GOLFING

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1930, Page 5

GOLFING

HOKITIKA GOLF CLUB.

The usual monthly .Be are Boavl bogey will |be played on Wednesday, s July 16th.

In the second round of the Stavelev Competition Mrs Caliari Avon from Mrs Guthrey bv default, Mrs Baker won from Miss Moorev by default, M iss Wilson won from Mrs • Macfarlaiie by. default. .Mrs Cagney won from Mrs Butler by default, Mrs Cooke won from Mrs Neville by default,: Mrs Wilson-,avow ifironv, ‘Mr 9 Inviii 6 and 5, Miss King, won from Miss Lewis 2 up. Mrs Diedrteh won, | from Mrs Cox 4 and 3. = ( -.Y-'b' :

BOBBY JONES AGAIN.

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NEW YORK, July Hi

Bobby Jones and' Horton Smith fought another ; duel ■ to-day, with Jones unable *to overcome the young) professional. ■. - , Smith beat par figures with a score of twenty, making his total for thirtysix holes 142. i • ; ; ;v , y v.'

Jones returned a card of 73, .and his total is how '144. Harry Coopif tied 1 with him, ' V ; :

MacDonald Smith, Tommy Armour and Walter Hagen, with 145, 14d and 147, respectively, threw away their chances of remaining in front, KirkAA'ood finished with 158. Ten thousand folloAved the play under a merciless sun. ' , ■ • . .

It was great golf, played in terrific heat, Avhidh was responsible for N a hundred deaths in the middle west. NEW YORK, July 12.

Bobby Jones Avon the open golf championship, totalling 287 (for seventy-two holes, after setting ' an InterlachaP ,'oopa-se (record sixtyeight this • morning. MaoDonald-Smith was second with . 289. '

VANCOUVER, July 12>

‘Jfones won’ his ‘’twelfth. ‘.national open title with,, an., aggregate j ’ of 237. He did the first 18 in 68, setting a new course record. He tbpk 75 for the final 18. Seldom before lias Jones been under such pressure, with so brilliant an apay of professionals challenging him at every stroke. * H,e Avas croAvded back in the early rounds 'but lay ; always within striking distance :of\'the lead and as the challengers cracked oiie by one, beneath the terrific strain, he moved forward with that iron, self-possdss-ion which stamped him. as the greatest golfer.

N.S.W. CUP.

SYDNEY, July ,13.

Splendid golf, was witnessed yeptejrday in the New South . Wales Cup, which is an 18 holes stroke handicap played at La Perouse, The contest:(iis open to professionals and- amateurs. It was won by, Charles Campbell, who broke the course record with a score of 73, his figures being; Out, 35; in, 38. . '. ’