WOMEN'S TOURNEY ENDS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20214, 17 April 1931, Page 9

WOMEN'S TOURNEY ENDS.

AUTUMN FOURSOMES. SEMI-FINAL. AND FINAL ROUNDS. The autumn foursomes match was concluded at the Shirley links yesterday, when the semi-flaals were played in the morning, &nd the final in the afternoon. The weather in the morning was perfect, but in the afternoon, a cold drifting, sea-fog made conditions rather: chilly for the spectators, though it was not dense enough to affect the players. ; " The following were the results: —<Vi.'v Semi-finals. •' Miss.E.' Parsons and Miss H. Loughnan beat Mrs McOlatchie apd Miss B. Hobbs, 4 and 2. Miss E. Bell and' Miss S: Watson beat Mrs E. G. Kerr and Miss B. Kiver, 2 and 1. " Filial. Misses E. Bell and S, . Watson boat Misses'E. Parsons and H. Loughnan, 1 up at' the 19th. NOTES ON THE GAMES. In lhei> match against Mrs McClatchib and Miss B, Hobbs, who were receiving five strokes, Miss Parsons and Miss Loughnan started off with a - f 'birdie" 4 at the first hole. The second and third holes..' were halved, and at. Land's End and Farthest North both pairs holed but in 5, but. Mrs McOlatchie and Miss Hobbs received a stroke at each, thus winning both and making them 1 up. Miss Parsons- and Miss Loughnan responded by winning the next four holes, Which gave them a lead of 3 at the turn. The next two holes were halved, and Miss Loughnan and. her partner increased-their lead by a win with a .4 at The Pines, Mrs McOlatchie and JVliss Hobbs won Old Nick with a well-played 3; the"next two holes were halved, and Miss. Parsons and Miss Loughnan ' won »in 5, thus taking the match 4 arid 2. The match between Miss Enid Bell . (Herotaunga) and Miss Sophie Watson (Palmorston North) against-Mrs E. G. Kerr (Timaru) and Miss . B. Kiver (Christchurch). proved' very interesting throughout, and at times quite exciting. The .North Jsland players, who were conceding , three, strokes, had occasional extraordinary lapses on the green, varifed by more frequent flashes of startling brilliance. Misses Bell and Watson won the first hole' in 5, and, after being on the-green at Briggs' in . 2 . to -.their opponents' 3, they took 3putts and halved th«l hole in .5. At Land's End Miss Watson approached too far with her third, and the hole was won by Mrs Kerr and Miss Kiver in 6; At the fifth hole Mts Kerr and Miss Kiver r receiving a stroke, lost; a good chance by inaccuracy on the green, and succeeded in only halving the bole. At Mairehau, Miss Bell sank. a. 14ft •putt for a 4, and' with the assistance of her partner went on to win the seventh in a smartly-played 4. Miss Bell was now deadly on' the greens, and she gave her opponents little chance when she again holed 'a .magnificent putt for 4 at the eighth.; At

Cr-osswaya, Miss Kiver played a gqod J tee shot to the green and won 'the'hole in 3, reducing her opponents' lead-to' 2 up at the turn. The North Island' players won. Upshot, and at O'Borke's ■ Miss Kiver sank a long putt for se 5, | and, receiving a'stroke, won the hole--Encouraged by their win, Mrs Kerr and' Miss Kiver won the Pines in a well- | played 4, and Old Nick in 3, thus | squaring the match. At. Shirley, Misses j Bell and "Watson were ou the green. fca ! 2 to their opponents' 4/ but they toojc 4 putts, and just managed to halVo i the hole. The fifteenth was halved- in 4. At Pagoda, with.the match square, j Miss Watson sank a 14ft putt for 'a. 5 and a win. At the seventeenth, Miss Bell and Miss Kiver both, had fair drives. Miss' Watson played her.wood | to the edge of the green. Miss Bellfs .approach putt was short, but again Mi?a i Watson holed a very long .putt, and ] won the hole in 4 and the' match, 2 i and 1, - 1

