GOLFERS’ VISITS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 2

GOLFERS’ VISITS

WHAKATANE TOURNEY ; INTER-CLUB GAMES v P.D. TEAM DEFEATED raying in the inierprovineial matches wits members of the Whakatane GoU Club on Saturday, golfers from the-Pov-erty* Bay links were defeated’ in singles an<f7four-bill- games, the play proving interesting, .-andthe visit of- tho Poverty Bay;, team being made most enjoyable. The weather .conditions were not of the,best: .especially late. on. Saturday afternoon, but. good-golf was played bv a number .of visitors and. borne players.; Later the majority of the players from Gisborne took part in the Whakatane. club’s open tournament, which was--won by Kura, Hawke’s Bay, who defeated Green, Tauranga, a low-handi-capfiplayer, by a narrow*, margin, W. K. Andrews, Jdisborne, being well up in tlmMist, and-, b’aving’.a. goad chance until he buffered it brief collapse in the-final round. Owing to the Gisborne party lacking :i few of the numbers for whom arrangements had been made, it bec.-unr necessary; to fill ..the*lists* -of the four-ball andisingles matches with other visiting players. Kuru and Tatere, Hawke’s Bay, won the four-ball bogey match, live up, and W. Cave, Gisborne, being runners-up. A medal round was won by Revoll, Gisborne, with a. net 71, .team-males of the winner being well up in the list. ■7 FOUR-BALL MATCHES Four-ball matches in .which Poverty Bay players and other l visitors took part-resulted as under, Whakatane players *tdng mentioned first iib each instance:— Pgpblcs and Sparks, boat Royal and King, 2 up. Rrebnor and Roc lost to Kuru and Tatere, 4 down. Wardlaw and Chappie beat Xic-holls n.ndJSiickliug, 4- up. Hyland and Goulding v. Revcll and PidWards.'lull, square. ' I.usk and Hookey beat Brosnahan and I), ilclldowie. 1 .up. Rowland yanfl,.. Phelan beat W. McIldowie ancTW. Cave. 5 and 4. Dgrvill and Duff beat Jenkins and Mack ley, 5 and -4.Ilfirgreayes ii'iy] MnrrisYm be:ii. Holder and Slot-ley, 1 unr - ; Johnston and Povvdreil v. Dwyer and Bramwell, all square. Inues and Kidd.beat .Hansen and Corkery;, 1 up. Green ancl Xapier beat Bull and Andrews, 1 up. Candy and Page.beat Kay and Musgrawe, 3 and 1, y SINGLES GAMES In' the singles matches, Revell was all square with Brebner; Edwards lost to Hookey, 3 and 2; W. Mclldowie lost to Rusk, 1 down * Jenkins lost- to Duff, 2 down; Mackley lost to Darvell, 3 and 2; Bramwell lost- to Powdrell, .3 and 2; Morjoy' lost, to Hargreaves, 5. and 4 ; Xieholls lost- to, W-grdlaw, 6 and 5; E.

I Mclldowie lost to Phelan. 3 and, 2: Holder lost- to Marrison, 4 and 2l; An d'rews heat- Johnston, 1 up ; Mnsgmve lost to Page, 3 and 2; Dwyer lost to Candy, 3 and 2: Kay lost to Xapier, 1 down; Corkery .beat Innes, 1 up; Hansen beat Kidd, 1 up; Brosnahan lost to Goulding, 1 down: Cave lost to Rowland. 5 and 4. BOGEY AND MEDAL -MATCHES In the four-ball bogey, AC. McTldowic and W. Cave. Gisborne, were 4 up. and took second place: Jenkins mid Mn -kloy were 3 up. BraniwoU and Dwyer 2 up, and Hansen and Corkery all square. Leading Poverty Bay scores in tho modal handicap were as under :—<Revell, 85—14—71; Edwards, 85—14—72; D. Mclldowie, 85—12 —73: Brosnahan, 87 —11—76 ; Bramwell, 85—3 —77 ; Holder, 89 —20—79; and W. Mclldowie, 104—20 —84. PARK CLUB MANY LOW SCORES ■ With the. excellent conditions that prevailed for golf last week-end, many of the higher handicap players of tho Park Golf Club registered exceptionally low scores. In the D.C.L. Cup competition, those who qualified for match play were :M. K. Boon. 60: W. A. Stratton, 63; IV. M. Midiie, E. Walpole, 66; L. C. .Fade, 67 : J. S. Strawbridge, D. A. Wells, S. Ri. Massam. 68; T. Warner, G. L. Winter. 69; J. McMillan. D. Hartnell, W. A. O'Keefe. 70; A. 11. Dow. G. P. Wilson, and 11. T. Porter, 71. Owing to the number of good scores recorded, ilie committee lias decided to include the second 16 in a further competition. Those who qualified for this event, are:—L. Lunkcri. J. \Y. Reed, M. M. Taylor, 72: K. R. Kay. T. H. Cornwell. 73: G. K. Crawshaw. F. J!. Bonid. L. 1.. Winter. 74: J. A. Williams. E l . B. Broadhurst, 11. 0. Gnvan, I’. H. Dow, F. Dobbie. 11. A. Jenson, M. Ludwig, and A. D. Tarr, 75. WAIROA CLUB TOURNEY TITLE TO J. OEACE In the Wairoa Golf Club’s open tournament. the championship was won by J. Grace, Wellington, who beat S. J. Pnttisoii. Wairoa. in tho 'final yesterday. The tournament was well patronised, arul attracted three entries from, poverty liny, M. R. Maude. C. 11. Bull, and D. E. Cliri.-p. All three qualified for the open championship, but did not survive beyond the second round of match play. in the first round of match play, Clirisp was defeated by D. V. Thomas, Wairoa, 2 up, while. Bull went down to A. E. Smith. Wairoa, who registered a 6 and 5 victory. Maude defeated J. W. Benson in the first rouml, but was disposed of in tbe second by TMttison, who figured later in the final, .Maudegoing down to this player by a narrow margin. The best gross score in the qualifying round was returned by A. El. Murley, Hawke's Bay, who went round in 68. D. V. Thomas won the trophy for the host net score, his card reading 76—13—63-

L' . * IWUK. J « V-* pTe. LADIES’ CLUB DRAW FOR C MATCH The draw for the Poverty I'ay Ladies’ Golf ('lull’s G mutch to In; played to-morrow moraine; is :lll ' nounced tts follows: — Mrs. A. K. Smith v. Mrs. Edwards; Miss Matthews v. Miss Blair; Miss Milford v. Miss Thomas; Miss Barton v. Mrs. Monekton; Mrs. Peach v. Mrs. Salmon; Mrs. Xicholls v. Miss Clirisp; m iss Dobson v. Mrs. Chaplin.