INTER-CLUB PLAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 410, 19 July 1928, Page 8

INTER-CLUB PLAY

AUCKLAND LADIES WIN SOME FINE STYLES The first inter-club ladies’ event of any general importance was played at Middlemore late last week, when the home team was successful in very thoroughly disposing of a Titirangi team. The event was spread over the day, singles in the morning and foursomes in the afternoon.

Conditions in the morning were quite nice, but the play in the afternoon was in a driving rain, wi /eli soaked the players and numbed tiiem with cold. In all it was very unp.easant, and under the circumstances the golf was very good.

My own impressions were that Mrs. Hosking (nee Miss Laurenson), on the Titirangi side, was the most noticeable player on the day, and she should yet make a name for herself in Auckland play. There is certainly no better exponent of the straight left arm in this part of the country, and her wooden shots are of good length. Her iron shots are, however, the outstanding part of her game, and they ar© undoubtedly better than the iron shots of 75 per cent, of men.

E. J. Moss, the Auckland professional, and I donned gum boots, rain coats and gamps, and went out to see the foursomes. Apparently these matches were arranged according to the inclinations of the players, and Mrs. Dufaur and Mrs. Hosking met the combination of Miss Culling and Miss Rathbone. So far as the scoring went it was a puss-in-the-corner affair. One side no sooner got a hole than the other made a run and got it back. So far as the play went Mrs. Dufaur and Miss Culling might have been expected to control their sides, but they certainly did not, and it became very much a fight between Miss Rathbone and Mrs. Hosking. Miss Rathbone is almost as much of a straight left-arm artist as Mrs. Hosking, apparently knows not temperament, and in a year or two will fulfill predictions made in The Sun quite a long time ago. Mrs. Dufaur made two more mistakes than Miss Culling, and the Middlemore pair won accordingly.

The Misses D. and K. Horton had a chanco of halving the foursome results. They came to th e last hole with an advantage of one hole against Mrs. Hodges and Mrs. Wilson, but Miss K. Horton chose the wrong moment to look at the flag. We retired and left the elements to do their dashdest at this stage.