WEEKEND GOLF

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 188, 6 May 1940, Page 3

WEEKEND GOLF

Hutt Beat Wellington Easily

W. B. REILLY IN FORM

Hutt scored a sweeping victory over Wellington in an interclub match by lb games to five, with one game halved. Hutt won the match between the A teams at Hcretaunga by 84 games to <’>L and in the match between the B teams ou the Hutt course won by 10 games to two. Following are the results, the Hutt players being mentioned first:— A teams: W. B. Reilly beat A. D. >.. Duncan, 3 and 1; G. P. .Roberts beat D O. Whyte, 3 and 1; IV. G. Horne beat E. AV. Thurgood, 3 and 1; £>- C. Inymr lost to J. B. Parker, 2 and 1; W. K. Cook beat J. H. Salanders, 3 and 2; J. K Pym beat P. W. Blundell, 4 and 3; G. Tustin lost to J. W. Ward, 1 down; D. L. Irwin beat 11. P. F. Blundell, t> and 3- G. L. Barker and T. W. Leckie, all square; J. S. Park beat R. E. Tolhurst, 8 and 7; I. A. H. Symes beat R. E. lolhurst, 2 and 1; A. E. Tarrant lost to D. G. Webster, 3 and 2. B. teams: W. IL Dilhcar lost to R. T. Peacock, 3 and 2; C. L. Moloney beat F. Leckie, 6 and 4; E. S. Thomson lost to P Fulton, 1 down ; D. M. Hay heat K. ■Welton-Hogg, 3 and 2; J. V. Stevens beat L. R. Gilmour, 4 and 3; G. 1. Berry beat A. T. Young, 4 and 2 ; IL Adams beat L Porter, 1 up; A. L. McLean beat G. CL Sutton, 6 and 4; G. M. Frazer beat G E. Tripe, 8 and 7; D. J. S. Mhite ■beat P. R. M. Hanna, 6 and 4; F. A. Gibbons boat R. T. Young, 7 and 6; R. D. Wraight beat I. H. Miles, 1 up. Hutt won the Crawford Crescent contest, which is confined to the eight leading players of the A teams, by six games to the Wellington provincial champion, was at the top of his form for Hutt in outplaying A. D. S. Duncan by 3 and 2 Duncan took the first hole with a birdie 3 by chipping out from outside the green, but Reilly then settled down to go out in 35 to stand 2 up at the t' l ™; He notched a birdie 4 at the eighth (o3t> yards), and a birdie 2 a the short ninth, where he sank a 30-foot putt. Duncan took 38 for the out journey, and got one back with 4 to 5 at the tenth. They halved the next five holes in bogey figures, but. Reilly drew dormy 2 when the B ellington No. 1 sliced his drive oft _ the sixteenth tee out of bounds. A win in 4 to 5 at the seventeenth gave Reilly a win bv 3 and 1. He took 37 for the home journey, his card reading:—Out: 403-435542-35. In: 545533444-37. Duncan came home in 40, which gave him 78 for the round. . , . All the Hutt men were right on their game, and showed the -Wellington players how to play their own course. J. B. Parker J. W. Ward, and D. G. M cbstei were the onlv Wellington players to win their games, and all handled their clubs expert.lv T. W. Leckie (Belington) aU O pla’vcd well in finishing all square with the long-hitting G. L. Barker.