WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11, 11 September 1912, Page 6

WELLINGTON.

| < | i ill I ornupuiKh-nt.) The Ladle,* Championship. the <tniit yeatwilay two Wei-iing-toii golfeis ni-r» ,| in [laying •If in thio Dominion Ludta»’ < Attain})ion-

tdrp. I hey were Miss Vida Collins and Ali-s Agnes Pearce, and both are cousins. Strange to say, the mothers of both •these two young ladies have more than on e met in the play-of! for the Wellington Club's Champion-*hip. The new champion. Mi-s Collin-, is a daughter of Dr. (,‘ollm*. of Wellington, who is himself a g'olfer of some experience. She began her golfing career in England, where she went to i-chool, but although she had ’ onsidcra ble coa.-hing by professionals there, she did n<;i pl.iy regularly or with any prospect of getting in the front rank until she returned to New Zealand. Martin, the Wellington Club's coach at Heretaunga, took her in hand, and it wa* not long before slie showed that i’-lie was well above th'e average in her play. She had a long drive, and her snort game, although somewhat inconsistent, was also good. Jn match play she suffered very little from nerves. In 1910 she won tin* championship at ( hriistchurch, ami sol -cquen.tly she went Home ami entered for the English tourney. That year it was played at Bortrush. and the winner, Miss Cecilia Leitch, has gone on making a. name for

herself from that day .to this. Miss Collins got no further than the third •round, when she was put out by a player who got well up near the finals. Mi-s Agnes Pearce is a player of an entirely different stamp, and is perhaps one of the youngest lady golfers with any pretensions to form in New Zealand. Hhe is the daughter . of Mr Arthur Pearce, of Wellington. La**t year >iie won the vhanipioniship of the Wellington Club with n-001, heady play, and the record of the. links is also hers, she is a very good player, indeed, but sanmehow she does not bring out her l>est form in match play. Lately she has been coached by Mr Arthur Dunean, and Watt the professional. The Hutt. Idle men*> champion*!*hip at the Hutt link* is nearing finality, and it now resolves itself into a mat.li between 11, R. 11. Balneavk. and the winner of the game to be played between J. L. ('limit* and R. C. Kirk. .1. R. Callender had a bard tuwdd with Balnravis, and took him to the eighteenth green, losing 2 down. McCoiini *k. the Auckland proh*• •‘.onal. of the firm of Blood ami Mil ormirk. has lieen plating some good lomiil*. at the Hutt links. It will be remembered that it was \L-Cormirk who went under to Clenwnts in lawt year’s profe-nimial championship, ami I venture io say that -lie haM a very good vhanee in ■nhe “open” Ihiis year. Anyway, he’*! out for blood, and «hould at least make fcoiiK* Mort of a killing on present form.