GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. .

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 5

GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. .

.' — ) ANNUAL TpTONAMENT, . (BT-.TELEoaApa—PBESS ASSOCIATION.) "L' Dunertlnp January 1. . The Otago Golf Club's annual New Year . tournftmont ■ was continned to-day in cold; ; windy jveather. l'ho Bogey Fours was won ■v.- by ,B. O.sßutherford, andTP.'Trolovo (Chrlst- ••» 'i church), with-2 -handicap, 1 np;-T. Brydano . and-'A. .-J.-!.Forbes (Otago) ( .B 'handicap,- all square j 6, M. M'Lean, and F. W. M'Lean ,;(Qtsgo),' 10.handicap; all :B<juare { H; OJ Smith- : andß. ■. J. - Smith, .-scratch, 1 ' down: J. •A; ... Comek and 0. Turnbull (Otago), 6 handicap/ 2 ,down;AV. D. M'Carthy and A. Lafng (Sfc. :v 'ClairV'll;handioap, 2 down; A. P. Roberta ond H.. A.. ; Salmon; (Otago), .1- handicap, 3 : down; J. A. Dow and • Bennington, 4 handicap, 3 down; 6. H. M'Ewan (Otago) and R. W. D. Robertson (Nfcw Plymouth), -4. handicap, $ down: W. R. Darling and H. M. Sox- • by (Oamnlru),' 6 3' down ( J. N. • : Lnwson (Otago) and A. Howden (Oamaru) B handicap, 3 down. : Amateur championship.—H. 6. Smith want , round m 81* and leads with 240. B. J. Smith : 6cpred- 84, and-comca next' with 263. ■ R. J. . , :Smith;took 88;: and ia third- with-279i- : H. > lA..'Salmon's scoro-waß 89. and :he )V close cri the heelaof R. J. Smith with 280. J. 'A.:Gpw„(ChristohuToh), whose-ficore w&3 97, comes next with 282. Play In this event was, consideringvWMth'er ;'oonditiona, excsl- .. - - lent. •. - . ; v .'-■;. , 4: v yv7:-V'.■• ■Theihest scores • for the- medal handicap were:—H. C. Smith, 81 scr., 81: H. W. M'Lean 97—14—83;. F. W. Si<Lean, 97-14 —83; B. J. Smith, 84. The tic for the ■ Thursday medal handicap was played off and . won by F. W. M'Lean. To-morrow the final , round of'the amateur'championship will bt : played in tho morning, and' a mixed bofcey foursome in the afternoon, after which the ■. will be distributed, and the 1 tournament ends.'