INTERPROVINCIAL TOURNAMENT

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27637, 19 April 1955, Page 14

INTERPROVINCIAL TOURNAMENT

CANTERBURY TEAM ANNOUNCED

Canterbury’s team for the Freyberg r-'sebowl interprovincial golf tournament was announced yesterday by the selectors (Messrs C. J. Ward. A. r. Blank, and W. D. Armstrong). In pl-ying order, the team is:

C. W. Caldwell (Christchurch). C. J. Ward (Christchurch). R. E. Clements (Templeton). M. W. Stanley (Russley). E. G. Kerr (Timaru). R. D. Kearns (Christchurch). G. P. Vesty, of Timaru, is the emergency.

Canterbury has a strong and experienced team for the contest. Last year Caldwell, playing first for Hawke’s Bay, won five of his six matches. Since returning to Christchurch he has won the stroke championship at Shirley at Christmas, when he had a round of 68, and he was runner-up to Ward in the match play. Ward, noted for his ability as a match player, is the present Canterbury amateur champion. Clements, one of the longest hitters in the country, won the stroke and match play championship at the Christchurch Club’s Easter tournament, when his golf was of outstanding quality. Stanley, who is the Russley Club’s champion, will make a strong number four, especially as the tournament is being played on his home course. He did best of the Canterbury players at the last national championship at Heretaunga, and he played particularly well in the 1954 Freyberg rosebowl tournament. Kerr, the Timaru and South Canterbury champion, is a former South Island champion, and he is a steady and reliable match player. Kearns, the youngest member of the team—he is only 22—was another who had five wins last year. Vesty is a particularly promising young player who won the plate Competition at the recent Shirley tournament.

There are 12 teams in the competition, which will be played on May 19, 20, and 21. Each team plays six matches, and Canterbury appears to be slightly fortunate in the draw, for it* v.: i not meet Manawatu-Wanganui, ’ has won the contest for the last three years. The Russley tournament will be the fifth in the series. The matches were first played in March, 1951, as part of

centennial celebrations. This tournament was played at Shirley, arid Was won by Wellington on a count-back from Canterbury. The three subsequent meetings were at Paraparaumu, Shirley, and Palmerston North, and Manawatu-Wellington won each time.

SNEAD WINS GREENSBORO TOURNAMENT

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.)

GREENSBORO (North Carolina). April 17. Peter Thomson, of Melbourne, returned a fourth-round score of 69 today to give him a tie with six others for eighteenth place in the Greater Greensboro open golf tournament. Thomson won 140 dollars. His aggregate was 286. The winner, Sam Snead, had 273, one stroke ahead of Art Wall and Julius Boros. Wall missed a five-foot putt at the last hole that would have given him a tie with Snead.

Snead won 2200 dollars, and Wall and Boros 1335 dollars.

LINCOLN CLUB.—Stableford bogey: D. Marrish. 31 points; K. Gillatt, 31; N. Cox, 30. Marrish won on a count-back. RANGIORA LADIES' CLUB.—The following are the results of a sealed partner round played by the Rangiora Ladies’ Golf Club recently: Mrs R. J. Hegan and Miss E. Mclntosh, 142; Mrs F. Cobden Cox and Mrs C. Chisnail, 146; Mrs E. Ryde and Mrs E. Sigley, 146; Mrs W. McKechnie and Mrs E. Manson. 147.