BLACKS IN FINAL

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 106, 1 November 1930, Page 11

BLACKS IN FINAL

RUTTER WINS PROFESSIONAL

REMARKABLE DAY

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") . PALMERSTON '■$~ 31st October. More than one record is held by the national golf ".championship meeting of 1030, but the weather is undisputedly the Svorst that has been experienced .within active playing memory. To-day, just at the "stage when a smiling gallery would - have assisted the finances of the tourney, the day dawned bleak and dull, and soon •■after the amateur semi-finals and the professional final over 36 holes had started, it. rained, not only steadily, but fiercely, sheets of water, driven by a wind that would have made golf difficult had it been' fine, clouding" the view. Gumboots and oilskins were in order, but nevertheless a surprisingly large number of enthusiasts, including a large percentage of ( ladies, followed the matches round. ; T. H. 'Horton has not been playing quite the golf that won him the Open at Shirley, and J. L. Black is too steady a goiter to let his opponent off lightly, but .it was somewhat of a surprise when the two brothers, J. L. Black and H. A. Black, accounted respectively to-day for T. H. Horton and L. Cathro. Neither had an easy victory, and those who followed the games in the storm saw some of the best bad weather golf that has ever' been played. yHorton played magnificent golf in the first round against J. L. Black, and H. A. Black played well all through to beat the determined Ca9tlecliff player. Jfone of the four were fair weather golfers. With- slippery grips, greasy tees, and sodden fairways, and greens, and with a westerly wind, which means a cross wind at most holes, all played fine golf, though at lunch tune, when it came to a change to dry clothes,; all found their frozen finger's awkward with buttons. Perhaps the conditions were in favour of Rutter, whose putting on a iast green, especially the short ones, makes him nervous, but Eutter certainly turned on some fine golf to. beat M'lntosh.