COMPSTON'S FAILURE
HAD CHANCE TO WIN
SORRY BREAKDOWN
(Beceived 21st June, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, 20th June.
With Compston leading after a record round at. the end of tho third stage from Jones, the big crowd at -the golf championship became most excited at the prospect of an English victory. Jones, who went out ahead of Compstou, damped the British hopes with a three at tho second hole, which is, 369 yards from the tee. His drive hit a speccator on tho head and rebounded into a bunker, but Jones reached the green with his second, and holed a ■.sixyard putt. Afterwards he required three putts on two greens, and then took seven strokes at the eighth hole,, where he struck trouble at the edge of the green. This is believed to be his first seven in big competitions for some years. Thus the British hopes were raised.
The outward journey took 38, but Jones came home in 37. Wonderful recoveries alternated with poor shots.
Compston should have had '.< great chance of restoring the title to Britain, but the strain of the morning round seemed to have made him tired and limp. He missed putts, sliced and pulled drives, and sometimes his approaches were short and^ometimes too strong. It was a sorr;- breakdown.'Compston went out in 43, and then only a miraclo could save him. This did not happen. His inward journey took 39.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 9
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COMPSTON'S FAILURE
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 9
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