CHAMPION BEATEN

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 25, 29 July 1933, Page 6

CHAMPION BEATEN

BY ELDERLY PLAYER

G. D.-Haunay, of the Wokiug Club, a member of tho London Stock. Exchange, and 45 years of age only commenced golf after the. war but previously was a racquets player. His style is rather mechanical and laboured,-, but ho makes few mi-stakes. This is the mail who put out John de Forest, the British amateur title-holder, at tho twentieth hole in the second round at Hoylake.

Do Forest is 20, was runner-up at Westward Uo! two years ago, and won Iho title, at Muirlicld in the following year. Ho is not very steady, however, and played so badly\ that ho was dropped from the. singles in last year's Walker Cup, team,, and,,was guilty of other lapses, but there is no doubt that he possesses courage. Eour down and li-lu play, against Hannay, he won tho next four holes in perfect figures, and, as Hannay appeared to be considerably shaken by tliis unexpected turn of events, it looked as.if'the young champion would save the match after all. A much too ambitious iron shot at the seventeenth-—after a drivo away into the rough—and then a feeble pitch into a bunker put Do Eorest 1. down with the last hole to play. Ho popped up again with a glorious 3 at the eighteenth, a hole of 408 yards, where he played a truly magnificent long mashie shot to within nine feet enf tho flag, and holed the putt. It seemed that. the end had como/when, at the nineteenth, Hannay, in an attempt to cut off the corner with a bra.ssio shot, hit the wall immediately in front of him, but the ball richochcted on to the course, and Hannay, much relieved, put his third shot oil to tho green.' Do Forest hit two fine wooden club shots, but was just a shade short, and in the end waa loft with a putt of five feet for the match. The ball hovered on tho lip of the hole, but declined to drop. In tho twentieth disaster followed disaster for De Forest. He hooked his *rive into the rough, putting his nest into a bunker, and aftSf' o.ther adventures, gave up the hole.