UNHERALDED OUTSIDER

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 102, 21 July 1927, Page 9

UNHERALDED OUTSIDER

CREATES A SENSATION IN BRITISH AMATEUR There were quite a number of Americans in the British amateur championship at Hoylake last month, but none of them were in the Jones-Von Elm-Sweetser class and most of them were quickly disposed of. One of them, however, made something of a sensation before his defeat was effected. This was Edwin H. Haley, a tall New York youth who entered "just for fun,” won his matches in the first and second rounds and in the third round defeated Cyril Tolley.

Tolley was two up on the American at the ninth, but Haley stuck at it, and when Tolley, slogging as usual, got a bit wild on the homeward journey, Haley picked up three holes one after the other, and when he was one up halved the remainder. When asked about his golf Haley did not pretend to know anything about the game and had nothing to tell the reporters when they interviewed him after his defeat of Tolley. "I may have seemed confident,” he said, “but honestly, I have never been so scared in my life as when hemmed in by that crowd around the last green. I had to sink a four-footer for a half to beat Tolley and there were at least five holes dancing around in the grass before me. I was lucky enough to pick the right one ” STIRRED THINGS UP Haley got through the fourth round by beating Major S. K. Thornburn 3 and T, but succumbed in the fifth to Dr. H. D. Gillies, a brother to H. T. Gillies, of the Hamilton Club, who just beat him with a 4 to a 5 on the last green, where they had 3,000 people round them. Mr. Haley stirred things up considerably at Hoylake, but when his run was stopped he quietly returned to the Technical College, in London, in which he is a student.