At St. Andrews

Under the shadow of a grey city, beside a strip of sea, stretches the golf course of St. Andrews, Scotland. Gulls fly over it, hills rise out of it, fairways cut cool lanes through its yellow furze. And at St. Andrews, last week, a U. S. golf team defeated an English golf team for the. Walker Cup./-

The spectators who crowded the hills and stood ranked along the fairways had reason to envy the blown gulls. Those on the ground could see very little; they knew even less about the progress of the matches than the wet sharpers at Epsom Downs knew about the Derby. Lucky were those who stood around the huge 13th green (the biggest golf green in the world) when Watts Gunn and Bobby Jones were playing Cyril Tolley and A. Jamieson Jr. On that green, young Gunn holed a putt that measured 44 feet. Another important green in the foursome play was the second, where Holderness and Wethered made a pair of recoveries from bad lies and got confidence enough therefrom to beat Francis Ouimet and Jesse Guilford of America, 4 up and 3 to go. But they were the only Britishers to win a foursome, and the Americans went out to play the singles with a two point lead. Then:

Jess Sweetser beat Sir Ernest Holderness. Both played perfect golf in the first round, both tired badly toward the end. Sweetser, the younger, tired least, ran out the match 4 and 3.

Bobby Jones beat Cyril Tolley. Jones tried for birdies; Tolley tried for fives, took sixes and sevens; Jones drove like a matchless machine, geared to hit the ball 270 yards; Tolley hooked, sliced, topped, drove out of bounds into a lumber yard on the second hole, picked up four times, won only a single hole, lost by the incredible score of 12 down and 11 to go.

Watts Gunn beat W. G. Brownlow. Brownlow was obviously stale, almost as stale as Tolley. Gunn, keen as mustard, won hole after hole, finished 9 up.

Arthur Jamieson's unflinching Putter beat Robert Gardner. The U. S. team captain sliced and hacked erratically, while Jamieson's upright playing adequately justified his inclusion on the British team. Especially shaky was Captain Gardner's putting, so that Jamieson was not only able to maintain his morning lead but increased it during the afternoon's playing to 5 up.

George Von Elm and C. O. Hezlet halved their match. The honors were Hezlet's. Four down at lunchtime, he rallied so that on the last hole he had a twelve-foot putt for the match.

If he had sunk that putt, England would have won, for Roger Wethered had beaten Francis Ouimet, Robert Harris had outdriven and outthought Jesse Guilford, and E. F. Storey had taken the measure of the U. S. enfant terrible, Roland Mackenzie. But Mr. Hezlet of England did not know what his team mates were doing; even if he had known, the recognition of what depended on his putt could only have made him more careful. He was too careful as it was. The ball stopped two inches from the hole; the Walker Cup stayed in the U. S.

/-Donated in 1922 by George H. Walker, former President of the United States Golf Association, for team matches between the U. S. and England. No British team has ever won it. Matches are held every two years.