GOLF VON NIDA BEATS BOTH MURRAY AND GLADING

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 March 1949, Page 8

GOLF VON NIDA BEATS BOTH MURRAY AND GLADING

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, March 13. Norman von Nida, the Australian golf professional, achieved his best form of nis present New Zealand tour when he beat the national open champion, A. Murray, 6 up anti 5 to play, in a match at Titirangi yesterday. Von Nida had a round of 68, six strokes below the standard of the scratch score of the course, and it was an official record. He had not played on it for 10 years. Von Nida scored one eagle and six birdies, and only at the eighteenth hole, where he took three putts from 15 feet, did he fail to make bogey or better. Murray went out in 36, three worse than von Nida, but one beter than bogey, but had a dismal run of 5,4, 5,6, for the first four holes of the second half, and’picked up after playing three without reaching the green on the seventeenth hole.

Murray will leave New Zealand on Wednesday tor a golf tour of Britain. Haying his second exhibition in two days, von Nida' beat the former New Zealand open champion and recently appointed professional, R. H. Glading, 7 up and 5 to play at Hamilton today. Von Nida had a round of 71, three under the standard scratch score, to Glading’s 78, and was greatly -superior about and on the greens.