GOLF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15886, 6 April 1915, Page 4

GOLF.

PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP,

THE FINAL TO-DAY.

The Auckland provincial golf championship meeting and handicap tournament was continued yesterday at Middlemoro links, in ideal weather conditions, the greens and all round play showing marked improvement on the first day. In tho first round of the championship N. R. Muckintosh beat W. H. Grace at the nineteenth hole. W. B. Colbeck boat .1. ('• Burns 6 and 4, F. J. Sharland beat S. Upton 2 and 1, D. Pryde beat P. Hay 3 and I. S. Morpeth bent R 0. Gardner 5 and 1. H. ('. Tonks beat C. V. Gardner 5 and 3, K. M. George beat J. B. Lusk 4 and 2, W. S. Ralph beat D. MacC'ormick '2 up. In the second round X. R. Mackintosh beat W. B. Colbeck at the nineteenth hole, F. J. S'harland beat D. Pryde G and 5. S. Morpeth bent H. ('. Tonks 3 and 1, and W. 8. Ralph beat R. M. George I and 2. 1 .V. R. Mackintosh will meet P. .7. Sharland. and S. Morpeth will meet W. S. Ralph in the semi-final this morning, tho winners to play off the final this afternoon. W. S. Colbeck. with eight strokes allowance, was an easy winner of the bogey handicap played in the morning. Ho finished with the excellent score of five up on tho "colonel," and quite outdistanced the rest of tho field The best of tho other cards returned were S. Morpeth (scr) all square. It. G. Rainger il2) all square. W. B. Colbeck (scr) 1 down, R. M. Georgo (4) 1 down. W. H. Grace (8) 1 down, X. Jacobson < 15) 1 down, J. ('. Burns 12) 2 down. W. S. Ralph (I) 2 down. F. Kelly (7) 3 down. G. S. fierce (111 3 down. F. Trice (12) 3 down. H. C. Tonks (6) 3 down, S. Upton (8) 3 down. S. Morpeth and R. G. Rainger will play off tho tie for second place. The four-ball (best ball) bogey handicap played in tho aftornoon was won by S. Upton and R. G. Rainger, who finished 7 up on the •'colonel." the best of the other scores being t-E. Roid and W. H. Grace 6 up A. H. Nicoll and F. V. Kelly 3 up. 11. Gilfillan and A. A. Martin 2 up. G. 3. Pierce and W. S. Colbeck 2 up, J. C. Burns and P. T. Upton all square. The draw and order of play for the medal and bogey handicaps to-day arc as {o" o**-—0**-— A. A. Martin and E. R. Bloomfield, K. l». Rainger and C. Hay, J. C Burns, and 1. 1. Upton, R. 0. Gardner and F. Trice, W. 11. Grace and G. Morris. R. M. George and 8. J. Bishop. H. D. Bamford and W. S. Colbeck, 0 Foote and H. G. Stringer, A. W. Gillies and F. Kelly, N. Jacobsen and 0. t. Gardner. E. Rcid and H. L, Rcos H. Gilfillan and M. Wells. D. MacCormick and A. H Nicoll. J. B. Mncfarlane and D. J- Harvey. D. Pryde and W. B. Colbeck. J. B. Lusk and F. W Browning. H. C Tonks and P. Hay, A. I- Johns and H. Gillies. .1. B. Morris will play with H. B. Armitnge in the medal handicap, and F. Duthie in the bogey handicap. MIRAMAR TOURNAMENT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington', Monday. In the Miramur Golf Club's Easter tourney tho men's foursomes was won by M. W. Horton and A. B. Lawrence (handicap 2), who finished 2 up. The | mixed foursomes was won by Miss M. Seed and W. T. Wynyard (handicap 9), 3 up. SOUTHLAND CHAMPIONSHIP. [BY telegraph.— ASSOCIATION.] Invercaegill, Monday. At the Easter golf tournament at Invercargill the championship of Southland was won by Dr. Ross, of Dunedin, who beat Ernest Smith, 13 up and twelve to play. Dr. Ross made a new record by doing the first eighteen holes in 73.