NEW ZEALAND GOLFERS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19026, 14 June 1927, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND GOLFERS.

PLAY IN N.S.W. CHAMPIONr SHIPS.

gORTON WINS BRILLIANTLY.

rlBlI— r3E33 ASSOCIATION—-CCrYr.IQHT). {ZftUWIX AND S.Z. CABLE ..SSOrIATION.I

/■Received June 13th. 10.30 p.m.)

SYDNEY, June 13. jj, e weather was fine in the morn- . though bitterly cold, for the first of match I )1:iV in the Now South Ujjea amateur golf championship, but '( ' heavy showers of rain fell during ' Ue afternoon. Dtmean and Apperley had a battle nraL The New Zealander went out in «j j, n t took three putts on the tenth Jgen, and from thence onward his putto* was weak. Apperley won the u(th eleventh, and sixteenth, but Dunjuj jqnared the match at the sevenjMßth* only to lose the eighteenth, j. jjj afternoon Duncan won the first, Ist lost the third and fourth. He was tiro down at the ninth and though he *OB the tenth Apperley had the upper jind, and won 3 up and two. Horton played against Thorn and won til third, but Thorn squared the match A {he fifth. Horton then won the sixth, livwth, eighth, and ninth, and mainlining his form was five up at the ttMlnsion of the morning round. In tie afternoon he sparkled out in 36, gjd eventually won 9up and eight. Ho Iteto Busiell, of Victoria, to-morrow. ' WWttOB played fine golf against Mac'taint, and the New Zealander was gfCn down at the conclusion of the lowing round, and gave up the match. A feature of the play was the defeat rf the present champion, Morrison, by tonwefc „ . , , , The remits of the day's play wore:— , Whitton defeated Macfarlane, who Hcimed. JLflarrison defeated B. 0. J. Bettingto, four up and three. Sigel Smith defeated D. Coonan, three » and two. iE. L. Apperley defeated A. D. S. Daaean, three up and two. A. Buwell defeated Wines, six up and Itt. ;> ,T.- VL Horton defeated A. M. Thorn lite up and eight. W. C. Stnrrock defoated H. Morrison, three up and one. Walter Smith defeated P. Q. Murdoch, two up and one. Ties for the throe last places b the qualifying round were playel oft yesterday and resulted:—W. R. Smith 77, B. L. Apperley 83, E. M. Maefiilane 86, G. W. Eastaway 87. Sydney Jonei did not play.