STATESMEN’S GOLF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19123, 18 September 1936, Page 7

STATESMEN’S GOLF

MR. BRUCE & SIR J. SIMON

MATCH ENDS ALL SQUARE

LONDON. Sept. 7

The High Commissioner for Australia, Mr. ,S\ M. Bruce, whose handicap is seven, and the Home Secretary, Sir Joint Simon, with a handicap of 11, who frequently golf together when holidaying on the Riviera, finished! all square in the first round of the Jubilee Vase tournament, conducted hv the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews. As halved matches count as wins, both Mr. Bruce and Sir John Simon entered the second round. The Times says: “There was a large gallery for the Bruce-Simon match, and it was well rewarded. They were all square at the seventeenth tee. Mr. Bruce missed his drive, hut nearly won the hole with his second, which made Sir John leap , like an Olympic jumper b> avoid being hit., and he found a bunker VRli his third, from which lie made a magnificent recovery, reaching the green. “Sir John Simon, meanwhile, was well placed in two. He missed his third and eventually took seven to get down, and Mr. Bruce, holing his putt, won a hole that had looked hopelessly lost. Sir John Simon made ample amends at the home hole with a four, which Mr. Bruce could, not equal.”