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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21258, 1 September 1934, Page 18

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CHUISTCHIIRCH LADIES' CLUB MISS B. KLTHEKFORD WINS CHAMPIONSHIP The final of the championship of the Christchurch Ladies' Golf Club , vas played over 3C holes at the Shir•j'ev' links yesterday between Miss Betty Rutherford and Miss Edna 'White-Parsons, Miss Rutherford win- : ninp at the thirty-fifth green, 3up and j \ n overcast sky and absence of w inr) made the weather conditions very pleasant and the links were in splendid order. 'judging by the handicaps 01. the flayers in Ihe final it would seem that ■the odds were greatly in favour of Miss Rutherford, whose Ladies' Golf 'Union handicap is four, and who <■ hares with Miss Valmai Fleming the honour of having the lowest handicap in the Hub. Mis? White-Parsons's handicap is nine: reduced it by ono stroke when playing m the Hew Plymouth open tnunianient last year, i.-.j- it v;i- not an easy victory tot Mis a Rutherford. Miss White-Parsons is a £o od match, player and on three 01mcr occasions, including . the time round of the club championship ld*t year, she has beaten Miss Rutherford. I)unn« the present tournament she v,as -hown good form, beating Miss Iv Johnston i handicap mi Miss FlemniK (handicap 4" tin bolder of the totlc and Miss Halmai I.oughnan (handicap 6L M.ss Rutlorford in the semi-final had beaten Miss M Beadel, a former champion handicap 6), at the nineteenth green. Miss Rutherford began more confidently than her opponent; she was on the green m two at the hrst hoe ■which she won m four to five '"■ ™ L second, after a line drive. Miss Rutherford put her approach down the bank to the left of the green, her » ran across the green, and her tuuith Lung on the lip or the cup. stymieing her opponent, who was three feet mm Ihe pin in three. Then Miss WhiteParsons's error of judgment cost hti ihe hole. Instead of playing safe tor « half she played for the hole and put her opponent in for lour while her own ball cannoned off. Miss Rutherford followed up her advantage by ■winning the third hole in three I o tour. Then Miss White-Parsons fought bacK After a good drive at Land's End and a fair second, Miss Rutherford put her third almost against the fence to the left of the green, but returning stymied her opponent. But Miss WhiteParsons made no mistake this time. She won applause from the .following crowd when with her mashie she chipped over her opponent's ball into Hie hole, and reduced her leeway to two down. Playing carefully, she won •ihe fifth in five to six. At the sixth Miss Rutherford found the ditch with her second, while Miss White-Par-sons's third sat on the long grass on the edge, enabling her to win the hole ■with a well-judged approach and one putt. With the match square, Miss White-Parsons won Nor'-West with a birdie three to her opponent's four, but lost the next 6-5. At Crossways, from a poor tee shot, Miss Rutherford put her approach within a few feet ot the pin and won the hole m three. making her one up at the turn.* Miss Rutherford was out-driving Miss White-Parsons, but did not seem to be on the best of terms with her mashie. while Miss White-Parsons was approaching and putting accurately. Shewon the tenth, halved the eleventh, and lost the twelfth, where Miss Rutherford had a fine drive and holed out ■in four. Faulty putting by Miss Rutherford allowed her opponent to square the match at Old Nick. At; Shirley Miss Rutherford drove to the edge of the creek, and holing out in four, was again one up. She fluffed a short approach at the fifteenth, and lost the hole, but won the sixteenth in five, after steering an erratic course near ■the fairway of Shirley. Miss Rutherford lost her advantage at the seventeenth, which she played badly. Miss White-Parsons winning the hole m five. The eighteenth was halved in fours, leaving the players all square. Neither had played as well as in the third round and semi-finals on Thursday. In the afternoon the game continued to be very even until the thirtieth hole was reached. The nineteenth was halved. Miss Rutherford won the twentieth, halved the twenty-first and twenty-second, and lost Farthest North, where the match was once more square. At Mairehau Miss WhiteParsons scored a birdie four to her opponent's five, but lost her advantage by a lapse on the green at Nor'-West, At Terra Nova Miss White-Parsons't drive landed under the trees on the right and it cost her four to reach the green, letting Miss Rutherford win the hole. Crossways was halved in three* and Miss Rutherford was 1 up at the turn. The next two holes were halved and Miss Rutherford increaser 1 her lead at the Pines with a wellplayed four. At Old Nick, Miss White-Parsons failed with her tee shot and again at Shirley her drive landed near the trees on the right Miss Rutherford profited by her opponent's mistakes and won Old Nici in three and Shirley in four, making her dormie 4. But Miss White-Par-tons was not yet beaten. Her opponent's inaccuracy on the green allowed her to win the thirty-third and thirty, fourth, leaving her 2 down. Tht .vtrain was now telling on both players They played Te Oranga badly. Miss White-Parsons put her third in. tin creek and Miss Rutherford won tilt hole and the match, 3 and 1. Miss Rutherford has now twice wot the club championship, her first success in this event having been gained in 1930. In 1932 and 1933 she won the Hawarden open championship; in 1935 she won the Masterton open championship, and the same year was runnerup in no fewer than three championship events—the Otago provincial, played at Baimacewan, and the South Canterbury and the Dominion championships, both played at Timaru. Miss White-Parsons has never before been in the final of the club championship, but she has been runner-up twice in the Canterbury provincial championship; once she was beaten by Miss Oliver Kay and this year by Miss Vaimai Fleming. fn tho final of the junior challenge eup competition, played over 18 holes at Shirley yesterday morning, Miss 'Wileen Nutt beat Mrs F. Brittan, 4 and Mrs M. H. God by acted as umpire for the championship match and Mrs Geoffrey Kingscote for the junior match. TIMARU LADIES' CLUB The best cards returned in a medal match played by the Timaru Ladies'

