FIDDIAN'S DEFEAT
Erie Fiddian 's : overthrow in tho British1- Amateur .was ■. encompassed by Ivor TKomas, of Formby,- a left-handed player and an Oxford Blue of a dozen years ago.' 'jhere.isl no sort of disgrace attached. Ito-; Fiddian's defeat, for his opponent: 'played brilliantly. Thomns was out in. 33 against a par of 37 and 4 up, having holed a mashie shot of about 75 yards for a 2 at the second. Though this piece of fortune helped considerably,' Thomas played whirlwind golf for eleven holes. Then Fiddian launchod a counter-attack, winning the twelfth and thirteenth to be only 2 down. Try as he would, Fiddian could make, no further, headway, the end coming at the seventeenth, where he ■drove into a bunker and eventually abandoned the hole. The man who was .runner-up last year ■ was thug beaten 3 and 1 in his first match,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 6
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144FIDDIAN'S DEFEAT Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 6
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