CENTENARY GOLF

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 58, 1 December 1934, Page 7

CENTENARY GOLF

Stroke Contests Delayed By Rain

(Received November 30, 5.5 p.m.)

Melbourne, November 30.

Heavy rain has caused the postponement until to-morrow of the centenary golf carnival at the Peninsula Golf Club at Frankston. The event is the amateur and the professional stroke contest of 54 holes, with a gold cup valued at 150 guineas for the amateurs and a purse of £3OO for the professionals. The American professional competitors are Runyan, Craig, Wood, Diegel, Shute, Cooper. Laffoon, Thomson and Ezar. The British amateur team is not competing, but other visiting amateurs, including Shelley of New Zealand. have entered. BRITISH AMATEURS Match With Tasmania (Received November 30, 11.25 p.m.) Hobart, November 30. The British amateur golfers played their second match with Tasmania at Kingston Beach links to-day in wet and boisterous weather. Results were as follow:—

Foursomes: M. Scott and J. McLean defeated L. Nettlefold and P. Brown, 7 and 5; D. Bourn and I. Garnett defeated G. E. Davis and R. T. Brown, 7 and 6.

Singles: Garnett defeated Nettlefold, one up; Davis defeated Scott, 3 and 1; McLean defeated R. Brown, 7 and 6; Bourn defeated P. Brown, 2 and 1.