ENGLISH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14974, 22 May 1914, Page 10

ENGLISH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP.

SECOND AND THIRD ROUNDS. (By Cabk.—Pros. Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, May _o. TLi« weather was very hot for tho fecond round of the En_-li3h Amateur Golf Champ.onship. Kc-sulu-i: — Graham beat Taylor, 2 up and 1 to play. HcrrreskoS boat Piatt, 4 up and 3 to play] Ball beat Wood, 7 up and 6 to play, Weber boat Car.iale, 7 up and 6 to play. Ayimer beat Pease, 6 ud and 5 to piay THIKD BOUND. Hilton beat Harris, 2 up and 1 to play. Hayward beat Lockwood, 2 up and l" to play. Evanß beat. E. Scott, 3 up and 2 to p!»v. Carr boat Woithington at tho nintoenth hole.

Road beat A. Hambro, 1 up. F. S. Jackson, tho well-known cricketer, beat Ben wick at tho nineteenth hole.

Lockhart beat Whitton, 6 up and I to play Biacirwell beat Walker, 6 up and 4 to p.ay. Graham beat E. Smith, 4 up and 3 to play. The Hon. Michael Scott beat Herreahoff, 1 up. Captain Hambra beat Ball at the nin-> tecnth hole.

Stubbs, of Littlestone, beat Om'met, 2 np. Gillies beat Weaver, 7 up and 6 to p!ay. Tubbs beat Howe, 3 np and 1 to play." Captain Hutchinson beat Aylmor, 3 up and 2 to play. MacFarlane beat W. Hurray, 3 np and 1 to play. Wobor beat Marriott, 2 up. Apporloy beat Ferguson, 4 up and 3 to play, NOTES ON THE PLAY. Stubbs, who has played little competitive golf lately, played an excel.oni ganio to within tho last few holes. Ho de-celopod '"nerves" towards tho close, but steadied at the seventeenth h=lc. Ouimet played olackily, and did not soem to hit hard enough. There was a great ovation as Stubbs scxamb'ed home. Ball and Hanibro kont together all tho way. Ball was 1 up at tho turn, but Hambro squared ct tho fourteenth hole. Lockhact was 4 up at tho turn, and dormy 2, but "VVhitton won tho last 2, squaring. Subsequently, after a halve at the nineteenth hole," he lost the twentieth. The Hon. Michael Scott went out in 36, and turned 8 up. Herrcshoff was i down and 5 to play. Ho won the nest 4, but his approscn to the last hole was- too strong, and Scott hoed out in i, to his opponent* 5, and won. Apperley and Gi'lies had ea?y victories. "Wliitton was easily defeated. His putting was indifferent. Ho was repeatedly as well placed as Lockart, but miascd the short PUttS. ~ , n it. To-morrow Gillies meets Graham. Both are Etiong Xavouritec