Edinburgh, June 4.
The fact that the Golf Championship in its last stage was an Oxford]
Cambridge affair emphasizes once more the prominent place in amateur golf now occupied by players who have represented these Universities on the links. Four out of the last, five Championships have been won by members of the Oxford and Cambridge Society. In Scotland it is still true that the game claims its devotees from all ranks, but our record in the Championship hardly suggests that we are holding our own against the conquering Englishmen. " Superlatively fine golf was played by some of the Scottish competitors, but because they had acquitted themselves so well up to a point one felt all the more disappointed that none of the four who figured in the last eight survived to provide an international final. Only two Scotsmen have wrested the Championship from their English rivals since 1909, Mr.
C. Jenkins having won the last event before the war and Mr, W. I.
Hunter being the winner in' 1921. 'A Scottish victory is more than due. The standard of play among the best amateurs was never higher! than it is to-day. Witness the rebl in some of last Mr, Denys Kyle's 60 strokes for 16\ holes, which was too brilliant even for the lon-hearted Mr. Tolley to survive; the ist of Mr. Wethered's rounds, and those of several other competitors, represent golf of a quality that has not been excelled in an Amateur Championship played over St. And-rows, the greatest course in the! world, Perhaps some of the credit for these astonishing performances (compared with those of ten years ago) should be given to the ball manufacturer, but, after making allowance for' that, there remains: the evidence of the power and skill of the players themselves. Tob beaten after playing golf which re-Presented an average of less than four strokes for each hol was the fate of Mr. Tolley-experience with which who know the difficult Andrews and sympathize,
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