GOLFING.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1927, Page 1

GOLFING.

N.S.WJ. TOURNEY. HORTON’S TUSSLE. [HV TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) SYDNEY, Juno 14. In the second round of the Amateur Golf Championship, played in showery weather, Russell and Horton had a tremendous struggle. Horton started brilliantly with a two at the first, then lie lost the second. The third was halved. Horton won the, fourth and Russell the fifth. The sixth was halved, but Russell won the long seventh with a birdie four. After the eighth had been halved, Horton squared the match with a birdie three at the ninth. Horton took three putts nt the tenth, hut his brilliant three at the eleventh squared the game again. The twelfth was halved, and Horton took the lead, winning the thirteenth, but a great three by Russell at the fifteenth evened things again. Horton sank a thirty foot, putl for a half at the sixteenth, hut missed his putt at the eighteenth and finished one down. Russell's round was seventy-one and Horton’s seventy-two.

In the afternoon Russell won the second, and Horton the third. The Victorian won the fourth and fifth. The sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth were halved, though a stymie cost Hor-ton-a win at the eighth. Horton here commenced to putt badly, and lie lost the tenth and the eleventh, and only halved the twelfth. Ho was then Rundown and six to play. He then won the thirteenth and fourteenth, hut Russell negotiated a stymie at the fifteenth for a half. Horton won the sixteenth, but pulled his tee shot at the seventeesth. His hall moved as he was addressing it and lie duffed his third, and Russell won the hole and the match, two up and one to play. Horton played a. great game, and was unlucky to strike a player like Russell at the top of Ills game.

Smith, u youth from the nine hole course at Longreel. made the sensation of the tournament. He defeated Murdoch in the first round, and iu the second overwhelmed Sturrock, the con(jueror of Morrison. The detailed results of the second round of the Amateur Golf Championship are:—Wliitton defeated Harrison, fi and 5; Apperly defeated Nigel Smith, 11 and 10; Russell defeated Horton, 2 and 1 ; Walter Smith defeated Sturrock, 7 and 5.