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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 30 August 1929, Page 3

GOLF.

AThSTR AL LA X A MA'L'EUE OH AMPIONSHI l\ liV A X I) LEE ATS MORI*KT H . riJi.it/-d I'rurti Association —By JO.cctric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) ADELAIDE. August *29. Sloan Morpeth (Now Zealand) lost the Australian amateur golf championship to Hyatt, two up and one to play. He was not quite Up to his recoil t brilliance and was unlucky with his putting. Morpeth won the first three holes by .steady play , tail was (showing a tendency to wander. The pair at the turn were .1 1 each. Morpeth was out of hounds at the tenth and took seven t-o hole out and lost. lie had an unplayable lie in a crater in tile next. Ryan had ail excellent two at the sixteenth. Morpeth holed in four at the seventeenth \s(Kyards), the favourite hoie. They were all square at the end of the morning’s play. In the afternoon Ryan was one up at the turn. Morpeth’s putting was iinlucKy, He took nix at the twentyseventh. Ryan was one up at the turn after a perfect lour with ail accurate twentv-foot putt. At the twentyninth Morpeth got a birdie three and the match was squared. Morpeth hit the back of the tin with a chip shot at the next, narrowly missing a three and won the next to a par lour. Two holes later Ryan sank an 18-footer f-or two, making him dormie two. . ; Approaching tragedy strongly at the thirty-fifth Morpeth putted from the bank I£> yards away and stopped three feet short. The hole wars halved with a birdie four.

ROTORUA TOURNAMENT. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association) ROTORUA, Aug. 29. The Rotorua golf tournament- was continued in perfect weather before a large attendance. The championship se>nvi-fuia 1 resu.l ted 1 — ft ex 0 rorge (A nek lan cI) beat Sc i fert jam - .. 3up and 2 to- play. Morriee (.Rotorna) h-eai; o'-Callaghan •'.Hawke's Bav). (> and 4. In the Therina.T Springs Junior Crop reini-linals (Jess (Wanganui) beat Rninger (Auckland) on the 2<)l:h and West--ii n (Auckland i heal B.irflelt (Auckl.i.nd) it and 4. The semi-linn I .’arid fina l of the veterans’ cm and the lina.l 30 holes of the i hann'iionshie. and junnir cup will be !ilaved 10-ni.nrrmv.