Miss C. Smith Beats Miss Kernot

Northern Advocate, 27 October 1949, Page 6

Miss C. Smith Beats Miss Kernot

GOLF

WELLINGTON, Thu. (P.A.) .—After being one down at the turn and then one up after the seventeenth, Miss Clair Smith, former Invercargill player, became the first New Zealander to score a victory over one of the visiting Australian women golfers when she beat the manager (Miss B. Kernot) in a tense finish at the 19th in the first round today of the Wellington women’s provincial championships at Heretaunga.

Scoring today was generally not as good as in yesterday’s qualifying rounds. There was a misty rain and the greens were slower than yesterday. Miss J. Fletcher (Australia) beat Mis£ K. Rutherford (Christchurch), 4 and 3; Miss J. Percy (Australia) had to go to the 19th to beat the Australian captain (Miss B. Cheney); Miss M. Bishop (Australia) beat Miss P. Borthwick (Australia), 2 and 1; Mrs H. Murray, the Miramar open champion, beat Mrs V. Jacobsen (Auckland), 7 and 6; Mrs J. Ball (Wanganui) beat Mrs R. E. Tripe (Wellington), 8 and 6; Mrs B. Fullerton-Smith (Marton) beat Mrs Wellington (Masterton), 3 and 1. Whangarei Ladies

Four-ball, best-ball Stableford, Friday and SaturdayMis Wilson and Miss Rishworth v Mrs Fulton and Mrs K'vdon; Mrs Hutley and Mrs Foster v Mrs Jounneaux and Mrs Donnelly. Mrs Weaver and Mrs Weston v Mrs Adams and Mrs Robertson; Mrs Knew and Mrs Cdutte v Mrs Aplin and Mrs Seyb: Mrs Beckett and Mrs Whatinough v Mrs Snow and Mrs Pain; Mrs Glanville and Mrs Lawson v Mrs Hedley and Mrs Dyer; Mrs James and Mrs Smith v Mrs Roberts and Mrs Sheen: Mrs Steed and Mrs Reynolds v Mrs Chatwln and another; Miss Stratford and Miss Thompson v Mrs Bennett and another. V'hnnaarei Men

On account of the races there will be no men’s draw for Mt Denby golf on Saturday A medal competition. A and B grades, will be held, players making up their own fours. Whan Valley Ladies Sealed Handicap: Choose own partners.