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Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14013, 18 September 1909, Page 5

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(By "All Square ") I COMING FIXTURES September 13 to IB. — Amateur and Open Championship Meeting at Auckland. September 22 to 25. — Amateur championship meeting at Napier. The ladies at Ngatnotu will play the monthly Edmund's medal competition on Tuesday. Thursday is set aside tor mixed foursomes and Saturday for tlic final day of the committee's trophy. For, the- men there is only one more "official" competition before the close of tho season — the St. Andrew's Cross medal handicap on October 2. The closing tiny at Ngamotu will be Saturday, Octolicr i), wncn a mixed foursomes match will bo played. The Vogeltown Club has decided to erect a pavilion to be ready for us© next season. The Cornwall Park links, Auckland, have been very crowded during the championship week. A message to the Wellington Times says, that one of the chief defects of thfc meeting has been the difficulty in getting the players away at the first Vpe. In the second round one day as mafty as eight players were waiting at one time at tho third tee, and the resultant blocking has had disastrous results. This second round was to count as the teams match, and the frequent delay* caused some Of the players to land at the fourteenth hoUf at 6.10 p.m., by which time it was too dark to continue. J. A. Clements, the professional, by winning tho open championship of New Zealand at Auckland this week, haft now won the event twice during the three years it has been held, last year beiug the other occasion. A. S. Duncan, the Wellington amateur, won the championship in 1907, Clements being fifth. Clomeiits' career has already been reicrrM to in this column and it u» unliwesHary to dwell on it again, suitiec it to say that his performance at Auckbnd this week fully justifies the predict, tiohs that be would have a brilliant carper. r ' ' "• ' The Coffin green at Ngamotu will probably be closed after next Saturday tor top-dressing. There has been some feeling at.Nga-inotu-that next Thursday's mixed foursunies competition should be changed to n Saturday hi view of the greater popularity of these matcjjes with Saturday players than Thursday players. Owing to the Saturday programmo being a week behind there is no free Saturday before the end of the season and so there is no prospect of the change being made. ! H. B. Armitage and W. Bewley, of the Ngamotu Club, are the only New J'lvmouth representatives at the New Zealand meeting at Auckland this week. In the first medal handicap Armitnge returned 105—16 — 89, the winner's nett scoro being 80. Arniitage received nineteenth position in a field of 63, and returned the eighth best nett score. There were no particulars further than those telegraphed available at the time of writing. I A team from tho Waitara Club wan defeated on the Inglewood links by tho local club on Thursday by nine games to three. The Inglewood ladies won all their matches but the men only won four, losing three and halving one. Of i the three matches played betwe*i those I clubs this season Inglewood fyas won two ami the other was halved.* Grimstone, ot tho Waitara" Club, playing in the inter-club match at Inglewood on Thursday, tied the links record of 45 for nine holes. During tho past fortnight memhera of the Vogoltowu Club have be«n playing their first competitions-mixed foursomes. There was a large numl>er ot entries, but only nine couple* actually competed. The best scores/churned were: — Nett Miss Steeds and H. Rennell ...... HO Mrs. Schnackehberg and G. Grey 112 Miss ¥. Putt and ¥. 0. Tribe ..A.. 116 Tho links at Vogeltown are now said to bo in very good order, most ot the fern and long grass having been cleared. The improvement that has been made to the course daring tho seat.oll is, \ cry noticeable and next , season should open with the links in very good condition.