EASTER GOLF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17739, 28 March 1932, Page 10

EASTER GOLF

POVERTY BAY TOURNEY FIRST ROUNDS PLAYED The-first rounds in both divisions of the Poverty Bay (101 l Club's Easter tournament were played on Saturday afternoon, the first 16 players who qualified on Saturday morning competing for the Easter Handicap Cup, and the second 16 entering for the handicap tournament. This morning the second rounds of both divisions Vere to be played, and the semi-finals will be contested this afternoon, the finals being set down for to-morrow morning. A medal match also will be played to-morrow, and the tournament wilt conclude in the afternoon with a four-bull bogey handicap, tor which competitors must arrange their own partners and fours. Results on Saturday in connection with the first round of the Easter Handicap Cup tournament were ns follow— :

K. ■ Stout- beat E. Mclklowie, 1 up: A. Bnrus-Gniha.nl beat C. (). Hansen, 4 and 3; 0. H. Wells beat W. Hamilton Irvine, 1 up; E. Faram heal I). McLniuhlaii, 2 ami 1; Rangi beat IT. W. Barker, 3 and 2; J. S'. Burns-Graham beat I). Barry, 2 up; N. Parker beat G. G. Fraser, 4 and 3; M. Bright beat I). W. McKeague, 3 and 1.

The first round resists in connection with the tournament for the 16 were ns follow :—<

G. Gregory beat A. A. Whitehead at the twenty-first; T. Pohatu beat J. M. Kay, 6 and 4; A. G. Lancaster beat E. Ross at the twenty-second ; I. D. Braniwell beat E. M. Hutchinson, 6 and 5 ; E. R. Earner, heat R. Barker, 3 and 2; A. J. Coleman beat J. B. Slipper. 1 up; | E. R. Black beat J. Barns-Graham, 4 j and 3; 11. Harris beat K. G. Butters, 2

| UP- ' la the afternoon a consolation bogie match was played, and this resulted in a tie between J. 11. Dolibie and N. Ballinger.