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...match by the stupidity of an Englishman. The score was 40-15. She needed only one point for the game and set. Lenglen's return seemed to fall outside the line. Miss Wills sure she had won the set, started to change courts, when the linesman?Cyril Tolley, one-time British amateur golf-champion?told her to come back...
Many another ball plunked on that second green during the four rounds of the British Open Championship, last week. Lumbering Cyril Tolley would come by; British Amateur Champion Robert Harris (TiME, June 8) ; slouching Ted Ray, the long-driving professional; lank Arthur Havers, Open Champion two years ago, his lips pursed over the putts; clever Charles Whitcomb, whom a stray cur attacked at one tee and sent out of the play with a lacerated hand...
...England. No Tolley. No Wethered. No Holderness. No invading Americans. It was a situation without recent precedent in the history of British Amateur Golf Championships. But there it was, as plain as the nose on a plain caddy's face, and you had to accept it, whether you liked it or not. The indomitable Tolley, who had beaten Hans Samek of Hamburg, ''the first German ever entered in a British golf championship," was eliminated by a man named Thompson who had never before got beyond the first round. It was Douglas Grant, U.S. resident in Britain...
...putt. Even of these, many get about a course with 72-odd clips, but only three play golf as every able man sensibly expects to. Last week, the handicap figures of Great Britain were issued. Three golfers were listed at scratch-Roger Wethered, Sir Ernest Holderness, Cyril J. H. Tolley. The first is lean, composed, frosty. His wrists are steel springs ; his swing is the crack of a quirt. The second, gloomy, nervous, plays with the air of a martyr being tortured for his faith, has twice won the amateur championship. The immense shoulders, the full-moon face, the stocky...
...MODERN GOLFER?Cyril J. H. Tolley ?Knopf...