. His total for 17 holes was 65. Little and Garnett had a keen fight, both driving terrific lengths. They turned all-square in 37 each. Little was one up at the seventeenth, and the excitement was intense as Garnett won the eighteenth after a brilliant recovery from a deep bunker. He took the hole by sinking a 10-yard putt, but the strain told at the nineteenth, where Garnett took three putts. Wallace's Ambition Wallace told the "Daily Mail": "I cannot afford to travel to play in competitions. I have waited, banking everything on the day when the amateur championship would come to Prestwick. It is now or never. "I had to give up a week's casual work in order to compete. I have nevei had a golf lesson." Dunlap said, "Wallace s gclf ,y ,ras some of the greatest I have seen. SIXTH ROUND Wallace beat F. Francis, 3 and 2. Little beat I. A. Bourn, 4 and 2. G. T. Dunlap (U.SiA.) beat A. Walker, 3 ?nd 1. L. G. Garnett beat J. Ncal, 2 up. SEMI-FINALS Wallace beat Dunlap, 2 and 1. Little beat Garnett, at the nineteenth. QUEENSLAND FOURSOME CHAMPIONSHIP (UNITED PUESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELKCTKIC TELEGRAPH" -COPYRIGHT.) (Received May 27, 8.20 p.m.) BRISBANE, May 26. The Queensland foursome championship was won by J. Ferrier and T. Healy with a total of 158.