GOLF.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 855, 26 July 1906, Page 12

GOLF.

Men’s foursomes were played on the Auckland Golf Links on Saturday, the winners turning up in Dr. Gordon and E. Horton, with the good net score of 86. The cards handed in were as follows Dr. Gordon and E. Horton, 14, 86; McCormick and Dargaville, 12, 88; Rutherford and Dawson, 23, 89; G. R. and E. R. Bloomfield, 18, 90; Greig and Lawrence, 9> 94 > Turner and Sykes, 9> 95; Ball and Bruce, 15, 96; A. Myers and Pollen, 18, 96; Chatfield and Burns, 12, 97; Arnold and Newton, 20, 98; Dr. Bamford and H. Clark, 9, 9® > Rendell and Walker, 12, 101 ; Dr. Purchas and Dr. Lewis, 17, 103; Foster and Upton, 16, 104; Kelly and Hay, 14, 104; W. and C. Heather, 6, 104; W. Aitken and S. Allen, 20, no. * • * * The Hamilton Club has invited a number of Auckland players to take part in a competition on Saturday t and some half a-dozen will make the trip. * * * * Players will tackle the redoubtable “Colonel Bogey” next Saturday in a match for the George Cup. * * * * ’ Miss Millie Cotter won the senior bogey match last Thursday with 10 down. In the junior competition the Misses Nora Gorrie and Bramwell tied with 9 down. * * * * The championship meeting of the Auckland Ladies’ Golf Club is being played this week at Cornwall Park. * * * * The competition for the Fry Challenge Cup will take place on September 1. * * * * In the international golf match between Scotland and England, which opened the amateur golf championship meeting at Hoylake on May 19th, Scotland gained her fourth victory in the event’s five years’ history, England’s sole success being gained in 1903, when she obtained the advantage by only one point. On the morning round England led by 4 matches to 3 and 16 holes to 5, but so extraordinary a turn did the match take in the afternoon that Scotland finally , won by 7 points to 2 —the easiest victory in the annals of the contest. Play was, as usual, over 36 holes, each individual

match counting a point, as in every former contest. The teams were nine aside. A north-westerly wind in the morning gave way in the afternoon to a drenching downpour of rain, and the contest was conclud ed under very depressing conditions. Scotland—R. Maxwell o, J. Graham, junr., i,_C. K. Hutchison i, J. Robb o, Edward Blackwell i, R. Andrew i, J. E. Laidlay i, A. K. Aityen i, J. Gordon Simpson i ; total, 7. Eng-land-John Ball 1, S. H. Fry o, H. H. Hiton o, F. H. Mitchell 1, H. G. Hutchinson o, Hon. O. Scott o, H. W. de Zoete o, A. G. Barry o, J. B. Pease o ; total, 2.

During the game between C. M. Cocks and F. Musgrave, in the Victorian Club Billiard Tournament, a bet of £lOO to £1 was laid on Mr Cocks. His opponent made a break of 29 towards the close of the game, and won.

The great biEiard tournament that took place in New York recently for the championship of the word, at an iBin. baulkline, resulted in a win for George F. Slosson, who pulled off five of the six games played. George Sutton, of Chicago, and the veteran Jake Schaefer tied for second with four wins apiece, but in the play-off Schaefer was beaten easily. Willie Hoppe, the young champion, and Louis Cure, of Paris, each won three games ; J. Cutler, of Boston, two games; and A. Morningstar, of St. Louis, one game.

The Auckland Hockey Association has fixed the following dates for the Southern tour: —Leave Auckland, July 31st; play Otago, at Dunedin, August 4th; South Canterbury, at Ashburton, August 7th; Canterbury, at Christchurch, August 9th; Wellington, August nth; Manawatu, at Palmerston North, August 15th; Wanganui, August 16th ; Taranaki, August 18th.