Golf OTAGO BEASTS CANTERBURY

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28543, 24 March 1958, Page 12

Golf OTAGO BEASTS CANTERBURY

Annual Match At Oamaru < (From Our Own Rerlirter) OAMARU, Mlirch 23. Although the teams weremU square in the singles. Otago’s; lesW of tour to one in the foursomes with one game squared, gave Ota/fp victory in the annual golf mated) against Canterbury, which was jdlayed on the Oamaru Golf Club’s links during the week-end. A New Zealand selector. Mr A. Scoular, watched the plag r in the singles. . .. . The foursomes were drtcided on the Saturday afternoon, when the honours went to Otago, butj the Canterbury men were a diffefrent proposition in the singles pltoyed this morning. ' The Otago first stringl, A. R. Timms, went down to Caiaterbury s R. E. Clements by the narrow margin of one hole. The match could have gone either way. Clements went out in i 38 and coming home Timms was cane down with three holes to play. The tension was on and these thrnee holes were halved. Clements cohered the course in 75—three above par. K. D. Foxton. probably Canterbury’s most consistent golfer, finished a hole to the good ? against Otago’s R. D. Kearns. Thw players were all square at the Uirn and Foxton clinched the match when he won the sixteenth, the remaining two holes being halved. Results, Otago names first,; were:— Singles.—A. R. Timms lost tto R. E. Clements, one down; R. D.' Kearns lost to K. D. Foxton, one* down; T W. Wight beat G. J. Scott, lone up: J. H. Rogers lost to R. J._lUmsay one down; R. T. Murray bedt R. K. Atkinson. 7-5; B. A. Whitburn beat B. L. Clegg. 5-4; T. C. Tyrrell lost to A. W. Robinson, one dapwn; A Gibbs v. W. J. McGavock, all C. R. Colquhoun beat H. Jfcihnson. 3-1; D. G. Sutherland beat'F. W. Roberts, one up;- J. A. Howafith lost to G. P. Vesty. 5-7; W. G. Smith v. D. Murdoch, all square. Foursomes.—Timms and v. Clements and Foxton. all square: Rogers and Wight lost to Ramsay ana Scott, two down; Murraiy ana Whitburn beat Atkinson and Clegg. 3-1; Gibbs and* Tyrrell beat {Robinson and McGavock, 3-1; Smiflh and Sutherland beat Johnson and! Roberts, 3-2; Howarth and Colqiuhoun beat Vesty and Murdoch, one? up.