A CHERISHED HOPE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1927, Page 7

A CHERISHED HOPE.

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I :r.---a«ure o; allowance is due to the Vici<jr:a.n tnrough "be etTor- demanded of • him a dafp earlier in staving off the . New Sou A Wale* claim lor right to j appear in opposition to New Zealand. Indeed the whole Mctorian fide had heavy c'.aiai made on it prior to the :r...l jra:n«s. la re\en:ri£ to Duncan a last word may be, that though h;s hair be now sneur white and hi? step •■lower, the courage of the lion of New i Zvaland polf remains unimr>aired. . A temporary ]o-e o-f confidence api peared to account for the difference j between defeat and victory in the ca-? I of T. H. Horton. jn h:s match with Ale\. j Ruftse]l. Aa oj*ninp disaster caused ' Horton to lose the early prip of the name, but it is :o his credit that he covered to alr..:i of defeat only o:i the las: creor.. Horton"* iron shots'ha\c come in for very favourable rommenr. and although it was thie olub that ; him ia. initiaj suiges against Ruf-s-d!. it can safoh- l>e feit full amends were j lever made. Hi? iron work is frequentlr ' a revelation, ar.d in this aspect of tV srane both in Technique and efl'ectivene--ho -:ands Lead .md shoulders above any , other Now Zealand amateur. His one iveakness is a certain timiditv on the greens, and were be to putt "with the , courage or primness of Qum. it is diffiI cult to conceive to what heights he might , climb. I Quin's pinple pame was characteristic —a siiphtly shaky opening to be followed with a desperate finish. His finisliinp run has proven the bugbear of quite a lot of New Zealanders. there : being nothing more to say of it tha:i j :hat he simply sees red. He arrives at I an enormous pitch of concentration, and J in throwing caution to the winds, meers with the success ljo*n of determination :o win. His task against Schlapp in the singles can better be imagined than envied, as Schlapp beinp true to his name, is Victoria"? famed long driver. He is tall and lithe, getting an extraordinary length from tb.o tee. In being defeated by Headlam, Dr. Ross encountered one whose name i<s hardly so well known to New Zealanders as that of his compatriots. However, there can be no doubt as to his ranking, otherwise he would never have been included in the Victorian side. On this decision it would appear that Ro<s : was hardly at his top. So far as the -foursomes are concerned the result bespeak? a decisive superiority for the .New Zealanders, the margin in favour of Duncan'and Horton itf particular bein™ es.pecially gratifying. . The complete success of the Xew Zealand sides is all the more astonishing when it is recognised that this type of event, while a rar:?v here, is encourace.l right up to cbc-mpiocichin status in Australia. The winning of the ran certainly is a realisation of hnpr» on The part of Mr. K. Clement Kirk, and it is safe to ns-ume that a shear" of cinermulntory maticr ha« already found it? vnv nores'* the T.T-nran.