DOMINION GOLF TITLE COMES TO DUNEDIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26415, 20 March 1947, Page 2

DOMINION GOLF TITLE COMES TO DUNEDIN

Mrs J. K. Dolan and Miss K. Shand arc to be congratulated on their fine performance in winning the New Zealand Ladies’ Golf Union Autumn Foursomes, played at Corstorpliine last week. Championship foursome play is a very severe test of golfing skill and teamwork, and the winners’ play throughout the tournament was of a consistent high standard. In the final they were guilty of only one serious lapse, at the sixteenth hole, where they found trouble in the rough. But at that stage they were three up on Mrs Toomey and Miss Nutt (Christchurch), and went on to redeem a loss with a fine win at the short seventeenth, which gave the Otago pair their first Dominion title.

This success confirms the good form shown by Mrs Dolan and Miss Shand in championship and club golf at the close of last season. Following a meritorious win in the.Otago Ladies’ Championship at Balmacewen, Mrs Dolan reached the quarter-finals in the Dominion Ladies’ Championship at Shirley. Miss Shand was also a competitor at Shirley, apd was prominent in the handicap events. This was the first occasion on which the Autumn Foursomes has been played in Dunedin, and the outstanding success of the tournament was due in no small measure to the untiring efforts of the St. Clair ladies’ committee. Eighty competitors from all parts of the South Island took part in an enjoyable week of well-organised golf, and the general arrangements in the tournament reflect great credit on all concerned.

WOMEN’S BASEBALL The Otago women’s baseball team put up a creditable performance in the championships which were held at Palmerston North last week. On Monday, the first day, Otago was narrowly defeated by Canterbury, B—4, the team’s second game being against Manawatu, last year's winning team. This game was one of the closest of the tournament, and after eight innings nad been played the final score was 6—4 m favour of Manawatu. On the second day, Otago beat Southland and lost to Canterbury, and on the third day, after beatipg Southland again, the team was unlucky not to dispose of Manawatu, who won by a narrow margin. Five members of the team —I. Eckhold, E. Jenkins, Jessie Calder, Joyce Calder and J. Benfell—gained inclusion in the South* Island team, which was beaten by the North Island. 16—5. University Swimming

There have been suggestions thai W. J. Jarvis, the New Zealand 100 Yards Medley swimming champion, is losing his form in the sprint events. In reducing his own record of 27sec to 25 2-ssec for the 50 Yards Freestyle race at the University Championships last week, however, he showed that he retains all his dash.

The meeting was notable for the tussles between the present New Zealand 220 Yards Freestyle champion, L. Barry, and Jarvis, Barry winning one event and Jarvis the other. Barry swam well to clock the record time of 57 l-ssec for the 100 Yards Freestyle. One of the best backstroke performances seen in Otago for many years was given by T. E. Wilson, who swam the 100 yards in 67 4-ssec, lowering his own record by 1 l-ssec.

A Promising Batsman Easily the outstanding ,player in the Country Week Cricket Tournament was the Eastern Districts representative, A. Eckhold. The son of a wellkfiown sportsman and Rugby football referee, Eckhold showed a fine knowledge of the game, and his scores of 46, 102 not out, and 121 not out in the three matches in which he played gave an impressive reflection of his ability. He made his runs with shots all round the wicket, but he specially favoured a powerful drive past midoff. He had a sound defence, and once he had played himself in the runs came very quickly. With more experience, Eckhold would be a contender Tor representative honours. t)

KOENEKE WINS AGAIN For the third year in succession R. Davys’s idlealong yacht Koneke has won the Blackie Cup, which is competed for annually by yachts of this class. Winning each of the three races conducted by the Otago Yacht and Motor Boat Club, Koneke secured a maximum of 300 points, and was far ahead of the second placed competitor, W. A. Bagley’s Quest, which gained 150 points. Some of the other contestants made a poor showing on paper, but this was brought about by the fact that they sailed in only one or two races, and their aggregate of ooints was consequently low.

EIGHT-OARED ROWING For the first time since the Interprovincial Eight-oared Championship was rowed on the Upper Harbour in 1939 Dunedin will be the venue of an interprovincial eight-oared race on, Saturday afternoon, when the contest for the Edmond Cup will be held in conjunction with the Otago Rowing Association's annual regatta. Eightoared boats in action have always been popular with the public, and the Otago Rowing Association is relying on the support of old oarsmen arid members -of the public to assist it in securing the necessary funds to send the crew to contest the race for the Hallyburton Johnston Cup at Wanganui on Easter Saturday. In past years Otago established a fine record of successes in interprovincial eight-oared rowing, F. Brough’s crew gaining (he trophy on at least foyr successive occasions, and it is felt that the Otago crew which will proceed to Wanganui soon is a worthy successor to that fine team.