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Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1932, Page 4

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HERETAUNGA GREENS TRICKY COMPLETION OF SECOND ROUND. X. L. ABBOTT DEFEATED BY SIME > By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Players in the amateur and professional golf championships at Heretaunga were severely tested all day by a strong westerly wind which came across the links in gusts. The greens were consequently very fast and difficult to judge. In the professional matches nothing occurred in the afternoon to attract attention. Shaw, who increased his lead of 3 up over J. A. Clements to 5 up at the turn, had an admiring gallery which afterwards attached itself in a

great measure to the H. A. Black v. Millard amateur match. This was the

best of the day. Millard, who was in (form in the morning, had a lead of one. (After lunch the first was 'halved and a •lice into a bunker' cost Millard the •scond, making the match square. The third was halved. At the fourth Black ■Jink a 7ft. putt for a win in four.

fifi’llard squared .at the next by a fine recovery from the rough. He lost the •ixth on the 1 green, tok the seventh an four, and halved the and ninth, leaving all square at the turn. He saved the tenth with a pretty chip x frdm trouble. He lost the 11th, where he was in difficulty ail the way. The next two were halved. Black made

(himself more secure with a win at the 14th. He should have won the next also but strangely missed a putt of inches. The match -ended 2 and I. Bartleet and Wagg were hole and hole this morning to the ninth, where Bartlett pulled into the rough. Ham-: pered by a tree, he played left-handed ■with the . back of the putter. Wagg took the .hole 4—5 to stand one up. The match was square again at the 12th. Wagg took the 13th, 14th, 15th and Ifith in a string, Bartlett taking three putts at the 13th, and Wagg .getting two at the 14th. Barileet’s weakness throughout the round was being short with his irons. He did not take advantage of Wagg’s mistakes. Bartlett continued steadily in the afternoon but his morning lapse undid him. It takes more than steadiness to wrest a lead of 4 up from a player of Wagg’s ’calibre. ■ ABBOTT-SIME TUSSLE. t Abbott gave Sime a haird match, put--11 ting remarkably well in the tricky conditions. He holed a beautiful mashie chip from 40 yards for two at the fifth. Sime kept very steady and was ■1 up at the turn and 2 at the 10 th, but lost the three next. He won the

;14tfe, stymieing his opponent, whose >tee ©iot to the ,15th was over th© road. Sime was 1 up. Abbott won the 16th, ihe 17th was halved and Sime took the daft for 1 up. Sime went on in the afternoon, in winning vein. He reached the turn in 36. to be 5 up. He won the fiist in four, halved the second in fiv£, the third in three, the next two in, dour and three, won the sixth in four, halved the seventh in five and took ihe eighth and ninth in five and three. He won the tenth in four and halved the 11th in four. Abbott reduced the margin at the 12th but the next two were halved, the game ending 5 and 4. During the day A. D. S. Duncan bad

four stymies to deal with, all successfully. (Blank's putting was poor and ' his driving was not consistently good, but his recoveries were first-rate. At th* 13th in the afternoon he holed a fip-yard approach for three. Duncan's golf wins but average. Sis greatest •uperiority all day was his .putting. His ehip shots were not functioning as well ■, aa usual. y The little-noticed Horton is playing fine All-round golf. His .iron play is as brilliant as ever and bi© wooden ehots are sound; Horton was round in 72 in the morning and was as good in the 7 afternoon. He played a great iron to the pin at the sixth but missed a not difficult putt for three. A fine shot ' was just through the seventh green. He holed from outside for a three. A slice cost him six at the eighth, his only, weak ’hole to that point. His iron shot to the 11th was bunkered, but this was a flaw very apparent in a ’ notably sound game.

•EVEN MATCHES.

Reilly and J. D. G. Duncan were a level pair. It was anybody’s game, s ‘ neither being at his best. The Goss- • Wynne ..match was another in which the issue swung uncertainly throughout the afternoon, Goss just managing to ' keep in front. - \ • ■ The' (Fryer v. • Mills ' was the only Snatch to require an extra hole, Fryer, Who was -2 up at lunch, needing it to , finish in front. -He was still two up at the ninth in the afternoon, but • Mills squared the game by the time the 17th was reached. The 18th was halved in four. Both were on the green 'at the extra hole with their seconds but Mills needed three putts. Second round results are:—

Professional.

Sthaw beat J. A. Clemente, 7 and 5. Branch beat C. C. dements, 9 and 8. Douglas beat Dyke, 5 and 4. Mbs» beat Mclntosh, 4 and 3.'

> Amateur. Silk beat Moore, 5 and 4. . Wagg beat Bartleet, 6 and 5. Parker beat Hurst, 2 up. /Whyte beat Thomas, 1 up. Dr. .Ross beat Seymour, 4 and 3. Sime beat Abbott, 5 and 4. A. D. 8. Duncan beat Blank, 3 and 2. B. J. Smith; jun. beat Pet'ley, 4 and 3. Cook beat (Blundell, 3 and 2. Goss beat Wynne, 2 and 1. EL A. Black beat Millard, 1 up. Horton beat Huggins, 6 and 5. J. L. Blabk beat Wright, 7 and 6. (Reilly beat J. G. D. Duncan, 1 up. Shyer beat Mills at the 37th.' Collins beat M. H. Duncan, 6 and 5.

The amateur stroke handicap match was won ‘by W. G. Fisher 73—3—70. G. H. Scott wae second with 53—10—73.

DEFEAT CXF ELTHAM PLAYER.

SI'ME BETTER ROUND THE GREEN

(By Wire—Special to News.) x Wellington, Last Night. There was little between A. G. Sinie and E. L. Abbott (Elthbih) in the morning in the second round of the amateur golf championship at Heretannga today except that Siane was a little better in his shots round the greens and aeveral times won holes with his putter. Sime struck his true form in the afternoon and went out in 36, standing 5 up, . Abbott won the 12th but with thp halving of the next two the match •nded.