The Final. • - A gallery / of about 100 interested spectators followed the; final match be* tween Misses' *Enid - Bell and Sophie Watson and E. Parsons -and Halmfji 'match'that 'once more exemplified the .wonderful-accuracy of the handicapping methods. _ Tho two pairs played' on icqiial terriis', and the match wad .on. the nineteenth green by one putt."' The first hole was halved in five. At Briggs's, both Miss Parsons and Miss Watson had poor drives, but Miss Bell reached tho* gfeen with her secondi r ' Miß3 .ParsorifiV Approach -ran down, the bank,'. but -Miss ,;L6ughnan pitched up. a -beautiful- jaiblicfc-photr to within a few 'inches of "the.pin, auith.o hole was' halved in'five,'"" At Mugperidge's Miss Loughnan' pufcihet tee shot on the green and Miss',Parsons 1 won 'tlve applause of the gallery by holing~a long putt ; for two, while th«' Ndrth Island pair struck trouble with their tee sh'oi. At Land's' three" well-played shots, Miss Loughnan 'holed out 4»' ; four —another "birdie "—to her opponents' five, and proceeded to her. position by winning the fifth lb five .""'Then the Canterbury- players struck "a bad patch and lost' Mairehau,. 1 which cost their opponents 'six.. s • Nor'-West ■ ■ "was halved. Miss Bell and Miss 1 -Watson then had more-than a passing flush of brilliance. Prom a good drive-at Terra Nova Miss Bell put a ;beautlful : Bhot oh the green, atod her.'partner holed out in a "birdie" three. ' At -Crossways Mies Bell'i toe shot was oil-the" green, ;whfilp Miss Xoughnan's was isbortc) ■ Again - Miss Watson holed the putt l Jfor • another "birdie" and squared the match.";. At the tenth, fyCiss. Parsons played*a fine shot out of the shallow bunker jon- the right of the fairway, in to the greon and won the hole in .five. The North Island pair squared the. match' with a smartly played four at O'Rorke's, ,and at the Pines Miss Loughnan stymied Miss Bell, and the hole was Halved in five. Miss Bell had; an.' accurate tee' shot at Old Nick, which she .won in three. Shirley provided an almost incredible number of incidents. From a good drive, Miss Loughnan- put the second into the bunker to the left of the green, aud Miss Bell promptly followed suit, her ball lying, in an almost unplayable position in the same bunker. Miss Watson, nobly making the best of a very." bad job, hit out with terrific force, and her ball flow across the green, hit the fence at the back of the green-keeper's house;- and came to rest in the rough I After; many further -vicis- • situdeß fn both sides, Miss Loughnan fcnd Miss Parsons won the.hole, and also took Farthest South in three, to their opponents' four. After two fine drives at Pagoda,-:Mis# Parsons found the bunker near the green -with the third" shot, and 'Miss Bell and her partner won the hole in six. At'the seventeenth, Misa Bell had a poor drive, but her partner made a good recovery and-the;

green was reached? in three. Miss ''Loughnan had' a' fine" driye, Mt-MiM. 'FSutoni duffed a" wooden snob and fwsi Into the creek. Miss Loughnan' picked out and put the fourth v on the green, but her, opponents' putted out mfive and Vere one up coming to the, eighteenth tee.' ;I They lost their advantage-at ;the, eighteenth, which the L Canterbury playeip \von in ..fouri, to' five, Miss Watson being flhort with her approach putt, .AM sqtfare,"they teed up at .the nineteenth. Miss Loughnan. had. the better- drive,] tlie>bankerundou\ Jmiss'Belfeand iMiss Watson played a, t""~ jrefnl th|»e on.to the green, ana, takg two pSfcts, won the hol6 in fiva.,ta' Jix, and tlfe. match. <| Mi- M. fit Godby acted as umpire. i| Opnsolatioo M^tcJx.'' 'J -A consolation handicap four~ Some matjilj., for prizes kindly 1 given. By Mrs (Miy Williams, resulted in. «" ;sle betweejOlrs H.<Dodgshnn and Misa 1 'o.' Kay |Dunedin) and Mis?" BettyMrs Lionel Cooke, eachi fnir b<ynji|2 down, but as was the better on ■like secondlnalf, they were declared tKb. winners,' ' , ® The folli ring were the .best" scores-? — ■Mrs Dodg! Un and; slisß.J£ay ; 2 4owni Miss B. Bu 1 lerford.«nct.4&s iL<pK' <. f| Cooke ■ .1 ■> 2-^owa Misses Ga< er 3' dtfwn 'Mrs J. H. fsrigg and' Miss N.' f William ' ~ ..5 down Mrs E. L. Kpung and Mrs/Vici|' tor Ha lilton - .. .. 0 down srs Britta! 'and. Miss R. Mac- § ' farlane | " 6 dpwn Mra J. O. ®acock and Mrs A." | McKifmp .. ... 6 down Mrs S. J. Sj&mpflon and Miss M.- Orl ' -. • • 7 down Miss B. Coftcrill and Miss ~ J. 1 Webst# 7 do™ Mrs E. T. |§?osswill and Mrs I Patonl 4 .. •• 8 down Mrs R. C. and , Mrs 1 Fraterf - ... ..'-Sdown fs GodbyJ and Mrs Brodie 9 down Presentation of Prizes. I?A£teV Miss Jessie, Wilktn, . captain ofpthe- Christchurch • Ladies 1 • G&lf Club, Expressed L the indebtedness. o£ golfers wroughout New to Guy Wfiliama, for inaugurating tho Mtumn - competition, and to fours<«ri®s committee for its work life with the tournament. She st|d that SSirley players considered it pid a privilege to have the match playlft' on their links this year, Wig|am, president of tho Chrjst.ciurcli Lades' Golf Club, in congratulating the -mnners, said she did not retrjgmber anp previous tournament in which been so many matches had goie to the 19th and even the 2Oth green before finality was reached.Sfije considejptl that the closeness of tho gjunes showed that the standard of play was high, the system of handicap- J piAg i ' >\Lady Wigjram then presented th? as f^ows: — foursomes (Challenge cups presented- Guy Williams, Masterto®, and "replicas presented by Mrs: and Miss Bussell, Palmerston North):. Misses Enis Bell (Wellington) , -ahd : Sophie Watttfi>n (Palmerston North). Bunilers-up (prizes presented _ by Christchurch,Ladies' Golf Club): Misses E. Parsons (Hanm&ir Springs) and Halmai Jioughnan (Christchurclt). * Medal Handicap Foursonje (prized- presented by Mrs J. B. Donald): 'jfoses B. C'otterill (Christchurch)'and*: J. Webster (Wellington). < Consolation Handicap Bogey Foursome (prizes presented by Mrs Gay W«iiapis): Mrs. H. Dodgshun and -M«» °- Kay . (Dilnedin). . , v . Mrs Guy on behalf of tne New Zealand-Ladies' Golf Union, tbank-

