GOLF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1545, 29 August 1905, Page 2

GOLF.

FINAL FOR THE LADIES' CHAMPIONSHIP.

Saturday’s Napier Herald thus con* eludes a long description of the fiaal round for the ladies’ gold championship of New Zealand

To the seventeenth hole, both drove well, and both lay close to the green in 2. Both made bad approaches. Miss Lewis’ fourth wbb a good putt j Miss Stevenson’s fourth lay level. Miss Stevenson’s fifth just curled round the hole. Then Miss Lewis missed an easy putt, and the hole waa halved—Miss Stevenson dormy 1. . To home hole, both drove well. Both were in difficulties with the second, Miss Lewis resting in a pit, and Miss Stevenson in the Maori enolosure, which lost her a stroke. Miss Lewis' third struck roof of pavilion, and rolled on to the green. Misu Stevenson’s fourth was close to green, her fifth on green. Miss Lewis lay dead in 5, but Mias Stevenson, with a fine putt, went out, and halved the hole, thus winning the matoh.

It was a most exoiting game, full of incident and variety. Miss Stevenson went off badly, and was some time before she recovered her stroke,but she stuck pluokily to her opponent, and gradually got into form. Miss Lewis seemed to lose nerve somewhat towards the end of the game, and missed a couple of chances on the greens. It was a well fought game, and Miss Lewis will be the first to own that her opponent played a fine up-hill garnq. The winner, we understand, has not

long been in the colony, and has played for the Middlesex and other good olobs at Home, tShe is an acquisition to theranks of oolonial lady golfers. It 18 only fair to say that the tourna* ment has revealed the fact that a eurpria--ingly, large number of ladies are first rate exponents of the game, playing T with a style and a science and a good temper that their male friends might well envy.