GOLF AT MIRAMAR

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 13

GOLF AT MIRAMAR

IDEAL CONDITIONS

THE SEMI-FINALISTS

■ In perfect golfing weather, delightfully fresh and cool, with a breozo just strong enough to give interest to the play, the .championships of the New Year tournament at Miramar and the group handicap events were advanced a stage to-day, the 'semi-finalists beings decided this morning, who will play 'off j this afternoon to decide the finalists. The strain of playing against the gale in the rain yesterday was perceptible inmost players. The •■ final of the championship will bo played over3i36 holes to-morrow. The report of yester-. day's games appears on page 3. The exit of the Miramar Club champion, J. L. Petley, yesterday, was largely due to the wind. He has a very full upright swing, and' the endeavour •] to curtail it in the wina,led to errors' in direction,' which gave his opponent, Armstrong, the first four holes, and Petley was 5 fown at the turn. The following are the results of the morning's play:—■ CHAMPIONSHIP. ■8..M. Silk beat C. L.Dentiee, 3 and .T. H. Drake beat C. H. Armstrong, 5 and 4. H. A. Black beat W. Flanagan; 4 and 3« D. O. Whyte beat M. Mcßeth, 2 and NOTES ON PLAY. B. M. Silk, the Wanganui player, who made such a good showing at Shirley, proving himself to have .all the necessary shots at times, and only failing through inability to produce them regularly, was. thinking a good deal in the outward run to-day against C. L. Dentice, a longer handicap player. The first was halved. Silk won the second, where Dentice took 6. The third was won by Dentice in 4. Dentice took the fourth, in 3, and the fifth in 3. The short hole was halved. The seventh was halved in s's. Silk won the eighth in 3, and the ninth in 4. Dentice'took the. tenth in 4, and Silk the eleventh in 4. The twelfth was halved in 4,'s. Silk, whose second got a lu(iky kick. at the thirteenth, sank; a threefooter for a 3,' and,. Dentiee;. going astray from the tee at the fourteenth, took that also in 3! The fifteenth was halved in 4, and the match ended, 3 and 2,.when Silk took the sixteeriiih. in 3. Dentice was. out in 39 with a 6 in it. Silk was even fours, to the , sixteenth for the round, and frushed witha 6 and a 4, giving him a 74. ' : H. A. Black was 2 up at the turn on W. Flanagan, going out in 39 to 39. The tenth was. halved. ' Black won the eleventh in 4. The next was halved. Flanagan won the thirteenth in 4, and Black won the fourteenth in 3, and the fifteenth in 4, winning, 4 and 2, having done a neat 74; Whyte was 2 up at the turn on Meßeth, and went on to win 2 and 1. Whyte was out in' 37 to' 39, and both were back in 38. Both drove the eighth green (280 yards) and got 3's. Mcßeth lay dead in 3 at the first, but Whyte holed a 40-footer, after having been.in trouble, and Meßeth, naturally enough, missed his putt. Drake was 3 up at the turn on Armstrong, taking 37 out, and increased his lead. ■ GROUP HANDICAPS. 1 Group No. 1. Second Ronnd.—Hurst beat Bishop; 4 and 3; Rees beat Smith, 4 and 3; Sutherland beat Rooke, 6 and 4; Poole beat Stratmore, 2 and 1. Group No. 2. Third Round.—Dalgleish beat Halley, 2 up; Palmer beat Sandham, 3 and 2. '~..' Group No. 3; . . , ;TKird Round.^-Colwill beat' Matthews, 1 up; Fearn beat Kelly, 1 up. •"i . -~- Group No. 4. Third Round.—TTarkin beat Ashby, 1 up; Greig beat Hendry, 3 arid 1. ,'■-,■ Group No*. 5. . Third Round.—Kidd beat McNair, 1 up; Farr beat Downer, 3 and 2. Group No, 6. Third Round.—Marsdon beat McCabe; i and 3; Akers beat Heslop, 6" and 5.