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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 62, 10 September 1910, Page 14

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COMPETITIONS IN CHRISTCHURCH. DUNCAN DEFEATED. Tbt telegbaph— press association.! CHRISTCHURCH, 9th September. Play to-day was again favoured by almost ideal conditions, and there is every prospect that the competitors in the final rounds to-morrow will be equally fortunate this morning. The semifinals of the professionals' match were decided, with the result that Clements (the Shirley coach) beat Simpson, of St. Clair, and Herd (the Napier representative) put out Johnston. Clements and Herd will play off in the final round to-morrow morning. The semi-finals of the amateur championship were played off in the afternoon, and the final, which will be over 36 holes, will be decided to-morrow, one round being played in the morning, and the game finished in the afternoon. The following are the details of the day's play :—: — Professionals' Match. Play over 18 holes. First prize £10, second prize £2. Semi-finals. — J. A. Clements (Christchurch) beat W. Simpson (St. Clair), J. M. Herd (Napier) beat J. C. Johnston (Wanganui), 3 up and 2 to play. Amateur_ Championship of New Zealand. Play over 18 holes, final over 36 holes. Gold and silvei medals, presented by the New Zealand Golf Council, and trophies. Third round. — H. C. Smith (Dunedin) beat fl. R. H. Balneavis (Hutt), 5 up and 4 to play; H. U. Lusk (Christchurch) beat R. L. D. Kidston (Miramar), 2 up and 1 to play; B. B. Wood (Christchurch) beat B. J. Smith (Dunedin), 4 up and 3 to play; A. D. S. Duncan (Wellington) beat C. A. Seymour (Timaru), 4 up and 3 to play. Semi-finals : H. B. Lusk (Christchurch) beat B. J. Smith (Dunedin), 3 up and 2 to play; B. B. Wood (Christchurch) beat A. D. S. Duncan (Wellington), 3 up and 1 to play. Great interest was taken in the match between Duncan and Wood, who were followed throughout the round by a large gathering of spectators. The excitement was intense at the seventeenth hole, where Wood was 1 up, and, when ho won the hole and put Duncan out of the final, he was warmly applauded. Lusk, having beaten Smith, will play Wood in the final to-morrow ; and the championship must remain in Canterbury this year. MANAWATU TOURNEY. MISS COLLINS WINS AGAIN. [BY. TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PALMERSTON, 9th September. The Manawatu Club Ladies' Golf •Meeting was concluded at Hokowhitu to-day in delightful weather. The great attraction was the final for tho JManawatu championship, which many expected would see a reversal of the New Zealand championship finaL Miss Wray held the record for the course (85 on and 84 par), and' pat up the best round at the meeting (98) in qualifying for the championship against Miss Collins (98). Miss Collins began and continued very coolly, but her opponent was nervous, and her short game (usually remarkably good) failed her. At the seventh hole the New Zealand champion was 4 up, and turned with the same balance. The tenth was the first hole to go to Miss Wray. At the eleventh, Miss Wray landed nine inches from the hole with a stroke to the good, when iliss Collins laid her "stymie." Miss Wray lobbed over, but struck the rim, and stayed out. The eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth holes were halved, though Miss Wray had two strokes to the good on the latter green. Similar failures were made on the next two greens by Miss Wray, and then left Miss Collins 4 up and 3 to play, with her fourth successive championship won. The Second Medal Handicap was won Dy Miss Green (Otago), 96 — 11 — 85. Miss Sybil Abraham, 81, and Miss M'Lennaii, 89, were disqualified. WAI RONGOA MINERAL WATER. Messrs. Thomson and Co., of Dunedin, have been awarded three special gold medals for Wai Rongoa Natural Mineral Water, in open competition against the world at the British-Japanese Exhibition. Their world-wide supremacy has once more been verified beyond all doubt. Twenty-three special gold medals and thirty-one first-class certificates in international competitions ia a record that can't be beatea anywhere. — Advt.