BULLS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 253, 22 September 1933, Page 10

BULLS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) BULLS, Sept. 21. The weather was fine but very . windy on Wednesday when J. S. Tricker and A. K. Drew played the final of the Rangitikei Golf Club championship over 56 holes, but some good golf was witnessed, and although Tricker won, 9 up and 7 to play, Drew stuck to his task gamely and was not disgraced. The winner was 7 up at the conclusion of the morning’s 18 holes, which he did in 80 to Drew’s -87. Tricker equalled this performance in the afternoon, while Drew improved 2 strokes, the round being completed. The win was expected and popular, but the veteran Drew was also congratulated on getting into the final. In the morning play the first two holes were halved in s’s, but a bogey at Prairie put Tricker 1 up. He took 6 at Punchbowl, which Drew won with a bogey 5. The next was halved in s’s, and at Eureka Tricker scored a birdie 2, as against his opponent’s bogey 3. Tricker took 4 at The Drop and Drew squared the game with a 3. All But was Tricker’s hole and the last was halved, Tricker being 1 up at the end of 9 holes. Halving the 10th, Tricker went on to win the next three in line with bogeys. The next two were halved in s’s. both taking 5 for Eureka (3 bogey). Tricker w'ound up by winning the last three in bogeys, making him 7 up at the completion of the morning’s play. _ The cards were: Tricker, 6,4, 4,5, 5,5, 3, 4 4—40; Drew, 6,5, 5,6, 5 t 5,_4, 5, 5—46^ On resuming after lunch Drew won me 19th with a bogey 4, but took 6 at the next to Tricker’s 5. Tricker took the next with a 4. Punchbowl was halved in bogey s’s, and at Plantation Tricker made himself 1 9 up with a bogey 4. Eureka was halved in bogey 3, and Drew took The Drop with another bogey. Tricker got All But with a 4, and the 27th was halved in 4’s, Tricker now being dormy 9. Drew won the 28th with a 5, Tricker being dormy 8. The game finished at the 29th, where Tricker won the hole with a bogey, making him 9 up, with 7 to play. The compleio nound read: Tricker, 6,4, 5,5, 5,4, 3, 6, 4 —42; Drew, 5,5, 6,5, 6,4, 4. 5,5—45. ’Following is the draw for a four-ball, to be played on Saturday: J. S. Tricker and H. A. Signal v. N. Amon and H. J. Hendry, R. J. Carter and N. Prichard v. G. Drew and M t C. Gould, A. Iv. Drew and R. F. Scott v. N. H. Amos and A. W. Amon, H. Tricker and S. G. Goebel v. R Ingram and A. T. J. Shaw, John Tricker and K. W. Dalrymple v. S. Rich and W. Aiken, S. W. Ingram and E. W. Smart v. L. Ransom and G. D. Flower, H. Pearce v. R. Mackay.