In the usual international pre Kiminary for Monday's Amateur Championship, England beat Scot-Tand by eight' games to five. Two eames were halved.
May. 25.
In the Amateur Golf Championship, played here to-day, J. Cruickshark (Buenos Aires) beat Sir Ernest Holderness, the holder, by one hele in the second round.
'A further surprise in the second round was the defeat of Wethered by Douglas Grant (St. George's), two up and one to play.
May 26.
In the third round of the Amateur Golf Championship tournanent, played here to-day, E. 'Thompson (Wearside) beat Tolley three up and two. to play. Thus tke Champion and all ex-Champions Kaye been elimini Both the Americans engaged in the second round to-day were Lenten, Pease (Alnmouth) defeat R, Stanrahan (Toledo) by one' hole.
Longstaffe (Aldeburgh) beat A. Bourne (Garden City) four up and three to play.
Tolley was erratic at the start, and was two down at the turn. After that he played a feeble short game. He frequently made short approaches and missed his putts. He way three down at the fourteenth, Then at the fifteenth he valved and made a bold shot for, the requisite two to save the situs tion, At the sixteenth he struck' the hole with the second shot but) the ball did not drop in. Thompson halved for a surprising victory.
"The third round saw the defeat] of Dailey, the only surviving American, bythe Hon, Michael Scott, six bp and five to play.
The Scottish captain, Robert Barrie, beat the former boy champion, Mathieson, five up and four to play.
Angus Hambro beat Carl Brether-ton by one hole, Anglo-Californian, Grant, Soccer player, Morrison, two up one to play.
Board (Home Park) sat Darwin four up and three to play.
Law (Stoke Pages) beat the vexer, Bombardier Wells, three up and one to plays May 27, The course was deluged last night, Consequently the start was delayed until noon, The complete results of the fifth Amateur Golf Cham-shank beat Flight Lieut. Boumphrey of the Air Force three and two to pla; Layton beat Colonel H, Hambro four up and two to play.
Tubs (Winchcombe Hill) beat Hon. Michael Scott at the twenty-
Harris beat Major Hezlet (Port. rush) two up and one to play.
Crummack (Lytham) bea Stroy: an (Sunningdale) five up and four to pi Hardman (Birkdale) beat Taylor (Mid-Surrey) by one hole.
Fradgley (North Devon) beat Powell (Addington) by one hole.
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