Aucklanders Do Well

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 120, 24 May 1939, Page 19

Aucklanders Do Well

GOLF TITLES.

H. D. BRINSDEN AGAIN.

PUPUKE HOLES IN ONE.

SAFETY FIRST TACTICS AT MIDDLEMORE. IIVv RI'HHKIM OKK.I Pl.iyiiiir L">lt' i>; , his usual excellent Rtanilanl. H. D. lSiinsde;i Hfldod vet another championship to Ins Umn list in annexing the Wli.m.'.iici title. In tlip final, though well matched liy SV. .1. Glanville. he held just that p>l«i> iif tlir advnntnjfe. that upellr.l Biiiriw. til.inville ~'lite held hie own from thp tees, hut Briiisdcn's aocurate pitttiit vC invariably proved tho toil. Aβ ha* heen r<i> often Hip faup in Hrirwlpn'e victories, it was a spectneul.ir putt which settled the iseiie. Thus it. was thiit (!|niivil!e"i* Ionj; reign in the Nniih AiK'klaml title came to an end, but he will Inivp tmtisfnetion in knowing that ho wns beaten and then only narrowly by one of tlip Dominion's very best amateurs. Olanvillo was obviously a little iifrviiiis i:: ::!e<*t'>>H bo redoubtable iui oi>i>ot»ciit, but tin* ie underslandahle. L. Clifford, of Titirnnal, anil J. E. Stedtniin, of Mauiinakipkie, in among the rnont rnnipiciious of the lenser Imhts. nlno played HXtreniely well. Though Ui insden was round in 73 in defeatinß Clifford, hp won only at the seventcenth. Steiliiiiin'fl loading of the field in the qualifying rounds was especially meritorious. A calm thinker in an emergency, he has an enviable record in championship tourneye. Still it is to Brinsden that one must hand the laurel*. In defeating Olanville he bearded the lion in hit* den.

Style and Steadlnvn. O. Kretschmar, now of the Manultau Club, also played well throughout the tournament, his gem 1-final—or the last half of it—with Glanville being one of the highlights of the, tournament. It was. I think, the year aftur \V. J. Davidge last won at Shandnn. that Kretechmar annexed the club title. He is a nice ityllst, with steadiness a* his forte. Though in thin column tlie realm of ladies' «olf is seldom entered into, no more opportune moment could be chosen than in offering very hearty congratulation! to Mrs. G. KeiiiusoTi, of Middleniore, in adding a third Kotorua open championship to her girdle. The class of player competing lit Kotorua is invariably K"od, and in winning three finals in five years Airs. Kl-r«;won has revealed herself ii player of hlirh conraKe. Though dliaded in the qualifyinK test by somci half a dozen others, Mi*. Ferguson evidenced rare match play abilities when the pressure wan on. Her third win was fully appreciated by friend and foe alike.

Fn ifolf. as in most the youths of to-day are the champions of to-liioi row. In J. IV Ralph, however, it is a mere boy who priiminPH no well, and it will be most interesting to nee what the future holds for him. A purposeful lad, there is much in hi.H makta up apart from mere golfing {■kill tiiat stampii him as a. potential chamjiion of the future. In winning his second schoolboys' championship he had, of coiiine. tlie advantage of an intimate knowledge of the conditions, having, in a cnltinn sense, been practically reared at his father'* domain. It was a proud father who presented the cup. and well mieht he have been, as the merit of the Benrps wan undeniable. Alrendy Ralph jini. worthilv cavries on parental prestige on the links, and that of his grandfather, Mr. Phllson, who, in the earliest (lays nt Waiteiuata, was club champion.

Points from the pennants are the rout Of I'upiike at Otaliiihu, the excellont win of Onikei- even thoutfli down its own nl!ey -from Ak-iruna. and KtMiiuera'H in-rffi'i-tive battle nt North Shore. But the lant-iinniiMl had its l»ri«bt side in the defeat of Harold Stevens by the Remuera, l.id J. 1 , . Ralph. Halph came through with tlyiiijj colours as Stevens is not only a good Koli'ei , . but very solid in inuti h play. Comment may hero be made of Ralph's rlefi'.it. at his home course by H. L. >laesey in tin! ((uarter-Hnals of the captain's prize. The fact is that Masucv is getting results. This is borne out in his splendid showing at North Shore against a player of the calibre of J. VV. Morrison. Not to 'he hut sijfht of, too, is that Mawey was on the winning side in the four ball. It is not pretended that Massey's style is pond or that he has undue aspirations in the (janie. Ho plays hard and lor fun, end hie effectiveness is unquestioned.

