GOLF CHAMPIONS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10615, 14 June 1920, Page 7

GOLF CHAMPIONS

I'RILLANT YOUNG MAN WINS ENGLISH TITLE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 13, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. June 11. Owing to the presence of Gardiner, the American, the amateur golf final attracted more public interest than in any year since Travis won in 1904. In a stern, ding-dong struggle Gardner led to the twenty-third. Tolley then led and won at the thirty-seventh. Tolley is aged twenty-four, is six feet high, and weighs fourteen stone. He began golf as a boy. Hd wae an officer in the Tank Corps, and won • the Military Cross. .He was a prisoner in Germany for a year. He distinguished himself in golf at Oxford, and is a tremendous driver. LADIES’ CHAMPIONSHIP. (Received Juno 13, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON,, Juno 11. In the Oadies’ golf finaP Miss Cecil Leitch was four up on Miss Joyce Wethered at the seventh hole and maintained it to the twenty-second. She wae two up at tho twenty-ninth. Miss Wethered won, two up and one to play. Miss Joyce Wethered is the eighteen-year-old sister of the Oxford golf captain.