A FINE CONTEST

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 124, 29 May 1922, Page 4

A FINE CONTEST

AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

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- LONDON, 28th May. In the stxth round of the amateur golf champi6nshij> Hunter beat Carter, 1 up; Sdott beat Wethered, 2 \*> and 1 'to play; Holderness beat Hilton, 4 up and 2to play; Oaveh beat MacKehzie-at the tweJity-eecond hole: l In the Bemi-final. Holdemess beat Huflter, 2 up and 1 to play.. Cavon beat Robert Scott,. 1 up. ; In the final Holderness beat Caveh 1 up. . o ■- . ■■•',: Twenty thousand people watched the filial. ' Hendefson, a retired Scottish school insptctor, fell dead on the edge of the sixth.green. ■ ■ ! The, play was of the highest) standard', and Was the " best championship for many yeara, the "result remaining in dotfbt until' the end. Holderness being English and Caven Scotch gave the game an international aspect. Tha spectators were commendably impartial in their applause. Gaven was 1 up* at the ninth hole, and 2 at the twelfth in the first round. Holderness squared at the seventeenth, and won the eighteenth. He was 2 up at the first hole in the second round, won the third, lost the fourth, and squared at the eighth. HoMemees won the ninth and sixteenth, making him 2 up. Oaven won the seventeenth, and halved the eighteenth. ' 'Holderness is 32 years of age, is the son of Sir Thomas HolderneßS, and holds a Government appointment. He played for Oxford University, and now plays for Walton Hejdh. He is on© of i the meet etylish and finished) golfers im England, and is a pupil of James Braid, .but displays no similarity to Braid's gam«. Caven is 29, and i& a bookkeeper in ato engineering works at Paisley. i