Low Scoring Day. Titirnntfi was a hiippy huntina srround for the low scorer*, but in the Self Cup none nf ilifm mm able to cope with L. 11. Honors' 91—23 —08, and it wan perhaps a judgment on the veteran that prior to Bftting out on the round he indulged in pi>int,f>ri observation* regarding the v.i«;irics of the game, end of his own ineffectiveness in particular. W. G. Cain, A. J. Roberts and F. N. Ambler, too, fniniTCed with flying colours from this acid test of cni'd and pencil. So delighted ■**■ one of the trio at breaking the century th.it he treated member* in time-honoured i iftom as if having holed in one. The news spread with rapidity and there ire* in my an eye grew brighter "coming Inline. , ' I'i puke ■olemnly nnnouncee another hole in one on Saturday, and that thin is ihe third consecutive occasion that the l"'i linn been aucomplirthrd. All of which i> '■■<• troln is xuperlluoiis. Qolfors could be p.'lnned Hero tlipy to so break tradition h< in oxcliiim in unieon, "Ydu'-te tellin« ii ' Three holes in one on eucceeaivc S inlnyn is a Uistinntly iini(|ue happen- - - .iikl »et« on all-time record locally, i * hoped that the tcreenn at the hole* rnrd uro in full view of the playpm ' th.it tlie vagaries of small bo>s have . . , nought to do witti it eiL

liainliihp went on to add yet another win u> In* imposing ]| S t, fw'tlic season. Much of his sm.css i-s due to I In; met of Ills li.iviiifT -~| his wooden pl.iy under control. It is a to stand on the ti.-o and know that the ball is K"i"K to sail i«r down the middle. Shore Captain's Prize. TllOUfth lecenllv indisposed, Man Ufowtu- phiv.Ml wondeifully well i,, nlmost romlintinjr I!. L, Maeedo'n 74 in North Shore's i-a|itnin*«t prize. In receipt of a i-ouple ■>[ stiokew, Ma<i:.lo L-.ae Browne no quarter, but it is a i|iu*tinn in whom the preuter honours rested. Maeedo was a«.iin r.inipaiit in the intn-club with Keiuui-rn, li.iviiu! i (.iinds of 72 and 71. Krratic for Home time pmrt, .Maeedo oeemu to have rpeoveied the form which soino years a«o won him club title honours at Shandon. V. K. Foot. 11, Charlesworth and L. J. Miiiojjup, the other survivors won their matches well and as all a|)]>ear likely to pive as tfood as they rpepive the uJtiniate I'omiH is as difficult as ever to foroi-.i-st. Matches in Middlpmore's oiiptain'ri prize brought about a further ch-.-ivase in the ranks of the lowmarkers. chief among the celebrities to have gone being R. I). Horton and O. VV. S. Williams. For Hcrtoti it wim swift retribution, as in the previous round he had taken heavy toll of the unn of liis victor, .1. MrK. Wilson. Horton played well, but on thp day the winner was almost invincible. He liarl a net OS. An even name throughout the crucial pel iod came troiu the fourteenth. There Horton holed a birdie 3 to reduce Wilson's lead to 1. There were two strokes to follow Mini tlionxh Horton j?"t his fours they were of m> avail. WiWvn was , equal to the same. Hirurp (net threes). He had a bit, of liifk in kicking throiigh tlie bunker nt the fifteenth, but won the next by sheer meiit. His second to the green — a Xii. 2 iron wns soundly hit. Williams, too, went down before a srnod match player. Boddinjtton on liis- day being as pound a tactician a« the club possesses. Reviewing the (series, it is perhap« sienilicant that half those remaining in are of .-/lurlc-risture handicap. In view of the comfort inu amount of run and the relatively easy conditions of the pant month a different bias miaht reasonably have been expected.

Caution Overdone. The pithiest utory of the day concerns the mat. h between Kirkby Wilson ami B. ('. Jacnlk* and i» one of caution Rone wrontf. Dortny 2. Wilson lost the seventeenth to Jacobs' well-played 4. but it was at Hip eighteenth, where Jacobs' drive landed in a bunker, that Wilson really decided to employ safety ta< tics. Grn.»pin({ his rnafhip he played two short, but vory safe, flints to the entrance to the serpen. Jacobs meanwhile hnd careered from blinker to bunker, but finally recovered to manfully hole in .one putt for a 5. Wilson, wlirv had chipped warily on in three tf>o wiirily-tlfrep-piittcl anrl the match wan square on the nineteenth fltid then tile twentieth, where Jacobs won with a sound 4.

Perhaps no more fit tine termination to th»xe notes can be found than to make reference to T. Simpson's win in the Hamilton Chili's match play event, the Bell (iit>. Thonyth Simiwon suffers the disability <>f a short leg and has to play in an iron support quite nix inches hitxh, lie w:is for some years one of the best

znlferw in the Waikato. It must be the best part <>f 20 years since he joined up at St. AndiewV. where he has been winner of innumerable events. A ;irand pportsman. lie lias the profound admiration of a hos-t of players and all will join issue in heartily congratulating him on his latest achievement.