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Three Yanks Remain in British Golf Reach Sixth Round 4 For Amateur Title » * Bisplinghoff, Patton, Conrad Only Survivors of Forty-Six Americans Who Started Play By PETER UEBERSAX United Press Sports Writer ST. ANNES, England, June 2. — Don Bisplinghoff, Billy Joe Patton and Lt. Joe Conrad — three young golfers making their first appearances in the British Amateur championship — carried United States hopes into the quarter-finals today with fourth and fifth round triumphs. Bisplinghoff, a baby-faced 20-year-old from Orlando, Fla., made the biggest imr •pression on the tiny crowd of 619 which watched eight of 11 Americans ousted by their own teammates or British rivals. The three are the only survivors of the 46 Yanks who began the match play grind last Monday. Bisplinghoff, who entered the tournament mainly because he was miffed at the U. S. Golf Association for leaving him off its Walker Cup squad, established himself more firmly as the favorite. He was 3 down to John Niven, the former Royal Air Force champion, after 13 holes this morning but swept the next five to win, 2 up. That triumph gave him his first crack at a U. S. Walker Cup player and he played grim, machine-like golf to oust 21-year-~old Bruce Cudd of Portland, Ore., 4 and 2. First Easy Match Patton, the 33-year-old Morgantown, N. C, lumber dealer who has captured the fancy of the small galleries with his long-hitting and excellent recoveries from the rough* ousted Englands Jackie Jones, 5 and 4. It was his first easy match of the tournament; after trailing in his first three triumphs. He got back to normal by dropping the first two holes to George Coleman of Miami, Okla., after lunch but started a five-hole sweep at the 11th to win, 5 and 3. Conrad, a 25-year-old Air Force officer from San Antonio, Texas, scored a 5 and 3 victory over George Duncan of Wales and followed with a hard-earned 1 up triumph over fellow Walker Cupper Jim Jackson of Glendalen, Mo. Jim McHale, the Wynnewood, Pa., player who was making his sixth bid for the title, ousted Dick De Lloyd of Wales in the morning, 5 and 3. But he bowed to Englands Alan Slater in the fifth round, 1 up. Barton Brideford, 65, the former San Francisco resident who now lives in Paris, surprised everyone with a 1 up triumph over Englands Eric Fiddian, the 1932 runner-up. "Life does begin at 65," Bridgeford joked, as he went to lunch. But he was-crushed by Englands Roger Bayliss in the afternoon, 7 and 6. Morey# Weaver Lose James Bernard of Westboro, Mass., was the other American who won his morning match, beating John De Bendern of Scotland, 3 and 2. But he bowed to Englands Arthur Perowne in the fifth round, 6 and 4. Dale Morey, 34-year-old Walker Cupper from Indianapolis, Ind., and Bert Weaver of Beaumont,. Texas, lost in the morning action. Slater ousted Morey, 2 and 1, and Guy Wolstenholme of England eliminated Weaver; 5 and 4. Joe Carr of Ireland, probably the finest match play competitor in Europe, entered the quarter-finals with a 4 and 3 victory over Englands Gordon Whitehead and a 5 and 3 triumph over Englands Richard Ashcroft. The quarter-final pairings: Bisplinghoff vs. Perowne, Patton vs. Philip Scrutton of England, Conrad vs. Bayliss and Carr vs. Slater. Patton and Scrutton clashed during the Walker Cup play at St. Andrews, Scotland, two weeks ago and the Englishman carried the North Carolina belter to the 35th hole before losing, 2 and 1.
