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Jack McLean of Hayston: the Open Amateur Golf Championship of Ireland for the second time in a row; 3 & 2, in the 36-hole final against Eric Fiddian of Troon, who amazed the gallery by making two holes in one; at Newcastle, County Down...
...back toward the green. The closest match of the day ended on the 32nd green. Young Billy Howell and Don Moe, whose 67 at Sandwich in 1920 made a Walker Cup record, had lost five holes out of nine to their 22-year-old opponents, Eric McRuvie and Eric Fiddian, but not until they were 7 up. Howell's short putt for a birdie, after McRuvie had holed a long one, ended the match...
...Westland and Stout v. Sweet ser ? ended all-even after 36 holes. Rex Hartley had another chance to be bloody damnedmad after losing, 2 & 1, to Gus Moreland; so did his brother, who lost 3 & 2 to Maurice McCarthy Jr. Seaver pounded out prodigious drives to smother Fiddian...
...were soon put out. From the quarter-finals on, the play was almost entirely among unknowns over a deserted course in howling wind & rain. In the finals lucky John De Forest, last year's runner-up, son of Coal Tycoon Baron De Forest, defeated 22-year-old Eric Fiddian 3 & 1 in 6 hrs. 35 min. for the required 36 holes, the longest final in the tournament's history. The two boys were appointed at once to the last two places on the British Walker Cup team...
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