AMATEUR GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 20

AMATEUR GOLF

DEFEAT OF THE CHAMPION.

(fsoir oca ob-jj cohrespondext.) ■r j 19th February. ■■: Roger H. Wethered, the amateur golf chamipon, 'was defeated at Wokin- by J. A. Mackirjtosh.fßalUol College ?V a £ Bity captain) by 2; and 1. In the'result; that Wethered was short of practice/and wn,,S V f S he &rst half of the r°und Ti°?,W O!- haY? reflect«<l credit on an eisht-handicap player, whilst Mackinho£ rut7£^h St€ady' aDd atthe ci Sht!l of th* Ti I I- Came- the Wethe^f >, 1^ hen' °Q *«»'Bath g^eri, Wethered holed a ten-yard putt to regoTwi 6 of I?' -£>T- tha? Point h« drLl^ni ' cha™Plonshl P standard,- his dnves and aecond wooden shots were of exceptional length, whilst his pitching a.PPl° aChiDg WCTe . il^ an^hi'^o^" 3 rt? l Pky«i ateadilv, and lus golf was quite on a par with h« opponent's although he did not R et the same length with his wooden dubs f Blue wh 30?' the' Oxf«-a Soccer Blue who although only recently incorporated m^the Oxford golf ride, has proved Ench a valuable asset to tl.e "?' *?? Played Secoßd' a^ aave a good match to the old Cantab, and E n -. lish inUrnationalkti H. D. Gillies w'ro vron.by 2 3nd 1. GiUfe,, whose "^° tees _nave now become familiar adjuncts fe-his- 2ame f onnd the groond to bird that he could not injert the pc?, fcnt lllV*"™* *?£*?"! e^ectof bavins th* hall poised inzh by p&cih? a botUe on the ground. It was an ordinary ale hot-' l£ n *hf' BSC£' of wWch he fixed his rubber tube, the latter extending son-.e 3in as it wonid do above &» peg used. Mr. Gfflies obtained sn esreUent dnve at the first hole, and co satisfied was he with his experiment that ha continued to use it-when plavinwood from the tee. \ ■•-;."