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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 9

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AKARANA TOURNEY. MRS. BARKER AND MISS 0. STEVENS IN FINAL. 4 MBS. HOWEY WALKER EXCELS In perfect conditions the Akaraiia Ladies' Golf Club's winter championship and handicap tournament terminated today. The semi-finals of the championship and the Roskill Cup were played in the morning. As a result Mrs. E. L. Barker (Rotorua) and Miss Olive Stevens (Xortti Shore) ivere left to compete for the championship title, and Mrs. B. Bree and Mrs. N". A. Naismith for the handicap event. An extraordinary number of halved holes —no fewer than eleven —characterised the game between Mesdames Barker anl Howey Walker and the struggle was nor. ended until the nineteenth was played. It was a sterling performance on the latter's part, her handicap being 16, to take Mrs. Barker (4) so far. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Howey Walker created 3 mild surprise by beating Miss M. Stevens (another player on a 4 handicap). Mrs. Howey Walker by winning the second hole led Mrs. Barker until the sixth, where the Rotorua player square! the match. After each had got the 3 a: the seventh, Mrs. Howey Walker won the next. However, Mrs. Barker took the ninth and squared the game at the turn Coming home the holes were halved until the fourteenth, which Mrs. Barker won, and there was no change until Mrs. Howey Walker took the eighteenth with a five and squared the match. Mrs. Barker settled the issue by winning the nineteenth in five. 'There was little between Mrs. P. R. Glanville and Miss 0. Stevens in the other semi-final, the latter having a shade the better of the luck to-day, as did Mrs. Glanville yesterday afternoon in defeating Mrs. Jacobsen. Mrs. Glanville was 2 up at the sixth, but her opponent took three in a row to be 1 up at the turn. Starting home Mrs. Glanville immediately squared the match, but became 1 down again on missing a short putt at the thirteenth. Miss Stevens increased her lead to 2 up at the sixteenth, and, although Mrs. Glanville won the seventeenth in four to six, she lost the next, and the match.

After her two fine rounds of 88 in bogey events yesterday, in which she was 1 down and all square, Miss Iris McCready (Akarana) had her handicap of 18 reduced by half for the rest of the tourney. She thus played in the semi-final of the Roskil! Cup this morning on 9. Consequently instead of receiving strokes from Mrs. X. A. Naismith she had to concede them. Mis. Naismith beat her 4 and 3. In the other cup semi-final Mrs. Brea had a comfortable win over Miss A. Hacket. * Results: — OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. Semi-finals. Mrs. E. L. Barker (Rotorua) beat Mrs. Howey Walker (Akarana) at the nineteenth. Miss O. Stevens (North Shore) beat Mrs. P. R. Glanville (Glendowie), 2 up. ROSKILL CUP. Semi-finals. Mrs. B. Bree, Akarana (18), beat Miss A. Hacket, Titirangi (12), 5 and 3. Mrs. N. A. Naismith, Titirangi (15), beat Miss I. McCready, Akarana (9), 4 and 3. GLENDOWIE CLUB. Members of the Glendowie Golf Club will play the second round of the Howey Walker Cup medal competition to-morrow, in conjunction with a match for special prizes. Draw : G. Gaudin v. H. E. Jolly, D. McGregor v. J. V.-Lane, W. Long v. I. G. O'Neill, J. R. McCrystal v. Dr. Horton, L. A. Marquet v. J. Terry, O. R'unger v. C. Palmer, J. S. Keys v. F. Lintott, J. Kissling v. D. Robinson, F. J. Hintz v. J. P. May, W. Monteith v. A. C. Herring, J. Lucas v. J. K. Cameron, V. R. Johns v. Dr. Craven, V. Ratley v. K. Hinton, L. J. Keys v.. A. Agmen-Smith, A. C. Johns v. F. Trice, H. O. Jones v. R. Katterfeldt. It. K. Davies v. A. D. Jack, J. Kingston v. F. Restall, R. B. Allen v. W. M. Hutchison, A. O. Horspool v. J. G. Beale, F. Kronfeld v. G. Palmer, C. D'Authreau v. A. Howey Walker, W. Laxon v. J. E. Stedman.