CRAWFORD CRESCENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1938, Page 18

CRAWFORD CRESCENT

HUTT V. MIRAMAR

The A teams from the Hutt and Miramar Clubs met on the Hutt links on Saturday afternoon and the match resulted in a win for the home team by 7 games to 4, with one game squared. The first eight players met for the Crawford Crescent, and this, also, was won by Hutt by 5 games to 3. Guy Home (Hutt) and H. Black (Miramar), the respective No. l's, had a close tussle which was not characterised by scintillating golf. Home finally won 1 up: Both did the first in steady 4's, but Black's drive at the second ended in some bushes on the left of the fairway. Home, whose greater accuracy was the decisive factor in his win, carded a 5 to Black's 6, and went to the lead. Black was off the line for a spell and Home went to. the fifth tee 3 up. The fifth was halved in 6's, after Black's putting had cost him an almost certain win, and Home's..*to 5 win at the sixth put him 4 up. Black won the seventh back and squared the eighth and ninth in 4's. His game was,, showing distinct signs of improvement at this stage, and he set. out on the return journey to' steadily reduce Home's 3 up lead. Home was out in 40 and Black 43. Black won the tenth, but lost the eleventh, where Home got a neat 3. The twelfth and thirteen were halved, but Black won the fourteenth in 4 to 5, leaving him 2 down. The fifteenth and sixteenth were halved and Black reduced Home's lead to 1 up when he won the seventeenth. Home was hard pressed to retain his lead of 1 up, and the last hole provided an interesting duel. Both gpt useful drives away, but Home's iron second, although perfect in direction, ended well short of the pin. Black was well to the left, but a beautiful lofted approach stopped a.foot from the hole. Home's third— a run-up approach—clinched the match. It left him within easy putting distance and both sank their putts for a half in 4, Home taking the match 1 up. '.''■'■ ■• • . Black's last nine holes provided the best golf of the match and he carded a 37. Home's return journey took 39. The links were in remarkably good order, but the fast greens had both Home and Black worried. The putting was not good, but the driving and approaching of both were, for the most part, excellent. Home, as usual, used his iron with skill, and got some clinking seconds away into the teeth of a strong southerly wind. . Jeffery (Miramar) took the first and second- holes in excellent figures, against Koberts (Hutt), and went to the third hole 2 up. He halved the third in 4,; but thereafter his play dwindled away rather and he allowed Roberts, whose driving was excellent, to turn for home 1 up. Jeffery showed improvement at the start of the second nine, but after winning the tenth, and twelfth in 4's (Roberts won the eleventh iri bogey 3) and squaring the match, he had another bad spasm. Roberts w6n the fourteenth and fifteenth, where Jeffery put two balls into the rough, and the sixteenth . was halved, leaving Roberts dormy 2. The seventeenth was halved and Roberts took the-match, 2 and 1. - ':• Perhaps the most exciting play was provided by J. Drake (Miramar), who, at one stage, was 5 down with six holes to play against I. Eweri.1; He settled down to matters and won the next six holes running and won the match 1 up.."- ' "■■'.' •■' Results were, Hutt.players mentioned first: —• t W. G. Home beat H. A. Black, 1 up; G. P. Roberts beat K. Jeffery, 2 and 1: X A. Ewen lost to J. H. Drake, 1 down: W. K. Cook lost to W. Flanagan,1 3 and 1; J. F. Pym beat G. S. Rees, 2 up; W. G. Fisher beat D. Halley, 3 and 2; S. C. Taylor beat H. Aplin/6 and 5; H.« Adamson lost to J. Shelly, 2 down; D. Swift beat L. Hurst, 5 and 4; J. Burnard and S. Hiddlestone, all.square;-A;'E. Park lost to J. Smith, 3 and 2; G. Rapley beat Beale, 3 and 2.. •=•, ■ :-■.■ ",.•■ ..■ '.- ■■■■■' . ■ >■■••■■■ B TEAMS. ■■.•'■■ The Miramar and Hutt B teams met at Miramar, the match resulting in a draw, six games each. Following aire the results, Miramar players mentioned first: — J. P. Colwill beat G. Y. Berry, 2 and 1; C. L. Dentice lost to R. Adams, 2 down; J. W. Sandham beat J. B. Stevens, 3 and 2; H. H. McLean beat A. J. Hyams, 3 and 2; W. L. Burch beat R. F. Jollands, 3 and 2; H. M. Dykes lost to I. Macallan, 2 down; H. E. Napier lost to F. M. Gibbons, 3 and 1; J. Houston lost to E. Thompson, 3 and 2; C. H. Armstrong beat D. McCaskill, 6 and 5; A. A. Moore lost to E. Patrridge, 4 and 3; C. V. Sutherland beat W. L. Parsons, 1 up;, J. Jacques lost to R. D. Wraight, 2 and Hutt won the inter-club match with 13 games, against Miramar's 10, with one game squared.