GOLFING AT ROSE BAY

Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1927, Page 9

GOLFING AT ROSE BAY

THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP. RESULTS OF THE SECOND ROUND. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received June 14, 10.40 p.m. Sydney, June 14. The second round of the amateur golf championship was played in showery weather. Russell and Horton had a tremendous struggle. Horton started brilliantly with two at the first and then lost the second. The third was halved. Horton won the fourth and Russell the fifth. The sixth was halved, but Russell won the long seventh with a birdie four. After the eighth had been halved, Horton squared the match with a birdie three at the ninth. Horton took three putts at the tenth, but a brilliant three at the eleventh squared tile game again. The twelfth was halved and Horton took the lead, winning the thirteenth, but a great three by Russell at the fifteenth evened things again. Horton sank a thirty-foot putt for a half at the sixteenth, but missed a putt at the eighteenth and finished one down. Russell’s round was done in 71 and Horton’s in 72. In the afternoon Russell won the second and Horton the third. The Victorian won the fourth and fifth. The sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth were halved, though a stymie cost Horton a win in the eighth. From here he commenced to putt badly and lost the tenth and eleventh, and only halved the twelfth. He was then four down with six to play. He then won the thirteenth and fourteenth, but Russell negotiated the stymie at the fifteenth for a half. Horton won the sixteenth but pulled his tee sh.ot at the seventeenth. His ball moved as he was addressing it and he duffed his third, and Russell won the hole and the match two up and one to play. Horton played a great game and was unlucky to strike a player like Russell at the top of his game. Smith, a youth from a nine-hole course at Longreef, made the sensation of the tournament. He defeated Murdoch in the first round and in the second overwhelmed Sturrock, the conqueror of .Morrison. The results of the second round are:— Whitton defeated Harrison, 6 up and 5. Apperly defeated Nigel Smith, 11 up and 10. Russell defeated Horton, 2 up and 1. Walter Smith defeated Sturrock, 7 up and 5.