.NEW ZEALAND VETERANS' TOURNEY '.PfIKSS AMOCUTIOH TELEQRAM.) ROTORUA, August 31. In the thials of the New Zealand Veterans' golf tournament, decided at Arikikapakapa to-dav. W. O'Callaghan 'Hawera) defeated .1. Hughes iWel'linstoii'i. 10 up and !). for (lie Veterans' Cup. and Iv M. I.fulehison < Gisbornr i beat R. Barker <Gishnrne>. on, up. in the final. of the Ankikapakapa Cup handicap event.

I NEW ZEALANDERS WIN ! AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S FOURSOMES CUBU'EO russ iisouiATios —»i *:.»u*ia TELEUUAJ'U COJTHIGHr.; 'Received August 31. 11.10 p.m.' SYDNEY. August 31. 1 Although they dropped five strokes j compared with the morning round, the ~Nnw Zealanders, Miss Oliver Kay and j Miss Bessie Gaisford. played well j enough this afternoon to win the Aus-; j tralian women's foursome championj ship on the Royal Sydney links. Fine i rain fell during the day and parts of 1 the course were under water. j In the morning round Miss Kay was : hitting her woods well but could not : j find touch on the greens. Miss Gais- i ford putted excellently. Missed short j putts and visits to the rough pro-1 i cluceel two sevens in their afternoon ■ j round, but two birdies partly made up I for those lapses. j Miss Kernot and Mrs JBetting'ton, i who were only one stroke worse than j the New 'Zealanders' morning round, I crashed badly in the afternoon, re--1 turning a 99. Miss Hammond and Mrs . McKay had an amazing eagle three at i the 515 yard seventh hole. The former 1 hit a great tee shot, Mrs McKay fol- . 1 lowing with an equally good second.: ! Miss Hammond then holed out with a ■ i full mashie-niblick. i The leaders' scores were:

