EXCITING GOLF

Southland Times, Issue 21096, 30 May 1930, Page 7

EXCITING GOLF

JONES DEFEATS TOLLEY

REMARKABLE SCENES AT ST. ANDREW’S

CROWD OUT OF CONTROL

(United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, May 28.

The most amazing scenes ever witnessed on any British golf course occurred at St. Andrew’s when a huge crowd, anxious to see the match between Cyril . Tolley (Britain) and Bobby Jones (America) in the fourth round of the British Amateur Championship, became ungovernable and the play frequently bordered on the grotesque. The trouble began at the third hole. Hundreds flocked from other parts of the course and the luckless competitors at the other holes found their balls trodden into the turf. ■ Jones at the fourth hole hit one of the 10,000 spectators. The match took a chequered course to the turn, first Tolley and then Jones taking the lead. ' Thereafter the crowd was quite unmanageable despite the efforts of a great army of stewards, and one player or the other hit a spectator at almost every hole. The match was square at the eighteenth where there were now' 15,000 onlookers, and the players rested while the stewards got the crowd to be orderly. . The end came dramatically. Tolley hit the spectators near the green, but “chipped” to within a yard of the hole, setting Jones a half stymie. Jones failed with his putt, but gave Tolley a dead stymie. Tolley failed to lift the ball into the hole and Jones holed a foot putt for the match. In the first round Patrick (Stirling) beat Campbell (Christchurch) one up.