CROSSING SMASH

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20097, 17 November 1939, Page 4

CROSSING SMASH

YOUNG MAN KILLED FRANKTON TRAGEDY (Pci’ Press Associaliot. i AUCKLAND, this day. Fatal injuries were received by Edward Wilson Allcer, aged 23 years, as a result of a collision between a car he was driving and an express train at a level crossing at Frankton last evening. This was the fourth crossing accident in the Hamilton district in the past four weeks, two having proved fatal. Mr. Alker was driving a new twoseater motor car, and the vehicle was struck by the Auckland-Wellington express on a crossing which is just north of the Frankton railway yards. Five tracks cross at this point. The car was carried 35yds before it. was thrown aside. Among other injuries. Mr. Alker suffered a fractured skull and died within a few minutes. The engine of the train was extensively damaged and hac! to be replaced. Mr. Alker was a single man and was the proprietor of the Alker Machinery Exchange at Frankton, where he lived.

counter another stymie at the twelfth, which he lost in three to four, but he played a great approach shot at the next and sank a short putt for a win. Silk hit a perfect tee shot at the short sixteenth to assume the lead, but Kitto holed a putt from the edge of the green to win the seventeenth with a birdie three. They halved the home hole in regulation fours. Silk finished the morning round with an excellent 70 to stand 1 up. He increased his lead to two at the nineteenth, Kiito playing through the green into the bunker. At the twentyfirst Silk failed to run down a short one for a win and, at the short twentyfourth, he again putted poorly to lose the hole, but he turned for home 2 up, having gone out in 36 to Kitto’s 37.

Kitto showed himself to be a great fighter on the inward journey, apd when they went to the seventeenth he had a one-hole lead. A half resulted, and at the crucial home hole Kitto’s tee shot found the ditch and, although lie made a fine recovery, Silk laid him another stymie which he could not negotiate. Silk had to run down a six-footer for a half at the thirty-seventh, but his putter again failed him.

Murray in Form

Playing at the top of his form, Murray gave T. S. Galloway little chance in the final of the professional championship. Long tee shots, accurate low-hit approaches to the green and steady putting were features of Murray’s play. Fie was out in 33 and back in 33, giving him a five-hole lead. Galloway was inclined to wildness off the tee, and he could not match Murray's putting. The eleventh cost him six and he finished with a 72 against Murray’s 66. Galloway reduced Murray’s lead at the nineteenth, winning in four to five after blasting out of the bunker and sinking a six-foot putt. The next two were halved, and at the twenty-second Galloway pulled his iron tee shot but had a good lie. He made a brilliant recovery but missed a six-footer for a half. Murray was in the rough with his tee shot at the twenty-third, but laid a pitch shot two feet from the pin and won the hole with a birdie three.

The next was halved in regulation threes.

Galloway was wide of the green at Die twenty-fifth, but he played a nicely-judged chip to secure a half. Murray drew applause from the gallery at the twenty-sixth (330yds.) by putting his lee shot on th'e green six feet behind the pin, and he ran down the putt for an eagle two. Murray hit a screamer at the next and, although short with his second, lie holed a four-footer for a win, Galloway playing his second from the rough into the bunker.

Murray was dormie eight at the turn, where it became apparent that victory for him was assured. A line brassic second to the green gave Galloway a win at the long twentyeighth, A half in fours resulted at the next hole and the match finished at the thirtieth, where Murray made no mistake with his putts for par three. Murray took 32 for the outward journey this afternoon. In the final of the New Zealand Plate, Ewen defeated Mortland 2 and 1.