ihtt' the l&ka Ladies' Gol* CJab' ft*J** , given at the* tournament, pnove'd- aa. iuiq%&Se<s^ccew,"^;'% £#* • RICHMOND HILL CLUB. The draw lor th» fib* : qua WW* >* ■ : the captain a. trfifihy m •• follow* Mhe< sixteen bell net »core» oyer 36 holw qu*lif3f fte the match Play «tsfea):—nT.B. Kni|Mtand J V. L. Brandt, R. H. Booih aad£vßsK™y>: * E°. Hiwtla and J- B.'.BwwlifcJ. X. KvJfenw. J. Wifco* an J D. C. Jtfmttop, J*. S. and^O. Hamilton, V. E„ WMo^sqA, i D, Edmonds and Cf. M. Hail, U/Oorna|« ;sndS®iiS#fM I V If a !J&i V, ■«- 'S.Ju* su wit : - v i> "t 1 , HARKWOOH CLUB. uaWad; - 'Flsyw* arts awn. partners awl ■ tßftsb *■* ' The'foUowiqff-i* *W. dwif for Golf Union ww*-, «U»>. mda&wmnd* to 1» alias If. Hacdowrid nu3 lira ifottafe VOTaj Mo wish' and vjfta and.Jflsa AV Ainhw# and Mr. Mra'iO'DonoHua. aritfc J ,Mks J.- ' Dixon and Jf*l Palmer. Misa afot MAa A. Pixon. ■ RUSSLEY LADIES' CtJIB. j la th« JiGf.tr. medal match played 'fct Bow-ley-yesterday, riemlwt vasthp ▼«: nor senior grade B. in tho junior. , " -. <. . Following were the Jrtfft »cores :<—- . Grpss. ,pe?. Wet. Misa V. Fleming 85 >»,'■ 73, Miss G. H, Cotton . •«, 87, 10. ,• »7 Jlrs E.-H. ""Clark , •«*." 'B3 18-. 4ft, Mrs R. M*. Adama ~. 101 SV , .74 Mrs H.„P. Lawry •♦ -§7 .1? «.I5 R. A. Bagshfcw ~ .' lis 33; 80 Miss.P. Bonnhare ~' 101 I# jM Misa B. Holmes - * 101 is* ra „5 , ' ,'N "T.'r* * ? \ f GERAIiDINE - CtlJB.. ' r On Saturday .1 ate**' tortpetitiftn will-to flayed on th<4 GBnildine\luiks* r tphjMtjOTf'yi "women—Mis J. Xr, 'Bjark«)f V. 8 « liams; Mm G. "\V. Pieldea y. Mra Wi MeClura, V, ' ' 1 ,s ' T

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