KIRK-WINDEYER CUP

Evening Star, Issue 19781, 3 February 1928, Page 13

KIRK-WINDEYER CUP

DR LEE BROWN AND DR KEN ROSS THE HEROES

[From Our Correspondent.]

The eagerly expected international golf match between New South Wales and New Zealand for the Kirk-Win-deyer Cup, played on Monday at Miramar. Wellington, resulted in a win for tho Australian team, although on pomes eaefi team had tho same score—namely, 3 points, or 3 matches each. Tho l umber of boles up or down at the end of each match was counted, and by this reckoning New South Wales had 10 holes, while New Zealand had G, so the crusaders from the Commonwealth have won the cup on New Zealand grounds, and this is certainly in tho interest of the annual match.

There were two heroes of Monday’s play—Dr Lee Brown (Sydney) and Dr Kon. Ross (Dunedin). Dr Lee Brown had ben wandering about disconsolately on the course for several days trying, like Ptier Pan, to find what he had lost. Ho had lost his inspiration, and m Urn open tournament last week he made no return; but ho was gradually getting vorked up, and the big event keyed him ngnt to concert pitch. He found again ms lost inspiration in tho fom somes in the morning against Horton and Grant. It was Leo Brown’s putting that gave the Sydney couple their lead of three holes. Repeatedly he holed putts of 4yds and syds, and never looked like missing them. In the the single against Sloan Morpeth in the afternoon, Lee Brown had his inspiration smoothly working, and he turned par gol; on to tho New Zealand champior., finishing 5 up on him at the eigjitepnth—and Sloan was round in 96. “I knew he might do it,” said ono or two who had seen him play before, and it was because he “might do it ’’ that he was put on as the final man against Sloan Morpeth. Here are Lee Brown’s figures for tho afternoon round; Out—4, 4,5, 3,5, 2,3, 5, 3,34; in—4, 2,3, 5,4, 4,6, 5, 37; total, 71. Sloan Morpeth played good golf for these figures: Out—s, 4,4, 4,5, 3,3, 4,4, 36; in—4, 5,4, 5,5, 4,5, 5, 40; total 76. The seventh hole is the formidable hillside. These two halved it in 3.

Ken. Ross, however, would have held Leo Brown in the afternoon, and I must tell now about his round. It was Sloan Morpeth who said to me on Friday last: “I never played a better round in my life,” concerning his great 70 against Arthur Duncan. On Monday Ken. Ross came up and said: “1 never played a better round. I didn’t make a mistake all the way until I missed a short putt at the thirteenth for a birdie 3. My mashie niblick shots were always on the pin, and pulled np beautifully. I got all my figures easily.” That is what good golf does. You get your good figures easily. These are the figures Dr Ross got: Out—4, 4,5, 3,4, 2,4, 4,5, 35; in—4, 4,3, 5,4, 3, 6,6, 37; total, 72. That fine score includes a yard putt missed at the thirteenth, and a similar one at the eighteenth. Moreover, he dropped one stroke (i.e,, distance only) by putting a ball out of bounds at the eighteenth. Quite par golf, and Dr Ross has ben playing close to this standard all the past week. Dr Nigel Smith was only a few strokes behind him, and finished 4 holes down; a great struggle it was to keep abreast of that 72. The other two singles were more ordinary so far as golf is concerned.