GOLF

Wairarapa Daily Times, 4 September 1936, Page 5

GOLF

TASMAN CUP

*: • i RETAINED BY AUSTRALIA

Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright ADELAIDE, Thursday.

Australia retained the Tasman Chp, defeating the New Zealand women golfers by 3J matches to 2£. Conditions were ideal. Results: —

Mrs Britten-Jones and Mrs Negus (Australia) beat Misses J. Horwell and V. Fleming (New Zealand), 5 and 4. Mrs Clements and Miss Hutton (Australia) and Miss O. Kay and Mrs Fullerton-Smith (New Zealand), all square.

Miss Kay beat Miss Clements, 4 and

Mrs Fullerton-Smith beat Mrs Brit* ten-Jones, 1 up.

Miss Ilelean (New Zealand')) lost ttf Miss- Hutton, 2 down.

Miss Horwell lost to Miss McLeod

(Australia), 1 down. , ' Mrs Britten-Jones and M-isfe Negus won 1 the first two holes,' and- were 3 up at the , sixth.. * New Zealand won the next tiyo, to, be 1 down at the turn. Both pairs were .out in 42. Miss Harwell was hot confident on the- greensThe Australians Won three holes in succession after, the turn, halved the fourteenth, and won the next two* for the 1 match.

' The golf in- the other foursome- was', below the standard v GX P e cted.. Miss. Hutton and Mrs Fullerton-Smith played better than the ether two. Littleseparated the teams’, the lead see-saw--, ing. They were squaxe at the ninth,, the Australians going out in 43 and-the New Zealanders, in 44.1 New Zealand; was 1 up at the, tenth,, square at the fourteenth and- one up at the fifteenth, but Miss Kay lifted-her'head in playing, the second shot at 1 the last hole, enabling Australia to square the match. The golf in; the singles was better.. Miss Kay always had the upper hand) against Mrs Clements, leading 1 up at. the turn, and continued steadily to end. the match at the fifteenth.

Mrs Britten-Jones was superior tq< Mrs Fullerton-Smith over the first 13 holes, at which stage, she was 4 up. Mrs. Fullerton-Smith then, unwound a burst of her best play,.the next four yielding two pars and two birdies to square the match. The Australian fluffed her second at the last, Mrs Fullerton-Smith taking the hole in five and the match. The Australians always had the lead in the other matches. Miss Hutton was 2 up at the turn,. and Miss McLeod 1 up. Both were 1 up playing: the fifteenth. Miss Hutton took the eighteenth, Miss Helean pulling her drive into tiger country. Miss McLeod and Miss Horwell were.- square, playing the last. The Australian was six feet from the pin with her second. Miss Horwell was short, then ran, through and missed the return, to lose the hole to a four.

DEFEAT OF FERRIER. MELBOURNE, Thursday. The surprise of the third round of the Victorian amateur golf championship to-day was the comparatively easy defeat of Jim Ferrier by the present title-holder, H. L. Williams, 4 and 3. Ferrier did not win. a hole until the eleventh, his only other win being at the fourteenth. The pair had previously met four times in five years, Williams winning on each occasion. . Williams is a left-hander, and, like Ferrier,. a vpry long driver.. The pair are 6ft. 2in. in height, each is 21 years of age, but Ferrier weighs 14st. 51b., nearly 3 stone heavier than Williams.

Ryan beat Fisher, 7 and 5; Nettlefold beat Russell, 2. and 1. Other winners were S. Dalrymple, >L. Hardie, A. Rac, A. Jackson and F. Gluth.