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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 220, 11 June 1921, Page 7

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ENGLISH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. London, June 9. Kirkwood beat Vardon at the 19th hole. Watt beat Holland at the 19th Hagen beat Josh Taylor (4 up and 2 to play), Renouf beat. Johns (4 up and 2 to play), Ray heat French (2 up and 1 to play), Havers b eat Braid by one hole, MitchcM beat Hutchinson by one hole, and Ockenden beat Jones by two holes.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. KIRKWOOD'S MATCH AGAINST VARDON. (Rec. June 10, 9.55 p.m.) London, June 9. In tbe match against Vardon, Kirkwood held the lead from the beginning. After being two up and three to'play, he lost the sixteenth and seventeenth holes, but the match finished at the nineteenth, Kirkwood hitting a magnificent second with an iron shot. This stroke won the match. Vardon and Taylor complimented Kirkwood, whose wrist is now right.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. KIRKWOOD DEFEATS HAVERS (Rcc. June 10, 5.5 p.m.) London, Juns 10. Kirkwood beat Havers at the twentieth hole. A crowd of three thousand applauded the victor. Kirkwood won the first hole brilliantly. He lost the next two. halved the fourth, and lost the fifth. Against a. gale of wind he peached the sixth in two, and won with four. He took three putts at the seventh, but halved it. and lost the next, one down. At the ninth Havers got a brilliant four. Tho tenth hole, which was fully exposed to the gale, was halved. Kirkwood won the eleventh and twelfth, in a three and a four. The match was square at the sixteenth. Havers's ball at the sevenieentji struck a spectator. His second shot deflected to the green. Kirkwood failed to reach the green in two. and lost, the hole, hut squared the match at the eighteenth. Both took fives at the nineteenth, but had their seconds on the green at the twentieth. Kirkwood nearli- holed in three. Havers overputted, and missed the return. Kirkwood will meet Renouf in the semi-final. He played with great determination. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.