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Campbell Gains British Amateur Final Surprises Irelands Joe Carr, 3 and 2 West Virginian to Tee Off Against Australias Bachli In 36-HoIe Title Play Today By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Sports Writer GULLANE, Scotland, May 28. — Bill Campbell, a 31-year-old insurance agent from Huntington, W. Va., climaxed two fine rounds on the ancient Muirfield course today by upsetting defending champion, Joe Carr of Ireland, 3 and 2, to gain the final round of the British Amateur golf tournament. The lanky West Virginian will give the United States a representative in the title . round for the eighth straight year when he tees off against Doug Bachli, former Australian amateur champion, in the 36-hole final Saturday. He was a 3-to-l favorite to win the title for the XJ. S. for the sixth time since World War n. Campbell, who had failed to get past the sixth round in four previous tries in the match play grind, scored a 5 and 4 victory over Scotlands Melville Bucher in the quarter finals this morning. He matched par to oust Bucher and played one-under-par golf on the 6,806-yard, bunker-pitted course after lunch to score a revenge triumph over Carr. The Irishman, who is rated one of the worlds top amateurs in match play competition, beat Campbell in 19 holes in the sixth round of the 1950 British Amateur at St. Andrews — their only previous clash. Wins Six Straight Holes Carr reached the semi-finals by winning six straight holes to score a 4 and 3 victory over Ernest Millward, former English Amateur titleholder, in the quarter-finals. The 34-year-old Bachli defeated Tony Slark of England, 3 and 2, in the other semi-final. Slark had eliminated Major Dalton Henderson of San Francisco, the only other American who survived yesterdays action, in the morning round, 3 and 2. Campbell barely edged into the quarterfinals with narrow triumphs over John Mill and Stuart Murray of Scotland and Eric Dalton of South Africa. But he became a strong favorite to win the coveted title by dominating Carr with a sparkling exhibition of controlled power under weather conditions ranging from breezeless," sultry heat, to heavy rain with some wind. The former West Virginia state legislator never trailed against the Dublin star. He outdrove the long-hitting Carr by 20 yards on at least four holes and wrapped up the match by halving the sixteenth, after winning the tenth, eleventh and thirteenth to go three up. Campbell twice took the lead on the front nine only to have Carr pull even by winning the ninth. Campbell had only two bad holes — the short fourth and the long ninth— both of which have been jinxes for him throughout the tournament. The took bogeys on both, allowing Carr to square the match each time. Cards Three Birdies The big West Virginian carded three birdies and two bogeys, while Carr got only one birdie and three bogeys in stroke play. After they halved the first two holes, Campbell won the 382-yard third with a birdie three when he swung from an awkward stance on a slope and dropped his second shot a foot from the flag. Carr pulled even with a par three on that jinx fourth as Campbell pitched 20 feet past the pin with his second shot and took a four. They matched birdies on the par five fifth but Campbell again went ahead on the 458-yard sixth with a par four against Carrs bogey after placing his second shot 20 feet from the flag. But Bill collected his usual six on the ninth — he got his only other six of the day on the ninth against Bucher. He three-putted it against Carr, who pulled even with a par five. But after that, Carr couldnt withstand the pressure. The American won the 480-yard 10th with a birdie four after his second shot dropped four feet from the flag. He went 2 up on the 359-yard 11th by putting his second shot 20 feet from the pin for a four against Carrs bogey five. Campbell got a par three on the 153-yard 13 th and won the hole when Carr flubbed a three-foot putt. Halves on the next two holes put Bill in the final. "Maybe its fortunate some of my early matches were such close shaves," Campbell said. "I figured luck at last ought to be on my side today. I didnt come over for last years tournament because I was in another match — politics — but I got eliminated in the first round. I never got the Congressional nomination I was trying for." The West Virginian said he "never let up" against the Irishman, a consistent player who beat Harvie Ward of San Francisco for the title last year at Hoylake, England, and got as far as the semi-finals for the last three years. "You deserved to win," Carr said. "I always felt I could not afford to make a bad -shot and so it proved."
