MANY SURPRISES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 16

MANY SURPRISES

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X FIRST DAY OF MATCH PLAY

HARD-EOIJO^

(By "Chipshot.")

'•- Splendid 7 golf, -more than one dramatic 7/surprise/: < and 7 the excited merit of.tHfe" t^mperamiental clssh of mdtch: iiiay' mside irestei'diay's: sessipri of, the national golf" tournament; >at Miramar one of the most interesting since play began last Thursday. The nrst and second rounds of match" play in the amateur apd professional chamv pionships were decided. ;iri therni men who had' seemed .certain to play a dominant part were swept aside by precocious talent or by older player? who experienced for the day , thaft blessed time: to7:^olf.'.'-wheii"^..Forttine-gives.her favours freely* -xy ■ A. J. Shaw heiaded the list of thos6 who departed & Mefeat,■■=. but 7 thiere were others® who were disposed '"' of more easily than he. Conjecture had not counted it possible that P. G. F. Smith,' the /defending amateuj titles holder, W.B. Reilly, ruriher-up for the crown last year, and I. A. Ewen, one of the finest amateurs in the country, would .each; suffer defeat in the first round/nor had it seemed likely,: at lunch-time, that J.P. Mortland, round in 68 in the morning, would go in the afternoon.

In, the ■ apiateur,'e^ent,jJ,rP.- Horna-t brook witHbut trouble.; His second wund^ opponent was tlie young New Plymouth star, J. Jeffery/ who played some, good shots and some bad ones,: and was hot nearly steady enough for Hornabrook. Some of the golf,in tbe game-was patchy,-^nd they halved the eleventh in 7's after misadventures. /„ Jeffery \: was:. Sufficiently accommodating 'to ' let HbrnabroOk play : pretty badly get- awjay with Bi jran. Silk, at /tfce7 bottoija. of the draw/ had a much-more difficult task. Against.P. Quinn, in spite of-an out-: ward half of 37, he was 2.'. down- He pulled a hole back at the eleventh with a 4, but was stymied at the twelfth aiid lost to Quihn's par 3/ From the thirteenth, however, Silk turned on the fireworks,' and his rurif to the seventeenth was achieved in 44434/ Quiirn lost four of ite holes. 7 S.C; Taylor -jplayed pihenomenal golf •inthe hiorhiiig^.'.-to G.; P.. Roberts, and maybe Was entitled to- a' relapse, but he chased R.. F. Kitto to the end, and if he had riot laid himself • a stymie on the seventeenth, might havewon. Kitto was 3 down after five holes, but squared after three moire, and on the run home his long - putt for an ,eagl6 ,3 at the fourteenth was decisive. •

R. H. Glading, the Hamilton bdy,one of the favourites for the amateur title, turned on hot golf against the.young-. Waiwetu player, L. Quinn, and 'nisi I round of 72 was too hot in the late, | decisive stages. Quinn began well and jled by two holes at tlie turn. Glading won the tenth and eleventh in A's,- butlost the twelfth by driving into the j bunker. ;'•■ -He lost. the sixteenth,:: too; with three putts, but 4's on the fifiteenth and seventeenth were too good: | for'Quinn'to equal. R. G. Holland- gave A. R. Kitto all he wanted, and was rather unlucky to lose. Hollaind went out in ;34 and stood 2 up/and would have been 3 if he had not played a loose one at the ninth ar^d .taken; 5. Kitto won the terith;: twelfth, and sixteenth—Holland threerputting—and Holland -threeputted again at the seventeenth. On the eighteenth :Kitto sank7a' 14-footer for a 4. Holland had a three-footer but it sidled past; , Among the professionals, Shaw was. conquered by T. Galloway in a tight match ending on the nineteenth, with Shaw just missing a 10-yard putt which would haye^'careled" the match oh, and might even have* won, for Galloway still had rto sink a four-footer. They played .the/sixteenth with: Shaw 1 up. Galloway had ah easy two-footer there for a win, but he put it past the., hole and stared unbelievingly at the ball. They.' halved the seventeenth, and. Galloway squareci X the match on. the" eighteenth with a 'fine ' approach to within 8. feet and... one putt.... Shaw's approach was a weak shot to the edge bf the green and his long putt, though a good one, was not'good-enough. At the nineteenth, Shaw made a-;vital error with a wood from the fairway, topping the-ball- like a :24-handicap man. Galloway played a good one to the edge of the.greeir, Shaw "still, fought, and his fourth, a 10-yard putt, just curled away from the hole. A. Murray made a specialty (of-tough

matches, both \ of them going to. the nineteenth. He could riot repeat his morning round -of 67, hiii .even if 7he had; JyGailloway would probably haye ehased,.;h'im:.r The;riJsitch/. went ta'thb nineteenth arid Murray wori" with ' a Colossal stroke of \lxick. His second lodged in ( a blinker. He exploded out. Galloway was lying nicely for a 4 and the match,;for'Murray's.ball was 20 yards away. Murray struck it truly, &nd it htirig on to the .line all the'way until it' dropped into the cup. Galloway yfailed to'ihalve.1 ■■ ■-■■■ 7- '■;■•"-

: 8.. Stratmore; caught 7J. D. Mcintosh wh|ai',the:latter, for the first time in the 7tourriaxhent;? hiad^ a "vbad-:^^-rouhd. Stratoiore- played, -.^ell, going out. -in 35 arid/turning^ for'home'4 up. ' - W/.*Alfbon, con<juerc>r of Guy; arid Gi Watt /Had/ a/ clt»se struggle.. Watt - unluckily.^: put/i.BLis' -drive' at the severiteienth^ away .'6ut7 to' th 6 : right into'a drain arid* took. ;5 for the hole. Allbon, a, determined; young fighter, made ho mistake with his half on the eighteenth fo£ the match//' ''.//. .7

Results of the second round were:— AMATEUR X' 1.-- P-yHornabrook (Masterton) beat. J. Jeffery (New Plymouth), 4 apd 2. 3. D.7 Nash- (Rangimarie) rbeat -3C. Smith (Judgeford), 2 up. , •'>»• XB1-' Kitto: .(Seafield) .beat' S. C. .Taylor .(Hutt), 1 -up. ■■• *•'-..'.'■ ,7 ft. H. Glading (Hamilton)" beat Ii; Quinn (Waiwetu), 3 and 1. ■ 77 7; /.KiS.: Glendinning (Jtonawatu)' beat J. P. MOrtland;. (Taihape), 3 and '2.1 ' /,' 'f ', yA;; vR. -Kitto (Seafield) .beat R. G. Holland rwalwetu).:; 1-up. '. - -~,;; "J.* B. Tunnell: (Rangimarie), beat H. A..Black ifMi^amarlv'l'up;-I "*'..-.- .-'"'■■- .-'■■■--■ '- - ;B. *L, Silk-^Wahganui)' beat- Pi- Qiilnn; ifAucklapd):. * 2^andyl.t/.7,:'. .':'■• 7': 7:.; ; - 'JXyy. ; ;--;. -■!=• :•'.- ---''■•-;:/''''PROI!35S.SIONAli:.iCHA^li:.iCHA^Ii:.iCHA^ .^.Murray beat.'J. Galloway, at the nineteenth. ■ ' .•-..'. . •.•'-",..•...-..:;.--.- .'.- . y:'r ", -

/; W..-Allbon ;bea,t (3. Watt, 1 up- ■ ,;Ti 'S. Galloway beat A. 3:, Shaw, at the nlrietoenth..:....'.;" 7^ \y .- 7-B. "Stratmore-beat J. D; Mcintosh, 6 and 5. :