TAIHAPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 242, 13 October 1936, Page 3

TAIHAPE

CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF In the final of the senior championship of the Taihape Golf Club, played over 36 holes during the week-end, J. P. Mortland, holder of the title defeated R. McClure 5 up and 4 to play. Mortland was 4 up at the end of the morning round. He completed the first nine holes in 36 to McClure’s 38, the standard of play being very good. The next nine holes took Mortland 38 strokes to McClure’s 41. The club champion's tally for the morning’s play of 18 holes was therefore 74, compared with 79 registered by his opponent. Mortland was 2 up after nine holes, winning the third with a birdie 4 and the fifth with a birdie 2. The remaining seven were halved. Mortland won the Ilth, 13th and 16th holes in 4 to 5, while McClure captured the 14th (“Pitch and Toss”) with a three, and the 17th with a three also, to stand 3 down. He struck a bad patch at the 18th, driving two balls out of ' bounds, to lose the hole to Mortland, who thus became 4 up. Mortland won the third hole in the afternoon with a birdie 4 to stand 5 up, but McClure took the fourth hole with a four, won the sixth in bogey, and the eighth with a birdie three and so reduced Mortland’s lead to 2 up—an excellent performance against a player of Mortland’s calibre. The club champion took the ninth hole with a birdie 4 to become 3 up and 9 to play. Both players were out in 39, and a close finish waj> anticipated, but Mortland won the next two holes in 4 to sto stand sup and 7to play. “Long Tom” was halved in birdie 4, while i both took five for “Spion Kop,” and Mortland became dormy five. The end came at he next hole (“Pitch and Toss”) which was halved in threes making Mortland 5 up and 4 to play. And so ended the 1936 championship final. Mortland stands supreme amongst the members of the Taihape Golf Club and it is doubtful if he will ever be beaten. McClure put up an excellent fight and although defeated he was by no means disgraced. He more than held Mortland during the first nine holes of the afternoon’s play and proved himself a worthy opponent for the club champion. Junior Championship. Bert Collerton beat W. R. Bennett 3 up and one to play in the final of the junior championship over 36 holes. Collerton was 4 up at the end of the morning round of 18 holes, but Bennett won the first three holes in the afternoon, halved the fourth and won the fifth and sixth to stand 1 up. Collerton took the next two to become lup and nine to play. Bennett squared the match at “Wainui,” but Collerton won “The Slope” to stand 1 up again. Bennett squared the match again at “Long Tom” with a five and won the next hole with 4, to become 1 up, but Collerton took “Pitch and Toss” with a three and the match was all square with four to play. It appeared to be anybody’s match, but playing superbly Collerton won the next three holes in 3,4, 4 and so carried off the junior championship 3 and 1. He is one of the ]ongCollier; Howie lost to Graham; Cuthbertson lost to B. Cochran; Harvey won from W. D. Anderson; J. C. Brown won from J. Openshaw; H. J. Jones lost to L. Coleman; H. M. McFarlane lost to R. A. Church; C. Cutfield won from H. Coleman; Blythe won from Whitford; D. A. Cameron lost to M. Atkinson; G. F. Lomas lost to P. Wootton; C. P. Brown won from K. Atkinson; W. J. Gardner won from T. C. Rubery; J. Henson won from A. B. McFarlane; E. B. Tustin lost to T. G. Harpur; J. E. Foster lost to G. Oliver; F. Wood lost to J. Moodie; R. Cowper won from Winchcombe; E. R. Dix lost to J. Sutcliffe.

est drivers in the club, and few have improved more this season than he. Bennett played remarkably well after his long absence from the links, but faded out of the picture at a crucial stage of the match. WRESTLING PENCHEF v. SINGH A wrestling contest of outstanding interest will be staged at Taihape to-morrow (Wednesday) night, the participants being George Pencheff and Karem Singh, two particularly fast and skilful performers. Pencheff first visited New Zealand in the 1931 season when he showed that he was already well on the way to achieving fame in the wrestling game, and since then he had had wide experience in I Australia and America and is now a highly formidable performer. He is 20 years old, weighs a handy 15i stone, and has been wrestling as a professional during the past eight years, having competed in European rings before he made his first visit to the States. Since 1931 he has spent his time in Australia wnere he became one of the biggest wrestling drawing j cards that country has known, but early this year he paid a visit to America where he had over 100 matches on the Pacific coast without once meeting defeat. Pencheff will require all his speed and aggression when he comes up against Karem Singh as the Indian is reputed to be a noteworthy product of a country which has produced some of the fin- • est wrestlers the world has ever known. A relative of Gama, the greatest of all modern wrestlers, he was taught by this master matman and has many novel holds to display in addition to those which are commonly seen in the ring. LADIES’ GOLF CLUB In the qualifying r Is played on the Taihape links last Miss Nell Collerton was the top ' lifier with scores of 85 and 88, winnij the Davis Memorial Cup.