The handicap foursomes, based on ; the first Hi holes of the championship foursomes, was won by Miss B. Kernot ' ! (Geelongi and Mrs R. H. Bettington (New South Wales'. f.'J 'handicap (L. ; 77. Misses Kav and Gaisford were secj cud. ;;-' Gi 81. ; ' BRISTOL CI )' ANNL'AL COMPETITION PLAYED AT TLMARI 1 The annua! competition for the ; 'Bristol Cup, for which .11 clubs com- \ j peted, was played on the Highficld ! j links, and was won by the Timaru : 1 Club with a score of 008, Ashburton, j ■2B strokes behind, being next. At the j i conclusion of the competition the cap- ■ \ tain of the Timaru Club (Mr E. A [ ! Scott! presented the cup to the win- ; ! ning team. The aggregates were Ub follows: - i-'oin -

I The winning team consisted of: J. G. 1 Nichol. Rex. Jones. N. C. Martin, G. , j M. Gamble, J. L. McKay, and G. Fair- j I brother. 1 The best net scores in the handicap ' events were:— : FOURSOMES !W. Hedges and J. W. Keig .. VI \ 'J. G. Nichol and Rex Jones . i2 G. Fairbrother and G. Gamble ... 7^ j SINGLES J. G. Nichol .- •• •• <)7 1 Rex Jones .. .. fjo ; I KAWHITI LADIES' CLCB [ j The second qualifying round of the; club championship and Bishop Cup, will be played this afternoon, concurrently with the Ladies' Golf Union medal match. The draw is the same as: last week, and the starting time will | be from 12 noon to 2 p.m. Mrs B.! A. Miles and Mrs 11. Sparrow will be! in charge. ! ! , i AML'RI LADIES' CLUB j The following is the draw .for the third round of the Bethell Cup: Misa L. Gardner v. Miss C. Mcßae, Mrs AVatkins v. Miss M. I-liatt, Mrs W. D. Jelis v. Mrs J. L. Macf'arlane, Mi is S. Crosslty v. Mis 3 Tonkin, Miss G. Jjoag : v. Mrs L. H. Davison, Mrs S. Heard ; i v. Miss D. Dunn, Miss B. White v. • Miss M. Boag, Miss K. Polhill v. Mrs ; C. Deans, Miss Mulcock v. Mrs G. I Edgar Jones, Miss N. White v. Miss I E. Atkinson, Mrs 1. Rennie v. Mrs j Wade, Miss Chamberlain v. Miss K. Sutton, Mrs H. W. D. Rogers v. Miss | E. Robinson, Miss F. Davits v. Mrs ; W. B. McMillan, Mrs Mills v. Miss 1 Talbot , , tl The following have qualified for the j championship: Mrs D. C. Macfarlane, ' Mrs M. Bethell, Mrs G. Reid, Mrs Watkins, Miss M. Hiatt, Miss A. Duncan, Miss M. Boag, and Miss G. Boag.

t-iuo were: SKWOKS flcp. "Mrs Hawkcs . . 7 5 down ivri-s Grant » <> down :.'V]r.s W. A. Scolt .') 7 down VI;;;. Kerr K 7 down •ILWMOIIS 'Mvs Hum 11! ■"> down Mrs Oxford 21 7 down .'Mrs Skinner , 2 3 clown

F ru irst vine .Second 1. round. Tl. Misses Kav and-Gais-ford (N.Z.'i ">'.'. 87 U59 Mrs T. S. McKay and Miss J. Hammond (N.S.W.) 87 K."> 172 Mi.s.s V. Kbert and Mrs P. Sydney .Jones (N.S.W.) 8(i i«i 172 Miss P. Nankivill and Miss B. Bailey (Victoria^ ",7 88 175 Mrs A. Russell and Miss C. Laseellcs i Victoria) 117 !«) 177

lomes. Singles. ' 'ota Is. Tunaiii 21 !> 449 Wd Ashbur!'.>!i 22i> 470 OiVi FairJic 237 472 70') Rakaiu 2\A 47!) 714 Waimato 238 47G 714 Geraldiie IMti 471 717 Pleasant Point 235 401! 72;-; Oleii-iti 2. : >2 491 74,{ Temukii 247 490 74o Peel Fore.;t 252 494 7^d North End 253 C04 757