Show Gardner Impressed Scots I With True Sportsmanship I By Leo Munro Special Correspondent for the Inter national News Service 1 IT Scotland July S. S S.- S. M Robert A. A Gardner thou though h hb I I I b beaten nten at al the thirty seventh hole holo In tho the British amateur am golf championship Impressed the Sc on onlookers onlooker with his fine tine Ue C of sportsmanship his s limnIng limn emIl lug Ing Imperturbability In good 1000 fortune and bad The Scottish exacting gallery gallery gal lery too toot tooH him hInt to their with a. a degree of or positive affection J I Ho no might ht be bo o by some somo of the tile big hitting lie just jul smiled quietly knowing that on oni the tIle course courve It was not nOl the drive that counted but bUl the accurately accurate accurate- ly Iy placed long on second shot ahot Gardner wa a a. master maSler of ot that shot hot played more often with an nn Iron lion club than with the tho wood He lIe carried eight clubs In his bar bag compared compared com corn pared with the battery of ot fourteen r o-r or fifteen In the outfit of the average a British competitor Gardners Gardner's approach approach approach ap ap- ap- ap shots with Ida his iron clubs dubs vore Ivero dreams of delight Gardners Gardner's progress in the championship cham cham- 1 is worth recording lie He drew a bye in the first fiut round and nd Inthe in inthe the time second beat T. T 3 M. M Burrell of Troon Troop one up The Time third round saw w whim him up against Blackwell who was waa defeated by Walter J oJ Travis In the memorable final of the 1904 1104 championship and Gardner put putout putout putout out the long lonz drawing haired candy Scotsman b by 3 I and andIn 2 In tho the fourth round he defeated Jack one one of the tIle most mOlt I promising members of the young youn Scottish school by 4 and 2 2 and followed followed fol fol- folI fol- I lowed that with an easy 6 and 2 5 conquest of R. R H H. Jobson the old I Oxford player Next he beat that beautifully stylIsh stylish ish golfer cotter Gordon Lockhart Lock- Lock hart b by 1 up and In n the semifinal round knocked out the lion Michael Scott one of ot the three golfing zone sons of the Earl of Eldon Tho The final Unal between Gardner and Tolley was a great match one which kept he spectators on the tiptoe tiptoe tiptoe tip tip- toe of attention and anti in ill Its dramatic changes changos of or fortune imposed a a. se- se lev v vero ro strain on the players Tolley made mad the tile better start but bot Gardner soon BOOn pegged him back and in turn went ah ad to such lIuch effect that that he finished the tIme morning round 2 up Gardner moreover moreo had played the soun sounder er golf and there was much head shaking and doleful I prediction among amonI the tho ae RJ I Ithe the they tho formed up for the bread line I Int at nt the tho entrance to the tho luncheon tent One Ono however refused to tobe tobe tobe be ruffled and as this happened to tobe tobe 1 be Cyril Tolly Tolley himself elf the exception exception tion was 9 a a. rather father Important one Tolley said raid at lunchtime I still sUIl have a chance I can beat Gardner and Im I'm going to beat him Tolley made mado good his hla words ord but it was a desperately near thing In the end and more than one British lion In the crowd d must have havo suffered from heart trouble before It was waa all aU over After the third hole In tho the afternoon I G Gardner proved himself merel merely human after all nIL Previously he had thriven on his opponents opponent's errors avoiding serious mistakes himself Now he in turn began hegan to be Inaccurate lIe He did not net drive wildly he did not foozle his hla Ru approaches but his hla putting usually of or h heartbreaking accuracy suddenly sudden let Ilet down Tolley w was S on to him like a hawk hawk hawk- If It the tho comparison may Y be applied to toa toa a player cf ct such Buch elephantine proportion tion The Tho wa way In which he ht won on the tho ninth bob hole In the last lut round may be bo Instanced In proof of ot his hie Impudence and sound generalshIp That hole r requires 8 a Ion long testing second shot shoe with an Iron clu club up to tIle the preen green Tolley knew nw he was not oo good J with tho the Iron club Ho lIe also knew lie he had I absolute mastery over his lI spoon oon So 00 he played short from the tee allowing Gardner to outdistance tanco tance him by fifty yards Then Them Tol Tot Ie Icy ley took hIs hla spoon and with a tru truly munificent shot laid Ills his ball two yards from rom the cup Gardner Gl kept hi face so 0 absolutely absolute absolute- ly Iy emotionless his long Iron I approach approach ap Rp ap- ap na lS a a. rub rulo hla his tron ut point let tet down for once H He bulled the ball up against I a boun boundary ary wall wan above the gre green e n and I lost the tho hole Tolley turned for tor homo home 2 up and anti I point on J presently found himself 3 up with only four to The match m looked aa as rood goon as ov over r. r Th gallery ry had harI the tho shock chock of their thol lives hiye Tolley bec became unsteady Gard- Gard n ncr nr r rallied antI and wh when n he lie actually drew draw level on the horn home green It looked that the Englishman had cracked and that th the tho poor old lion liong tall tal was war going to b be t again I The Tho first hole bole at ln in I case the thirty seventh is a stupid I sort at Al which to pl play a n decider after a tie tic It Is la a little over MO yards i in length lenth and normally norman every everythIng thinS thing I depends on which player makes kes the themore themore more moro accurate tie shot That distinction distinction dis dis- fell to Toll Tolley 0 Gardner from the edge of or the green had to putt first With a beautifully Judged stroke ho laid his hla ball ban dead Tolley had a putt of three or four tour yards for the championship He lIe played it confidently and down went his ball ban for to- toa a no great two to amid a yell yeti of triumph from flom tho the Scottish crowd They were full of or appreciation for Cor forthe I tho the gallant loser however for fOt both men were carried shoulder high from Ith the green And Ando EO so ended a a. great Teat final In which though England land won won tho tIme least leall turn of luck might have hwe left tho the verdict the other way |