SILK CHAMPION

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1932, Page 2

SILK CHAMPION

GOLF AT MIRAMAiR

There was plenty of excitement; in th« final stages of the final for• the Miramar New. Year Golf Championship yesterday • afternoon, and at one stage it looked «• though H. A;. :Black .wbuld take' iB. M. Silk to the nineteehthV Four down "at the^turn, Black pulled down "the lead until he was dormy' one,' and only a trifling shortage in a well-judged iron shot allowed Silk to win' 2 up. •■-"' Quite'a gallery .-. followed the players, and > when he' won Silk was warmly congratulated; .-.■■■ i The wind increased-to gale'force in th« afternoon, and with the wind behind him, Silk was only 10£t from! the first'pin in 2, and sank the putt, taking away Black's lead of 1 up on. the morning round. The second was. halved in 4's. , Silk took th« long hole in 4, arid was 1 up."' Black's te« shot was dead on the pin at the fourth, some six feet past' it, while Silk was to the right, but dead in 2. Black missed his putt for a 2, and a half-.in 3 was recorded.;. Black pushed out his drive at "The Lupins,"- and found the deep sandy basin off the fairway to the,right. "-.. H« played a clean, well judged: shot oiit, but the ball just trickled into" th6Vbnnker to the right of "the green;'and'Silfc, who vai just on in 2, was down: in 4,' and. 2 up. Black went through, the sixth greea front the tee, and was a trifle heavy on his next shot. Silk, who was nicely on from ■ the tee," got down in 3, and was 3-tip; Silk found the rough."at the seventh from the , tee,;but played .well out, and got.a half ' in 5.: The eighth was interesting., BJiick's drive .was to tie right of the green.- and short, while Silk's'only:just trickled off . the green into the bunker on th«r left, * long drive. Silk was a. trifle strong-and to the right getting out, but laj-i insid« Black's approach, which was 12 feet : from the cup. . Black sank the long-..one..and Silk his six-footer,., and the Hole vaa halveiin 3. ißlack's.second was ."short at.the ninth, and he missedfa'six-footer fora half,in i.Silk standing 4 ip-at the turn, having gone out in-^. '" ; ~"' At this, stage it looked as: though" it were all over, but the' gallery, had overlooked Black's fighting qualities. • Silk ruieshit a brassie shot at the tenth, which Black took in 5, reducing the lead to 3 up. ' The :eleventh was a classic in approaches. Silk from a good second lay less than a foot from the cup in 3. Black's second waa sliced out beyond the bunker, some seventy yards from the cup, but he played a magnificent inashie inside Silk less than a, foot from the cup, and halved in 4. : : Silk took the next, where Black missed a putt, in 3, and stood 4 up. Black took the, thn> teenthin 4, and-was only .3 down again. Black was bunkered from the,tee at th« fourteenth, and was a'shade strong out. Silk; taking the hole in' 3,: and standing dormy 4. At the fifteenth Black wa« under the bank but found the green'to: . the left from the blind shot. He laid his next dead. Silk from two good shot*, trickled beautifully down from, the back of the green, to within a foot of the:cnp. It looked like a cerUin hakV and th« end of the match. '^1 don't think, ha\ can miss that," remarked a Miramar «ym-'\: pathiser, but Sijk did. Perhaos^ne-vu a 'shade over-confident/ but*tfie lightly* ■'".'■ struck ball stopped on Ake lip; eviflence of a fault noticeable throughout Ma game of not finishing, his putter.; stroke thoroughly. Whatever the ■ explanation, in« atead of the game, ending therei'4 "and 3, " they went on. Black, with. a.new leasa' of h£e,iound the sixteenth green in 2, and with his third, stymied Silk,- who took 3 to reach the green, Black taking the: hole m' 4-5, "ha.ving~ become 2 down and ,- -2 to go. ; The end again: seemed when Silk's 12-footer for, a- 4' (intor the wind at the seventeenth)--'hit -the: hole "and turned away, with. Black: lying, on .the edge of the green having played 3, but here' Black, proved his nerve by sinking a twelve-footer, and reduced his leeway to one down.; Both played fine 'drives: at the eighteenth, Silk's ■■ a trifle the-longer. Black played the better iron. Allowing for the run of the ground, it; would hive -'■ curled m to the pin had it run ■ another few yards. -As it was, both were- short : of the green in 2, and .when Black left himself a longish putt, it. .was evident, that he would not. get his. half. Hi* ■ ball hit, the back of the tin and turned away, and he finished 2 down: -" " ■ Silk's card read: 344343534, 33 ; 64353555^ 40; total 73. -X- " -.; ' ~~™~~™* Black's figures were: '< 445354535], 38j■■;• ' 544444445, 38; total-76. .\ ■; /, : ■ The winner of the final of group 1 wag Sutherland, who defeated Hurst 1 up. ~ : At the. conclusion of the tourney prize! • were distributed by" the president of "th« Miramar Club, Mr- iA.-;-E. Mabin.r'