GOLF SENSATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 126, 29 May 1936, Page 9

GOLF SENSATION

. SEVERAL CLOSE CALLS FERRIER WINS AT 19th THE BRITISH AMATEUR [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] LON DUN. May 27. The first sensation of the day in the British amateur champ ionsnip was Tolley’s lapse against the Welshman Roberts. Tolley went out with a majestic 36 and there was then a landslide in Roberts’ favour. Tolley went all to pieces. Roberts, by taking thiee putts at the seventeenth, permitted Tolley to square the match. Tolley niissed a 3ft. putt at the cighteefith but at the nineteenth sank a seven-yarder for the match. A great crowd accompanied Ferrier (Australia) against Braddon, a member of the advertising staff of a London evening newspaper who was essaying his first championship. He plays a beautiful ball and is very accurate in his approach play. Both, went out in 38 and turned all square. Ferrier lost the next three holes, being off the line with his drives, but won the next two through Braddon taking three putts at each green. Ferricr holed a fouryarder at the fifteenth and a threeyarder at the sixteenth, getting halves, and downed a four-yarder at Ihe seventeenth, squaring the match. The eighteenth was halved when Ferrier failed to sink a three-yarder. “Desperate Struggle” Both had magnificent drives at the nineteenth and both had tiiperb seconds to within four yards from the pin. Ferrier had the first putt and laid the ball just on the edge of the hole. Braddon seemed nervous and took three putts of short distances, so that Ferrier won. He was visibly showing signs of strain. He said: “'ll was n desperate struggle, and J was lucky to get through. ” Th.e Scottish champion Hamilton went down to the former Oxford champion Aforrice. The English champion. Bentley, had r very tough fight to beat the Irishman Gill. Fourth Round Surprises The defeat of Jack McLean in the fourth round wa<s most surprising. Sweeney, a London-Amieriean, was 3 up at the eleventh and was then dormic two. McLean won the kut two and halved the nineteenth, but Sweeney won the twentieth. Dr. Twcddel’s defeat was also surprising a.s he has just been chosen as captain of the British Walker Cup team against America. Thomson played brilliantly and was five under 4’s for the sixteen holes. Ferrier gave a magnificent display against Howell, who has tight times been the Welsh v ham pion. The Australian simply overwhelmed the Welshman, driving with enormous length and with his second shots covering the pin. ( Ferrier was out in 34, his figures being 434441434, and turned 5 up. He did the next four holes in 4314. Howell made some slips, occasionally taking three putts, but was devastated by his opponent’s finer golf. ’The golfing writer of The Times says that Ferrier is obviously a most effective. though not a pretty, golfer. Nevertheless, handsome is as handsome does. He played unbeatable golf. Wretched Conditions A howling icy wind from the sea made conditions at St. Andrews utterly wretched for to-day’s play, and every hole played differently. Golfers were wrapped up as if it was mid-winter. It was St. Andrews in its sternest mood, and the conditions obviously meant that many unaccustomed to such severity would be blown out of the championship. Results of the day’s play arc:—

Third Round Graham Smith beat Bryant, 2 up; Cameron beat Yardley, 5 at.d 4; Lyons beat Collins, 1 up; McCallum beat White, 4 and 3; Alurray beat Mitchell, I up; Ewing beat Shepherd, 4 and 3; Wethexed beat Bloomer, 1 and 3; Waterston beat Alorrison. 2 and 1; Chambers beat Illingwortn, 3 and 1; Lindsay beat Stables, 1 up; Budd beat Oppenheimer, 4 and 3; Martin beat AFarshall Moffatt, 6 and 4; Patrick beat Brown, 1 up; Aliddleton beat Erskine, 3 and 2; Arana boat Tipping, 3 and 2; Whittaker beat ATandy, 2 and 1; Scrogg’.e beat Black, 1 up; Gordon beat Simpson Smith, 5 and 4; Jamieson beat Campbell, 3 and 1: AL Master beat Rusk, 3 and 2; Macpherson beat Buckley by a walk-over; Brown beat Prosser, 6 and 5; Thompson beat Brock, 7 and 5; Mitchell beat Brown. 3 and 2; Brodie beat AlcKenzie, 2 and I; Walker beat AlacGregor, 1 up; Ferrier defeated K. Braddon, at the nineteenth; Turnbull beat Shaw, 5 and 3; Rutherford beat Ashworth, 5 and 4; Mackay beat Henriques, 2 and 1; Bentley beat Gill, 1 up; Peters beat Thirsk, 1 ip: Morrice beat Hamilton, 4 and 3; Tolley beat Roberts, 1 up; Kyle beat Davenport. 6 and 5 : Armstrong beat Harrison at the twentieth; Gowland beat Grey .3 and 2; Aitken beat Delaney, 5 and 4; Penning beat I. W. Griffiths, 5 and 4; Prain

beat Sutherland, 5 and 4; Uisdon beat Grant. 6 and 5; Rankin beat Guest, 1 up; Haggard beat Andcrsin, 4 and 2; Holden beat J. A. Griffiths, 4 and .3; Fraser-Lee beat Watson, 4 and 3; Hill beat Bourn, 1 up; Dr. Twcddell beat Stevens, 4 and 2; McLachlan heat Cow- 1 ley, 4 and 3; Anderson beat the Hon. Michael St-ott, 5 and 4; Sweeney beat Lord Hope, 5 and 4 ; AfcLean beat Mackintosh, 4 and 3; Crawley beat Craddock, 2 and 1; Storey beat Roberts-on. •3 and 2; Timmis beat. Wood. 6 and 4; McGloin beat Parkinson, 4 and 3; AleKin lay beat Torrace, 3 and 2; A. R. AleCallum beat Smyth, 3 and 2; Dykes boat Anderson. 1 up; Lyle beat. Hartley, 3 and 1; Williamson beat Harris, 3 and .1: Macdonald beat, Fiddian. 1 up; Clegg beat Todd, 1 up; Howell beat AfcCredie, 1 up. Fourth Round Ferrier beat 11. Howell, 7 and 5; IT. G. AlcCalluni beat Lyon, 2 and J; Ewing beat W. Alurray, 3 and 2; Wcthcred beat Watcrson, 2 and 1; Lindsay beat Chambers, 5 and 4; Turnbull beat Rutherford at the nineteenth; Bentley beat AfcKay, 6 and 5; Peters beat Alorrice, 5 and 4; Tolley boa*, Armstrong, 4 and 2; Aitken beat Gowljnd, 4 and 3; Cameron beat Smith at the twentieth; Martin beat Budd, .3 and 1; Middleton beat Patrick. 5 and 4; Arana beat Whittaker, 2 and 1; S 'roggie beat Simpson, 3 ami 2; Brown beat Macpherson, 2 up; Jamieson beat McMaster, 3 and 2; Thomson beat Alitebell. 3 and 1 2; Walker boat Brodie, 4 and 3; Hili' beat Dr. Tweddell, 4 and 2; Kyle beat • Pennink, 3 and 1; Risdon beat Prain. 4 and 3; Frasor-Lee beat Holder, 2 and 1: Sweeney beat. AfcLean at the twentieth; Timmis heat Alicklem at the nineteenth: McKinlay beat McGloin, 2 and 1 ; Dykes beat A. R. McCallum, 4 and 2; Lyle beat Williamson, 4 and 3; Afacdonald beat Clegg, 6 and 4; Anderson beat McLachlan, 3 and 2; Storey beat Crawley, 1 up; Haggard heat Ran- j kino, 1 up.