Past Defeats Are Avenged

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 60, 2 June 1927, Page 11

Past Defeats Are Avenged

Titirangi Ladies Have a Good Win AGAINST AUCKLAND CLUB Titirangi ladies are chuckling. They lSafv bee h having quite a nice time lately Ffrst of all they enjoyed the dlCapS ’ which enabled a num-thevV-w? 1 ? t 0 ret ' Jrn bo & e y results that chotce f dreamf ' d ab out, but had little chance of seeing on real cards. Yesterday they secured their enjoyment at che discomfiture of the Middlemore ladies, when, for the first time for many a long day—for the first time altogether as far as I know—the Titirangi “A” team proved successful, in an inter-club event, by four matches to three. Very decided wins were secured by Mrs. Dufaur and Mrs. Deighton, in the Nos. 1 and 2 positions respectively, in the Titirangi team. Titirangi had the advantage of be?hg on its home links, and the conditions were excellent, though the greens appeared very fast, and proved troublesome to the visitors, as well as to some of the home players. One of the features of the afternoon was the number of stymies reported. Why players, in inter-team matches, persist in playing them is beyond me. They invariably leave regrets on both sides and perhaps spoil an otherwise interesting match. By no stretch of imagination could some stymies, on some of the sloping greens at Titirangi, be considered as giving the player any chance of playing the necessary shot successfully. ESTABLISHED A “CORNER” Among the failures on the Titirangi side were those of the Misses Horton, both of whom just failed to get there. The Horton family seems to be jList about due for a spell, for between Mrs. Horton and the two Misses Horton, they have just about established a corner in Maungakiekie trophies this season, having won or tied for at least eight of them. GOOD SCORING One of the features of the play yesterday afternoon was the substantial margin of the win by Mrs. Dufaur, the Titirangi champion, over Miss Culling, who has been playing some brilliant golf at Titirangi lately, and has produced, among other things, a new record for the course. Mrs. Dufaur was playing up to her best form, and with one or two minor exceptions was extremely consistent, so much so that, in spite of finishing with three sixes in a row, her round was 84. Mrs. Dufaur won the first with a four, and Miss Culling gave up after getting into the road at the second. The next was halved in 4’s, and Mrs. Dufaur won the next with three, but dropped a hole at the long fifth, where she took seven against six. The next was halved in 3’s, and at the 7th Miss Culling drove into the drain, and eventually gave it up. She followed this up by having a dispute with the tree in the fairway at the next, and coming off second best, was in a position- that did not leave much hope of recovery. Mrs. Dufaur proceeded to come home in 5,4, 4,5, 4, by which time the match was over. In the No. 2 match Mrs. Hodges did not produce the golf she has been playing at Middlemore lately. She was putting very well on the way out, but the long department was at fault, and on the way in her short game went off. Mrs. Deighton was, on the other hand, playing very consistently and was out in 43, being two up at the turn, and having no special demand made Lipon her on the way in. Neither Miss E. M. Upton nor Miss D. Horton were playing up to form, and the game went to the last green, where Miss Upton, who had a margin of one up, won by that score. MANY HALVES

Nine of the holes were halved in the match between Miss T. Bayley and Miss Colebrook. Miss Colebrook won the first, and the next five were halved, after which Miss Colebrook won two of the next three holes, and was three up at the turn. Two more holes were then halved, and the remainder of the game saw alternating fortunes until Miss Colebrook won 2 and 1.

Miss M. Cooper and Miss K. Horton were square at the turn, both playing fairly consistently, though Miss Horton and her irons did not reach any degree of intimacy. Miss Horton won the 10th, but lost the next two, and eventually went down 2 and 1. LONG DRIVING

The biggest win of the day was obtained by Miss F. Hamlin, one of the visitors, against Mrs. Findlay, the margin being 7 and 6, which was slightly in Miss Hamlin’s favour, comparing the handicaps of the two players. Miss Hamlin was really playing very well, and was four up at the turn, after which she ended the match drastically by winning the next three holes. She was driving a particularly fine ball, and was, for instance, on the edge of the 17th green in two —410 yards without any run worth speaking of. Airs. Marshall and Airs. Alison had a closer match than the 3 and 2 margin indicated, and the records included no fewer than four stymies. One of the other matches had two. Airs. Alison was the last player in, with the two teams square and waiting for her result, so that she was received with delight. The results were: TITIRANGI Mrs. Dufaur, 6 and 4 1 Airs. Deighton, 5 and 3 1 Miss D. Ilorton 0 Miss Colebrook, 2 and 1 1 Miss K. Horton 0 Airs. Findlay 0 Mrs. Alison, 3 and 2 1 4 AUCKLAND Miss E. Culling 0 Mrs. Hodges o Aliss E. M. Upton, 1 Lip 1 Miss T. Bayley o Aliss AI. Cooper, 2 and 1 .. .. 1 Miss F. Hamlin, 7 and 6 .. . . 1 Airs. AJarshall o The matches in the junior team resulted : JUNIORS HAVE WALK-OVER In the junior team the Titirangi players had a walk-over, winning all seven of the matches. The results were: Mrs. Endean beat Aliss K. Clarke, 7 and 5; Aliss AI. Fouhey beat Airs. Pugh, 3 and 1; Aliss M. Richardson beat Aliss E. Gill, 3 and 1; Aliss K. Fouhey beat Airs. Bradley, 3 and 1: Airs. Cooke beat Aliss J. Reid, 7 and 5: Miss AloCabe beat Airs. Foster, 2 up: Airs. Roberts beat Aliss C. Bayley, 2 up. CAN YOU BEAT IT? C. Aloulder, Wanganui, a player at the Seafield Club, with a total of 239 for thr£e rounds, was the winner of the.captain s trophy. This in itself is perhaps not so much, but in his last round of BG, he holed from outside the green on six occasions. STEEL AND HICKORY While America is supplying Britain with hickory for the shafts of golf clubs, England is exporting steel shafts to the United States. A Birmingham firm is said to have sent out as many as 20.000 quite recently. It seems that so far England is the only country which can manufacture a weldless steel shaft.