Jones Dropped By Golf Selectors

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31767, 26 August 1968, Page 22

Jones Dropped By Golf Selectors

{New Zealand Press Association?

WAITOMO.

The Hawke’s Bay international, S. G. Jones, will return to New Zealand this week to find that he has been dropped from New Zealand’s team to play in the Eisenhower Trophy world amateur teams’ golf championship at Melbourne in October.

The team was announced after the North and South Island championships ended yesterday. It is J. D. Durry (Wellington), aged 32, E. J. McDougall (Waikato), 31, R. C. Murray (South Canterbury), 34, B. A. Stevens (Auck-

The selectors, Messrs V. C. Hollis (Waikato), J. G. Slade (Wellington), and J. A. Scouler (Otago), all attended the North Island tournament at Waitomo.

The side was announced after they had been informed of progress at the South Island tournament at Christchurch. The non-travelling reserve is G. E. Clarke (Otago), and the non-playing captain, Mr P. L. Phillips (Taranaki), who was selected several weeks ago. Jones has represented New Zealand regularly since 1953 and played in all five previous Eisenhower tournaments, St Andrews (1958), Pennsylvania (I 960 Kawana (1962), Ogliata, Rome (1964), and Mexico City (1966).

He is due to return home this week after unsuccessfully defending the Canadian amateur title he won last year. He was eliminated in the first round.

Durry, the present amateur champion, has played for New Zealand regularly since 1959, and Murray has been a national representative in an unbroken run for nearly a decade.

McDougall has regained the place he lost two years ago after representing New Zealand on several occasions, including the 1958 and 1964 Eisenhower tournaments. He won the North Island title yesterday. Stevens first won selection in the Mexico City tournament and was in the team which squared the Commonwealth tournament with Britain in Canada last year.