NEW ZEALAND GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 215, 9 September 1903, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

CHAMPIONSHIP WON BY TAREHA

<By Telegraph.--Press Aasp-Jlatlon.)

... ■ NAPIER, Tuesday. The golf championship meeting concluded to-day. " The finixl lor the New Zealand amateur championship between Nicolaus and Tareha w»8. very closely watched, and, greatly to'the surprise of those who had witnessed:'the fine play of Nicolaus on the "two" opening diys/. the contest ended-in favour of Tareha, who played a capital game, ■" -■■■*•■■ ■'-■■' '<■ •• ■'.< -Both men played a good game, Tareba getwng.round the first time,in 83, and Nicolaus doing it in". 85. Nicolaus was not so good,.in. hja driving as at the com* metoewnent '•'-<>(■ ; t;he' tournaruen,t,'-i£n4:h.i* putting at times also was flakier weak. Tareha, who is recognised as the beat player in Hawke's Bay, played a good, consistent game' throughout, improving as the tournament progressed. His win cannot by any meanabe said to have been a fluky one, as he defeated the exchaninjfon,'U. Gillies, ixi addition to putting down a promising young player in Niertkus, who may be looked upon >a very likely to earn championship lionours in the ,neaj.tuxure. Had the.lastnamed played the same' .brilliant game a* in the , ' early stages of the match he would probably have won. victory of Tareha caiiie rather as a. surprise to all wiho were following the Lurnament/for Nieolaus was considered tie favourite, and had he maintained his earlier splendid form he would have won. Kurco Tareha ii well-known in Auck wi, **here he clayed in the championiiitj meetir:- a couple of years ago. Hβ Lβ a chief «f the Ngati Kahungungu tTib«; of which his father, Te Moananui was a very famous lighting member, and the first Maori representing the Eastern Diriaion of tile. Nortll Island in Parliafxnent* Tareha himself was an officer in the Maori Jubilee Contingent. Nicolaus i» a JO-year-bld ,Scot/who is a certainty for*the chanipion.9hip at soirje later"-time if his form keeps on. improving at j if* present rate. Hβ. has played.much; at Hohie on St. 'Andrew s:o? ing but two', and he won a match when he was only »]x year* old.: *-.*';S ■%>.