FREAKS IN WALKER CUP

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 974, 17 May 1930, Page 9

FREAKS IN WALKER CUP

ENGLISHMEN OUTCLASSED Eight thousand people at Sandwich, including the Prince of Wales, America win the Walker Cup for the sixth time. America won 10 games to two. It is not an exaggeration to say the invaders quite outclassed the English men, as the results indicate. One match was responsible for an extraordinary happening. Mackenzie’s second shot to the 18th green dropped into the pocket of a spectator and remained on the fringe of it. The spectator stood still, and when the players came up the ball dropped where he stood. The player was not penalised. An unfortunate event marred the Wethered-Jones match. A spectator received the full force of a sliced drive by the Englishman. He fell unconscious, but recovered shortly afterward. The event seemed badly to rattle Wethered, who after that lost six holes running. THREW HOLES AWAY Wethered’s drives seldom round the fairway and he simply threw the holes at Jones, who maintained his characteristic automatic accuracy. Tolley roused hopes in the second round, drawing level at the 21st hole, but Johnston retaliated, taking three holes in succession. Stout had a four-hole lead after the first round. Moe’s victory was the result of a remarkable effort. He was seven down at the 23rd, and then won the next seven. The match was decided by a putt on the last green. Torrance, the only British victor, led five up in the first round and kept ahead.

The singles resulted:—Jones beat Wethered. 9 up and 8 to play; Voight beat Holderness, 10 and 8; Johnston beat Tolley, 5 and 4: Von Elm beat Hartley, 3 and 2; Mackenzie beat Campbell, 6 and 5; Willing beat Smith, 2 and 1; Moe beat Stout, 1 up; Torrance beat Ouimet, 7 and fi.

Torrance scored England's only win in the singles.