LATE SPORTING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 32, 17 November 1939, Page 6

LATE SPORTING

GOLF, NEW ZEALAND CHAMPIONSHIP, PLAY IN THE AMATEUR FINAL. WELLINGTON, This Day.; As a finish to a week’s strenuous golf in every kind of weather, the final 36 "holes of the amateur championship is being played torday between J. P. Hornabroolc (Masterton), the new open champion, and A. Kitto, a young player from the SeafieMT Club, Wanganui. Conditions at Miramar are sultry with a tempering northerly breeze. The players were followed by even larger galleries' than those at the semifinal matches yesterday. With the possibility of two titles coming his way, Hornabroolc was right on his game. He began auspiciously to be three up on Kitto at the end of the first nine, which he covered in 34 (three under bogey) to Kitto’s 37. Hornabroolc finished the morning by being two up on -Kitto. He did 69 to Kitto’s 71. Without being brilliant, the golf was of a high standard. Kitio played some wild shots off the tee and he did not putt with his accustomed, skill, but in the closing stages of the round he fougttt back tenaciously, to be only one down when they went to ’ the seventeenth. , ‘