THE WORLD of SPORT

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 250, 21 October 1926, Page 13

THE WORLD of SPORT

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AMATEUR SEMI-FINALISTS. QUIN, TAREHA, DUNCAN, HORTON. OPEN FINAL THIS AFTERNOON. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The New Zealand golf championship meeting was continued to-day. There was an absence of wind, accompanied by just sufficient sunshine to make things pleasant for the onlookers and not to interfere with the play of any competition. Under such conditions some high class golf was anticipated, and it was duly produced.

The third round of the amateur championship and a bogey handicap were played and also a stroke handicap for professionals. Play in the amateur championship resulted as follows:—

Leo Quin (Eltham) beat N. Bell (Hamilton), 2 up. K. Tareha (Hawke's Bay) beat R. Wagg (Hutt), 2 up. A. D. S. Duncan (Wellington) beat E. Jlacfarlane (Christchurch), 3 and 1. T. H. Horton (Wairarapa) beat B. V. Wright (Timaru), 10 and 9. Other Events.

The bogey handicap resulted in a tie between A. A. Stichbury (Miramar), F. C. Fryer (Hastings) and J. Dolph (Christchurch), who were all 3 up. The professional stroke handicap was won by B. J. Smith (Oamaru). He is well known to old time golfers as a prominent member of the Otago Golf Club. Bus brother, Ham Smith, won the amateur championship in Dunedin in 19G8.

In the play-off between H. J. Shanks and H. E. Crosse in the first bogey handicap, Crosse won.

The play-off between E. J. Moss and A. J. Shaw to decide the winner of the open championship has been altered from 9 a.m. on Thursday to 1 p.m. the same day. It will be a great battle. This is the second occasion on • which there las been a tie in the open championihip. The other occasion was -in 1919 tt Napier when E. S. Douglas won from S. Morpeth.

The weather is fine and present' indications are that it will remain so for the remainder of the tourney.

E. M. Macfarland, beaten by Arthur Duncan, was the 1925 open champion.

BELL PUSHES QTJIN HARD. HORTON EMULATES BOBBY JONES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Thincai-Macfarlane match was popular_,.with .spectators, but the play they produced did not justify the gallery. .-'.

Although they got fair, figures in the morning round—Duncan 76, Macfarlane77—their golf was not up to" championship play, and they did not improve much in the af terndon. There was little between them, but Duncan always had the upper hand, and things generally broke better for him than for Macfarlane. Duncan's chop mashie shots and putting were very accurate. Macfarlane, on the other hand, was weak for hira round the green and with his putts. The game was settled at the thirtyfifth green. Duncan was already 2 up, and one of his deadly chip shots gave him a 4, and the game.

Horton Round in 73. . In the Horton-Wright match the margin of victory does not indicate that Wright had deteriorated so much from yesterday's game against H. Morrison (N.S.W. champion). He certainly was not playing so well, mostly through •lipping his putts, but he would have to have been "Bobby Jones" or better to have beaten' Horton. The Mastertonian realised that after Wright's form he would have to put up a good game, and so he did. He played par" golf or under. His morning round was 72, one under par, and lit for No. 14 costing him 5 (bogey 3) he might have been 70, which would have festablished a course record.

Great Recovery by Wagg. Kapi Tareha continued to play his forceful game against Kana Wagg today, and secured a lead of 4 on the morning round. By very fine play and determined effort, Wagg reduced the lead, and they were all square at the thirty-fourth. At the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth Wagg topped both his dnyes, and these slips gave Kapi the game. Both played good golf, Kapi's driving is phenomenal, but he is a trifle weak in putting. Wagg topped three drives, otherwise his game -was very sound, as it has been right through the tourney. Quin Deadly at Last Two Holes. •

The Quin-Bcll encounter was a great fight, with both players at their best, ■it was a rpck-and-neck go tho whole **y, and laere was nothing between taem till ;he sixteenth on the morning round. Q,,i ns effor t produced fours at the seventeenth and eighteenth, giving him 2 up. The afternoon was a repetition of the morning. Bell mcanri r d u«ng Quin's lead, and the match was square at the thirty-fourth. Then Quin became '-hostile," again doing the Unrty-fifth and thirty-sixth in fours, and winning 2 up. Both players are jery fl ne golfers, with little between them.