PLATERS AND THEIR PLAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 914, 6 September 1910, Page 7

PLATERS AND THEIR PLAY.

j'..(By Toles;ro.pii.—Special ; Correspondent.)... '.); '. : ;.,,; 'September'Sr::' ■. The way in wMcn Duncan inadO use of ,-the 'wiua. was a>-treat to' watch;' Ho're-' l^atedly/-vanquished /the', redoubtablo ;; .Colonel" Bogey; 'and,' at-;t&e;'cios£.;bf/tho' /day's play,, was leading two strokes ahead :of Clomohts- arid Bidwill for the - championship. ■ His :score''was;—First -round: ii,' i„ s,'i,i,.s, 5, 4,: i,is, a, ,i,:i, i,a;.i, a, ■i;. total 75... Second' round: '4, 6, 3, 5, 4,.2, 5, i,:.5,:i f i, "4;- 3, i, 4,; 4;.4,; 5; total,' 74.' Grand. totai,\.l49. ■:.■: . .... -jH.:E. Wright, tho Christchurch champion,', played . in ' consistent fashion,. his total, scor.es.for/tno first arid second round being, 'identical with Duncan's.. In the first round his card showed tho following' score:—G, 4; 2," : 5, ;G, '3, 5/ 2, ,8,,.'4,, 3, .3,' 5, 4, '4, 5, 6,,5; t0ta1,;75.; Second round: '8; 5, 2,4, '5,:*, 5, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4,'5,-4, 4j 4,' total,-74.;. Grand total, ,149. /> ;J.' A.- Clements, in the first rounds went round -in- 73,: and,' incidentally,, broke the record.': His card showed: 4, 5, 3, 4, 5, 3, 5; 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5,-5, 4, 4; total,' 73. In. the ■ second round he lost the: advau-. ■tage /which ho had gained in. the: morn-ing,-being.at; fault .on one. or two holes on: the' outward, journey, /and;' at..the turn, he was four niore'than "Bogey." Coming home he gave a brilliant display,• beating the-"Coloriel" in''the, last' four .holes.--His card in the: afternoon was: Af.i, 4, ;5, 7, ,4,: 7, ,4, .4, 4, 4, ,3, i; 4, ,4, 4, 4, ■4 i • total, -78.;, Grand total,.' 151.,-,'/. : Bidwill also/put. up the record score,of. '73, in, tho. nioming, but, like Clements,, failed to repeat the performance in tho afternoon, his:: score on this occasion being also identical with that of. the ex-' champion.'.: His card, in the : first round;' was:. 5, 4, 3, 5; 0..4, 5; 3, 5, 4, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, :4, 4, 4; total 73; and, in the Second round, the score was 4, 4,4, 4, 8, 3, 5, 3, 5 4 4 ■3, 5; 4, 4, 7, : 5,. 4'j total 78.. Grand total 5 , 151.'. ;■■■'.-».,'■ ;,- I; . After .securing third place in .the. first i.roundrwith a-score of 74, Fisher played very disappointingly in the.second, quite losing his. position, and' dropping I'.down to .tenth'place. In tho morning his card was: 6, 5, 3, 4, 5, 3,-5, 4, 5, 3, 3,: 2, ,'4, 4, .4, 4, 5, 5; total 74. In the afternoon he took. 86 for.the: round as against ■"Bogey"'77. The following is his card — 6, 6, 3,'fi, 5, 4, ,6, 4, 4,. 4, 4, 5, i, 4,'6, 6 5 .5; total 86.. Grand total, ,160. : Concurrently, with the.fourth round' of .the "open'championship, and the second qualifying round of 'tho 1 ' amateur, championship, the • inter-club ohalleuge ■ vaso (presented by Mr.. E. D. O'Rorko) will be played for.'' Teams of four players will represent each olub, their aggregate gross scores-being the deciding • factor.