GOLF

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8739, 22 May 1914, Page 5

GOLF

TOURNEY IN ENGLAND. If Tetecraph—Press Anoclailott —CoujillM ‘ LONDON, May 20. Tlie second and third rounds of th« jgolf tourney were played in very bob) peather. Graham beat Taylor, 2 up and 1 t<»r( play; Herrcahoffi boat Platt, 4 and 3j; Ball beat Wood, 7 and 6; Weber beat' Carlisle, 7 and C; Aylmer heat Pease,, B and 5. Third Round. —Hilton heat Harris. 2 and 1; Hayward beat Lockwood, a jand 1; Evans beat E, Scott, 3 and 2 y l|Carr beat Worthington at the nine* teenth hole; Read beat A. Hamhro, If np; F. S. Jackson (tbe famous cricket-' er) beat Renwick at the nineteenths , hole; Lockhart beat Whitton, 0 ands |5; Blackwell heat Walker, 6 and Graham beat E. Smith, 4 and 3$ Michael Scott Imat Horroahoff, 1 up.} Captain Hamhro beat ball at the nine'ieenth hole ; Stnhbs • (of Littlestonc) beat Ouimet (of America), 2 up; Gilllies boat Weaver, 7 and G; Tuhba (beat Howe, 3 and 1; Captain HutchinJson heat Aylmer, 3 and 2; Macfarllane beat W. Murray, 3 and 1; Weber .boat Marriott, 2 up; Apperley beat Sorguson, 4 and 3. I Stubbs, who has played little competitive golf lately, played an oxceL Hent game to within the lost few holes. He developed nerve towards the close, .but steadied at the seventeenth hole. lOuimet played slackly, and did not seem to hit hard enough. There was a great ovation as Stubbs ‘ scrambled home. Ball and Hamhro kept together alt the way. Ball was lup at the turn, but Hamhro squared at the fourteenth hole. Lockhart was 4 up at the turn and dormy 2, but Whitton won the last 3 holes, thus squaring the scores. Subsequently, after halving at, the nineteenth hole, ho lost the twentieth. Michael Scott went out in 3G, and turned 3 up. Hcrrcshoff being 4 down, .with 6 to play, won the next 4, hut hia japproach to the last hole was ton Strong, and Scott went down 4 to 5 and won. Apperley and Gillies had easy vio* jf>ries. ' To-morrow, Gillies meets Graham, Both are strong favourites. WHITTON EASILY DEFEATED. (Received ilav 21, 10.35 p.m.) LONDON, May 21. Whitton was easily defeated. Hif hitting was indifferent. He was ropratedly as well placed as Lockart, ■hut missed in the short putts.