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Stranahan I Beaten, Campbell Triumphs Maj. Henderson Only Other American Still in Running For British Amateur Title By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Sports Writer GULLANE, Scotland, May 27. — Frank Stranahans bid for a third British Amateur Golf championship ended when he was eliminated in a sixth round upset today as Bill Campbell and Maj. Dalton Henderson kept Americas title hopes alive by gaining the quarter-finals. Stranahan, the Toledo, Ohio player who was co-favored with defending champion Joe Carr, was ousted by former English champion Ernest Millward in the tournaments first major upset, 3 and 2. Stranahan won the crown in 1948 and 1950. Campbell, of Huntington, W. Va., scored a sixth round 1 up victory over E. L. Dalton of South Africa after scoring a 2 and 1 triumph over Australian champion R. F. Stevens in the fifth round. Henderson, a handsome, 39-year-old pilot attached to the headquarters staff of the Third Air Force in England, beat Alan Hall of Scotland, 3 and 2, after downing Scotlands F. W. G. Deighton by the same margin before lunch. Besides Stranahan, Dick Davies of Pasadena, Calif., arid Harold Ridgley of Haver-town, Pa., bowed out of the six-day match play grind on the ancient, bunker-pitted course. Aussie Eliminates Davies Davies edged into the sixth round by beating Walt McElroy of Canada on the 19th hole but was eliminated in the afternoon by former Australian titleholder Doug Bachili, 3 and 2. Ridgely, an Air Force master sergeant stationed in England, lost a 2 up decision to Carr in the fifth round. Carr, the 32-year-old Irishman from Dublin, then had to go 20 holes to beat 23-year-old Peter Toogood of Australia in the days best match. Toogood, who ousted Americas Frank Strafaci in a 25-hole marathon yesterday, flubbed a four-foot putt on the 19th that would have given him the match. Carr won after the tournament officials ruled his hooked drive on the 20th landed in "casual water" and permitted him to drop the ball over his shoulder before taking his second - sJiot. Toogoods father, Alfred, a pro golfer, said his son "was robbed." In the quarter-finals, Campbell will meet Melville Boucher of Scotland; Henderson plays Tony Slark of England; Can-meets Millward, and Bachli plays Englands Keith Tate. Stranahan was in trouble from the start against the husky Millward, who braved the cold afternoon round in a short-sleeved polo shirt. Stranahan matched par going out but the Briton produced a two-under-par 34 and fired four fours and two threes coming in— one of the tournaments best round. Campbell shot a par 36 on each nine but needed Daltons cooperation on the last two holes to reach the quarter-finals. Campbell had taken the lead on the fifteenth hole of the see-saw match by sinking a six-footer for a birdie three. But Dalton pulled even again with a par three on the next hole as the big West Virginian flubbed a short putt and took a four. Then Daltons game came apart. Henderson finished Hall when he dropped his tee shot a yard from the flag on the 193 -yard sixteenth. Henderson, the surprise quarter-finalist, said he might win again tomorrow "if I can keep my swing slow." The major flew Mustang fighters from Britain in World War II. He is married to a British girl and has two children.
