GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 102, 26 October 1929, Page 22

GOLF

S» "Chipmhot" SEASON CLOSING

CRAWFORD CRESCENT

lAN. MACEWAN AT PORTRUSH

Just why lengthening days.and longer evenings—with summer time an accomplished fact once more—should indicate the coming close of, the official golf season has always been a puzzle. The best part of the year for golf, with the frequent showers, and low temperatures, that extend as a rule up till Christmas, is only just commencing. Still, summer sports must be served, and cricket, tennis^ yachting, and perhaps the lure of the road, in the case of motorists, would probably thin tAe ranks of golfers even if the club competitions were delayed. Courses are, however, at their best now, and multiple mowers make short work of the spring flush of grass. At Heretaunga, where the golf season is only just commencing on that beautiful summer course, the links never were better. Elsewhere play will still be thoroughly enjoyable for a month or two, and the conditions for the finals of club championships, where these havo not already been played, are excellent. At Miramar a keen contest is expected between A. D. S. Duncan and J..H. Drake in the final to be plaved this week-end, because both are in form, and they finished all square, leading their teams in the Miramar-Wellington match played last week. In the Miramar junior championship, Mills plays Williams in the final. R. H. Nagle is the winner of the Magnus Cup, having beaten ,G. E. Rees 2 up on the seventysecond green. For the Webb Memorial Dr. Park beat Colonel Hughes by a considerable margin. ■ Orescent and Cup. The position regarding the Crawford Crescent and Squadron Cup, competed for between Wellington, Hutt, and Miramar Clubs, is interesting. In tho interclub matches for these trophies Miramar scored 59 points, Wellington 341 points, and Hutt 46 points. For the Crawford Crescent on 4th May, Wellington scored 6 points} and "_utt 2, and on sth Oetober the points recorded were the same. Hutt scored one point against Miramar's soven on 25th May, aud 3* points against 4i points on 24th August.. Against Miramar on llth May Wellington scored 4J points to Zi, and on 19th October 1| points to 64. Miramar therefore won the Crescent with 20J points, Wellington - i next with 18 points, and Hutt third with Si points. For the Squadron Cup, decided likewise by the first eight in interclub teams, but between Wellington and Miramar only, at Heretaunga in May, Miramar scored 3* points to -i. points, but made a walk-over of it last Saturday with 6J points to U winning.the cup by 10 points to 6. ft is interesting to note that in the interclub match points the Hutt's team tail evidently wagged to better advantage. Douglas's Home Record. A record of E. S. Douglas's performances in professional golf in the Midlands beforo returning to New Zealand to take up his present position with the Maungakiekio Golf Club, will bo interesting to golfing readers, writes the JNew Zealand Golf Council. 1923—Runner-up in the Midland Challenge Cup at l.cck. fetalis. Scoro MS (winner 14(i). 10:i?" I!-!'-n?T Up < J llc"aui ft-™ Championship at llosoley Scores 72 and 73 (winner 72 ™,nf'"T-.K T1' lt<* i"; 1000 Cu'nea To-irna- ,, ' ,*& l? a?* aml St- AnMS- Score 300 (Alio Mitchell, winner,' with 303). 10--—KlgMh In "Dally Mall" final at Holllnwell. -core 298 (winner's score 201) Ittmnerriip Midland Challcnso Cup. Scores 71 and ■ -> (winner 73 and 73). lilM^ 0n L! ,c mil*n* Professional Clmmplonreco'rd) " am* 7° (tl,° former a miKi1*!. 8 I"*nner h0 was runner-up In the *"<" an<'/ouraomes of 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1920 and In 1928 ho won the Silver Medal ln Surre? 0"'8 Tournament at Mid All the courses referred to in tho above-mentioned, scores are of 6500 yards or over. U Irish Open. ' Mr. lan MacEwan, of Wellington, was one of the competitors in the Irish open amateur championship, which was played over the course of the Royal Portrush Club. There were 133 competitors, and tho New Zealand golfer who was the only overseas player in tho eyont, was able to last as far as the sixth round, or the round beforo the semi-final. Mr. MacEwan, who is a nephew of Mr. F. M. B. Fisher, is an old-iboy of Waitaki High School. Ho ?00lV 0 T'^ty-Hall, Cambridge,- in 19-2: to read Law, and he plaved Rugby tor tho University side. " MacEwan had a bye in the first round, a,id in the second met and beat D M. Sexton (Gourock) by 3 and 1. the biggest surprise in the third round came with the defeat of G-. Seymour Nooii^ the holder, who was beaten' by F. P. M'Connell. F. P. M'Connell, whose brother - lias previously held the title, is a well-known Ulster Rugby football player. B J MacEwan had a keen match with A. (_ Allison, an Irish ex-champion of Royal Portrush. MacEwan was .three holes to tho good at the ninth, but was w'T ti "Vm"' two *<>'Play- Allison won the- 17th to square, but becamebunkered going to the 19th, which MacEwan won in 4, to secure a win. in the fourth round the players were reduced to 32. MacEwan turned 3 up on H. G Bentley (Hesketh), who had rather the better of the homeward journey, but was beaten on the 17th' green. MacEwan met J. N. Reynard (Troon) in the fifth round, and beat him by 5 and 3. MacEwan's Defeat. The results of the sixth round were as follows:— Captain G. N. C. Martin (Royal Portrush) beat lan MacEwan (N«w Zealand) by 4 and. 3; J. A. Lang (Erskme) beat W. Campbell (Cambuslang) by 3 and 2; Major CO. Hezlet (Roy„l Portrush) beat J. Gorry (County Gaidar.) by 5 and 4; D. 8.-B. Sonlby (Portmarnoek) beat Erl Watson (Sandy-ills) by 5 and 4. Captain* Martin and MacEwan led the way, and the former played particn- ' larly_ well going out, reaching the turn in 35, at which stage he had a lead of five holes. He won on the 15th green, having lost only the 10th and the 13th . holes. . . '