SHANDON BEAT WAIWETU

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 15

SHANDON BEAT WAIWETU

QTHEE MATCHES OFF

MANAWATU CLUB'S WIN

Steady- rain on Saturday, following Friday's heavy.-thunderstorm, put most links out o£ commission on Saturday afternoon,_ and the. interclub match between Wellington and Hut* was postponed,, as was the ladies' Mary Alward Gup match between Shaudon and Waiwetu. The Shandon and Waiwetu men, however, played their Watt Cup match at Shandon, the club, iir view of the j effect on the soft course, discouraging other games during the afternoon. With cold fingers and wet grips play was difficult, and at oue tee a player's driver followed. his ball. WATT CUP IN THE WET. Shandon beat Waiwetu at Shandon in the Watt Cup match on Saturday by 9% games to 2% games. A driving southerly with steady rain made the match something of an endurance test, but the interest in these fixtures was shown by a gallery of a dozen or so-who followed the Js'o. l's. The course held little casual water, and as the fairways were not close cut the lies were good, though the sodden turf had no life in it. The following are the results, Shandon players first mentioned:— R. G. Hayward lost to W. B. Reilly, 2 and 1. 51. R. Bowring beat H. Layer. 5 and 4. C E. Hollis beat A. T. Clelland, 2 and 1.1 D_. 51. Boyd beat G. Ho«g, 3 and 2. W. J.-Davidge lost to W. A. Gwilliam, 4 and 3. W. R. Tustin and H. G. Thompson, all i square. C. Turner beat W. -T. Wilson, 2 and 1. C. T. Brown beat K. G. Holland, 2 up. X ; Lulliam beat L. slursden, 5 and 4. W. K. Stuckey beat H. G. Jioore, 5 and 4. F. Desmond beat D. Matthews, i and 2. J. F. Taylor beat H. Keene, 3 and 2. Otlier matches were:—C. Letford beat R. Hhodes, 5 and 4; J. Melvih beat W Gregory,. 5 and .4. A CLOSE MATCH. Those who followed Hayward and Keilly witnessed a close match. Hayward played the better long game, Eeilly suffering from a slice which affected some of his mashie shots as.-well as his woods and irons but the Waiwetu lead was very sure ip his short chips and .approach putting. The first two were halved. Hayward took the thiid (304 \ards) m 4 Both vme just oft the green at the bhoit tourth. EeJlv laid a fine mn up dead and squaied the game, and takiug the next m 4 -nas 1 up. He was lucky .it the sixth, -where his mi« hit dine spatteied tlnough a slough ha/aul and lan up the bank beyond, and they hahed their worst hole m 6's The next t^o holes, 360 and 41S jaids weie halved m bogey 4's and st, Keilly w<is bunkoied at the ninth, but pla> ed a neat shot out, and taking the hole m 4, vas two up The tenth was halved. Havwaid got oue back at the eleventh, and halved the next m bogey figure- T-\\o fine shots to the green gave him a 4 at the bopej 5 thutccnth (427 juds,), and the match was all s>quaie again. FINE BUNKER SHOT. Eeillj'b tee shot into the cio&s he-id wind vas well on the jrieen at the tnckj 140\aid fourteenth. ILiyu.ud found the bnnkei, his ball lying in eight niche* of watei. Wading m, stmdmg in deepei iw.itci than the ball, he pl-ned a iem.nk ablj. successful niblick bhot out, the splash hiding him, but mi^ed the long putt and was 1 down btwmcd b\ Reilh's ball on the hp when he was two lieefc .iwjy m 3, he missed scniaung the game ngam at the fifteenth, and when Ins short niblick chip to the aieen it the sixteenth lodged on the ciest ot the bunker Reillv needed only his lu'f at the next to wm 2 and 1.

Each took 38 for the letmn tup, good golf under the conditions

Starting off with a C, Bownn» leached the tui-n in 38, with 2's at the fourth and ninth, and \u» 2 up. He finished with a 76