Golf: Jun. 8, 1925

In 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...

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