WANGANUI GOLF CLUB REGAINS SEAFIELD CUP FROM NEW PLYMOUTH

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 August 1950, Page 7

WANGANUI GOLF CLUB REGAINS SEAFIELD CUP FROM NEW PLYMOUTH

The Wanganui Golf Club regained the Seafield Cup when a team of 28 New Plymouth club players visited Belmont for their annual match at the week-end. The scores of the first eight players counted for the cup, which Wanganui lost to New Plymouth at Ngamotu last year. Wanganui won the cup this time by seven matches to one. In the interclub match played in conjunction, Wanganui won by 30 matches to nine, winning 21 singles to six, and nine fourb.alls to three. In the match between B. M. Silk and J. Jeffery, Jeffery won by 4 up and three to play. The New Plymouth man started off in an amazing manner, being four under bogey after six holes and five up on Silk. T. Casey defeated J. Middleton 3 and 1, after being dormie five on Middleton. The game ended at the 17th, where Casey laid Middleton a stymie with his second putt. In attempting to negotiate it Middleton knocked Casey's ball into the hole. Results of matches, with Wanganui players named first, were:— Singles: B. M. Silk lost to J. Jeffery, T. Casey beat J. Middleton, J. F. Collins beat S. R. Clare, A. L. Temperton beat H. R. Hill, F. C. Hutchison beat G. M. Chong, U. G. Williams beat J. H. Boon, J. P. Carde beat S. G. Lovell, F. V. Wiggens beat B. Burmester, H. G. Carver beat L. M. Ward, W. G. Fisher beat A. S. Richardson, E. Moss beat O. F. Johns, B. D. Fitzgerald beat C. D. McAllum, N. O. Maitland beat C. J. Cliff, P. E. Ogier beat W. K. Osborn, R. Carew beat W. H. Brown, D. L. Burton beat P. L. Phillips, R. Osman beat H. G. McDonald, R. Vernon beat J. R. Elliott, A. Heibner beat A. Lander, A. D. Wilson beat L. Christie, F. O. Francis beat J. McNeil, J. Harkness beat M. Hewitt, A. H. Charles lost to I. R. Inch, C. Coupland halved with C. McNeill, L. Udy lost to F. J. Gardiner, A. E. Gatrell lost to R. Ellingham, E. W. Sampson lost to D. Howlett, I. C. Webster beat K. Murtagh. Fourballs: Silk and Casey beat Jeffery aad Middleton, Collins and Temperton lost to Clare and Hill, Hutchison and Williams beat Chong and Boon, Carde and Wiggens beat Lovell and Burmester, Carver and Fisher halved with Ward and Richardson, Moss and Fitzgerald beat Johns and McAllum, Maitland and Ogier heat Cliff and Osborne, Carew and Burton beat Brown and Phillips, Osman and Vernon beat McDonald and Elliott, Heibner and Wilson lost to Lander and Christie, Francis and Harkness halved with McNeil and Hewitt, ’Charles and Coupland lost to Inch and McNeil, Gatrell and Udy beat Gardiner and Ellingham, Sampson and Webster beat Howlett and Murtagh. CLUB 'COMPETITIONS. A stableford competition, part of the One Tree Hill Cup, was played by members of the Wanganui Golf Club on Saturday under good conditions. The following were the leading scores: A grade: G. W. Annand 37 points, L. Keltie 36, F. C. Hutchison 36. B grade: R. W. Glasgow 35 points, R. P. London 35, K. James 35.