GOLF.
ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIP. LONDON, June 21. For the first round of the match play at Gleneagles, there was brilliant weather. Kirkwood beat Oke 4 up and 3 to play, Havers beat Butchart (the Scottish champion) 1 up; Barnes beat Holland 4 up and 2 to play, Braid beat W. Ball 4 up and 3 to play. Other winners were: Williamson, Seymour, Ackenten, F. Ball, Ritchie, Delatorre, who is a Spaniard, Johns, Lockhart, Gray, McNeill and Kirkwood. Kirkwood played magnificently with a score of out 35 and home 6 holes for 23. Havers was fortunate to win a dingdong fight. He cut his drive at the seventeenth hole into some broom, but had a good lie, where the ball might have otherwise been unplayable. .Butchart failed to qualify.
ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIP CONTINUED. LONDON, June 21. (Received June 22, 8.30 p.m.). In the second round at Gleneagles, Kirkwood beat Ockenden, four up and three to play; Ritchie beat Barnes one up; Twine beat Johns two up; Lockhart beat Gray one up; Braid beat McNeill two up and one to play; Seymour beat Williamson two up and one to play; Ball beat Ray three up and one to play; Havers beat Delatoree three up and two to play.
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Southland Times, Issue 18975, 23 June 1923, Page 6
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204GOLF. Southland Times, Issue 18975, 23 June 1923, Page 6
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