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Grey River Argus, 15 June 1927, Page 5

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N.S.W. Tourney. HORTON’S TUSSLE. (Australian ami N.Z. Cable Assn.) SYDNEY, Juno 14. For the Gold Championship play the weather to-day was showery and cold. At the conclusion of the morning round, Russell was one up on Horton. The play was especially brilliant. The scores were:—Russell, 71; Horton, 72. (Received June- 14 at 10.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 14. In the second round of the Amateur Golf Championship, played in showery weather, Russell and Horton. had a tremendous struggle), Ifortoi) started brilliantly with a two at the first, then he lost the second. The third was halved. Horton won the fourth and Russell the fifth. The -sixth was halved, but Russell won the long seventh with a birdie four. After the eighth had been halved, Horton squared the match with a birdie three at the ninth. Horton took three putts at the tenth, but his brilliant three at the eleventh squared the game again. The twelfth was halved, and Horton took the load, winning the thirteenth, but a great three by Russell at the fifteenth evened things again. llprton sank a thirty foot putt for a half at tho sixteenth, but missed his putt at the eighteenth and finished one down. Russell’s round was seventy-one and Horton’s seventy-two. In the afternoon. Russell won tho second, and Horton the third. The Victorian won tho fourth and fifth. The sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth were halved, though a stymie cost Horton a win at the eighth. Horton here commenced to putt badly, and he lost the tenth and tho eleventh, and only halved the twelfth. He was then four down and six to play. He then won the thirteenth and fourteenth, but Rus sell negotiated a. stymie at tho fifteenth for a half. Morton won the six-, tecuth, but pulled his tec sh°t at tbe-

seventeenth. His ball moved as he was addressing it, and he duffed his third, and Russell won the hole and the match, two up and one to play. Horton, played a great game, and was unlucky to strike a player like Russell at the top of his game. Smith, a youth from the nine hole course at Longreef, made the sensation of the tournament. He defeated Murdoch in the first round,-and in the second overwhelmed Sturrock, the conqueror of Aforrison. The detailed results of the second round of tho Amateur Golf Championship are:—Whitton defeated Harrison, 6 and a; Apperly defeated NigeiSmith, 11 and 10; Russell defeated .Horton, 2 and 1; Walter defeatpd Sturrockj 7 aud 5»