GOLF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1566, 23 September 1905, Page 2

GOLF.

A. DUNCAN AGAIN WINS THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP. Per Press Association. Auckland, last night. The New Zealand amateur golf championship was decided to-day. The results of the previous rounds had left Arthur Duncan, of Wellington (who held the championship of New Zealand for three yearß prior to the last 1904), to play off the final with his younger brother, Kenneth Duncan. The final consisted of two rounds of an 18-hole course, and after a fairly interesting game the championship was again won by Arthur Duncan, the game being decided at the 32nd hole, when the ex-ohampion was 5 up and 4 to play, The day was oold and Bhowery, with a somewhat trying wind, and in the circumstances it is not surprising that the play was hardly up to New Zealand champion ship form. Both players showed frequent weakness on the greens, and were occasionally loose in their approoobing, neither beiDg apparently in tip-top form. The spectators, however, were treated to a good all-round exhibition of golf, and the loser, though playing an uphill game, stuck pluokily to his task, and made his game interesting throughout. The game was praetioally won in the first round, the winner only holding his own in the seoond, and but for the unexpected collapse of the younger player at the tail end of the first round, the ohampion would no d.oubt have had harder work to win back tho honor of golf champion of New Zealand, which he now carries for the fourth year.