GOLF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19867, 15 June 1927, Page 4

GOLF

TREMENDOUS STRUGGLE HORTON’S BRILLIANT PLAY. NEW ZEALANDER UNLUCKY. NEW SOUTH WALES TOURNEY. Received June 14, 11.5 p.m. SYDNEY, Juno 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 a 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 the game again. The twelfth was halved and I Horton took the lead, winning the thirteenth, but a great three by Russell at the fifteenth evened things again. Horton sank a 30ft putt for a half at the sixteenth, but missed a putt at the eighteenth and finished one down. Russell’s round was 71 and Horton’s 72. Horton’s Game Fight. In the afternoon Russell won the second and Horton the third. The Victorian won the fourth and the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth were halved, a stymie cost Horton a win at the eighth. Horton here commenced to putt badly and lost the tenth and 'eleventh and only halved the twelfth. I He was then four down and six to play. I He then won the thirteenth and fourteenth but Russell negotiated a stymie at the fifteenth for a half. Horton won the sixteenth but pulled his tee shot at the seventeenth. His ball moved as ho was addressing it and he duffed his third, and Russell won the hole and. the game, 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. Youth’s Sensational Win. Smith, a youth from the nine-hole course at Long Reef, made the sensation of the tournament. He defeated Murdoch in the first round and in the second overwhelmed Sturrock, the conqueror of Morrison. Results are as follows: Whitton defeated Harrison, 6 up and 5 to play. Apperley defeated Nigel Smith 11 up and 10. Russell defeated Horton 2 up and 1. Walter Smith defeated Sturrock 7 un and 5.

LEADING N.Z. PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS used KRO-FLITE golf balls with remarkable success at Rotorua Tournament. All leading events won with it, including Open Championship. Tuned to a new internal construction to give greater distance. All but indestructible. A 10s ball for 3s 3d—will outlast any four others. BRITISH MADE by Spaldings, the KRO-FLITE “lasts till it’s lost.”