ROTORUA GOLF TOURNEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 207, 1 September 1932, Page 8

ROTORUA GOLF TOURNEY.

VETERANS' CHAMPIONSHIPi

LUSK AND REDHEAD IN FINAL;

(By Telegraph'.—Own Correspondent.)

ROTORUA, this day.

The New Zealand veterans' golf cliam* piouship was continued yesterday' afternoon and thie morning. The eemi-final . between • Lusj? .-&nd Hutchineoti developed into a/■'•'■-ireat struggle, as the Auckland player hfti to give hie opponent-ten strokes, Laek early took the lead at -the second,, also winning the third, but Hutchinson squared" the match at the ninih. The fovferty Bay player annexed the twelfth ' and '" thirteenth. Lusk, however, won' the ■ aexfc two holes, and the,players went'to"the sixteenth all square. This, together with the seventeenth and • were halved. Hutchinson had a great chance to win the match at the eighteenth, missing a two-foot ; putt. At the/nineteenth Hutchinson, although topping his drive, made a good recovery, and halved the hole. At the twentieth Lusk was on the green with his' driven—a yard:from the pin—his opponent resting on the side of the bunker. Hutehineon made a good recovery, but failed"'to sink two putts, Luek winning the hole and match. --*-' I Results:— : Veterans' Cup.—Second round: H. *B. Lusk (1) beat A. W. Downer (19), 1 up; E. M. Hutchineon (14) beat F. Trice (7), 6 and 5; R. Phelan ■■ (12) beat W. W. Maingay (12), 2 and 1; C. H. Redhead (16) beat G. H. Scott '(10), 5 and 4. Semifinale: Luek beat HutcMneon at the 20th; Redhead beat Phelan at the'l9th. '?; : Secretary's - Trophy .—Second round J ' .s■. T. Pavitt (16) beat R. J. HamUton (10), I up; H. P. Butts (18) beat J. B. MaoEwan (7), 2 and 1; F.' W. Wilkie (15) beat W. McGillivray (19), af'the 21st; - H. J. Smith (13) beat 0. E. Kusabe (8), 4 and 3. Semi-finale: Pavitt beat Butte, 4 and- 3; Smith- beat Wllfcie.-4-and' '3«;