TEAM’S MATCH TO ELTHAM

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1929, Page 5

TEAM’S MATCH TO ELTHAM

DALE FOURTH IN AMATEURS HOW TARANAKI PLAYERS FARED. JIMMY QUIN SENSATION OF DAY. (By_ Wire.—Special from “Stance.”) . •-. / Wanganui, Sept.The final day of the. open championship was favoured; by perfect xveatheri ■- conditions and,, as was only -fo-be - pected,. the. scores showed^. a wonderful (; improvement; . The course was in great order and the .general arrange- .. . merits were excellent.;;. • Shaw, the - winner, started • the • day ■ . with’a clear leaxl of four strokes from <7 ; Horton, /with Mclntosh and-Douglas .alk'< ivcll up. Mclntosh was. the- first- of-the:; ’ ? leaders to set off and he breezed out. in--36, but his golf- was not so good -coming ‘‘ home. Nevertheless his 74-put him in the lead at this time. .Moss was- next and he was soon into his stride. He holed a handy three Jafc . the fourth anddiad a four at the, nintlr for a 37 out. Disaster overcame liinr here, his second -being buried in a bunker, and the hole cost him six. Coming - / home he played; faultless golf/.his cdxdj r -- reading 3,4, 2,4, 5,3, 5, 4—33; giving him a total of 73. . 7 Morpeth set off in brilliant fashion and'soon drew the-gallery.- He 'started with four fours; and a-two,-but the sixth/ hole cost him five. • However, 4,3," enabled him to reach the turn on 34. ’ Coining hoine he set- off 3,4, 4,3, 4,4; and the course record seemed to -be at his mercy but a disastrous seven at the 16th spoiled his .chance and he. .finished with two perfect fours for a 71, equal-., ling the official record for the course. . Douglas was playing perfect - golf 1 z through the green, but his putter refus- . ed to function properly. Nevertheless lie was round in 75. ' '■ Horton was playing his clubs like a master, and had he been able to get his putts down his card would have, been a sensational one, but as it was he had to put up with a 76. Shaw had a similar experience; his long gariie was perfect but his putts were slipping. His' 76, however, still retained the lead for. him three strokes clear of Moss with Horton one further back. C. C. Clements, started with an indifferent six but then reeled off some beautiful golf and--reached'the turn in 38. He commenced the return journey with 3,- 4,' 3 but then began to drop shots round the - greens and took 39 fertile' second part of the journey. With the commencement of the final round the issue was seen to lie between Shaw, Moss and Horton, any of the ’ others having to do something ’ very startling to have a chance. Moss was first off and he commenced by holing a putt for a three at the first but promptly made amends Ly missing a threefooter on the second for a four. He reached the turn in 37, two better than in the morning, but he then started to drop his putts and required 40 to come home, taking three putts on no fewer than five greens. His total of 306, though good, jyas not generally considered good enough unless Shaw and Horton crashed, NEW PLYMOUTH BEAT INGLEWOOD A team of New Plymouth golfers visited Inglewood during the week-end and defeated the home team by five games to three. Thd. scores, with Inglewood players mentioned first, are:— Lovell and Ritchie were all square in the morning and in the afternoon. lost to-Johnson and Johns. Darlow and .Smith were all square both morning and afternoon with Wyn- - yard and. Street. O'Carroll and Thomson lost in the morning and won in the afternoon from Carlson and J. H. Eoori’.' . Sutherland and Winter won both morning and afternoon from Humphries and Quilliam. Maetzig and Mulholland lost in the morning and were 'all square in the afternoon with Duff and Broome. Olson and Partridge lost both morning and afternoon' to S. Russell and L, M. Stephenson. ' . ;