FIRST QUALIFIER IS DEFEATED AT ROTORUA

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 208, 3 September 1942, Page 7

FIRST QUALIFIER IS DEFEATED AT ROTORUA

In the first round of match play on Tuesday in the New Zealand Veterans' Golf Cup tourney at Rotorua, O. E. Flyger, of New Plymouth, who led the qualifiers, was beaten by C. B. Pulley (Wellington).

W. W. Maingay had the advantage most of the way over G. H. Scott (who had been runner-up on three occasions). Maingay was 2 up at the eighth hole, though his opponent got it back, and at the tenth, where he conceded a stroke, was 1 up. The play alternated until the winner got control and ran out at the sixteenth.

The other ex-Veteran Cup champions had a keen struggle. The highlight of the Pulley-Flyger match occurred at the fifteenth. There Pulley played from outside the disc, and when he was recalled by his opponent Pulley put his next within a foot of the pin to win the hole in two and become 2 up.

D. MacCormick was equal to conceding his four strokes to H. T. Gillies (still another exchampion) and holding him until the eleventh, where the strokes finished. Gillies made a good recovery from the bunker at the twelfth, to halve the hole, which MacCormick looked like winning. After MacCormick missed an 18in putt at the fourteenth. Gillies took the next two holes and won the match with a half at the seventeenth. F. C. Ewen and H. L. Blamires, the latter of whom has a fine record In provincial cricket (he is a brother of E. O. Blamires, the New Zealand representative), had the closest struggle of the day, and it was the only match that went beyond the seventeenth green. At the most there was only one hole between the two at any part of the journey, and Ewen eventually won after three extra holes had been played. The first rounds of the minor events were:— Arikikapakapa Cup.—J. F. Hosking beat R. Sprague, 2 and 1; J. W. Barraclough beat R. G. Rainger, 1 up; H. F. Blackie beat G. S. McNair, 3 and 1; A. E. Godwin beat F. H. Simpson, 4 and 3; J. Kenny beat H. P. Bryan, 1 up; J. Pease beat A. Marsden, 2 and 1; D. L. Blyth beat W. A. Cootnbridge, 6 anc* 4; Somerset Smith beat A. Moore. 1 up.

Consolation Cup.—J. Banks beat J. T. Rogerson, 5 and 3; S. Powdrell beat F. W. Seifert, 1 upF. S. Candy beat T. Kelly, 3 and 2; W. R* Sloane beat S. Jounneaux, 6 and 4; A. Marsden beat S. J. Templeton, 7 and 6; J. R. Campbell beat S. G. Willcock, at the 19th; P. Campbell beat V. R. Gunn, 5 and 4; E. A. George beat C. Worthington, 3 and 2.