MISS KAY OUT

Northern Advocate, 23 October 1935, Page 6

MISS KAY OUT

LADIES’ GOLF TITLE PLAY IN SEMI-FINALS i MRS WALKER’S REMARKABLE EXHIBITION. [Special to “Northern Advocate”! WELLINGTON, This Day. A remarkable exhibition of golf was. given by Mrs Walker (Britain) at Heretaunga today, when she defeated Miss Oliver Kay (New Zealand). Though she was slightly better than the New Zealander through the fairways, it was the infallible putting of the visitor that swung the scales so decisively in her favour, and she sensationally finished the contest at the fifteenth hole by holing a, chip of 50 feet, giving her victory 5 and 3. The two British players, Miss Anderson and Miss Wade, who contested the other semi-final, had .a great struggle, ; with never more than a hole separating them, and it was not until the twenty-first* hole' was played that Miss Anderson won . a victory, which she really deserved, for she is a sounder player than Miss Wade. In, the quarter-finals, Mrs Walker played her usual sound game , against Miss Fleming, being out in 37, which gave her a lead of 2 up. At the two opening holes Miss Fleming’s seconds found the bunker and she lost them both to her opponent’s 4’s. It was Mrs Walker who found the bunker at the next, a short hole, and Miss Fleming took it in S' to 4. She Was then weak with her drive, though she reached the green in 3. Her opponent ran down a long putt for a win in 4. Over the next four holes the Christchurch player responded to the accuracy of Mrs Walker and halved them all in the correct figures. At the ninth she could not get the 3 arid became 3 down. Easy Victory. On the home run Miss Fleming won the opening hole—and, that was all, Mrs Walker took the next two and, after Miss Fleming had halved two, the game finished with Mrs Walker getting the 3 at the fifteenth and victory, 5 and 3. The winner wanted the orthodox 4,5, 5 to complete her round in 76. illustrating the soundness of her play. The two Britishers, Miss Wade and Mrs Greenlees, had a keen contest and it was not until the fifth hole that either got an advantage. There Miss Wade got the 3 and when she went down, in orie putt at the sixth for a 4 she increased her 'lead to 2 up. Mrs Greenlees retaliated by holing a longer putt on the next, when both took 3 to reach it, but she was again 2 down at the eighth, the long hole, where her third found the bunker. A sparkling 3 at the eleventh reduced the deficit, but this was Mrs Greenlees’ last win. Miss Wade proved too steady in the next few holes, and conceded ,her opponent a half at the sixteenth to win 3 and 2. Soundness of. Irons. The soundness of her irons and ability to keep to the centre of the fci’rways, ensured Miss Anderson’s victory over Miss Helean. Though the latter was driving as far ias her opponent, there was a tendency for her seconds to stray. Miss Anderson had a “birdie” four at the long eight, in consequence of one good putt,rand she reached the turn in 37, to be 2 up. This lead she doubled by taking the first two holes coming home. Miss Anderson had a lapse at the thirteenth, where her drive pushed into the trees. Though she took 6 she got a half, Miss Helean’s second again getting her into trouble. Miss Helean won the short fourteenth with 3, and -looked like taking the following one-shot hole. Here Miss Anderson incurred a penalty from the tee, but placed her second ball beautifully alongside the pin, holing the putt and getting a fortunate half in four. The end came when Miss He-, lean sliced her tee shot into the river from the sixteenth, and duffed her next shot after dropping out with a penalty. Miss Kay’s Win. In the only match of the championship which has gone past the eighteenth hole, Miss Oliver Kay (Hawera) defeated Miss Pamela Barton at the twentieth. Three of the visiting team had already won their games, to enter the semi-finals, and Miss Kay’s victory, which was a well-deserved one, thus left New Zealand a hope in the struggle for the title. Miss Kay meets Mrs Walker today, and will endeavour to break that player’s unbeaten record on the tour. Following her return to form yesterday afternoon, when she had a round of 77 in the Mellsop Cup contest, Miss Kay was expected to provide a worthy rival for Miss Barton, particularly as the latter has not shown her form in New Zealand, which has twice taken her into the final of the British ladies’ championship. This morning Miss Kay was never down to her opponent, and gave the latter a stern chase. Handicapped by indifferent driving, Miss Barton was struggling hard over the first nine holes, while Miss Kay—encouraged by her return to form—played confidently ,and when it came to the real test over the last two holes consummated her fine putting by sending two longish ones, the second of which clinched the struggle.