Championship Run

NZ Truth, Issue 1238, 22 August 1929, Page 17

Championship Run

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Wellington Rep.) The excitement is. all over and a* new champion has arrived. Scottish captured the individual honors, while the club title went to Wellington. r\N the form shown, the capital city's • chance of pulling off the national events is bright. Quite. a, number journeyed out to the Hutt Park racecourse to witness the six and a-quarter-mile tussle. Heavy rain overnight and a high wind on 1 the great day made conditions unpleasant, but. there was no lack of enthusiasm when the runners were called to their marks. Thirty-six landlopers as frisky and fresh as a troupe of ballet dancers on their- first appearahqe, stepped out to display their wares. Dorrle Leslie, known to every runner In the country, dispatched the field.. • :From the crack of the gun there was a rush to secure a good .position m the. pack, but, over the first' mile there was not- a great deal to .pick and choose. At the two-mile peg, the field was thinning but. Silver was heading Stevens by , twenty . yards. Pederson, Sinclair, Bibby and Shepherd followed. . Passing the stand for the first time, Stevens had 1 an edge on Silver of a couple of yards. Brooklyn/Scottish and Wellington, at this stage, were well placed. Beating up against the breeze at the five and a-half mile, mark, . Stevens had broken away and was forty, yards 'in the van./ Brooklyn -looked cinches to take the honors, with four men m the; first nine. Wellington were set for second place. A quarter mile from home, Brooklyn received a. |set-back. Prosser,. their man, collapsed. Wellington's stock rose with a jump. Stevens faltered oyer » the last bit, but ran out a winner from Silver by ten yards. Shepherd, Barclay, McCarthy and Sinclair followed m that order. When all the hullabaloo had died away and the official .scorers (there were many unofficial) completed their work, the final count gave Wellington the victory by one point. Thirty-six was the total. Scottish and Brooklyn tied for second place with thirty-seven each. „ Stevens ran right up to his reputation and broke the tape In 38min. 54 sees, from pistol-fire. He should be amongst the place-getters m the national race. ' Silver showed something like his true form ahd came up so fast that it seemed he would shut out Stevens. He can be depended upon to make them go at Dunedin. Jack Shephard would not have blown, a match out. at the finish. If Jack's labored style was eliminated and the middle part of his race stiffened up he would be a crackajack.- < P'oiirth place went to Barclay. Arthur has .been under, a cloud . for, the last year or two, but on Saturday he -was back to his best form. " ••'.-.■ The real honors, of the day. must be handed to McCarthy, who turned In a top-hole. run for fifth place. This is the first . year he has tackled, cross-country running— or . any other running for that matter. He is a champion m the making, if ,handled on the right lines. Sinclair came : up' to expectations In taking the wink over runners like Pederson and Bibby^ ■ Wellington deserved their win. Mulcahy, Watson- and Morris were big factors m their • victory. Tenth, eleventh and twelfth places were theirs. • Brooklyn were unlucky m losing Prosser- when it was all over but the shouting. Bibby. was feeling the effects of the "flu" otherwise he would have been m the first half-dozen.

to strike the Sydney player reeling off a string of "birdie" play In the last five' holes— 3, 4, 3, 3, 4 — to be defeated 1 up. In the Cup, he reversed positions and won handsomely as he did m similar conditions at Miramar last year against Smith. Ross had a great battle and an inch difference on the last green made a huge difference to the destination of the Cup. Black, to the joy of his followers, made good,' and with a five-hole victory, hoisted the team into a winning position.. After his brilliant play m the Victorian championship, Morpeth's defeat was a blow to New Zealand. Sloan went to Australia to redeem his severe defeat of last year and once again he met a player playing under par golf. The hoodoo of the K.-W. Cup has settled on Morpeth's shoulders. The team was defeated after a plucky fight, but may the luck swing round. This week, at Adelaide, the Australian open is decided. The Rotorua tournament which opens this week has had a record entry. Open to 80 players, over 100 have sent entries. With such players as A. Duncan, H. B. Lusk, R. Wright, W. Morrice, J. Goss, J. Hussey and others, competing, some great golf ought to be played. Belmont Links, the venue of the N.Z. open next month, is at present m fine condition. The new bunkers and other alterations are now complete and , the greens are In first-class condition. Middl'emore had a : hard • struggle to defeat Otahuhu 6 and . H. Ij. W. ' Croxson (CX) . defeated W. Kalph -, (M.), holing <out a fine, round of 76. ' A Middlembre team visited Glendowie and the senior club's leading players were all defeated. The, "tail," however, saved the day for them.' Dr: Horton, in-defeating a strong player | m : H. Tidmarsh, kept his undefeated match record up to date. - '„"• Winning the medal match at Hamilton with sn-18— 71 \vi" bririgs ; lots of congratulations and joy-.to AY. Strang.; ;. You can't get spin ;in golf unless syou hit the ball crisply. ■/■;■ . ' Rana Wagg, . with 75-72, was an easy winner In the Hutt Club qualifying rounds. J. Flanagan, with two ~Bo's, was runner-up.. - Seniors, paired with. 'juniors, played a Canadian foursome at Miramar. „ ,P. D. Daniell and T. Day, with a fine score of 3 up, secured the- trophy. "■-"-. The shorter the shot' the nearer you stand to the ball and the feet become closer together.

ment. Howard' Paul, right-wing, played one of his best games this season, putting m some fine centres to the inside men.Ferris and McDuff, inside right and inside left respectively, both played fair games, but Avere prone to crowd far too" much towards the centre. As the pivot man of. the van, George Simpson gave his ,outside men plenty to do and led most of the attacks m good style. l In goal for Hutt, Flett did his job m tradesmanlike fashion and had little chance with the two which got past him. The two full-backs, Gutry and Fos. Lusty, played good defensive games, but their clearing hits to the van were badly directed. Diamond, Ross and Wall comprised a fair half-line and got through plenty of work, but were 'lnclined to waste far too much time ln stopping the ball with their hands. » ' * - Merv. Hoare did not play up to expectations, but he.was up against a hard.proposition m Eddie McLeod.. i In the Karori-Wellington "game the suburban team were three, up at halftime, mat m the second , half, play, was much more even, one goal eaph being scored. Moore, ,m goal, Hull and Spiers, fullbacks, made a strong last line of defence for the winners. Wesley put it all over V.M.C.A. to the tune of 5 goals to nil. >, From the commencement there was only one team m if. Y.M. appear to have slipped badly. The defence of Boys, O'Callaghan and Pyle was far too much for the.. Young Men's forwards and rarely did they threaten danger.