GOLF

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 12263, 26 May 1934, Page 6

GOLF

BRITISH TITLE. AfcLFAN BEATS GUILDFORD. fU.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, May 24. Tiio Princo of Wales, who is cap, fain, of the Prestwick Golf Club', visited the links and was enthusiastically cheered. bv a. .largo crowd i Vi spectators. Interest to-day centred l in the four Americans left in the Inst' 32, three of whom won their matches. In the fourth round Goodman defeated H. G. McG'allum, at the ninetenth ; J. Wallace defeated Ei'ic Fiddian, 3 and 2; S. T. Matthews defeated I. Thomas, 2 and I; Little defeated L, /O. Munn, 3 and 2; Dunlap defeated Wethered, one up. In the fifth round. L. G. Garnett defeated Goodman, 3 and 1; A. Walker defeated Matthews, 2 and 2; Dunlap defeated Walker, 4 and 3 ; Francis defeated A. G. Pearson, f: and 3..

The Scottish, youth. McLean, became a national hero and the chief British hope for the title. The veteran American, Guildford, took an early lead, and was one up at the turn, but on the homeward journey, McLean, .playing superbly, dominated the match. He took four holes In succession, land won comfortably, having holed in 62 io Guildford’s 66.

Dunlap accounted for Wethered in a poor game.

Goodman scraped into the last 16 after being dormie two.

Little won again, and! Wallace Troom, the artisan, continued his •slaying of the famous, beating Fidel ia|n.

DISGRACEFUL SCENES GLASGOW YOUNGSTER GETS ROUGH SPIN (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received! May 25, .5.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 25.

The Daily Mail says: “There were disgraceful incidents when 10,000 men and women did everything possible to prevent McLean from defeating Wallace. They crowded around McLean, until it was impossible for him to swing a club. They pushed him hither and thither, and cheered when he missed a putt or was bunkered. Yet this was the Glasgow youngster whom they applauded when, he defeated Guilford in the morning. McLean’s ordeatl was worst over the- last four holes, when he was one down after being two up. McLean, white-faced, fruitlessly appealed to the stewards and referee for a chance. Even Wallace’s request for fair play was ignored. Wallace, who is aged thirty, is an unemployed! shipwright, working in sawmills. He hopes to be sufficiently successful to get a professional job. He plays Francis, the millionaire ex-Guardsman,, to-mor-row..

UcLEAX DEFEATED IN FIFTH ROUND. UNMANNERLY BARRACKING CONTRIBUTED TO DEFEAT. LAST EIGHT IN .SIGHT. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright! LONDON, May 25. In the golf championship, in the fifth round, Wallace defeated AleLean, one up; Little defeated G. E. Peters, 4- and 3; T. A. Bourn defeated Twoddell, 2 and 1; J. Neal defeated A. McClure, one up. The winners in the fifth round constitute the last eight.

We the red was one up on Dunlap at the fourteenth. He lost the next two. when his nerve failed, but halved the seventeenth. Taking three putts from 6yds., he failed in a yard putt at the eighteenth.

McCallum was dormie two against Goodman, hut he lost the seventeenth and missed the winning putt at the eighteenth. Goodman’s luck deserted him in the fifth round against Leslie Garnett, an unknown youngster of 23 years, who often outdrove the American by 60 yards, and holed a 20-yard putt for victory.